People we’d like to shake hands with:The Addison city council, for voting to allow Sigel’s to plant the 1950s-era sign, dismantled when the chain’s Lemmon location closed, in the northern ‘burb. Years ago I visited a spot in Lithuania where some rich guy had resurrected Soviet statues torn down when…
Mirabelle17610 Midway #140972-733-0202The pall of death hangs over Mirabelle.It’s Tuesday evening. A once-full bar sits dark and deserted, the mirrored-shelves vacant. Wine racks are empty–as is a walk-in cellar. Of the 30 or so seats in the gasping restaurant, only mine is filled…and I make for a crowd so insignificant…
View Larger Map If Frank and I had ever dated, our first date would have been the time he invited me to eat real, honest-to-goodness Taiwanese food in Richardson. I’ve been a Chinese-and-related food hater for most of my life, with the exception of this one vegetarian place in L.A…
Demonstrated by Brian Luscher and Karin Porter of The Grape Despite their reputation as the ultimate fast food, truly great French fries actually take some time. And they’re worth it. Anyone who’s gummed a gooey stick of the typical Dallas restaurant potato mush could tell you that. Thing is, while…
Later this month, Bijoux chef Scott Gottlich will spend a couple nights digging into the past. The culinary archeologist has created what he calls the Classics Dinner, meaning escargot, oysters Rockefeller, stuffed lobster and beef Wellington and other fine dining favorites from days of yore.. The dishes will be paired…
He’s come a long way since he first learned to cook, helping his mom both in the garden and kitchen. Hobbs’ resume includes stints at Celebration, Hotel St. Germaine, Toscana, and the Riviera, where he worked alongside chef David Holben. In his first executive chef position, at Il Sole, he…
“I don’t think we have a right to tell somebody what to do with their personal property.” (State Senator Bob Deuell, a doctor, explaining his vote against a statewide smoking ban. The bill was endorsed by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee by a vote of 5-3. Deuell is…
I was leaving the Barnes and Noble after my usual weekly session of reading all of their magazines without purchasing anything when McAlister’s Deli caught my eye. It was the lunch hour and the place was pretty empty, but their menu had too much interesting stuff on it for me…
Chop suey. My God. By the ’80s this dish had been relegated to La Choy and Chun King dinners. You know, the ones with two cans taped together—one containing the glop to pour into a pan, the other with crunchy noodle bits. Well, if you don’t remember, consider yourself fortunate…
When asking about dishes considered unsuitable–or at least unusual–for wine, the experts generally push me toward something fruity and acidic.Makes sense, really: these are the two elements most capable of battling excess salt, wallowing fat and other banes of wine pairing. So when I approached the woman at Majestic on…
What’s in a name? Unless I miss my guess, the guy who first coined the expression must have been thinking about guisado, a Mexican branch of the stew family. Why is this the case? You can answer the question by trying a simple experiment. Think about beef stew. What images…
Addison Mayor Joe Chow and the rest of the city council last month awarded the city’s first-ever 30 Years Award to Bill Remington and his son Adam, respectively the owner and manager of Remington’s Seafood Grill (4850 Belt Line Road). Chow, who is also a restaurateur (as if he had…
Believe it or not, Chipotle’s marketing manager for the DFW area found his position through Career Builder–wading through several months of listing before he coming across what turned out to be the right fit.Now Burns has marketing responsibilities for Chipotle’s 36 local restaurants, including the one that opened last month…
“Restaurants should want to promote the farmers they support, but listing every farm for every ingredient (e.g., ‘Eagle Rock Farm cilantro,’ ‘Skogly Fields butter beans’) is unnecessary and, in the end, tedious.” (Andrew Knowlton, writing in Bon Appetit, in response to the question of whether the local and organic “thing”…
The Idle Rich Pub2614 McKinney Ave.214-965-9926Dude Factor: 7, or “Mr. Burns,” on a scale of 1 (“Donald Trump”) to 10 (“Bruce Wayne”)As much as I love The Old Monk, I hadn’t really thought of it or its sister bars (The Dubliner, Blackfriar Pub and The Idle Rich Pub) as Dude…
(Not a fairytale. More like a Greek tragedy.) I’ve spent my fair share of time in fun non-office jobs, such as ski instructor, whitewater rafting guide, sea kayak instructor, vegetable farmer, etc. So I feel I’m qualified to make this call: An office is a truly wonderful place. For one…
Tim McCallum wants you to eat at Vapiano. Partly because he owns the place, but also because he really thinks it’s great–which may again have something to do with the fact that he owns the place. But we don’t want to get into one of those circular ‘what caused the…
Haven’t signed up for our weekly restaurant newsletter, Hot off the Grill? Well, do it–soon. You’ll discover why our writer type person thinks the Texas Department of Agriculture is one really hip organization (something to do with heavy wine drinking) and some details about a new Hawaiian place. Besides, the…
The Dallas Independent School District appears to be on the verge of a completely unnecessary rewrite of its greatest success stories as the board votes whether to gut the staff of the district’s magnet school and learning center programs at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Believe it or not, though, some good…
Not only is he on the poll for this year’s Indy 500, Castroneves has won the “greatest spectacle in racing” twice before. He’s also been a winner at Texas Motor Speedway and–just to show he has moves off the track–Dancing with the Stars, as well.The Sao Paulo native earned the…
“The Tipp sucked.” (Eric Celeste on the soon-to-close Tipperary Inn, saying what needed to be said amongst all the ‘aw, shucks’ tributes. The bald guy got it right. It’s not as if the city is losing an institution, after all. Plenty of shabby beer joints still standing, too. As stated…
Bangkok City4503 Greenville Ave.214-691-8233Promised delivery time: 45-60 minutesActual delivery time: 59 minutesHaving to call 3 times before someone actually picked up the phone: -20Finally getting someone to answer, and very politely take my order: 15Double-checking my long order, and making sure the portions I wanted were in fact what I…
