This week’s Dallas foodie coverage is an assortment of organic, frozen and fried foods, dried and proscuitto-wrapped figs at the height of fig season, fancy Finnish foods and a battle at the Pyramid. Check out this week’s Sloppy Seconds. The Week in Review(s):Your own Dallas Observer: This week Hanna Raskin…
Do you remember eating King Ranch casserole in the 1950s? Can you prove it? The Food Timeline, the ambitious and exhaustive online reference tool maintained by reference librarian Lynne Olver, recently tackled the classic Texan dish and couldn’t find any reliable sources dating the messy meal to before 1966. “If…
Rice 1 Roll’s very slick takeout menu proudly announces the “Indian Chinese Café” serves Indian, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese foods. It’s a strange claim to make, because there’s nothing but south Indian food on the menu. There’s no half-hearted pho or lackluster pad Thai at this strip-mall eatery in Plano:…
Angus Wynne Jr. is credited for many things in his long life and illustrious career. Besides developing a major portion of Oak Cliff in a post WWII building frenzy, he also played a major role in saving Love Field from the clutches of a monopoly that gripped the airport tightly…
Pizza Patron and Little Ceasars may have the market cornered when it comes to the whole hot-and-ready-to-go-pizza-pie thing, but those chains’ pies don’t hold a caper to the savory pizzas you can pick up at both Eatzi’s locations every Friday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.Sure, “Pizza Night” is only…
It’s weird. Today I have no appetite at all, and I am seriously considering never eating again, but I have been thinking about nothing but food all day and how we don’t think enough about where our food comes from. I mean really comes from. Yesterday when I went home…
The Lucky Layla Farm Store in Plano is the local hub of raw milk activity. As the only certified raw milk dealer for miles, Lucky Layla sees a steady flow of older milk drinkers who grew up drinking milk straight from the cow and conscientious mothers carrying babies in wraparound…
I’m typically pretty slavish to the seasons: I won’t watch football in July or drink lemonade in January. So I probably should have waited until October — sorry, Oktober — to investigate Dallas’ sausage scene, when the weather’s sure to be more compatible with ingesting mass amounts of pork. But…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Old World Sausage Company Farmer’s Market Shed #2 1010 S. Pearl Expressway 214-760-9000 oldworldsausagecompany.comEstimated Delivery Time: 60 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 75 minutes Not having to order Chinese food or pizza: 20 Friendliest service encountered during Knockers review: 40 Excellent selection of Chicago deli classics: 20 Late delivery: -10 Orders…
Last night I was a guest at Maximo Cocina Mexicana & Margarita Lounge’s Media Night. Being wined and dined is a perplexing situation to be put in when you have to write about it afterward. As the night progressed, however, despite the VIP treatment, subjectivity came surprisingly easy. While the…
Defying gravity, Andre Natera’s rooftop garden for Pyramid sits two floors above the restaurant, but does the restaurant transcend its surroundings? You can read the full review of Pyramid (and decide for yourself) in food critic Hanna Raskin’s dish column: The Pyramid Restaurant & Bar: Chef Andre Natera Excels at…
Burger Spot9090 Skillman St.Dude Factor: 8, or the G-Spot, on a scale of 1 (liver spots) to 10 (Spot)Burger Spot is tucked into a strip mall way up near LBJ, not far from another, well-established burger joint, the highly Dude Food-rated JG’s. But while JG’s is decidedly old school, Burger…
It’s National Ice Cream Month, which got us thinking about Texas’ de facto state ice cream. Below is a list of flavors Blue Bell’s R&D should strike from brainstorming sessions for fear of being force-fed ghost chili-infused Ben & Jerry’s. Rattlesnake: Sweetwater Rocky Roundup This reptile may be a popular…
The Pyramid Restaurant & Bar’s executive chef, Andre Natera, and his support of local and seasonal foods have been profiled before. One of the ways in which he exhibits his devotion to fresh produce is through the restaurant’s terrace herb and vegetable garden. Recently, I accepted an invitation to tour…
At show’s open, everyone’s pretending they miss Timothy. It’s hard to say who really does miss him and who just wants to look more sensitive after weeks of acting like a prick [cough, Angelo, cough].For the Quickfire, there was some weirdness — and I’m not talking about the exotic proteins…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
From chef Andre Natera’s fictional archives: Wherever Elementary School Second semester report card, 1966 It’s a joy to have young Andre in class. He follows the rules, raises his hand and sits up straight. Oh, he’s such a good influence on all the other boys. Why, just the other day,…
I thought there couldn’t possibly be a more ladyparts-sounding restaurant name in Dallas when Rusty Taco opened. And then I heard about Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. Of course they specialize in fish tacos. Walk inside and you’ll be way late making all the ‘gina jokes: The owners already beat you to…
Sometimes there’s some kind of theme to this column, like last week’s tie-in to Belgian Independence Day or previous weeks’ explorations of beers tried on a trip to Alaska. Other times, new or newly available brews are fodder for a Hophead column. Then there are times when I simply write…
The Friar of Fried, Abel Gonzales Jr., might have already gone national with coverage of his blessed artery-clogging concoctions at the State Fair of Texas, but he’s about to steal the hearts of housewives everywhere with an appearance on the Rachael Ray Show. On July 28, four-time winner of a…
A Hickory, North Carolina restaurant is mounting a significant challenge to Bavarian Grill’s status as “Best German Restaurant in America,” a title bestowed in an online competition. Plano’s Bavarian Grill last year beat out more than 400 German restaurants nationwide to claim its crown in a contest sponsored by an…
