100 Favorite Dishes, No. 3: Chicken Shish Kebab At Pepper Smash

To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Way back in February I blogged about a mystical chicken sandwich…

Hungry? Apparently, Wild Pig Is Delicious.

Feral hogs are taking over Texas. The wild beasts have been ravaging the state in numbers in excess of 2 million, and their wallowing, rooting and feeding activities are responsible for more than $50 million in damage in rural parts of the state alone every year. Texas Parks and Wildlife…

Lower Greenville Avenue Is Getting A New Southern Comfort Restaurant

This October, 1 Jack’s Southern Comfort Food should open up on Lower Greenville Avenue, provided permits and all those other things that keeps restaurants from opening when they say they will go through. A new release about the opening uses the word “biscuit” an unprecedented 22 times, in case you’re…

Bowery’s Bogus Dogs

It was bound to happen. Dallas has been elevating the burger ever since The Mansion on Turtle Creek started topping beef patties with rare blue cheese that tasted of gym socks and serving them alongside fries dressed in truffle oil. Now every bar with pretensions of grandeur charges at least…

John Tesar Will Be On Bravo’s Top Chef

A few months ago I received a series of cryptic emails from an anonymous source telling me John Tesar was going to be on Bravo’s latest chef shit show, Top Chef, Season 10. The email didn’t say much, so I sat on the unsubstantiated claim. There were a few clues:…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 4: Babaganoush At Baboush

To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Typically, babaganoush is about a point or two higher than hummus…

Tips For The Best Burgers You’ll Ever Grill At Home

Summer is gone, and standing beside a hot grill no longer feels like an act of torture. That means it’s time to fire up the charcoal, and one of the easiest way to coax the most flavor out of your kettle grill is by cooking top-notch burgers. Skip the preformed…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 5: Tortilla Soup At Fearing’s

To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. You have only seconds after the bowl arrives to take in…

Late Night Eats: Checking In On The Chesterfield

On a late Thursday evening, rain threatened but never delivered and customers poured out onto the Chesterfield’s patio, thankful for the respite from the heat. The downtown cocktail lounge had received a lot of attention from the press in months past — a chef departed, and an owner was removed…

Long Lines at BrewFest Show Local Drinkers Support Local Beer

At first it was hard for me to shroud my disappointment. Sure, I was drinking outside in nice weather with access to more beer than I’ve ever had at my disposal in one location, but the monkeys were missing. BrewFest moved to the Art’s District after last year’s Brew at…

First Look at Max’s Wine Dive

Max’s Wine Dive (3600 McKinney Ave.), uptown’s newest culinary addition, opened last Wednesday in the space that once housed Borders bookstore. The Texas-based restaurant and wine bar originated in Houston in 2006 and has since expanded to Austin, San Antonio and now, Dallas. The restaurant is spacious, with large windows…

A Few of the Impressive Beers at BrewFest

See also: The People of BrewFest The Dallas Arts District proved to be a natural spot for a street festival during Saturday’s BrewFest, even if the boozy crowd winding throughout was by and large more interested in Hooter’s wing-eating contests, arcade games and pulled-pork nachos than taking in exhibitions. Not…