Welcome to the longest weekend of your life. Between the parade, block party, concerts (stoked for Ryan Bingham by the way) English breakfasts, cabbage dinners, green beers, Irish pubs, whiskey shots, sunshine, crowds, food truck parties and other happenings, there’s a good chance some of us will never recover from…
The restaurant at 5760 State Highway continues its dance to please Plano natives. It first opened as Loft 610 with superstar Tre Wilcox at the helm, cooking Top Chef plates intended for fancy palates. Then Wilcox left for the Marquee Grill and Scott Siers bought the space. He renamed the…
Pete Snyder knows a little bit about food-borne illness. In addition to earning a doctorate in Food Science and Safety, he owns his own company that helps retail food operations improve their safety. NBC featured him in the report that uncovered Dallas’ failed code compliance system. He’s the one that…
(This week, Cheap Bastard hits Dairy-ette (9785 Ferguson Road, 214-327-9983) and finds something better than Sonic and Whataburger. For that kind of digging, we’re thinking of moving her to investigations.) Ceiling leaks: 2 (size large) People actually reading the whole newspaper: 3 Dairy-ette is like a Sonic. Only better. Their…
I want to love it like Alice does. I’ve been looking out my office window and noticing how all the tree buds have filled out; Dallas is awash in a sea of green, and it won’t be long before the sun bakes everything into a mottled brown. Why not throw…
Any time St Patrick’s Day falls on a weekend, you know you’re in for trouble. It’s just like that friend you have whose birthday always seems to stretch into a week-long celebration while everyone else is content to have a single dinner out with friends. St Patrick’s Day on Saturday…
This week I review 303 Bar and Grill, an Oak Cliff newcomer with macabre decor and grim cooking. I wasn’t excited about the time I spent in this interesting space, but I was very excited about the neighborhood. Oak Cliff has been a hot bed of innovation for the Dallas…
Hoochies Oyster House (207 S. Bell, Denton) held a quasi-secret soft opening last week to a small but boisterous group of beer-guzzling Dentonites. We checked it out on a perfectly breezy night and have already planned the next few visits just to sit on that magic patio and drink beer…
Mark Cuban has caused me to completely rediscover St. Patrick’s Day. Gratuitous party-givers with no strings attached plays well into the whole theme of “friendliest day of the year.” So I tracked down my favorite Irish lass, Theresa Magee, earlier this week to have her show me how to make…
No need to shove string cheese and corn chips down your pants for the St. Patty’s Day parade this Saturday. The kind folks at Madison Partners will bestow upon throngs of sloppy drunks the St. Patty’s Day Pop Up Food Park. Trucks from Il Cane Rosso, Nammi, Easy Slider, Trailercakes…
We think about weird shit sometimes. This is one of those times. 1. Pizza Sleeping Bag (above) This why-the-eff-didn’t-I-think-of-that idea from B Fiber and Craft combines the unique pizza passion that exists inside us all with our desire to sleep outside. For a mere 250 American dollars (plus shipping), you…
While the big restaurant money continues to flow north toward Highland Park, Preston Hollow and Uptown, Dallas’ most interesting restaurant scene continues to slowly grow and diversify on the other side of the river. Lucia brings five-star Italian and Campo offers ravioli stuffed with brains. Hattie’s updates Southern comfort, giving…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Nosh Sandwich: The Croque-Monsieur ($11) Bread: Empire Baking brioche sliced thicker than pre-natal Jessica Simpson Toppings: Bayonne ham, gruyere and bechamel The Case: Simplicity…
Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Feargal McKinney came to the U.S. after college to see the sights and do a bit of traveling. After some time in New York City, he took the scenic route to California and stopped in Dallas to visit a friend and essentially never left — partially…
Last week we told you about Food and Wine’s People’s Choice Contest featuring two local chefs, Tim Byres and Tre Wilcox out of 100 chefs across the nation. Yesterday, the news came out that Byres took the big prize. Not just best chef for the Southwest (is Dallas really the…
Via the Dallas Business Journal, the Asian supermarket chain H Mart has signed a lease for a 70,000+ square foot facility in the Parker Town Centre in Plano. This will be their second local store – the other is on Old Denton Road in Carrollton. H Mart is garnered a…
During the day, Holly Muller is a food nutritionist who runs My Private Chef, a service that cooks, packages and freezes well-balanced meals for customers who don’t have time to cook or are looking for a simple way to lose weight with food that doesn’t suck. At night time, however,…
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. KGB Deals: $7 or $10, for $15 or $20, respectively at Mooyah There are the fast-food burgers, like Whataburger and In-n-Out; there are high-level, restaurant-served burgers like…
Alex Nham travels the globe, mainly the part with Dallas on it, in search of new places to eat breakfast. In my search for Dallas’ more interesting morning meals, tacos are the one obvious breakfast genre I have yet to explore. It’s not that I don’t eat them; I eat…
News out of Cowtown via the Star-Tele is that Blue Mesa Grill is planning on opening a new restaurant at Lincoln Square just west of the Ballpark in Arlington this fall, to capitalize on sports traffic in the area. President Jim Baron said the new Blue Mesa Grill in Arlington…
Be Patient from elliott munoz on Vimeo. Bolsa Mercado was burgalarized over the weekend. The restaurant caught the perp on a security camera. And what did they do with the tape? They put music over the footage and made a funny video out of it. Surely at some point before…
College kids are a specific type of drinker. They like to shotgun or funnel cheap beer and do shots of every color of the rainbow, and they are driven primarily by volume and cost. That’s why ice beers are best: They have the highest percentage of alcohol by volume, which…
