One of the most challenging ventures of Meatless Monday is not finding meatless dishes, but finding vegetarian renditions of your favorite items. This includes sandwiches, a staple so vital to the average human’s lunch hour routine it seems almost sacrilege to alter it. But there are only so many piping…
Way to go Dallas. You’ve been officially proclaimed the worst tipping city in all of Texas by our sister publication the Houston Press. Food critic Katherine Shilcutt analyzed data she pulled from Lousy Tippers, a website geared for the service industry that posts tipping statistics to publicly shame cheapskate diners…
As the battle against skeeters and their West Nile virus-infected souls continues to play out on the ground and now potentially in the sky, the Texas Honey Bee Guild has gathered in their war room, with maps spread out across the tables and phones buzzing (get used to it), in…
Go Loco is a new taco fast-casual chain on mission to fill the bellies of travelers along the great highways and byways all across Texas. It’s owned in part by Jim Baron, president of Blue Mesa Grill, David Pencsak of TNT Tacos in Austin, along with Ali Sharaf, president of…
If humans are anything, they are adaptable. When I lived in D.C. I had a serious cheese steak problem. After a night out with friends, if burritos weren’t immediately available I’d be willing to walk miles for a cheese steak. I did it many times. I’m convinced this habit has…
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. When I wrote up some chicken sandwich alternatives for those looking…
It’s that time again. This week I reviewed Acme F&B, the whole hog restaurant on McKinney Avenue with a looker of a dining room. It’s a great place for a drink, and if you’re hungry they have one hell of a pork chop. Elsewhere on the blog we took a…
Before popsicles, John Doumas had a pretty successful business career. He was part of Broadcast.com back in the mid-’90s, a little project that made a few local millionaires overnight with an IPO and at least one billionaire — Mark Cuban. But, when Doumas turned 40 recently, he was ready for…
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. I still regret my decision sometimes, when I sat at the…
Chad Houser isn’t talking like a chef lately. The long time toque at Parigi uses terms like board members and ROI, and discusses the legal matters of incorporation and trademarking. His new lexicon is borne out of his new position with Cafe Momentum, and he sounds a lot more like…
In a city bulging at the seams with gluttonous plates of nachos, barbecue, hamburgers and fried chicken, it’s hard to nail down the highlight reel. The options are bold and plentiful. Few, however, have the girth of an extra large “Big Meat” from Serious Pizza in Deep Ellum. It’s a…
I don’t know why Jasper Russo sends me the occasional video, interspersed between promotional emails about his liquor empire Siegel’s, but he does. Most of the time I watch the short movie once and then go on with my day, but this one I think is worth sharing. DJ Dave…
Sure, laugh if you want. Their wonton taco appetizers are the bomb. And I’ll stab anyone in the knuckles if they try to take one off my plate. (Full disclosure: I just lied. I haven’t eaten at an Applebee’s in 15 years.) Yes, Club Applebee’s is a real thing. It…
When the Flying Saucer announced its recent move to 111 East Third St. in Forth Worth, the manager was a little cryptic about what would happen to all the plates that lined the walls of the original location. Customers who sign up to join the U.F.O. club (and pay an…
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. For a little while I tried to figure out whose pork…
Without the neutral colors, sleek design and healthy food, Start could be a Raising Cane’s, or (gasp!) even an Arby’s. Diners order and pay at a register, grab drinks, and sit to wait for their names to be called. The open kitchen delivers food in a fast food-style, with labeled…
Usually when a national glossy compiles a list Dallas is all but forgotten, but this month Bon Appetite decided to honor not one, but two restaurants in our area. Oak, which has received nothing but positive press since it opened, was named along with Tim Love’s Woodshed Smokehouse as two…
The best part of waking up is heart palpitations and hearing colors, right? It is according to a recent NPR discussion about a brand of coffee from upstate New York called Death Wish. Yes, Death Wish. Surely the drink du jour of every touring Norwegian black metal band (there’s one…
Update:We used a random number generator to pick a winner and drew comment number one. KrisinDallas, may your future be filled with many tacos and drinks. We told you back in February about Torchy’s Tacos opening up another location near the SMU campus, and as the opening date gets closer…
Each week, Alice “Cheap Bastard” Laussade scours the city for good, cheap lunches. Well, most weeks. Many weeks. OK, she does whatever she damn well please when she freakin’ feels like it. (We don’t argue. The woman carries a shiv. Rumor has it, she’s on parole.) This week, she felt…
Chefs Colleen O’Hare and Jeana Johnson have built a solid reputation with Good 2 Go Taco, their upscale taquería in East Dallas where customers can indulge in brisket tacos while bathing in the rich smell of freshly roasted Cultivar Coffee. Brooke Humphries and Brianna Larson have a bit of a…
While dining at Acme F&B, the subject of this week’s review, I couldn’t help but notice the polished staff. Maybe they stood out against all the rusting metal worked into the design of the dining room, but I had a feeling it had more to do with a management team…
