If you’re a fan of Taverna Pizzeria in Uptown, you’ll have to walk a few blocks north of their current location to enjoy their pizzas, salads and really big pork chops crowned with a fried egg. The Lombardi group just announced the restaurant would be moving to Knox Street, right…
Way out on Harry Hines Boulevard, just past the bazaar bearing the same name, Continental Liquor makes its business not only selling booze and sodas, but as a landlord too. In 1998 Maria and Roberto Velasquez rented 800 square feet from the owner and set up a small kitchen and…
If I’m writing this blog post too quickly it’s because I just got back from Ascension Coffee and I’m a very thorough journalist and I really wanted to capture a short video that demonstrates some of the characteristics of espresso and crema and it took me multiple attempts to get…
That time of year has come again. There’s nothing better than going to the closet and dusting off the old Laserdisc collection of Christmas movies. Stories old and new take you to a world where the temperature is less than 60 degrees and of the food is always…memorable. Here’s a…
The best part of researching Soleo, the subject of this week’s review, was ducking into El Paisa, the tiny taqueria tucked into the back of a liquor store next to the Harry Hines Bazaar. This is where Maria and Roberto Velasquez started their first restaurant. Nine locations later they made…
If you haven’t started your holiday shopping, then good for you! I think we all perform best under the pressure of deadlines, so just let it happen. Wait another few days, then get around to it. Most places will be open on Christmas Eve anyway. And a lot of gas…
Apparently you guys celebrate Christmas by eating tamales. No, me neither. I’ve no idea what you’re doing. What screams Christmas about a tamale? I suppose you could take this reductionist argument to any Christmas food (what’s Christmassy about slaughtering a turkey and then roasting it, or, as some people are…
Thursday, December 20 With a $20 donation to the North Texas Food Bank, which equates to 60 meals, you and all your adult-like friends can crawl through the tubes at the Neiman Marcus in downtown. Yes, it’s real: Adult Crawl Night. And perhaps the first event ever named a crawl…
When I reviewed Dalat this summer, I loved the concept of a late-night pho restaurant close to downtown but had problems with the consistency of the food I was served. My pho was salty one day and bland the next, and noodles that were consistently over-cooked would break apart when…
The supermarket of gas stations, Buc-Ee’s, recently opened their newest and largest store half an hour east of Austin in Bastrop. As I’ve advised before, if all hell breaks loose, try to make it to a Buc-Ee’s because you could live there for weeks. I find it fascinating that one…
The end of 2012 is quickly approaching, and in honor of Dallas’ eventful year we’re asking all of our readers (who have smartphones) to send us their Instagrams. Send Instagram photos of your favorite events, places, people, restaurants, chefs, cocktails, art exhibits, animals and basically anything that happened in Dallas…
Well, sure the brew at the newly open Ascension Coffee is good. Really, really good, in fact. And, the shop’s Design District space is lovely. Broad windows send light flowing into a space filled with blond wood and open ceilings. The air is not saturated with the heavy aroma of…
I’ve spent days stuffing my gullet, looking for something that should be relatively easy to find. It’s called a puffy taco, and apparently it’s delicious, but I can’t be sure because you can’t purchase puffy tacos here in Dallas — anywhere. The puffy taco got its start in San Antonio,…
I have a bread baker on my holiday list, which means I’ve had a solid excuse for spending time researching various cookbooks the past few days. First, I landed on Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. It seemed a perfect fit for the baker who…
The Lakewood Brewing Company has wrangled their bottling line and will deliver the first bottles of The Temptress Stout and Lakewood Lager to three local Sigel stores this Wednesday afternoon. The beers will be available in cases of 12 ounce-bottles. Update: Looks like it’s six-packs of lager ($9.99) and four-packs…
Back in November I talked with chef Nico Sanchez about his upcoming taqueria opening in tandem with the new Meso Maya downtown. After hearing his descriptions of the space and the tacos I was excited to get down there and try them — all of them. Just after noon there…
From Craig Collins, the majority owner of Red Hot & Blue, comes Nazca, a South American concept opening this Friday. Located in the same plaza as Crossroads Diner at the intersection of Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane the new restaurant offers South American comfort food — kinda. There’s ceviche,…
Hang onto your pants. It’s time to lay out or favorite Tex-Mex restaurants — an endeavor that consistently draws as passionate a comment stream as any burger post. Pepe & Mito’s (Pictured above) This Deep Ellum mainstay won last year’s award for Best Tex-Mex in Dallas with homemade tortillas, great…
Klyde Warren is the park I want to be when I grow up. KW is the golden child of parks. Somewhere Mama Park is saying, “Yep, that’s my boy. He sure was a stinker when we were raising him. But, we certainly are proud now.” The family and I made…
Babb Brothers BBQ & Blues opened two weeks ago as the first restaurant in the new Trinity Groves project, which hopes to one day energize the area just west of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Investors Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts and Butch McGregor plucked cook Mike Babb out of the…
After a few of the usual permit-type delays from the city, a new coffee joint has officially opened its doors to the coffee-obsessed masses of Dallas. If you’re not the type to define yourself as coffee-obsessed, that’s OK. All you need to know is that there’s a new, locally owned…
It may look rather gloomy right now, but the weather man says we’ve got a great weekend ahead of us. If you’ve been reading CoA all week you should have plenty of plans, but just in case you tuned out… here’s what you missed. This week I reviewed everything. There…
