Poor, poor Sēr. The restaurant that befuddles html code for bloggers everywhere and requires pronunciation notes (it’s sear, get it?) has left a bad taste in Dallas’ mouth before it’s even served up its first plate. When the folks behind Nana announced the restaurant would shutter to reopen as a…
I don’t know a ton about wine, nor do I know much about “real” housewives in New York City (shout out to Oak Cliff Housewives, who truly keep it real). But word on the street, according to Jasper Russo at Sigel’s, is that Skinnygirl wine “HAS ARRIVED!” I pass along…
If you saw the story we published yesterday (after we published it the day before), you know Twisted Root is currently selling beaver burgers. The company announced that it had purchased 60 pounds of river rodent to be offered up as burgers for $7.99 each. I dropped in to order…
When Nick Badovinus announced that he was opening up Off-Site Kitchen, the addition marked his Neighborhood Services group’s fourth restaurant. The new place had a lot of buzz. Badovinus’ original location was banging out four-star cooking, and his Tavern was noted as having some of the best bar food in…
Fact*: Fifteen million people are getting burger wasted in Dallas right now. And every day, that number grows higher and higher**. If you or someone you know is burger wasted, please call the number at the bottom of this helpful guide. Pretty, pretty please. Get more facts*** in this week’s…
It was Easter Sunday, and I wanted to eat breakfast like I would if I were with family. So I trekked out to Kirin Court in Richardson for dim sum. There’s a lot going on during dim sum, carts racing around the dining room with waiters hawking their goods (usually…
Fred Messick never intended to be a chef — at least not at first. He’d thought about cooking, sure, but culinary school seemed like a waste of money and time. So for five years he kept doing what he’d been doing since his high-school graduation: working construction with his old…
The American Meat Institute has stepped up its support for Lean Finely Textured Beef, aka Pink Slime, and yesterday the group announced a summit on the subject at its annual expo. Which, it just so happens, will be held in Dallas. After Beef Products Inc, the largest supplier of LFTB,…
For this week’s cover story, Alice “The Cheap Bastard” Laussade provides an extensive and profane guide to, as she puts it, her “favorite restaurants in Dallas where cheap meets delicious (without meeting diarrhea).” It follows. Also, now you can Cheap Bastardize freakin’ anything. Drive-Through Deals White Rock Coffee 4216 Abrams…
There was some social media gossip about a Yu Dog at the Rangers Ballpark on Monday night, so I contacted Casey Rapp, the Operations Manager with Metroplex Sportservice, which coordinates most of the food for the stadium. (Rapp has a pretty cool, yet tiring, job and keeps in touch throughout…
Garden Café is one of several little neighborhood jewels tucked away in East Dallas. The breakfast and lunch spot’s most distinguishing feature is the large garden behind the quaint white brick building in which it sits. Plots of herbs and rows of veggies keep the butterflies and bees busy, and…
Update: Yesterday we told you that Twisted Root would be serving beaver burgers tomorrow, which is now today. Today we’re told that the beaver burgers will not be available until tomorrow, which is still tomorrow. Are we clear? Crystal. Original item: Deep Ellum’s location of Twisted Root, the burger chain…
This Is Just To Say I have eaten the enchiladas that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for lunch Forgive me they were delicious so spicy and so warm William Carlos William’s poem — his original is about about sweet, delicious plums — popped into…
Maryland-based beverage superstore Total Wine is coming to Dallas. The new store, to be located in the shuttered Office Depot location in Park Lane (9350 North Central Expressway), builds on the more than 80 stores the chain has opened in ten states. The recent expansion will add stores to Texas,…
Yeah, we went there. Most of these are dessert-related. And might force you to face your childhood because most of them are also a bit nostalgic. Which may or may not be an indicator that we need therapy. 1. Lemon Chill Available at any water park, baseball stadium or outdoor…
Attention all bourbon enthusiasts, gin guzzlers, Manhattan drinkers and budding mixologists: a massive four-day craft cocktails event is coming to Dallas June 14 through June 17; The brainchild of local booze magicians Brian McCullough (Smoke, The Standard Pour) and Nico Ponce (The Chesterfield), the event is brought to you by…
Denton’s historic downtown square has long been a revolving door of independent shops and eateries. In the former Madison June baby boutique space (turns out drunk college kids don’t have a need for a $40 onesie), former popcorn business-owner Tim Loyd has opened Atomic Candy. This place is just damn…
The Texas Baker’s Bill is getting closer to being useful to bakers. Late last week, news circulated about new language for the Texas Food Cottage Law, which passed last year and allows home bakers to legally sell their goods with a few certain conditions. After the law was passed, the…
When we told you back in December that Whataburger was releasing a new spicy ketchup, we warned that quantities were limited. We just had no idea this day would come so soon. Earlier today, Whataburger offered the following on its Facebook page: Would you like to win the final case…
No, seriously. Can you?…
March has come and gone, which means that somehow three months have already passed since we began this whole Meatless Monday endeavor — I’ve eaten a lot of vegetarian meals over the past hundred or so days, some memorably delicious, others notably terrible, as well as some not worth mentioning…
Do you remember where you were the first time you tried Cool Ranch Doritos? It was 1986, Goose and Mav were killin’ karoke in Top Gun, “Rock Me Amadeus” and “Papa Don’t Preach” were hits, and parachute pants and leg warmers were both in style. And Cool Ranch Doritos?! Damn,…
