This week Dave takes a trip to Japan, or something like it, with a few visits to Geisha House, where sushi, oyster shooters and, yes, real chopsticks come together under one roof. As he writes, some visits to the Uptown spot left him more inspired than others.The furniture’s bound to…
In one week, the tea sippers battle that redneck military school for all important bragging rights. Yeah, Texas has to get past the Chickenhawks of KU first, while the Aggies go up against (yawn) Baylor. But on Thanksgiving day, it’s either “Hook ’em Horns” or…what the hell does “Gig ’em”…
I would’ve really liked to spend this Thanksgiving with my brother and sister-in-law in Northwest Spain. They throw an amazing bash each year for all of their American friends, then take it to the clubs for late-night dancing and drinks. Fun times, for sure! My recently retired mother, however, has…
The ‘Boys host the team of the ’40s on Sunday. Another fact about the city built on disease-ridden swampland…Because some people consider “Redskins” to be offensive, next year owner Dan Snyder plans to name the team after the southern dish of pig intestines.**Source: A delegation to this office claiming to…
Like so many Asian restaurants, Geisha House sets its tables with disposable wooden chopsticks, the kind you break apart before using. The things are everywhere, so it’s hardly a confusing concept. Yet during my first visit to the vast new sushi/teppan spot on Cedar Springs, I overheard a stylish young…
Ate a cold slice of pizza for breakfast, which, apart from immediately causing nightmare flashbacks to epic college hangovers (Seriously, Everclear. Is there a toilet on any college campus that you haven’t ended up in?), always leads to one of my favorite things: breakfast for lunch. Luckily, Oasis Cafe is…
Matching wine to tomato soup wouldn’t seem all that difficult. Fine dining restaurants routinely piece together bisques and fresh purees, after all–and their sommeliers can generally cope. But in this column we don’t bother to make fresh, upscale, herb infused soups. That would require buying tomatoes, basil…far too much trouble, to…
In last week’s cover story — which, for the next few hours, you can still find on a newsstand near you — Jesse walked through a few of Dallas’s most authentic dive bars, from the “all hours mixed-use dive” (Starlight Lounge) to the “dive where even your grandparents might get…
I was there when McDonald’s introduced Shanghai McNuggets, asking staff members at stores around the nation to don replica coolie hats.That was in 1985 or thereabouts–before corporate sensitivity training but long after Americans should have known better. I still remember an Asian couple approaching the counter at a McDonald’s in…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.In Spain, as well as throughout Latin America, the dining public is big on pig. How big? Well, it is estimated that the entire chorizo production of Spain is 65,000 tons annually, more than the…
The ‘Boys host a team whose fans dress as female pigs on Sunday. Another fact about Northern Virginia’s attic…As a rookie, Redskins great Dexter Manley was beaten up by the kid from the “I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener” commercial.**Source: A skinny gentleman who we saw in a…
El Jordan Cafe416 N. Bishop Ave.214-941-4451Dude Factor: 9, or Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, on a scale of 1 (The Axeman) to 10 (Pete Perkins).This morning I awoke with the type of breakfast hankering no pop tart, oatmeal or yogurt smoothie could cure. I needed some man-size desayunos. You know, the…
Normally we roll out a Top 10 list in this space. But, quite honestly, we stalled somewhere around number six.Yet bathrooms are surprisingly important. A clean, bright and polished space reassures guests of the entire operation’s standards while a smudged, rusty room with splash marks all over the floor is…
In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho–authentic, Texified, good and bad–available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.I am staring at a forty-paged PDF file on my laptop. My mother, who lives in…
If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I’m so damn warped.It’s funny how memories become jumbled sometimes. For several decades now I’ve remembered sitting in our London flat, pouring clotted cream over McVitie’s apple pies. These were tarts sold in boxes of six at the…
I find it rather off-putting when militant vegans say things like, “How vegan are you?” or “[I’m] a true vegan.” Hmm…guess I didn’t realize this was a competition. Fact is, no one living in modern day society can be completely vegan. As one of my pals puts it, “If you’re…
The ‘Boys host the symbol of our nation’s concern for native peoples on Sunday. Another fact about Maryland’s second team…The Redskins are known as a “cupcake” on NFL schedules because linebacker London Fletcher bakes treats for opposing teams in the Easy-Bake oven he’s used since childhood.**Source: Jim Schutze told us…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Dominos.comdelivered from 4420 Gaston Ave.Promised delivery time (implied): 30 minutesActual delivery time: 27 minutesScoring summary:Money saved by online coupon (dollars): 1.11 Time wasted tinkering with interactive pizza order system (minutes): 15 Big…
A reader using the name Foodbevlaw posted an interesting comment to Friday’s Question of the Week: “Doucheries can almost always be identified by, and the numberb of Douchers are almost always proportional to, the number of premium tequilas in the back bar.”Keep in mind the question at hand dealt with…
Bene Bene4727 Frankford972-267-2363Old school Italian joints dot the area’s northern reaches. Don’t know why, really–but if you want typical lasagna, chicken parmigiana, bruschetta with nothing fancier than garlic and basil, or any other dish common to Italian restaurants up through the 1980s, your best options exist in a swath just…
Golden Spirits has come up with an idea so perfectly suited to the artificial luxury embodied by Dallas ultra-lounges that you’d think the Madison, Wisconsin distillery was based here. Well, to use the old bumper-sticker phrase, Million Vodka wasn’t born here, but it got here as fast as it could…
The ‘Boys host a tribe of rednecks–or something close–on Sunday. An important fact about the beltway…FedEx Field, home of the Redskins, has vomitoriums installed in each individual luxury box, as well as one for the masses. It is the only NFL stadium with this feature.**Source: A guy named Lou…
