For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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 first read about So&So’s in Uptown, and even first walked…
The change has been a long time coming. The Front Room first opened in 2012 in Hotel Lumen, with Scott Townend serving as executive chef. Back then, the restaurant was branded as a Park Cities diner, with a dressed up but casual menu that seemed well suited to the Park…
In “Shigging,” we ask pitmasters to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they’re allowed to lie once. This week, we’re asking Todd David, pitmaster at Cattleack Barbecue, how he smokes his brisket. What is the name of your…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Remember the Off-Site Kitchen burgers we highlighted way back in the 80s?…
Signs of life from Herrera’s, the much-loved Tex-Mex chain that left Maple Avenue not long ago, was recently spotted by a tipster in West Dallas on Sylvan Avenue, not far south of the river. I called owner Nora Ontiveros but she didn’t answer. Maybe she’s busy, you know, resurrecting an…
Michael Martensen’s Proof + Pantry has barely been open a month, and while I usually avoid restaurants during their infancy, I couldn’t resist a deal recently posted to their Facebook page: Nanna’s Meatballs and Gravy. I’d be going as quickly as it took to read it. Pasta and red sauce…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. We’re really in the home stretch, now. And I thought we could…
When talking food with other people that like food, it would be perfectly fine to say that Dallas has had an excellent year of making new burgers. You should feel free to clink your glass with your fork, or raise an index finger into the air, as if you are…
By all accounts, Anthony Alvarez should have been completely satisfied with his restaurant business. He and partner Hal Dantzler opened up Hattie’s in the Bishop Arts District nearly 12 years ago, and it is credited with helping to change the neighborhood. The surrounding blocks were only on the cusp of…
It’s fall, which means pumpkin now, briefly, rules all. There will, for the foreseeable future, be pumpkin in your latte, pumpkin in your cake icing, pumpkin in your cookies and pumpkin in just about everything else. Of course very little of this “pumpkin” will actually be real pumpkin. Most of…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Any fan of chef Omar Flores’ cooking at Driftwood would expect an…
When people talk about Allen, they mostly talk about that stupid Allen Eagles football stadium. Which is understandable, given that they spent $60 million on it and the concrete wasn’t even poured right. But Allen is more than football, no matter what people say. More importantly, it is where the…
Meat Fight, the barbecue competition, fundraiser and saucy brainchild of our Bearded columnist, Alice Laussade, returns to Trinity Groves on Sunday, November 16. You want to go. You need to go. But will you go? Depends on the accuracy of your clock and the quickness of your clicking fingers. Tickets…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Let’s be honest. The term “slider” doesn’t exactly scream refined. The diminutive…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been 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. Don’t order the bistro-style mussels at The Grape, ever. The order is…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. If you’re used to getting your taco fix at a taqueria…
Last year, tickets to Meat Fight (my barbecue competition that benefits the National MS Society) sold out in a flash. So, this year, we decided to have a meat scavenger hunt so that one lucky bastard could have easy access to our meat tickets before any other bastard. This is…
We sent Alice, our resident State Fair of Texas expert, to sample the eight finalists at this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards. Well, actually, that’s a lie. We didn’t send her. She was going no matter what. In fact, God help the poor soul who stands between Alice and a…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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’ll get straight to the point: This ain’t no Reuben sandwich…
The burger trend may — may! — be slowing down, like a lipid clot in an old man’s artery. Sure, burger restaurants including Liberty Burger, Hopdoddy, Mooyah Burger, Five Guys, Smashburger, Twisted Root, Jake’s, Off-Site Kitchen and more are opening all over Dallas, and all over the country, but health-centric…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Bun bo hue is a brash and angry angry bowl of…
This past weekend I was on my way home from a relaxed evening in the Bishop Arts District. It was late and I was tired, but not so tired I couldn’t have been talked into staying out a little longer. As I rounded the corner of Beckley Avenue and stepped…
