Monday morning, business was far from usual for the baristas and patrons of Murray Street Coffee Shop. Seems there’s nothing quite like a police-enforced road closure and a crew of 200 folks filming a Jerry Bruckheimer-backed pilot in the neighborhood to put a damper on the day-to-day customer flow at…
Top 10 Things We Wish Waiters Would Never Say Again–Ever Face it: Your waiter can make or break a meal. It’s all about attitude, baby, and if he or she has a crappy one, well, it doesn’t matter what the hell they dish out. Because you can’t take it. Pissed…
Another holiday is upon us, City of Aters. It’s that time of year when you put on your Sunday best, dye perfectly good eggs, receive a basket full of goodies from an over-sized bunny, and of course, stuff yourself with food until you feel like you’re about to explode, among…
There are certain peaks in life that must be surmounted, simply because when Mount Everest shows up in your backyard, you must climb it sooner or later if for no other reason than it’s there. The Grape has been the standard-bearer of Dallas wine bars for lo these many years,…
Farnatchi 3001 Knox St. 214-219-7200 www.farnatchi.com Promised delivery time: 45 minutes Actual delivery time: 30 minutes Interesting appetizers including Turkish meat pie: 40 Pricey pizza toppings: -10 Homemade desserts: 30 Faster delivery than Domino’s: 30 Total Score: 90 Living near the Observer offices has its advantages. I don’t have to…
Every Sunday ever spent at a certain grandmother’s house involved a three-bean salad. Granted, this salad, with it’s green beans, wax beans and kidney beans — and a little vinegar and sugar — was made with love and firm-handed grace. Everyone ate it, so everyone must have liked the sweet…
The Pints for Paint fundraiser that Jesse teased in yesterday’s Hophead went off last night at Eno’s Pub in Oak Cliff to the sound of a thousand Journey covers, and some incredibly good beer. It was for a good cause: donations went to purchase the paints and materials for local…
Fort Worth brewery Rahr & Sons’ roof collapsed during the February 12 snowmageddon storm, bringing beer production to a screeching halt as the bottling line and glycol chilling lines cooling the fermentation tanks were crushed and demolished.More than a month later, founder Fritz Rahr said in an interview earlier this…
Cedar Plank Salmon Demonstrated by Jaime Corona of The Place at Perry’s The babysitter is booked, the suit is ironed, the little black dress is dry cleaned, and the DVR is set. One thing is missing — where do you go for date night? You want something that doesn’t play…
You know you like spicy food. Check out a few more photos from this weeks review of Naga Thai’s warmly lit, tasty food in our slide show by Sara Kerens: here…
N9NE tried it. Now they’re no more. Nove Italiano tried it. Now they’re no more. Now Naga Thai is trying it, opening a restaurant in the overpriced abyss known as Victory Park. Einstein once said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and…
If you’re one of those picky-as-shit people when it comes to ordering your food, one of those people who takes 30 minutes to order a burger and you “hold” and “on the side” so much stuff that it ends up just being a grilled cheese sandwich, Yourway Burger is the…
The Hilton Anatole recently ditched the seedy, carpeted den that was the Crocodile Disco–the once notorious dance spot that had its heyday in the late 70’s–and welcomes a truly state-of-the-art nightspot. Located near the hotel atrium’s main entrance, the glitz of the Media Grill + Bar is sure to catch…
“Pretty woman, walkin’ down the street, pretty woman the kind I like to meet, pretty woman. I don’t believe you. You’re not the truth. No one could look as good as you…Mercy!” If rock ‘n roll pioneer Roy Orbison were alive today, he might take great pleasure in knowing that…
Nothing celebrates the coming of spring like the utilitarian, humble egg. For many civilizations, the egg symbolizes and celebrates power, life, fertility and renewal.At the Passover Seder, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water symbolizes both new life and sacrifice. The early Persians painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year’s…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: The Meridian Room, 3611 Parry Ave.When: All day Monday, 4 p.m. to…
New York Sub3411 Asbury St.University Park214-522-1070Dude Factor: 7, or Ghost Busters on a scale of 1 (hunter green Slanket) to 10 (You’d Butter Believe It!)The ad guys who dreamed up that “You can’t beat the real thing” line got it all wrong. Competition’s always a good thing, and if the original New…
You sit yourself down in a restaurant, a real find, one that has taken you to parts unknown: aka Oak Cliff. You’re exhausted because your GPS was on the fritz and you had to actually ask for directions three times, which violated every man law you hold sacred. You could…
With Texas continuing its onslaught of dysfunctional weather (today excluded), I interpreted last weekend’s abrupt cold weather as a sign for me to finally go and review Pho Bang, the popular pho restaurant in Garland. Along for the food ride was my friend Kelly, a Vietnamese cuisine neophyte. Once we…
Despite what the popular ad jingle may tell you, the best part of waking up isn’t always the coffee in your cup. Some mornings it may be a friendly smile or the memorable service of the person pouring that cup of coffee.Other days, the best part of waking up may…
When winter’s last crispy cold blast canceled plans to visit a time-honored Dallas destination, my wife and I were left with little choice but to stay close to home at The Colony. On such frigid occasions, comfort food is often the order of the day, and given the fact that…
We were just thinking the other day that there should really be more free stuff available for the public. What if Steve Jobs set up shop on a street corner one day and just started giving away free computers and iPods? Or if Donald Trump decided it was a good…
