Dave visits Carrollton’s Tea Thyme & Tisane this week for the Obsever’s Dish review, which combines a shop celebrating tea culture and an all-out restaurant with a down-home menu.For a close-up look at the dishes, the teas and the related paraphernalia, check out this week’s Dish Extra gallery from photographer…
As it is now officially Rocktober, Oktoberfest beers are replacing summer brews on store aisles, bar coolers and tap walls. Apparently, though, not all brewers have the traditional Oktoberfest German Marzen-style amber lager in mind for this month. New Belgium, best known for Fat Tire, has introduced a new golden…
Norma’s Cafe17721 N. Dallas Tollway(at Trinity Mills)The most recent addition to the Norma’s line up just opened on Trinity Mills in North Dallas. It has a leaky roof and sterile surroundings. Inside, however, it’s a fun combination of 50s diner and Texas chic.To explain: there are padded soda fountain stools…
When you consider that most of the city’s obscenely massive steak palaces buy from the same purveyor, a comparison seems rather pointless. Unless…You see, III Forks serves prime New York strip. This will run you almost $46. Bob’s cuts corners, selling choice grade strip at the upscale rate of $35–at…
A new Wai Wai Kitchen opens next week in the space that Manow used to occupy. No solid date yet (they’re waiting on city inspectors to give them the go-ahead), but here’s something to look forward to: plenty of vegan eats, campy drink names, along with Dallas’ most rambunctious drag…
Recipe demonstrated by Chef Bryant Currie and his Le Cordon Bleu students The worst thing about a classroom is sitting at some uncomfortable desk and listening to your instructor do his best impersonation of Ben Stein talking about the downfall of the Danish empire in 1814. No need to worry…
Dallas had been on a hot streak.The scoreboard of restaurant openings vs closings had leaned heavily to the positive all spring and summer. March, for example, recorded a 10-5 result, openings vs closings. In April it was 8-3 in favor–and things continued that way, including a 15-2 July blowout.Not since…
The time has come, once again, to reflect on three months of drinking…and art.Over the summer we paired wine with the good (bacon, deviled eggs), the bad (Boca vegetable burgers), but nothing really ugly. We even tried some classic American desserts–Chips Ahoy, for example.Long, hot days gave artist Patrick Michels…
This is sad: one of the greatest packaged cookie bars ever made died without leaving a visible trace.So I can’t find an image of Nabisco’s Hey Day bar, but just imagine: vanilla wafers covered with caramel until the gooey flavor of it seeped into the cookie itself, topped with chocolate…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.”Arnold Layne had a strange hobby/Collecting clothes/Moonshine, washing line/They suit him fine” OK, so what in the name of Pink Floyd does a song about a dirty old Brit have to do with a Canary…
If Vimeo isn’t cooperating, or if you prefer, you can check out the video here on YouTube.In keeping with this year’s “We Can Do It!” theme, focused on people doing great things in Dallas in the middle of a rough year for the country, Dave’s story in the Best of…
Each week the Dude Food guys assess the ‘masculinity’ of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating…The Grill At Reno’s212 N. Crowdus St.214-295-5869Dude Factor: 10, or Dr. Emmett Brown, on a scale of 1 (George McFly) to 10I’m not a cocktail…
If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past.Eating in the Baltics is a series of gut-wrenching, ‘please let dinner end’ experiences punctuated by a few surprising moments when you think nothing could be better.For example, I barely survived a dish they call ‘zeppelins’–in this particular case a heavy mound…
For vegans, the State Fair of Texas can be a hellish experience. All those not-even-close-to-vegan fried concoctions, waddling crowds and poor, enslaved farm animals make us want to punch people in the tundra they carry ’round their waistbands…and we’re not typically violent sorts. Despite all those sad pigs in bins,…
John and Carol Ryan have always wanted to open up their own wine place. Their dreams have come true in Denton. Well, almost.The place isn’t quite open. And another possible setback comes to mind right away. Although its outward appearance is alluring (maybe Vigne should be called Little Italy with…
Some have noticed that we use “corn dog” instead of “corny dog.”There are a few good (and at least one rather pointless) reasons for this. As far as we understand things, corny dog is part of the Fletcher’s brand and corn dog refers to the object in general. Before either…
OK, so you gotta have a corn dog. And you’d kick yourself if you didn’t try one of this year’s fried novelties.But the big event offers more than a line up of stick foods and wild creations. In amongst monotonous stalls selling Fletcher’s dogs, bagged cotton candy and grease-crusted Snickers…
Mardi Gras2720 N. Stemmons Fwy214-634-9669Three things that are difficult to figure, at first glance. Is it called Gators Mardi Gras or just plain old Mardi Gras? Their Website suggests the former, but everything else points to the truncated name. And just where the hell is this place? Until you pull…
There’s really nothing all that special about corn dogs. They are just pale, cheap sausages propped on sticks and wrapped in cornmeal. Yet Texans by the thousands–or more like tens of thousands–will shell out the equivalent of $4 for a sample of one at the state fair.Of course, it could…
This time around we hit the likes of Wang’s, New Big Wong and Piggie Pies. Under the circumstances, I think we showed remarkable restraint. It could have been the quarter we reverted to sophomoric dick jokes. As it turned out, a couple of these inched their way into our big…
Rathbun’s Blue Plate Kitchen is known for its comfort food items like pot roast, meatloaf and biscuits and gravy. The menu also gives a nod to the locavore trend. Well, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, the restaurant will be the site of a dinner built around the ultimate comfort food–beer–from a…
This probably won’t shock anyone: I didn’t see Central 214 chef Blythe Beck’s television debut in The Naughty Kitchen.I did hand the preview copy over to one of our writers, who made it part way through the opening episode before, as this writer put it, “her [Beck’s] annoying voice forced…
