Forget sleeping in late, then eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast while watching reruns of Full House this Saturday, because it’s the 31st Annual Greenville St. Patrick’s Day Parade. You’ll have all day Sunday to do that plus recover from Saturday’s festivities. This year a few of our favorite…
Just getting there is far and away the biggest challenge. Not only is the fast, casual ThaiBox located in Allen, which is directly north of Plano off Central Expressway and therefore a considerable haul for most Dallasites, but the place is situated in The Village at Allen, a monstrous outdoor…
This week marked the soft opening of Ristorante Nicola, the “sister” restaurant of Nicola’s Ristorante Italiano in the Shops of Legacy in Plano. Located in the Preston Commons office building, the new restaurant occupies what once was a bank lobby. Like the Legacy location, Ristorante Nicola features a large antipasto…
When we hear tales of a proper fish and chips meal from the United Kingdom, we might conjure visions of Dickens’ characters scurrying about in search of the quintessential British take away. The “Husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil” mentioned in The Tale of Two…
Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you that the top restaurant in Dallas is in Fort Worth, and that someone is Zagat, whose annual survey carries much weight in the food world?Don’t you just want to smack ’em before telling them that Dallas-Fort Worth is not one geographic…
There are probably as many ways to rank beers as there are beer drinkers, though most stick to similar criteria. Beer Advocate users frequently grade by appearance, smell, taste, mouth feel and drinkability, while RateBeer users grade by aroma, appearance, flavor, palate and overall. Of course, standardizing how beers are…
German Chocolate Adult Milkshake Demonstrated by Jason Boso of Twisted Root Burger Co. When it comes to combining ingredients in the kitchen, sometimes it works and well, sometimes it doesn’t. A pie plate salad–a combination of lemon jello and mixed vegetables–would be an example of the latter. Don’t even try…
Sometimes it’s great to go back in time, to where establishments have wood floors, oak beams, roaring fires and the ale is a meal in itself. Can you guess where I’m eating? …
There once was a time when an animated flamenco dancer blossoming from a plant and using her skirt to slice and dice the ingredients for salsa would’ve been risque when set against prime time sitcoms and whatnot. After all, who equates slamming chips and salsa with a svelte figure? But…
“Wow. Looks kind of like a casino,” I said to my BFF (best food friend) as we approached the entrance. “Or a strip club.” An upscale one at that. It wasn’t that the place looked sleazy—more grand than gaudy. The good news is, once we stepped inside, it turned out…
Got a hangover? Of course you do, it’s a weekday. And when you wake up feeling like your forehead’s been bitch slapped by a truck, pancakes are the one true remedy for what ails you. Pancakes: invented by angels. Pancakes: syrup’s true love. Pancakes: fucking tasty shit that sometimes gets…
When some restaurant owners take on the challenge of launching a new venue, they have the daunting task of determining its theme. But when 30-year-old restaurant owner Chad Willis walked into the sprawling loft-style site that was once the Scene Restaurant and Lounge, now defunct, he was seized by an…
How appropriate that fish tacos, the perfect beachside snack, were first introduced to the States by an American college student who became obsessed with them while on Spring Break at a Mexican beach. So says Barry Popik, eminent etymologist and Austin guru of word origins. Although most historians trace the…
Frankie’s Bar and Grill3227 McKinney Ave.214-999-8932 Dude Factor: 8, or Andre the Giant, on a scale of 1 (Shawn Bradley) to 10 (Shaq)Frankie’s Bar and Grill is one of those places we’ve driven by a million times and never even thought twice about. In fact, we regularly confuse it with…
Between recuperating from a nagging illness that won’t go away and just plain hibernating, in general, I haven’t had much time this week to go out and eat. Luckily for me, mom made me a pot of pho that was meant to, at least, last an entire week. Since I…
As if getting through yet another Tuesday wasn’t reason enough to have a drink, today is the Democratic and Republican party primary election–which means you’ll have something to celebrate or lament this evening as the returns come in.After polls close at 7 p.m. (find out where to vote here), you…
For all those times you’ve come home from work with a throbbing headache, and the walls close in too fast, here’s an iPhone app to Tarzan-in and keep you from dying. Or at least crying. It’s called Happy Hours, and it’s powered by Go Time and Village Voice Media. It’s…
We’ve come to a restaurant that represents another continent this week; where sauerkraut and sausage go hand in hand, and Amstel is not far behind. Can you guess where I’m eating? …
Potbelly Sandwich Works 4945 Belt Line Road, Addison 972-661-2264 Promised Delivery Time: 30 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 24 minutes Scoring Summary: Making me order eight pounds of food: -20 Not having to shave to get a decent sandwich: 25 Leftovers for a future hangover: 30 Faster than Wile E. Coyote…
This eye-popping alliteration can be found at the top of the menu at Lemon Bar, the hot new pub that set up shop in the West Village in the old Lazare space, down the block from Mi Cocina. Lemon Bar is a hopping, happening place, crowded at noontime on a…
A four-alarm fire that started a little before 6 a.m. has claimed a popular stretch of Lower Greenville this morning, the longtime home of Terilli’s, as well as Mick’s, Hurricane Grill and Greenville Bar & Grill. Within hours, the roof over the four businesses had collapsed, and smoke from the blaze had…
There’s nothing like a dreary Monday to get the week off to a drowsy, snail’s pace start. And, with weather like this, Roasted knows it’s gonna take a cup of coffee, or four, just to make it through ’til the whistle blows. So, it’s always nice when the first steaming-hot…
