The egg must not be cold. Here we are in Oak Lawn’s dishiest new restaurant, DISH (the insistent capital letters an attempt to elevate the generic name). It is a frigid Saturday morning, and at 11:30 a.m., we two are the only patrons in a 5,500-square-foot space that seats about…
This ain’t your mother’s bistro. No, it’s your grandmother’s. And if you visit Tramontana of an evening, though not too long past the witching hour of 8, you’ll likely see a few other people’s grannies here too. They’ll be accompanied by nicely dressed adult grandchildren and, if some have been…
I wanted a light lunch the other day, so I went in search of barbecue. Felt like a two-meat kind of day, ya know? I heard Big Al’s Smokehouse was a thing to behold, so it was ironic to me that I was having a hard time seeing it as…
Some Southerners — and we’re talking South Carolina’s Lowcountry here — feel right at home with a plate of shrimp and grits in front of them, but may find the white table cloth it’s sitting on a bit off-putting. This isn’t a jab at Southern sophistication; it just isn’t a…
My research takes the famous Chicken and Waffle phenomenon back to 1930’s Harlem to Wells Supper Club billed as “Home of Chicken and Waffles Since 1938.” They claim to be the first to sell the dish during the Jazz Age, when late-night diners would order breakfast or dinner to soak…
Forty tons of shrimp. That’s how many of the curvy crustaceans are processed and shipped from Mazatlan every year deservedly earning this jewel city of the Mexican Riviera its designation as “Shrimp Capital of the World”. (In fact, I’ve read estimates as high as 40,000 tons. In any case, that’s…
Po-Bill’s Cafe 2933 Commerce St. (214) 741-6601 Dude Factor: 8, or “Cold Souls” on a scale of 1, (“Soul Man” or “Heart and Souls”) to 10, (“Soul Plane”) Deep Ellum may have more dude-worthy food choices than anywhere else in town, but most favor the downtown end of the neighborhood,…
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 Old Monk, 2847 N. Henderson Ave. When: Mondays through Thursdays,…
Savor Dallas was this weekend, and Sara Kerens was out to capture the wine-and-chocolate-a-thon. Check out the rest of the slideshow here…
What started out as a fun idea to share my mom’s recipe for pho with City of Aters turned into something more nerve racking. My mom isn’t exactly Martha Stewart, fastidiously measuring out every tablespoon or gram needed for an exact recipe. She, like many Asian cooks, measures sauces and…
Well, it’s officially March, which means the coming of spring, college hoop madness, and yes, St. Patrick’s Day, which, in addition to attending the Observer’s annual Greenville Avenue parade, many Dallasites celebrate by visiting the North Texas Irish Festival, an entire weekend devoted to Irish music and dancing, not to…
Well Dallas, nothing like another gray, rain-soaked Monday to get the week started off with a thud. The alarm buzz rang more mercilessly that normal, but it did the trick: Roasted was up early with plenty of time to run some errands before hitting up a coffee shop on the…
Every once in a while, we feel the need to escape the city and head to a place where you can see the stars and breathe fresh air. OK, that’s a lie–we really enjoy a night in an Indian casino, smoking cigarettes and drinking 3.2 beer, so we headed north…
f I were a cinnamon roll I’d hang out here. I’d relax on the floral sofas, contemplate the photography that adorns the walls, stare through the net curtains at the street outside, maybe even write some poetry. If I were a cinnamon roll. Can you guess where I’m eating? …
Forget sleeping in late, then eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast while watching reruns of Full House this Saturday, because it’s the 31st Annual Greenville St. Patrick’s Day Parade. You’ll have all day Sunday to do that plus recover from Saturday’s festivities. This year a few of our favorite…
Just getting there is far and away the biggest challenge. Not only is the fast, casual ThaiBox located in Allen, which is directly north of Plano off Central Expressway and therefore a considerable haul for most Dallasites, but the place is situated in The Village at Allen, a monstrous outdoor…
This week marked the soft opening of Ristorante Nicola, the “sister” restaurant of Nicola’s Ristorante Italiano in the Shops of Legacy in Plano. Located in the Preston Commons office building, the new restaurant occupies what once was a bank lobby. Like the Legacy location, Ristorante Nicola features a large antipasto…
When we hear tales of a proper fish and chips meal from the United Kingdom, we might conjure visions of Dickens’ characters scurrying about in search of the quintessential British take away. The “Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil” mentioned in The Tale of Two…
Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you that the top restaurant in Dallas is in Fort Worth, and that someone is Zagat, whose annual survey carries much weight in the food world?Don’t you just want to smack ’em before telling them that Dallas-Fort Worth is not one geographic…
There are probably as many ways to rank beers as there are beer drinkers, though most stick to similar criteria. Beer Advocate users frequently grade by appearance, smell, taste, mouth feel and drinkability, while RateBeer users grade by aroma, appearance, flavor, palate and overall. Of course, standardizing how beers are…
German Chocolate Adult Milkshake Demonstrated by Jason Boso of Twisted Root Burger Co. When it comes to combining ingredients in the kitchen, sometimes it works and well, sometimes it doesn’t. A pie plate salad–a combination of lemon jello and mixed vegetables–would be an example of the latter. Don’t even try…
