The only thing worse than coming back from vacation is beating the rest of the world back to work — especially if you’re a reporter waiting for return phone calls. It’s been a quiet day in the office. But all that time spent in silence hasn’t gone to waste: Today…
Small-scale meat producers say a proposal to limit slaughterhouse construction could harm farm-to-table eating statewide. According to a front-page story in today’s Dallas Morning News, State Representative Jodie Laubenberg has filed a bill that would allow counties to keep out slaughterhouses. Existing meat processing facilities wouldn’t be affected by the…
A downtown fusion restaurant that closed unexpectedly last year may be gearing up for a reopening. Fuse, a clubby Tex-Mex-Asian spot that occupied the Browder building for four years before shutting down last December, has received a new certificate of occupancy. After Fuse closed, rumors swirled online that the restaurant…
At many fine 19th-century restaurants, it wasn’t unusual for diners to deviate significantly from the printed menu. Since it was assumed the chef stocked his larder with the same eggs, cheeses and vegetables that appeared in nearly every hoity-toity restaurant kitchen, eaters could reasonably demand egg croquettes or Bombay oysters…
Each week, Happy Eating will highlight a different restaurant happy hour food menu, keeping you informed of what deals are out there. This week we set our sights on the happy hour offerings of Uptown’s popular Lemon Bar–not the place to go if you are interested in low key. Where:…
Is “authentic” Chinese cuisine within Dallas city limits a good thing? That was the question my friends and I were left with when we paid a post-Christmas lunch visit to Royal China last Sunday. The immediate answer would be “yes, of course,” right? Driving out to the suburbs for an…
It’s winter getaway season, which means folks are flocking to warm tropical islands — and eating spaghetti and meatballs when they get there. My parents are spending the week in Aruba and kicked off their vacation with a dinner at Gianni’s Ristorante Italiano, a massive red sauce eatery where tourists…
Because nothing is as important as family time during the holidays, the Man O’ The Hour and I left my parents’ house on Christmas afternoon to drive up to the brand-spanking-new-ish Choctaw Casino Resort in pancake-flat Durant, Oklahoma. Like many folks with family ties in Northeast Texas, I am part…
The Dallas Fish Market, which offers discounted sushi to downtowners on Sundays and free sushi to everybody on Wednesdays, is now promoting its late-night sushi menu: A selection of specialty rolls, including the Dallas roll, is available until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. While few diners with cause to…
It’s a fair bet there’s not too much overlap between Anthony Bourdain and Dallas Morning News restaurant critic Leslie Brenner’s lists of what they liked best in 2010. According to a recent feature story, Brenner this year thrilled to grilled mussels and escargot fritters. Bourdain enjoyed the documentary We Like…
If you don’t have dinner plans for New Year’s Eve yet, you better make reservations soon or risk cuddling a pizza box on the couch come Friday. Some restaurants are completely booked, but we’ve compiled a list of places with interesting menu options that are still taking reservations. We also…
New Orleans is a food-lovers paradise, and such an all-around cool town that it has its own official cocktail—Sazerac, a power-packed concoction of rye whiskey (or cognac), absinthe, and Peychaud’s bitters. At Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar, the trendy new Tollway tavern in Plano, your waitress or bartender will ask…
These pork ribs off Chosun BBQ’s specialty menu are insane. The fork-tender meat falls from the bone with the slightest nudge. Slathered on the succulent meat is an appropriately sweet sauce that packs the slightest punch of heat. A bed of sautéed onions sits beneath the bountiful ribs, soaking up…
You know Fabio Viviani as the heartthrob, fan favorite and all-around bad boy of Top Chef Season Five and the current Top Chef All Stars. What you may not know is that he is not only the co-owner and executive chef of Café Firenze Italian Restaurant and Martini Bar in…
After you figure out whose bed you’re in, whose underwear you’re wearing and how to get home, here are a few tips for hangover recovery on New Year’s Day: 1. Eat donuts Donuts are the perfect booze-sopping-up grease bomb. Added bonus: on New Year’s Day, the Dutch believe that eating…
Mister Rogers’ classic “Won’t you be my Neighbor?” should not be the theme song for Neighborhood Services The Original on Lovers Lane. Last Friday, at 5:09 p.m. I called Neighborhood Services to be put on the wait list. The hostess asked when we expected to be there, I told her…
Thanks to all who shared their tales of holiday embarrassment, trauma, blackouts and illness in our latest commenting contest. It was a lot of fun (and sometimes just sad) reading them, and also oddly comforting to know that I’m not alone in finding that the holidays aren’t just a nonstop…
I don’t own any kind of Viking appliance. But if I did, now I know what I would do with it. I didn’t realize that the “Experience the Viking Difference” cooking class at the Viking Cooking school referred to the difference a Viking appliance can make in a cook’s life…
Food lovers must talk with their mouths full, since there was plenty of discussion of many, many food-related topics in 2010. But a few national stories struck us as most important. Let us know what you think. 1. The food safety bill The massive food safety bill had been left…
In the mood for some authentic Thai cuisine, I came across Thai-Rrific. Ballsy name for a place in a super-rundown shopping center. Even ballsier name for a place that serves up shitty food. It pains me to say that, since the service was really friendly. But it also pained me…
Our server knew something was wrong at five paces. “A little too much whipped cream?” he asked with an ambiguous smirk that either indicated he thought we were fools for chancing another course after a disappointing meal or he’d grown accustomed to the kitchen’s clumsiness. In any case, he was…
You know the story. First pig builds house of straw, wolf blows it down, second pig builds his house of sticks, wolf blows it down. Smart Pig #3 builds house of bricks, and wolf huffs and puffs with all his might and can’t blow house down, so smart pig survives…
