Japanese celebrities locate the DFW’s epicenter at the crossing of Belt Line and Rochelle roads in Irving. That’s the intersection that’s home to three authentic-leaning Japanese restaurants, including Mr. Max, an izakaya around which traveling Japanese musicians, comedians and ballplayers plan their layovers. Rumor has it that Ichiro’s a fan…
Promised delivery time: 35-40 minutes Actual delivery time: 22 minutes THE SCORE Delivery earlier than promised: 20 Points No online ordering: Minus 5 Points No MSG: 10 Points Fresh tasting food: 40 Points Food securely packaged: 10 Points TOTAL: 75 points E-mail menus, snail-mail menus, and door-hanger menus. Where would…
After living in a well-established neighborhood for many years, we made the decision a few years ago to move to a newly developed addition in the suburbs. We love our new home, but as always, a new set of challenges has emerged. Most notably, getting food delivered in a timely…
Friday night, it was Busch Light and a basket of chicken tenders with gravy at one of Old East Dallas’ premiere dives, The Dallasite Club, for karaoke. Pop-country was sung, dances were dunced, and all was well until the bartender advised Man O’ The Hour that a spirit we’d never…
Uhh… I don’t get it, Texadelphia. I thought for sure it was more important that I find your queso than that I find God. But, OK. I’ll go find God. Thanks?…
I’m a big fan of chicken feet. Chicken feet are the flavor-giving ingredient in my mother’s matzo ball soup, and the first item I swipe from dim sum carts. But I’d never come across duck feet on a menu until I dined last night at First Chinese BBQ in Richardson,…
When Texas winemakers began ramping up production in the last dozen years, they first planted conventional varietals: cabs, chards, pinot noirs and the like. After much trial and error and a few mediocre vintages, however, many of them discovered that some grapes such as pinot noir did not fare as…
There’s a growing number of apron collectors who scour eBay and antique shops for pretty, frilly pinafores. But apron expert EllynAnne Geisel says there still isn’t much interest in what she calls “opinionated aprons.” “I think there are too many beautiful designs out there,” says Geisel, author of The Apron…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Let’s get right to the announcement: our brand-spanking new Dallas Observer iPhone App is available for download, right now, in the iTunes App Store. Before we launch into an epic “presenting” speech, where we tell you that’s it’s completely FREE and has an exciting little logo and everything–let’s break down…
This week Dallas food bloggers and critics searched for exotic pizzas, beat the heat with cold beer and colder snow cones, followed the scent to taco stands and learned a lesson in German-to-English translation. Check out this week’s Sloppy Seconds. The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Hanna Raskin learned the hard way…
In one of those slow motion, cinematic moments that history brings us, a pancake went flying through the air as Napoleon (the impish emperor of France not the nunchuck wielding dweeb from the 2004 indie film, Napoleon Dynamite) attempted an intervention between his sausage-like fingers and the floor below. Sausage-like…
While the alien taco invasion, as Dallas Morning News’ restaurant critic Leslie Brenner has called it, bombards Dallas, one taco joint has walked among us for several years. Originating from a land, far, far away (Mexico City) owners Markus Pineyro and John E. Tuma, have successfully integrated Urban Taco into…
I really wanted to like Japan House. Upon first glance, I was in love. The staff is incredibly friendly, the dining area is modern, and the spread looks vast and promising. Because of all the above, it’s difficult for me to write what I’m about to write. Located off of…
You wanna start the day off stuffing your face with unholy goodness? Welcome to the breakfast of your fantasies, folks. This place is wall-to-wall people “I’ll have what she’s having” food-moaning, like something straight out of a “Sodom and Gomorrah: Breakfast!” Order the deliciousness in the photo and say to…
Restaurants can list their offerings as “chicken,” “steak” and “pasta,” or they can add a few descriptive adjectives to their menus and up their sales by 27 percent. Cornell University’s Brian Wansink’s findings were a hot topic when the New York Times reported them late last year. But the publicity…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
In part 3 of our interview with Matthew McCallister, executive chef at Stephan Pyles, he shows us how to create a cooling fish dish perfect for these sweltering summer days: Stephan Pyles’ Lenguado Ceviche. It’s a fairly straightforward to prepare, but one note: It requires fresh, smoked corn, so you’ll…
Many of the responses to my recent review of Horne & Dekker (I thought the food was eh, defenders think it’s extraordinary) have centered on the warmth of the staff and owner Shawn Horne, who apparently functions as a front-of-house manager. “I challenge you to find another restaurant in town…
Temps have been over 100 degrees for days, and there’s no relief in sight. No relief, that is, unless you count a cold glass of beer. As mentioned last time we looked at summer thirst-quenchers, crisp pilsners, IPAs and farmhouse ales are much more appealing during the dog days of…
Right away, we knew this would be a big week for our Tiffany Derry. They started off the show with her smoothing toner all over her face and neck (so that’s how she gets that awesome skin!) and talking about how she was planning her wedding before hopping on the…
“Praise God, the 2010 Chile Season is here,” says the banner headline on Hatch Chile Express’ homepage. Hatch Chile Express, a New Mexico distributor with a three-generation long history of chile farming, is planning to begin shipping its Big Jims, Sandias and Lumbre chiles on Monday. But for Dallasites who…
