When we first announced that Omar Flores was going to take on Matt McCallister at this year’s Dallas Observer Iron Fork event, the event was already shaping up to be a great one. El Come Taco had signed on as a participant for the first time, and some of my…
A specific hook carried me into Longoria’s on my last trip to the corrugated-metal meat mansion in Everman. Owner David Longoria added pulled pork to his eclectic menu a little over a month ago, and by this time had mastered the new offering, making it time, once again, to check…
Dallas: The land of real barbecue and fuck-yeah tacos. A place where figuring out where you want to go to lunch takes at least 10 minutes every day because you and your coworker get into a face-punch fight over which burger is the best burger in Dallas. But, when you’re…
Let me start by saying this: I love IPAs. There are few beers I enjoy more than a hoppy, coppery IPA that has a nice ABV to it. When I first got into craft beer it was through beers that weren’t necessarily heavy or hoppy; Shiner Bock, Real Ale Fireman’s…
I spent nearly the entire month of January with the face-plague, and subsequently found myself in the line pictured above, outside Deep Ellum’s Monkey King Noodle Company, waiting for my chicken noodle soup. For some reason it was always raining, or at least cloudy, which somehow made receiving that steaming…
After what has seemed like a Texan-sized drought of restaurant openings, it seems like things are starting to pick up in Dallas again. Maybe it’s all of those blue bonnets that sprouted a few weeks back, or the honeysuckle that just began to perfume the streets recently, but Dallas seems…
I was having dinner recently with a couple who was planning to move in together for the first time. While sipping sake and nibbling on bits of fried things with chopsticks, we talked about the pleasures of boxing up belongings, dealing with rental trucks and movers, and because things always…
Welcome to Dallas, Yucatan Taco Stand (2023 Greenville Ave), though you’re not really a stand at all. You’re a full blown restaurant complete with a copper-clad bar, a spacious patio and enough tequila to erase any memory that you or any other taco stand ever existed, ever. See also: BBBop…
Yet another Trinity Groves restaurant opened this week. The culinary hatchery filled out the final space on the front of the main building, just past Resto Gastro Bistro, with a new taqueria called Sugar Skull Cafe. It’s the first restaurant in Trinity Groves to specialize in breakfast food alongside lunch…
Have you ever been to a community or town festival, smelled wood, smoke and meat, gotten hyped, then suffered the ultimate disappointment when told you couldn’t have any of what was cookin’? Sadly, this is the experience of many attendees of barbecue cook-offs around the great state of Texas. When…
Think about the last time you stopped in a convenience store. Maybe you needed a pack of cigarettes (those things will kill you, you know), or bought a few Powerball tickets (those things never win, you know). Maybe you were hungry, and grabbed a questionable looking hot dog (those things…
I am still getting used to the idea of spirit-forward cocktails. They’re just not the kind of drinking that most of us, who generally prefer that our liquor be obscured by overly-sweet juices and other mixers, are used to. When you first start drinking, potency is more important than flavor…
Those guys at Misery Loves Company are always plotting. The restaurant collective, made up of Sal Jafar II, Michael Martensen, Kyle McClelland, and Jeremy Hargrove, has already introduced two great restaurants to Dallas in Proof + Pantry and the now-shuttered seafood spot Driftwood. Now, they’re looking to expand their empire…
You know it’s crawfish season when you have to strategically plan your weekend around crawfish boils. This weekend alone there are four different boils, so we’ve put together a quick run-down for all you mudbug lovers out there. Our weekly events round-up follows…
The anti-tipping movement got a little more steam this week as an article in The Washington Post outlined the efforts of restaurateurs to abandon customer tips as a way to compensate restaurant staff. The recent coverage is significant in that the restaurants in question are moderately priced ones. Most of…
The PR machine behind Austin-based Uchi began beating the drums a little more loudly this week, even though the restaurant, which was first announced in May of 2013, still has no official opening date. A series of pop-up dining events were held Sunday and Monday in anticipation of a menu…
To the untrained eye, it might look like some sort of culinary concession. The Styrofoam container holds two tamales swimming in meat sauce that suspiciously resembles the chili ladled over enchiladas throughout Texas by the ton. There’s even cheese melted on the surface, and the whole thing would look right…
It’s that time of the year when sitting your ass on various local patios and drinking before noon is totally acceptable, folks. We’re pretty excited about patio season, and it’s indisputable that the best drink to enjoy on a patio on a spring day is a margarita. When it’s hot…
There are approximately one million restaurants in Dallas that can serve you a steak. Whether or not that steak is going to be good, though, is really up to who’s running the kitchen. Restaurateur and chef Nick Badovinus’ restaurants are reliable places to find a nicely charred hunk of good…
We are generally skeptical of menu items labeled “poppers.” I mean, we’re not doing any first looks at Chili’s anytime soon. But the chicken poppers at AJ’s on Main in Grapevine have a way of making skeptical heads turn. Crunchy bacon encapsulates a longways jalapeno slice and a chunk of…
On Saturday, Kansas City-based Spin! Pizza began pizza-bombing the Lone Star State with its grand opening in Richardson. This is the first of four locations slated to launch in Texas (with Southlake, Irving, and SMU to follow), offering Neapolitan-style pizza in a fast-casual environment. The menu is loaded with options…
No, I didn’t stutter. It’s pronounced “bee bee bop,” and the restaurant will open its second location on Greenville Avenue next Monday. The first location has been chugging away further up Greenville Avenue, just past Lovers Lane. I stopped in for an evening snack in anticipation of next week’s opening…
