Yeah, I love Groucho, the source of this week’s headline. I’ve borrowed many of my standard lines from him (such as “if I were a man, you’d resent that”). But we have other things to discuss. Like the fact that I have decided to leave City of Ate and the…
Tre Amici Prime Steakhouse and Seafood will be launching the first of their quarterly dinners this Thursday, February 4. The dining event titled Savor the Arts will be benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Savor the Arts will include artwork from local and international artists, a silent auction and dinner…
Earlier this week I settled in for an appetizer and a 10-ounce steak with one side. The bill, when two drinks were added on, approached $90.Worth it? Well, the steak was good. But there’s nothing rare (if you’ll pardon a really bad pun) about good steak in Dallas. I know…
Promotions and public relations people must have read somewhere that we store up the stuff they send in to give away–one day, maybe–as prizes, because the flow of non-perishable goodies dwindled to a trickle this week.The perishable stuff goes to our receptionist.So as usual, we have nothing to give to…
The origin of most cocktails has been clouded by time. There are several claims to the first margarita, for instance, or the first martini. But there’s no disputing the who, when and where of the world’s first Irish coffee.Chef Joe Sheridan at the seaplane terminal in Foynes, Ireland, created it…
Yesterday I ate a plateful of fried oysters for lunch then headed out for a dinner of chicken fried steak with French fries. Think I knocked 12 days off my life in one go…although if clear spirits are health-giving, I probably tacked a couple days back on…
Number 7 on the Hophead Beer of the Year list last month was Inedit, a new creation from Barcelona brewery Estrella Damm specifically created as an alternative to wine for food pairings. What landed this brew on my year-end list wasn’t the taste. In fact, I hadn’t even tried it…
In this week’s Observer, Dave visits India West in Addison, where he finds the kitchen fine at times, underwhelming at others, and generally filling the more upscale, less cutely named void for the Kebab N Kurry crowd.Check out more photos from the restaurant, and what you’d find to eat there,…
See, I’ve started this whole “eating well and exercising” bullshit that’s totally overrated because it’s making me feel better, sleep better, lose jiggle…wait, what? Yeah, it’s working and I’m totally pleased, so I guess it’s not really BS, but I like the snark so whatever.Only problem with my new life…
Pizza can be a scary subject, but one that I am not easily shaken from. For this week’s challenge I felt the need to be slightly scientific in choosing the correct opponents. I randomly asked strangers for their ideas on a perfect Dallas pizza.. I polled about 40 people from…
Russo’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria700 E. Campbell, Richardson972-235-7992I still remember a moment, back in my baseball-playing days, when I popped a hanging fastball straight up. An easy out on a pitch I should have ripped. I was more than a little annoyed, so as I jogged down to first I berated myself…
Recipe Demonstrated by Chef Anthony Bombaci of Nana I’m not too familiar with the feeling of winning a prestigious award, unless you count a participation ribbon in every sport I’ve ever played or beating out all the other 5th graders in my English class to win the weekly spelling bee…
There are two possible reasons why India West’s dining room was so sparsely populated the evening of my final visit. One involves the presence of a Russian businessman speaking in ponderous, but voluminous tones to three young patrons of Indian descent. On the phone—which he used several times, once even…
I was all hyped up to eat lunch at ChaCha’s—which surprisingly (and disappointingly) is not a gentleman’s club, but instead was a kickass-lookin’ Mexican restaurant I’d spotted right across from Keller’s—and then I got there and the place is closed. Directly below the window paint that shouts, “Nice People!” it…
Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Huevos rancheros is a simple and traditional ranch breakfast of eggs, salsa and tortillas–though sometimes people would add beans.This “sometimes” is the problem. Order the dish at one place and it comes with…
I had a Frito Bandito eraser. I can still hear that leering, gravely voice. And the song–oh, I remember the song.At least I remember the second version. Frito-Lay introduced the animated Mexican bandit to advertise Fritos in 1967. He wore a sombrero and a couple of six-shooters, sported a gold…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Nobody gets tongue tied when the subject is, um, tongue.Writing in the Weekly Volcano (Tacoma and Olympia Washington’s “only edgy, irreverent, and thought-provoking alternative newsweekly”) Jake and Jason de Paul relate their encounter with lengua…
Big Al’s Smokehouse BBQ3317 Inwood Rd. 214-350-2649Dude Factor: 6, or Tony Romo, on a scale of 1 (Brad Johnson) to 10 (Roger Staubach)Texas being one of the reddest of red states, medical marijuana isn’t going to happen any time soon without intervention by the federal government. But if you’re, say,…
If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what’s wrong with me.It has been dismissed as a white Snickers. The company that makes them has changed hands so many times it’s near impossible to keep track. And when I went to the 7-Eleven by our posh, teak-lined…
This week I had the rare pleasure of spending time with my mom. She is in town, well, technically in the country, for the next few weeks and I have been waiting anxiously for her arrival. One of my favorite pastimes is embarking on adventures of the food variety with…
Grapefruit can change your life. Cabbage soup, too. Balancing the right carbs with the right fats extends one’s youth. Smoking shaves off the pounds. Eating only vegetables is ethically right…While Americans didn’t invent ridiculous weight loss incentives (they date way back) or the assumption of moral superiority in one dining…
I was in Naan for lunch one day last week.Really I just wanted to reacquaint myself with the place–it had been about five years. Instead I was reintroduced to an issue that seems to plagued Dallas area sushi joints: carrying the “everything’s bigger in Texas” notion too far.Japanese chefs roll…
