Perhaps only gin has a more dubious reputation than rum–although to earn it, gin had to beat out rum’s association with slavery, pirates and the rough drink known as “kill devil” preferred by islanders of previous centuries.Hell, even the name comes from “rumbullion,” an archaic British slang term for the…
Ben Verdooren might have been down, but he was far from out. Just weeks after the abrupt closure of his restaurant Zymology, this popular young entrepreneur is staging a comeback. And you might be surprised to learn just how far he didn’t travel to find a new gig. Bandera sits…
In this week’s paper, Dave pays a visit to Lemongrass in Deep Ellum, and has plenty of time to consider the experience while he waits for the waiter to return.More shots from the pan-Asian bistro and sushi spot, including more of the spring rolls Dave praises in his column, are…
Last week’s Hophead featured the Kansas City brewery Boulevard’s Saison, part of the company’s Smokestack series. Though not a life-changing beer, the Saison was impressive enough to warrant further investigation into the Smokestack series. A recent night at home with pizza seemed a perfect opportunity to pop the cork on…
Hook, Line & Sinker3103 Lemmon Avenue214-965-0707Fans of the popular Uptown shack may find it harder to support their ‘best catfish’ claims, thanks to at least one more upscale challenger. I’ve never been certain they deserved the accolades lately, anyway, given their simplistic approach to the fish. On the other hand,…
The Taste of Dallas opens tomorrow for three days of ‘too hot to eat anything,’ ‘I’ve had enough of this cover band,’ ‘what’s Darryl Dawkins doing over there’ fun.Organizers bill it as the largest free festival in Texas–which, of course, means it costs you nothing to walk around (unlike other…
You know those people who are disgustingly picky about where in a restaurant they sit? Those people who, no matter where a host or hostess puts them, want to sit somewhere else, and are willing to pull the strings and smile ingratiatingly enough to get themselves moved? And who then,…
Recipe Demonstrated by Scott Whittall of Buli The half-mile stretch of Cedar Springs from Oak Lawn to Wycliff has remained staunchly Starbucks-less in a world where corporate coffee shops are as common a sight as burger drive-thrus and SUV’s. But nobody on the block seems to care. Who needs one…
There’s a Burger Street in a Motel 6 parking lot. Duh. Going there. Gimme the Junior Burger Combo, which comes with a drink and the choice of curly fries or tater tots. Now, there is a huge difference between curly fries and tater tots: curly fries are curly fries and…
I can only gather and repeat admonitions based upon my own experiences at a particular restaurant. For that reason, I will never return to Lemongrass unless work demands a revisit. This statement should not, however, be read as a condemnation of the place. It’s just clear from a few meals…
But It Is Pretty Damn Confusing, Even For The Servers Themselves. A More Than You Ever Want To Know Primer…The restaurant industry might be one of the shadiest in the country. It is populated by the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Jason Sheehan, after all. But mainly this is due…
The last time the Kids Eat tasting crew sampled organic, natural, healthy snacks, they were not impressed. So I didn’t have high hopes for Lifeway’s ProBugs, a line of fruit-flavored organic whole-milk kefir drinks. Kefir, by the way, is a fermented milk beverage that is catching on as a health-food…
Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Maybe I’m jumping the gun on this. Then again, writing a corn dog piece around state fair time seems far too cliche.So what the hell–it’s summer, the season of food on a stick,…
Dallas, as we’ve discovered over the past half-year, has a surprising wealth of options for vegans and vegetarians. And though its shining stars are usually the veg-only places–Spiral Diner, Kalachandji’s, Veggie Garden and the like–that doesn’t always leave room for vegans to bring along our good ol’ meat-eating friends. With…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.If Cole Porter, world-famous composer, musical philosopher and inspiration for the Jonas Brothers…yeah, right…were alive today and writing about food instead of music, he might term El Salvador’s love affair with pupusas this way: “Birds…
Summertime wine buying often leads to an irksome game tug-of-war between your mind and your wallet. You love your friends (well, most of them anyway; at least you want to be nice in hopes you’ll get something out of them someday), and you don’t want to serve them swill until…
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…Fireside Pies2820 N. Henderson Ave.Dude Factor: 6, or Warrant’s “Cherry Pie,” on a scale of 1 (Don McLean’s “American Pie”) to 10 (Led Zeppelin’s “Custard…
My first introduction to a cucumber sandwich was sometime back in the mid-1990s, when I was a young teenager on some kind of church or tennis trip to the Deep South. Somewhere between Georgia and Louisiana, which might be Alabama, I remember stopping in a tiny town where the air…
Somewhere in the back of a darkened warehouse, surrounded by half-eaten buckets of chicken, a cartoon sailor and a country colonel are quaking in their boots…and no, that’s not one of those “don’t ask, don’t tell” scenarios. “Damn that Zaxby’s,” they’re hissing between bites. “Damn them and their plump, juicy…
Actually, you pay nothing extra for a subscription to Hot off the Grill, our email newsletter. That makes it a…scratch that–our marketing gang just said it’s a whole lot for nothing, not what I originally wrote. And believe me, you don’t argue with marketing. Not if you don’t like lengthy…
Dallas’ latest incarnation of the Hard Rock Cafe…yawn…where were we…oh, it is getting set for a soft opening in the middle of next week at Victory Park’s southern end, about a block from the House of Blues.While work crews finish up the flooring and the gift shop, and the cooks…
Last week, web editor Patrick Michels threw down the gurgitation gauntlet, challenging a few local media members to compete against him and me at the Libertine Bar’s inaugural Brass Knuckle CornDog Beatdown Saturday, July 4. None had the stomach for the fight, begging out of the competition with pathetic excuses…
