We always were a sucker for the ones who play hard to get. By most indications, La Michoacana Meat Market doesn’t really care if you want to shop there. Its low-key Greenville Avenue storefront (one of numerous area locations) sports an ancient-looking sign and the front door, covered in metal…
The first round of our weekly dish duel features a venerable Tex-Mex veteran and a pretty boy from Uptown…You know, Texans brag almost constantly about brisket. Mention brisket tacos and you risk sending natives into a fugue state. We’ve always wondered why because, frankly, Dallas produces very few worthwhile examples…
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…Ojeda’s4617 Maple Ave. 214-528-8383Dude Factor: 8, or Lucky Day, on a scale of 1 (The Singing Bush) to 10 (El Guapo)Thanks to its quick service,…
But only if you subscribe to Hot off the Grill, our weekly email newsletter. And it’s best if you do so quickly. The goons from marketing have been a little, shall we say, perturbed I didn’t post this reminder last week. They’ve voice their disproval on several occasions and have…
Top Cellars Connie Lewis has the job you didn’t know you wanted. The pretty 30-year-old blonde spends her days in fine restaurants, hotels and custom homes, helping wine lovers and experts design tony treasure chests for their precious bottles. And despite what you might think, her upscale niche profession has…
Today we received a note from the fine folks at Gardere, a highly respected Dallas law firm. Seems one of their clients, Donica Jimenez (founder and owner of Cafe Madrid restaurants), was upset that other publications listed Ildefonso Jimenez (of Si Tapas Restaurant) as a founder of Cafe Madrid.The letter…
Joan of Arc4020 N. MacArthur, Irving972-870-5632Oh, god.The place isn’t really lousy, as Rossetti’s Joan would have you think. But first they were out of bacon, which kinda put a dent in my BLTA (the A for avocado) plans. Then, when the person sent to replenish their bacon stock returned, it…
Flipping through the whatweredoin.com blog the other day, I came across a discussion of our Top Ten Overrated Restaurants that included this comment from “Bread Winners”: “Interesting that not a week later, City of Ate…named us one of ‘Uptowns 10 Best Patios.’ They love us, they hate us, they love…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.New Big Wong2121 Greenville Ave214-821-4198Promised delivery time: 30 minutes Actual delivery time: 23 minutes Scoring Summary:Food arrived on time, and even minutes early: 27Years in business, according to the guy on the…
Let’s get this out of the way right up front: the cupcake wasn’t good. Billed as “magnificent vanilla cake…topped with vanilla and chocolate buttercreams,” The Cupcakery’s ‘Oh, My Gosh – Ganache!™’ cupcake was instead a bland, boring base topped with icing that tasted a whole lot like the inside of…
Like Joe Biden, we had no clue how bad the economy was–saw repeated stories about unemployment, but that’s it–until this: a pair of fine dining establishments have rolled out value meals (well, they don’t exactly call them that) to keep even the most belt-tightening of customers from stooping to brown-bagging…
Even as much as we honor hard work in America (nearly as much as apple pie), we admire quick fixes, workarounds and clutch deliveries more. You say there’s no easy way out? We say you’re not looking hard enough. Or maybe you’re looking too hard. Either way, this week on…
Hoping to prove his is a kinder, gentler brand of the Mexican ass-kicking liquor, Casa Noble Tequila’s Jose Hermosillo invited local media to be his guests guinea pigs Thursday night for a pairing of his tequila with courses from chef Ve Le at The Fish in the West Village.The suggestion…
So we stole this idea from Jay Jerrier. A Neapolitan pizza guy himself, he wondered in a comment posted on our site this week whether the cracker crust was the city’s favorite.Pizza crust comes in many styles. For the purposes of this week’s question, however, we’ll assume that marginal versions–rustica,…
This current generation of American drinkers couldn’t really care less about tradition. They shirk the classic cocktails in favor of trendy new flavors: pomegranate martinis, green tea margaritas, acai vodka and tonics or whatever the anti-oxidant of the month happens to be.Despite my frustration with such fads, I must admit…
Our favorite comment from this week is this from Bruce, responding to the On The Range feature about menudo. Bruce would try the infamous soup if he came across a version without hominy. As he puts it in this week’s non-award-winning entry:”I dont think there is another food on the…
Chapp’s Hamburger Cafe (Arlington location)2596 E. Arkansas817-460-2097Maybe it’s because we were all half-starved by the time we had dinner, but Chapp’s provided the best meal that Iris (11), Lyle (7) and I enjoyed all week. Kinda sad, really. Iris had just finished a soccer game–which always seem to be scheduled…
“I’m inexperienced. But my eagerness, I think, makes up for that.” It’s been almost two weeks since star Southwestern chef Stephan Pyles turned heads in the Dallas dining world by appointing Matt McCallister Executive Chef of his self-named restaurant downtown. The rumor mill’s been working overtime ever since, with whispers…
First of all, I realize some people don’t like karaoke, that it ain’t their thing and they’d prefer to sit there and just watch the fun. That’s cool. But just trust that at Family Karaoke — where parties of up to 25 can reserve private sound-proofed rooms with wait-service who…
Masaryk gets Dave’s attention in this week’s paper, with an industrial hum as the kitchen turns out one similarly flavored mod-Mex dish after another–“fresh and interesting,” he writes, as long as you stick to a single course.For a look around the place, and some close-ups of a few of the…
Unfair Park’s Robert Wilonsky has been tracking Bob’s–of steak & chophouse fame–many difficulties, updating the story again today (read it here). Over at SideDish, Nancy Nichols keeps up with the ne’erdowellness of another restaurant group (as you can see here).Nancy’s story, as she pursues it, will become even more sensational–trust…
Last year, Oskar Blues added five 100-gallon tanks and increased its brewing by more 64 percent over 2007 in order to keep up with increased demand. That the Lyons, Colorado, brewery experienced such a rapid growth probably wouldn’t surprise anyone who has tasted its excellent flagship beer, Dale’s Pale Ale,…
