The Grape’s sous chef, Danyele McPherson, sat down with us last week to chat about the life as a sous. Let’s just jump right in. How did you initially get into cooking? Well, I went to normal college – got a degree at North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked…
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 leave a restaurant I’m reviewing, I immediately spend some…
Just like everything Pizza Hut makes, Planet Earth now comes with a stuffed crust, after 300,000-plus wheels of gorgeous and delicious Parmesan and Grana Padano cheese were lost in a 6.0 Earthquake this past weekend. Last year, we watched Scardello crack a 90-pound wheel of Parmesan-Reggiano, the all-omnipotent King of…
After nearly a year without venturing outside the loop, I finally got out of town for a brief weekend. I toyed with going to Marfa, but I’m not yet Texan enough to drive eight hours for a weekend getaway, so I chose Austin, as much for its culinary diversity as…
Tomorrow is SlurpFREE Day at (participating) 7-Eleven stores. Things are never what they seem though, OK? Sure, a store is giving away something free, but that doesn’t meant it’s mandatory flip-out time. Here are a few party tips: 1. You need to know, and strongly consider, that 7-Eleven is plotting…
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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. My first Texas brisket was eye opening. Back in DC, there…
Bishop Avenue was blocked off on Sunday afternoon for the third-annual Brew Riot, a homebrew competition featuring more than 50 homebrew teams. But while beer drinkers sipped their carbonated beverages, kiddies under the age of 21 weren’t left with many options, as The Soda Gallery was closed. The space that…
While she didn’t get the chance to lick any football players at last night’s Taste of the NFL at the new Omni Hotel, foodbitch was pleasantly surprised by all the energy inside. And that energy inspired her to get poetic. Because what’s Monday without whimsy? Here we go…
Trader’s Joe has announced a second Dallas location at Central and Walnut Hill. The Morning News reports the California-based specialty retailer will occupy 14,000 square feet in a new retail and residential development, which will open next year. The first Trader Joe’s in Dallas is supposed to open this fall…
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. I went back to confirm, after last week’s post. The Reuben…
One of the many events the weekend was Taste Addison. The fest, which celebrated its 20th birthday, served up bites from sixty-plus restaurants in the metroplex. Rhett Miller and his Hair was on hand, but photographer Jay Barker just grabbed a whole beef-truck full of food porn. Enjoy…
For the last three years and change, Taco Joint at 911 N. Peak Street has consistently offered up kickass breakfast tacos, Disaster Queso that punches regular queso in the queso balls and jalapeno ranch that makes me love being alive. And they just opened a new location at 6434 E…
This week over on the music side of the Observer, Daniel Hopkins interviewed Chris Jeffers, one of the owners behind Bolsa, Smoke, and more recently, The Foundry and Chicken Scratch. The piece pictures Jeffers on his new bicycle: a pimped up paletero cart with a hot rod paint job. I…
The beer festival in Irving this past weekend played host to many brewers who got most of the attention, but Bryan Street Tavern was there, too, saving beer guzzlers from death by super processed carnival food. Sure, the cheese on the sandwich pictured above is the same canned stuff you…
Carl’s Jr., which has a location within a terrifying-close range to Observer headquarters, is testing the “Ice Cream Brrrger.” Now, now: keep calm. A “brrrger” isn’t actually an ice cream-flavored burger. That, sources say, is still a few months away, and will likely debut in Japan, where the really crazy…
Brackets has closed. The restaurant that earned a scathing review from Hanna Raskin just over a year ago clearly never solved its identity issues. Raskin trashed nearly every dish, likening the crust on a passable pizza to Chuck E. Cheese’s, referencing a bloody and cold steak and calling nachos limp…
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. I was surprised it took me so long to find these,…
The Box, if you haven’t been following along, is the Cheap Bastard’s brainchild, wherein chefs turn a box full o’ crap and turn it into foodstuffs. Between Brian C. Luscher’s weird-ass terrine of spam and quail eggs and the twinkie crowning inside a banana with homemade nutella, we’ve gotten some…
The Texas Rangers announced yesterday that soon you’ll be able to upgrade that Boomstick dog to a combo meal, which includes two one-liter bottles of Coke. And, in fairness, since Nellie got a hot dog in honor of his hot bat, Joshie gets one too: The Great Bratbino. John Blake…
Bros, aren’t you pumped? Let’s get effing pumped, bros. Why? Because Ruffles Ultimate Fucking Ruffles is “giving guys their first taste of the Ultimate party.” Whose biceps undulated when you heard that? Mine did, like a goddamn ocean. It’s gonna be unapologetic. You see, Ruffles Ultimate Potato Chips and Ruffles…
When I checked in with chef David McMillan back in March, he told me some significant changes were taking place with for John Tesar’s legacy CVap burgers at The Commissary. For one, they were supposed to be thinner, so the coloring would be more consistent throughout the center of the…
