“This is the society we’re living in,” rants angry-guy podcaster/comedian Adam Carolla. “You can order iced tea and get something that tastes like somebody took a pillowcase of potpourri and boiled it.” Ask for iced tea at Alma, the latest addition to Consilient Restaurants’ Henderson Avenue collection (along with Hibiscus…
Lately the afternoons have been stupid hot. It’s not butt-sweat hot yet, and we’re nowhere near the balls-hot temperatures we’re sure to see in August. (Yes, those are technical terms. Ask Pete Delkus. He’ll confirm.) With afternoon highs in the 80s, though, it’s definitely time for a brain freeze. And…
Well, everyone played nice. There were no incidents of belligerence to report. No picket lines were formed. No stones were thrown. Instead Dallas Cowboys players and coaches joined local chefs on Sunday night at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine for the Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party…
Whether it’s intended or not really doesn’t matter: The minute a cooking program dubs itself French Food at Home and offers up a chef trying to be as understated, quirkily charming, yet educational as, yes, la grande dame d’American French cooking — Julia Child — it’s setting itself up for…
OK, we’ll be the first to admit that the whole idea of turning 4/20 into a pot-smoking holiday is pretty stupid. If you’re an adult, you should be able decide if and when you want to smoke on your own, without a numerical coincidence putting any extra emphasis on the…
Recently I took the chickens out to Denny’s to try their new Maple Bacon Sundae. When I was a kid I went to Denny’s on occasion, but in the past 15 years I think I’ve been twice, and I had no idea what I’d been missing. From customers to the…
My email inbox has received a steady stream of special offers from the Social 121 public relations team. I’m beginning to think the correspondences might be pleas of desperation and that the newly opened restaurant-club in the old Loft 610 space is floundering after being opened for one month. The…
If you attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, subscribe to High Times or frequent The Gas Pipe, you’re well aware that today is the official holiday for devoted fans of Phish and the Grateful Dead, better known as 420. Spend the day hugging your bong and eating “special” brownies,…
Despite all my big, jaded talk Monday, I really do try to be a good server. I want to give good service. I want to justify my guests’ decision to spend money at my restaurant. I hope my guests feel relaxed, satisfied and nurtured, as though I am the momma…
I had the luck to attend one of chef David Anthony Temple’s Underground Dinners. Temple began his career in Louisiana and traveled around the world before settling here in Dallas, where he started working with Tom Spicer. His passion is using the best local and regional ingredients to make dishes…
Happy National Rice Ball Day! Wait. You didn’t know it was National Rice Ball Day? Did you know it’s National Grilled Cheese Month, and National Grilled Cheese Day was celebrated last week? Well, if you didn’t — surprise! And whoopdi-do. It’s also National Honey Day. Tomorrow is National Pineapple Upside-down…
You don’t need Pete Delkus to tell you that it’s hot outside, but if we’re already seeing highs in the 90s in April, just wait for the griping and sweating we’ll all be doing in June. Luckily, 7-Eleven, our chosen retailer for issues of Mugly! and beer pong paraphernalia, recognizes…
When Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers used to frequent the Cosmic Café (then called the Cosmic Cup), they could be found taking in the restaurants eclectic, Zen-inducing ambience, and maybe even conjuring up a plot or two. Former owner of the café Kumar Pallana can be seen in several…
It was an innocent question, one I assumed the gentleman at Oak Cliff Earth Day wouldn’t be able to answer. “Where are the food trucks going to be?” “Along Flora Street,” he replied without skipping a beat, the same stretch of the Arts District mobile food vendors were stationed during…
We’ve seen this board on our way to work for a while now and every time we drive past we think, “So, The Ferg and Dr Pepper both shave their pubies?” “Dr Pepper Cherry and Fergie, now as amazingly smooth as a baby’s bottom.” We’re not the only ones who…
When Katy Trail Ice House opened along the eponymous exercise trail on March 25, it was feted as the next it-bar. Capitulating to this hysteria, I too visited the bar on opening day, much to my chagrin. Anticipating a fine pint of Jester King or Thirsty Planet as a reward…
Just about anything can take on a sexual connotation, and while efforts are being made to sex up food, what of the unsexiest of all edibles: fast food? Nope, there are still fuck-tastically named items on every drive-through menu around the Dallas area…and some billboards, too. Here, we take our…
Even if journalism doesn’t work out, I know that I won’t end up owning a restaurant. I have a terrible palate and a personality that will abuse the right to refuse service rule. In all my years of serving, I’ve never, ever spat in someone’s food or drink. I don’t…
Planning on channel surfing and slurping leftover spaghetti in your pajamas tonight? Yeah, that sounds like a lame idea, especially when the popular film site GordonandtheWhale.com is teaming up with Molly Maguire’s (5815 Live Oak St.) to present dinner and a movie tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Lakewood pub…
If you’re looking for a quiet place to start off an amorous evening, Neuhaus Café housed in the Preston Royal Shopping Center would not be the best choice. On the other hand, if you’re in search of a fun, lively, kid-friendly restaurant with a huge selection of entrées, desserts and…
This week, Dallas is buzzing about Whiskey Cake (we beat the rest of them to it, FYI). And even though Easter is right around the corner, only a few displays of enthusiasm (like eating 41 pickled eggs, or finding a certain flavor of marshmallow eggs particularly revolting) are evident. Read…
The supremacy of women has once again been made evident — this time by a man. Al Ahmedus has expanded his first restaurant, Natalie’s, into the next-door space once occupied by Al’s Steakhouse & Salad, also owned by Ahmedus, in the Preston Royal Shopping Center. When the steakhouse opened in…
