To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. When I wanted a special occasion meal for my birthday and…
There are many options if you’re hungry for a bowl of pho in Dallas. Out in the suburbs, countless restaurants offer cheap bowls of noodle-laden soup to Vietnamese immigrants and local diners in the know. Closer to downtown, more refined and Americanized bowls of pho cater to timid diners who…
June was another incredibly busy month in the Dallas restaurant scene. Dallas welcomed a ton of new restaurants last month, and alas, said farewell to a few. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or…
Alice Laussade doesn’t ask to hang out with me much, so when she invited me to tag along for one of her Cheap Bastard reviews I jumped on it. José “Taco Trail” Maldonado picked the place, Taqueria Mezquite, and it was just down the street. It was taco time. While…
Go ahead and thank me now, because I’ve discovered the perfect summer hangover treatment: winesicles. They’re called SocialIce, and they’re made in Grand Prairie with fruit purchased from local farmers markets. The pops come in two flavors, Mimosa Orange and Sangria Grape (I don’t think oranges or grapes grow around…
Tomorrow marks the fourth annual Brass Knuckles Corndog Beatdown at the Libertine Bar. And just like last year, the first-place winner receives a $100 bar tab, second earns a $50 tab and third gets $25 worth of quarters all in reward for consuming an insane amount of fried corn batter…
A of couple weeks ago we were happy to report that LaGrange’s new snow cone trailer is giving out free booze, thanks to a salacious little loophole in Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code. Well, today we have even better news: The snow cone trailer is opening at 5 p.m. for a…
So, the deal with Maid-Rite is it’s really old (85ish) and their meat is loose. And apparently the funny naming homophones are simply attributed to the original founder’s inability to spell — not that I’m throwing stones, seeing how my own house is kind of glassy there. Maid-Rite is a…
Remember back in the day how Mom did all her shopping at one grocery store? Then sometime in the ’80’s Walmarts started opening everywhere and on occasion that was added to the route. Now, when many of us think about the goods we stock our pantries, fridges and mini-bars with,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. El Tizoncito can call it whatever they want — alambres bistec…
This is a blog written by a complete barbecue amateur. You see, the thing is, in the UK a barbecue is something you cook a burger on and is largely a celebration of the few and far between days when it’s not raining. There’s no sauce except tomato, and any…
Yesterday Rusty Tacos posted that their new spot in the Main Street Gardens is opening today, and we were like, “Cool. Gotta check that out.” Then we read, per Wilonsky at the DMN that they’re having free ‘ritas today and our interest suddenly became more urgent. Per Wilonsky’s DMN blog:…
Meatless Monday is less a practice in moral fortitude (pigs die of natural causes everyday, right? RIGHT?) and more a challenge in finding delicious, savory dishes that also happen to be vegetarian. For this week’s foray into meatlessness, I share with you how to do it right when surrounded by…
It was moments before kickoff, the sun was beating down and the AC ran full blast, belching cool air out of gaping garage doors flung open to bring the outdoors in. A gentleman to my right ordered four Nodding Donkey Punches and a Miller Lite, reminding me where I was,…
Back in April, Beck Ventures, a Dallas-based investment management company, told us of their big fancy plans to transform the Valley View Center into “Midtown Dallas; a mixed-use lifestyle project, creating an urban oasis at one of Dallas’ most venerable and desirable locations.” As we all know, the best thing…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Charbel Hamad wants you to focus on his wife Fadia’s sweets…
July is National Hot Dog Month if you didn’t know, and the Fourth of July always promises to be one of the biggest hot dog consumption days of the year. Just because hot dogs are ubiquitous doesn’t mean a casual cookout has to be pedestrian. Start with some high quality…
Any time a big holiday falls in the middle of the week, the question on everyone’s mind is which weekend to celebrate on. Obviously the answer is both, so half of Dallas should be out on their lawns with canned beers, Popsicles and sparklers in just a few moments. If…
Remember how we keep talking about getting the kids out of town more often? How they need to see open fields, get some fresh air and experience the snail’s pace of small-town life? And how that’s good for about three hours at which point it gets boring and then it’s…
Tootie Pie opened a new café in Allen last week. Which made me think, what’s up with the location at Preston and Royal? It’s still an empty shell. Randy Graybill, business development director at Tootie Pie Inc. down in Boerne, says they’re still trying to work out some issues with…
“That’s the one.” I tapped the glass with my finger, pointing to a lone, menacing-looking doughnut behind all the rest. This one was topped with a mound of emerald green and vivid orange pepper slices, in sharp contrast to the others so innocently adorned with pink frosted animal cookies, M&Ms…
Maybe you’ve noticed, the Dallas-Fort Worth region is huge. Everything outside of the urban core takes an hour if you’re lucky. Unless you need to hop on LBJ, in which case BLAAAAGGHHH. But now that gas has dropped a few cents and it’s not quite hot as the devil’s balls…
