Yesterday Robert Wilonsky over at the Dallas Morning News (that feels like putting a shoe on the wrong foot) reported on a fast-tracked code issue aimed at easing restrictions on Dallas microbreweries. As it stands now, these small independent brewers are relegated to “heavy industrial” zones and in order to…
Sea Breeze Fish Market and Grill, the subject of this week’s review, has had me thinking a lot about seafood and freshness. While the flesh of every animal begins to deteriorate the second that animal dies, seafood is the most fragile of animal proteins. Beef kept under refrigeration actually improves…
While reviewing Campo, and bitching about truffles, I’ve been alluding to Matt McCallister’s new restaurant but not coughing up the name. A server squeaked while I was reviewing Campo, and when I followed up with McCallister, he asked I not print it. I’m glad I didn’t because I was just…
Last year Dallas was going to have its very own beer festival. Then it wasn’t. Then it was again. And now, finally, tickets have gone on sale for the April 14 event at Fair Park. General admission tickets are $35, and if you draw the short straw and end up…
Last night The Chesterfield hosted an event called the Mix-Off Battle. It featured five local bartenders whose cocktails were pitted against one another in the name of awareness for Chefs For Farmers. Here’s what you missed if you weren’t there…
Back in February, we noted numerous closings in the Knox-Henderson area and referred to the neighborhood as the restaurant Bermuda triangle. Fish City Grill, Horne and Dekker, Alma, Cafe San Miguel and others in the area had closed in less than a year, leading me to question why the neighborhood…
The first lobster roll I ever ate was purchased in a run-down seafood restaurant on Route 12, 60 miles outside of Boston, in a town called Fitchburg. I’d seen the sign on my way to a wedding in New Hampshire: “Lobsters, $3.99 a pound,” it read, and it sat next…
NOOOOOOOOO! A spritely tipster just alerted me to a phone recording she heard while trying to call in a breakfast burrito this morning. I called them myself and tried to transcribe as best I could. (Vicky talks fast!) Thank you for calling La Victoria. We are unable to answer your…
The James Beard Foundation on Monday announced its finalists for its highly coveted culinary awards, and included in the category for Best Chef in the Southwest was Bruno Davaillon of Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. Originally from Loire Valley in France, Davaillon joined the Mansion in 2009 after a globetrotting…
Originally from Akron, Ohio, Patrick Stark, chef at Sundown at Granada, enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America fresh out of high school at 17 years of age, partially because he just wanted the get the hell outta town. He’s worked throughout the United States, a few spots in Europe…
Hypnotic Donuts. Today. For one glorious hour. From 11 a.m. to noon. They’re calling it Lone Star Wednesday. (Because they’re giving away Lone Star beers and also it’s Wednesday.)…
It was only a matter of time. First corn-batter dipped hot dogs and funnel cakes went into the frier. They tasted good, so vendors at the State Fair of Texas thought they should fry other things. Next thing you know, brownies, cookie dough, marshmallows, biscuits and gravy, salsa and chicken-stuffed…
I have no excuse for taking so long to write about this glorious ramen bowl. The soup had been recommended to me numerous times, but the chatter only got louder when I laid into Private Social’s version a whole back. So I ducked in Tei-An for a late meal after…
Our inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week’s foodfull best. Google Offers: $10 for $20 at Lindt.com Ever since last week’s candy grabber deal, I’ve been asking myself WWWWD? (What Would Willy Wonka Do?) This week, the…
As we’ve mentioned before, the White Rock Local Market is a great place to buy local produce from local farmers, which might sound locally redundant but unfortunately it isn’t always. This community-inspired market is held the second and fourth Saturdays at the Green Spot, at 702 North Buckner Blvd. This…
Chef Tim Byres, chef and owner of upscale meat palace Smoke and the latest recipient of Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef award, opened his new fast-casual chicken joint on Monday at Pittman and Fort Worth Avenue in North Oak Cliff. Chicken Scratch is a small, corrugated-metal-and-glass building right…
Truckstock is coming this weekend to the Sylvan | Thirty development site. The folks behind Def Star, a truck that sells t-shirts and other apparel while spinning records, have thrown together what I think is the largest gathering of food trucks Dallas has seen yet. Eighteen trucks are confirmed, according…
One of my greatest culinary achievements was borne out of necessity. I was in a late-morning haze and needed sustenance, and I found some leftover chana masala and some rice in the fridge. While the rice and curry was heating in the microwave (stay classy, self), I fried an egg…
With St. Patty’s Day behind us and spring break in the books, summer is just around the corner, which means it’s time to get serious about our curvy figures. One of the worst offenders to the best of all diet plans is alcohol. Not only for the calories within each…
Jay Jerrier, owner of Il Cane Rosso, put it best: “Santo Merda!” (Holy Shit!) It’s not too often that the best pizza shop in town offers up its authentic Neapolitan red-brick pizza oven to one of the best chefs in the city. A chef whose restaurant takes reservations a month…
I was down near Austin over the weekend (not for SXSW) and decided to check out the South Congress food truck park, to get a little sense of what may happen in Dallas by 2027. The food truck park is a testament to the best weirdness of Austin, as demonstrated…
St. Patrick’s Day is coming, y’all. And it’s bringing all of its crazy food and drink with it. Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait. Why? I’m glad I asked…
