Two weekends ago I was walking up La Vista Drive after a particularly egregious Yumilicious session (strawberry tart, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips) when I noticed the Ginger Man’s balcony was packed with beer swillers. The bar was having its grand opening, and the place was mobbed. My stomach was…
Inside the New Pecan Lodge from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. After rising to barbecue fame in the Dallas Farmers Market’s Shed 2, Pecan Lodge finally moved into its new space in Deep Ellum last week, and brought its trademark line and trusty smoker with it. We were there to…
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. Let’s start with the worst part about dining at 20 Feet…
For my dining dollar, dessert really isn’t as great a value as that foie gras add-on or an excellent cheese plate. Once I ordered the Basque cake at Gemma, though, I had to reconsider my no-dessert policy. In France, gâteau Basque is a traditional dessert of the Basque region. This…
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. Gas station tacos shouldn’t get a pass just because they’re gas…
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. To the untrained eye, the kebab served at Afrah can appear…
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. Black pudding gets a bad rap, and not just because its…
I’ve decided to go vegetarian for a month. Which wouldn’t really be that big of a deal, except that I love meat so hard. I love meat so much, I helped create a barbecue competition called Meat Fight. What drove me to this meatless idea? The taste of Matt McCallister’s…
Between bun bo hue and pho, it’s obvious why pho is the more popular of the bowls. Filled with an aromatic, clean-tasting broth and a wad of tangled rice noodles, it’s a distant cousin to American comfort food. Sure, some versions include strips of fuzzy bible tripe and gelatinous chunks…
Mutt’s Cantina will make you feel like the very model of a major American eater. I did, anyway, at the newish dogparkstaurant in Uptown, which I visited yesterday. What’s more American than eating a bacon cheeseburger while freshly live animals look on? An evening at Mutt’s, beginning to end, 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. Like most close relationships, my affection for the deep-fried bird appendages…
Dearest SoM, We need to talk. This isn’t the first time you’ve done this to me, SoM. Back in the day (in your first place, which is now a Chipotle), I was a like a groupie, enduring a sub-par restroom situation just to sit on your teensy patio and eat…
This time of year, the temperatures in Dallas remind us why we all choose to live in Texas. The weather is beautiful, but it will soon turn into a sweltering inferno that will turn all of us into sweaty, pissed off jerks. When it’s 110 degrees outside, as it will…
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. This dish was already one of the best dishes I’ve had…
After more than nine months since the closure its Bryan Street location, La Banqueta, one of Dallas’ best taquerías, is open for business at its new location just a few blocks around the corner on Carroll Avenue. For taco enthusiasts, the wait has been a long one. Last August, Alberto…
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. One of the harder things about compiling 100 dishes over an…
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 know Tom’s Burgers and Grill is good because I reviewed…
After being praised for their barbecue prowess by what seems like every publication in Texas, Pecan Lodge owners Justin and Diane Fourton decided that it was time to stretch their legs and start serving their loyal fans in a bigger space. On May 12, the Fourtons served up the last…
Situated behind S&D Oyster Company in Uptown is the recently opened Bowen House. The structure was built in 1874 and named after its original owner, Ahab Bowen, and its story is appropriately commemorated on a historical marker located on the front patio. Within its 140-year-old walls now sits a room-length…
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. It’s been two years since we last set out to find…
Whenever I hear the term “fusion” applied to food, I tend to roll my eyes. It’s not that I think that the merging of two ingredients or dishes only stands to dilute whatever was great about each of them in the first place; it’s that fusion is everywhere. There isn’t…
Anyone who has curled their knuckles over the back of an onion, obsessed over every detail of a grilled cheese sandwich or taken any other step to produce anything remotely edible in their own kitchen, has somewhere in the recesses of their minds harbored a fantasy of opening their own…
