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. Deviled eggs are seemingly on every bar menu, but many of…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. During any given dinner service, Olga Reyes mans the pass inside the small kitchen tucked in the…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. If you tend to the fires from which smoked brisket is rendered, be mindful: The BBQ Snob…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. If you packed up Charlie Papaceno and his many bottles of booze, carefully encased them in bubble…
I was going to start this out with a little baseball anecdote, but I don’t actually know much about the rules of the sport so it would have read something like this: Number 8 on the green team hit the ball and then a bunch of kids ran around, then…
For this episode of The Box, we decided to try something a little different. We created the challenge, but instead of picking ingredients for the challenge ourselves, we enlisted the help of our first The Box victim: Chef Brian C. Luscher. And for this round, we decided to go vegetarian…
JoJo is a new restaurant going in at 2626 Howell St., the space that was most recently Bella. This new spot is the “bébé” of French chef Laurent Poupart, who was born in northeastern France and began his career at the then-three Michelin star restaurant Au Crocodile in Strasbourg. He…
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. If I hadn’t passed the old man’s table, littered with little…
The Oak Cliff Social Club recently opened at 238 W. Davis St. Pete Saucedo lists himself officially as the “janitor” of this “upscale dive bar” and, honestly, his recent past does include a lot of janitorial-type duties. But, after six months of fixing up the place, hopefully most of the…
Sharon Hage’s restaurant York Street closed more than two years ago, but when I ask other chefs around the city what their favorite restaurant is, many still say, “York Street.” It was “small, local and chef-driven” before those words and ideas became marketing tools. When she closed her East Dallas…
If you had grown accustomed to ordering pad Thai and spicy stir-fried shrimp at this stand-alone building on Davis Street in Oak Cliff, you won’t recognize the space now. There’s still shrimp to be had, and Asian ghosts linger in lemongrass, fish sauce and cilantro-laden sauces and other preparations, but…
Years back, we’ll look to June 27 as the day when fast food broke free of its physical constraints: It’s now totally cool to melt cheese in illogical places. I know, I know this has nothing to do Texas. It’s not even on the same continent (KFC Philippines), but this…
Turns out we’re all really late to the juicing trend. After Brent Rodgers spent a year traveling around the world, he found that juicing is old business everywhere else. He was at the Syria-Israel border when he had the idea to start a juicing business in Dallas after he stood…
Tonight at 7 o’clock, the Libertine Bar offers a beer dinner featuring beers from Weihenstephaner, a Bavarian brewery — the world’s oldest, in fact. In that time, they’ve clearly mastered the brewing art. Their Korbinian is my personal favorite doppelbock, and the others to be featured ain’t half bad either…
Guess what Kansas boys are doing this summer? Promoting the farm-to-table movement with their own tantalizing farm video. In a parody to LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It” the three Peterson brothers, wearing purple K-State shirts, of course, made a video and rewrote the words to “I’m Farming and…
Remember Tto Tto Wa? The tiny box of a restaurant has been serving up sticky fried chicken and other Korean snack foods for more than two years. It’s a cool little spot with tiny tables tucked into tiny booths and an atmosphere that feels far, far away from Dallas. We…
Café Brazil is celebrating four years at its Bishop Arts District location. Today from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., diners can get a free entrée and dessert with the purchase of a beverage. Entrée options include chicken crepes, Amazon salad, lemon pepper chicken pasta, pumpkin pancakes, apple chipotle chili and…
“Ooh, fried brisket pie!” exclamation count: 32 Shame level: Red “I liked the pulled-pork fried pie better than the brisket fried pie.” That’s you, when you go to Baker’s Ribs and order fried pies. Or, maybe you’ll be like, “You know what I want to do? On this day, I…
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. Malai’s upscale Asian concept is right at home in the West…
Just a few weeks after announcing the P’Zolo, which is a Pizza Sandwich the size of The Rock’s forearm, and then being hosed by The Black Keys, Pizza Hut has gone ahead and announced their newest Pizza Thing: the Garlic Bread Pizza. They just didn’t want to sit on it…
We just got word that to honor a recent deal they made with Gulf, Fuel City’s famous little street tacos are $1 until midnight tonight. Located at 801 South Riverfront Boulevard, Fuel City has racked up a fair amount of “Best of” at the Observer including best tacos picadillos, best…
I know how hot it’s going to be. It’s June, y’all, and I live in Texas. Also, I walked outside and it’s balls hot already (It’s a weather term. @CBS11Larry knows what I’m talking about), so it’s safe to assume that it’ll just get hotter today. Because of science. I…
