Nammi: Trickle at the Truck

Nammi is “cruisin’ Vietnamese fusion.” It’s a food truck! Yay! We begged heaven and its opposite, City Hall, to let us have food trucks in Dallas, and we’re so excited that they’re here, and now that we have them…apparently none of you effers go to them unless it’s opening day…

Ketchup, Uptown’s New Burger Bar, Follows the Trends to Feed the Trendy

Ketchup, the neighborhood burger bar in cuisine-crowded Uptown, welcomes diners with a patio stocked with wicker chairs and tables tucked under wide umbrellas—an opening salvo that will no doubt be in high demand come fall. The inside offers a mishmash of seating, too: black-topped, metal-trimmed diner tables, classic booths with…

Stone Imperial Russian Stout Original Vs. BELGO Anise Version

Back in March, I shared my thoughts on the two versions of Stone Brewing Co. Old Guardian barleywine, as you’ll recall. Part of the brewery’s Odd Beers For Odd Years campaign, this year’s “Odd Beers” are dubbed “BELGO” versions, tweaks on two Stone standbys using Belgian yeast. Finally, Stone BELGO Anise…

Free Chick-fil-A. Need We Say More?

Well, actually, we do need to say more. There’s a catch to this free chicken — there’s always a catch. Come this Friday, everyone’s favorite Christian-valued fast food chain will be celebrating Cow Appreciation Day, a quasi-holiday that no one, save for a handful of bovine-obsessed farmers, knew of before…

In Which Dallas Neighborhood Should Trader Joe’s Set Up Shop?

Trader Joe’s, the trendy California-based, German-owned grocery store, has fans nearly as devoted as that other California-based chain. So when rumors swirled that the store has plans to set up shop in Texas, hungry locals were bound to start clamoring for it to set up shop in their backyards.Those rumors…

The Top 3 Inventive Recipes in Our Blue Ribbon Contest

A few weeks ago, we announced a Blue Ribbon recipe contest to see what foodie innovations you could throw our way for Taste of Dallas. The idea was: You send us the recipes; we study them, drool profusely, and the winners get to cook live at this weekend’s Dallas Food…

Chef Scott Gottlich Takes the Long Road Home

From a bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Oklahoma to restaurant owner and chef, Scott Gottlich’s career progression may seem odd. But that’s the path — with a few important stops in between — that led the Dallas native back home, where he’s owner and executive chef of…

Our Recipe For Peach & Calamari Ice Cream

You probably ate a lot of food this Fourth of July. We’re not judging. We did the same thing. But while you were gorging yourself on hot dogs and that questionably warm potato salad, we made a dessert that’s sort of nutritious, but more important, guaranteed to make the youngest…

Avery Beer Dinner At The Libertine: More Beer Than Dinner

Wednesday night at the Libertine Bar’s Avery beer dinner, I did something I’ve never had to do at a beer dinner: turned down a refill.That sums up the tone of the dinner, which seems perfectly appropriate. The Libertine, after all, is a bar that kicks down any barrier between highbrow…

Revolving Doors: Summer Cooks Up Some New Eateries

Another month flies by, and with it, a batch of restaurants opened and closed. In-N-Out Burger set up shop in Dallas-proper this month, and surprisingly enough, wasn’t bombarded by hoards of burger-lovers. We guess everyone got their fill of the Californian mega-chain last month. The Coffee Lab (4000 Cedar Springs…

What Makes Kozy Kitchen Cozy?

What makes Kozy Kitchen cozy? It’s definitely the comfort food the restaurant serves and not its stark décor. Kozy Kitchen’s atmosphere actually feels pretty sterile with its nine vertical paintings on the walls, brown vinyl booths, dark brown wood chairs and blackish brown Formica tables. There’s no cozy fireplace or…

Filipino Food: At Least One Reason to Envy California

(Walk the Wok correspondent Kristy Yang has been taking some very long walks lately, so we thought we’d have her tell us about Asian food elsewhere. Presumably, City of Aters do step out of the In-N-Out line now and then and travel.) Any trip to the San Francisco Bay area…