We’re not big on anniversaries — we tend to forget our own every year — but this is one anniversary we made sure to put on our calendar. Visit Ginger Man (2718 Boll St.) tonight to sample the four brews from Sierra Nevada’s 30th Anniversary collection. The event is $15…
Kor-BQ, the Dallas area’s first purveyor of Korean-Mexican fusion tacos, has added quesadillas, or in this case, kuesadillas, to its menu. The little strip mall shop in Plano has weathered business troubles superbly and now has a dedicated, almost apostolic, following. Perseverance and proximity to cities with high concentrations of…
Well, maybe you don’t want to eat this exactly: Hollow crawfish shells and dirty napkins make for a pretty lousy meal. But you definitely do want to eat what would have shown up in the “before” picture if I’d had the willpower to reach for my phone before digging into…
Crossroads Diner is located just off the corner of Walnut Hill Road and Central Expressway, which, in the world’s compendium of crossroads, is a pretty prosaic intersection. People come here to catch the train, not negotiate with Satan. But the new restaurant’s name isn’t just a geographic reference: Chef-owner Tom…
Bolsa’s introduced an interactive twist to its popular Wednesday night cocktail event. The Oak Cliff restaurant’s still offering five cocktails for $5, but each drink now incorporates a customer-nominated ingredient along with the evening’s featured spirit. On Thursdays, Bolsa announces the liquor for the next “cocktail challenge” via Facebook, and…
Jean-Marie Cadot, 43, of the Cadot Restaurant, is like a chef character out of a beautiful French film or novel, dashing and ridiculously well-versed in all things culinary. It’s almost as if he couldn’t have turned out to be anyone or anything else. No wonder. The Cadot family has been…
Restaurant owners are growing increasingly excited about the prospects for breakfast pizza, but breakfast tacos don’t show any signs of making significant inroads nationally. Breakfast pizza is typically a tomato sauce-less concoction of eggs, cheese and meat — sort of like a breakfast taco unrolled and flattened. According to a…
Just yesterday, Wayne Adams broke the sad news to the employees at the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue: At the end of March, the 24/7 diner — one of Dallas’s greasiest, greatest institutions — will close. He has sold the property for reasons he says he will explain to us…
Good 2 Go Taco finally has a permanent home. After plans of rolling out a taco truck operation and a segment on Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate, co-owners Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare closed their continuously packed space in the back of The Green Spot in late August…
The Dallas-based frozen yogurt chain Red Mango recently opened its 100th nationwide store. To celebrate, the McKinney Avenue location and other participating stores throughout the country will be offering free Red Mango flavored lip balms and $1 Ghirardelli chocolate yogurt to the first 100 customers on Saturday, January 22. Since…
Last week, Japan McDonald’s debuted their Big America 2 campaign that featured four Hulk-fist sized, America-themed burgers. The four burgers, named Idaho, Manhattan, Miami, and Texas 2, clock in at more than 500 calories each, and range from nearly tasty-looking to mildly racist. As for our state’s burger, Hanna spoke…
When I visited Lemongrass last summer, I promised owner/sometimes chef/always waiter/emergency dish washer Khoa Nguyen that I would return in the winter for a bowl of the restaurant’s pho. With the cold weather setting in last week, I figured it was the perfect time to make good on that promise…
Everybody knows pastrami. Everybody knows lox. But Lisa Giannopoulos, owner of Gio’s Café, a new deli in North Dallas, reports even customers who cut their teeth on knishes are baffled by pastrami lox. “It’s new to them,” Giannopoulos says of the Nova-style salmon that’s prepared like pastrami. Rarely seen outside…
Capogiro Gelato, the Philadelphia-based dessert-makers we mentioned in December for offering a gelato-of-the-month club, has just informed us that their gelato will soon be available at Central Market. Lorenzo Merlo, who’s in charge of wholesale at Capogiro, says Central Market has picked up their Cioccolato Scuro, Bacio, Pistacchio, Thai Coconut…
Southern cheesemakers were shut out of the Good Food Awards, a new initiative to recognize the best-tasting artisan edibles made in accordance with sustainable principles. In a weekend ceremony hosted by Alice Waters, eight awards were given in the cheese category to producers from Oregon, Vermont, California and Wisconsin. “The…
It’s understandable that the Hyatt Regency, which last week announced it was opening a new bar and restaurant “just in time for the big game,” would want to take advantage of Super Bowl traffic. But a longtime member of the Foodservice Consultants Society International group says it’s not always advisable…
Each week, Happy Eating highlights a different restaurant happy hour food menu, letting you know what deals are out there. This week, we try out the Il Cane Rosso pizza while tuning up our ping-pong game at Brackets. Where: Brackets, 5330 East Mockingbird Lane No. 100 When: 5-7 p.m. Monday-Friday…
Like Abba sang, “I was so afraid, Fernando,” I feared that the unlimited refills on the complimentary mimosas Fernando’s Mexican Cuisine’s advertised with its brunch would actually have an unstated limit. But unlike other brunch spots in Dallas that promote bottomless mimosas and then stop refilling your glass after the…
Wine writer and Texas wine booster Jeff Siegel, who blogs as The Wine Curmudgeon, last week raised the interesting question of whether there should be a certification process for wine writers, as recently proposed by fellow wine writer Pamela Heiligenthal. Siegel thinks the concept’s corked. Writing isn’t medicine: Even when…
The original idea behind this weekly feature was for me to visit taquerías and restaurants vending tacos near DART light rail stops. I moved from New York where a car is little more than a money-muncher, between insurance and alternate-side parking. I’m a fan of public transportation, and, believe it…
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is now giving restaurant apron collectors the chance to beef up their Fort Worth holdings. In conjunction with its showing of “The Apron Chronicles,” a traveling photographic exhibit managed by The Women’s Museum of Dallas, the museum’s raffling off autographed aprons from…
If you were thinking 2011 was shaping up to be a selfish year, think again. Get your philanthropy in shape with these upcoming events: The Place: Smoke The Cause: Foodways Texas On January 24, Smoke is holding a “Gulf Coast Gathering” — a Gulf-inspired seafood feast (and that means shrimp,…
