The other day I drove past The Free Man Cajun Cafe & Lounge in Deep Ellum, where Sol’s Taco Lounge used to be at 2626 Commerce, and later Googled them to see what the buzz was. One reviewer wrote that they had the best bread pudding she’d ever had. Pfffft!…
Travel + Leisure readers recently voted on their favorite foodie cities in America. Dallas clocked in at number 32, ahead of only Orlando, Vegas and Anchorage and behind San Antonio (10), Austin (15) and Houston (24), and more or less every other city of note. According to Travel + Leisure:…
Deep Ellum has always been a music hub; what’s been missing is good food. Lemongrass and Local have been producing decent eats for some time, and Uncle Uber’s Sammich Shop is a welcome addition to the ‘hood, but for the most part Elm, Commerce and Main streets have catered to…
This year, Denise Garza (with her sister Norma and her niece Roxanne) made it to the second round of the Big Tex Choice Awards with Heavenly Deep-Fried Brownies. While the concept of frying a brownie isn’t completely new to this fair (last year, Abel Gonzales Jr. made it to the…
We’re mostly savory animals at the Observer. We like our fried things, cheeses and big burgers. In the last year, we’ve sent food photographers to shoot Dallas’ meats, tacos and chicken-topped waffles. Lately, however, we’re developing a sweet tooth. It’s probably caused by the fact that we sent crack photographer…
Recently we told you all about Ben & Jerry’s new ice cream Schweddy Balls, which is based on the SNL skit featuring Alec Baldwin. Well, One Million Moms, a project of the American Family Association, which promotes “the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on TV…
Reza Anavarian, originally from Azerbaijan, flies to Georgia this weekend for an ESI Ironman Competition, which includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile jog through beautiful downtown Augusta. In addition to conditioning for that insanity, he’s also training at the Maple Avenue Boxing Gym to get…
Wild Salsa isn’t your standard Mexican-American restaurant. It’s not buried in a suburban strip mall but perched smack in the middle of downtown, across from the lush grass, sculptures and dog walkers of Main Street Garden. There’s also an air of polish here that might be missing from your salsa-drenched…
After weeks of gorging on tacos, pizzas, burgers and sushi, plus similarly indulgent consumption of beer and booze, the Observer’s Best of Dallas 2011 issue is here. Want to know who’s got the best pizza pie or the best hangover cure in Dallas? Check out our 2011 Best of Dallas…
Oh Tex Mex, must you be such a gut bomb? The heavy cream sauces, beans laden with lard and cheese cheese cheese. I’ve eaten at a few local spots, and while the selection in Dallas is undoubtedly better than other cities, it’s still Tex-Mex. It’s still a little boring. I…
Finally time to see how your tax dollars were put to work by Bravo and its Magical Elves. As you’ll recall, we reported back in July that Governor Rick Perry’s office, that bastion of small government, spent $400,000 to promote the state’s brand in the upcoming and Texas-themed season of…
Oh, these fried praline sweet potato poppers weren’t finalists in this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards? That makes total sense. TO NOBODY!!!!!! Kyle Wall, inventor of these fried lovelies, said that he guessed fair officials thought this idea “wasn’t weird enough to be in the competition.” I could almost praline…
Ho. Lee. Fried garnishes for your cocktails. Christi Erpillo, the supreme mega fried badass who brought us those glorious, award-winning fried peaches in 2009, just gave every wine-box-chugging lady American the only thing she’s ever wanted at the fair: wine plus fried. The photo of these beverages doesn’t do the…
Now that I’ve graded more than 50 beers since introducing the Hophead Beer Scoring System, it seems a good time to take a look back at all of them and list them in order. The system (which I have called by a different name in every post, a running gag…
Comments come in many forms, and this one fluttered in on a twitter stream. Within a day of the sort-of-soft opening, the foodnicks were chattering about Deep Ellum’s new sandwich shop, Uncle Uber’s (2713 Commerce St.). Twitter user @imccanntx laid down the gauntlet shortly after we posted a quick look…
Today I tracked down the new food truck Gennarino’s, which serves Neapolitan-style fried food and is owned by three brothers from Naples, Italy. It’s just their second day in business and they were parked between two office buildings in Irving just off of Hwy 161. They’d be parked in Dallas,…
While most everyone I talked to had a blast at Oktoberfest, there were a few bitter beer faces. The complaints are always the same for event’s like these centering on cost, supply of food (HOW CAN THEY RUN OUT OF SCHNITZEL AT A GERMAN FEST!?) and lines. Getting to events…
Last week, my friend told me about a batch of cookies she made with Oreo cookies crumbled inside them. “It’s a cookie in a cookie!” Pretty impressive. But what would obviously be more impressive? We had to fry it. (begin Ghostbusters parody) “Who you gonna call? FRIED JESUS!!” It would…
Last weekend, I took my fried obsession on a tour of Austin, and good gravy did I find some winners. Here they are for your artery-clogging pleasure:…
Crimson Asian Cuisine opened last week at corner of Blackburn and McKinney in the West Village, serving pho and other Vietnamese dishes such as stir-fries, rice noodles and spring roles. The atmosphere is on the casual side. Not fancy, but nice. There’s a decent size patio area out front and…
I’d walked past the same food truck for a few weeks but never had the nerve to approach it and order anything. It was one of those big, plain white United Caterer trucks with the blue slanted windows on the top, parked in the same spot at a construction site…
Primebar opened in Uptown last week, and I got to check it out briefly on Friday. I’ll definitely put it on my places to go when I want to dabble in swank while a watching a playoff game and drinking a microbrew. There are several different areas to explore in…
