The concept of a mobile barbecue food truck, which may appear next to me at any moment in any situation, is a health danger on a par with snakes, shoddily constructed buildings and being fired out of a cannon into the sun. Especially snakes. I really hate snakes. Previously, I…
Nancy! You can’t publish things like this! Your experience with chicken wings sucks because you’ve been eating shitty wings. If you’re going to be a food critic who appeals to the masses you have to enjoy this bar food classic — it’s imperative. And I promise, if you find the…
While I’ve been searching for hand-built gyros in vain, the trompo, a vertical spit stacked with a cone of marinated pork, has been spinning in a handful of taquerias all over Dallas. The best part is most of them are made by hand. My favorite so far is served at…
I am back from a recent lunch at a run-down tiny shack in Lewisville, and I am still delighted at barbecue. I mean, it’s just amazing. How does it taste that good? Is it magic? Do they put LSD in it? Why is it that the grimier and smaller the…
It was cold outside when I first dined at Lucia. The last few leaves clung to the trees and acorns crunched under my boots as I paced back and forth in front of the restaurant’s front door. A single menu taped to the window teased the charcuterie, pastas, heritage pork…
Dallas business woman, Brooke Humphries (entrepreneur behind Acme F&B, It’ll Do and Barcadia) has ventured into the ever-booming coffee shop business. Humphies’ opened Mudsmith Coffee (2114 Greenville Ave.) on lower Greenville in the space squished between World Beer Co. and the Single Wide that once housed Shade. The space is…
Recently I had the opportunity to check out the new Magnolia Cheese Co. at 1251 W. Magnolia Ave. in Fort Worth. The local-focused artisan cheese shop has received some great reviews and I was in the area, so decided to swing by. The Magnolia Cheese Co. is true to its…
The small neighborhood grocery store Green Grocer, originally out of Chicago, held a grand opening party this weekend at its new location at 3614 Greenville Ave. So, what’s that mean? Well, essentially, it means you can shop there now. But, why should you? Green Grocer is a small version of…
I can’t hide it any more, guys. I’ve started to vaguely understand what this brisket business is all about. As you might be able to see from the archives, I have eaten a fair amount of brisket over the last eight months or so. I know it should be moist,…
The new, new, old Sunset is back. And this time it has gone tiki-style. Wednesday marked the grand re-reopening of the bar on Ross Avenue, this time with Free Range Concepts owners Josh Sepkowitz and Kyle Noonan and celebutender Lucky Campbell heading up the bar program. According to the bar’s…
Joyce And Gigi’s opened quietly four weeks ago with four pyramid-shaped heaters casting towering flames to call to cars as they drive down Ross Avenue. Without the heaters you’d zip right past the restaurant. It’s tucked into a recently renovated space on Hall Street. Joyce Stenvall and Gigliola Aguilera have…
Thai Express, once located on Inwood Road, received a facelift, a name change and was relocated to its new home on Oak Lawn late last year. Si Lom Thai Asian Fusion has been open in the quiet basement suite at 3300 Oak Lawn Ave. (that once housed Daniele Osteria and…
The Standard Pour opened last March, promising a cocktail den with food as slinky as its old-school cocktails in the heart of Uptown. Just less than a year later it has grown into a bustling restaurant, packed to the hilt on weekends and filled with a respectable crowd even late…
Editor’s note: Finally, to wrap up National Pie Day, Englishman Gavin Cleaver takes a break from huffing oak smoke to tell us about some of his nation’s favorite filled pastry treats. Read this and ask yourself how English cuisine ever got such a bad reputation. Custard Tart Wikipiedia (not a…
I don’t know about you, but I am enjoying the trend wherein “healthy” does not mean “low fat, low calorie, tastes like cardboard warmed over.” Something can be healthy, good for you and not devoid of all fat and calories until there’s nothing left but a shitty attitude. In fact,…
Good news, those of you whose New Year’s resolutions have expired, this Wednesday is National Pie Day! Not to be confused with Pi Day, which is on March 14, or 3.14 for you nerds out there, Pie Day is the day in which we celebrate the miracle of pie. Pie…
The Dallas Observer’s 2010 Readers’ Pick for Best New Restaurant, Mextopia, has closed. Leslie Brenner got the details in a voice mail from owner Ricardo Avila. The plan is to reopen somewhere else with a new concept. Avila cited road construction near his restaurant as part of the problem…
Tom Thumb has been touting a new line of cookies lately, displayed in evil temptation just before the produce section. For weeks now, the faddish bags have been on sale for just 250 pennies. The deal with the cookies is they’re wafer thin. Almost chip-like. They’re small enough to pop…
In a small, fenced parcel, presumably somewhere in Texas, two perfectly dressed cowboys wrestle a young calf to the ground. They use their knees to pin the animal to the dirt while a third cowboy holds a thick length of metal in the smoldering coals of a fire in the…
Where does this bridge even go? Why does it have so many names? Is this how I get on the bridge? Why is it so fancy while being a portal to the middle of nowhere? What the hell is the speed limit? Is this a freeway, or a bridge? These…
When Campo in Oak Cliff opened in back November of 2011, the creative modern cuisine at the hands of chef Matt McCallister was widely praised. Yet, three months later when Scott Reitz learned that the Stephan Pyles-trained chef already had his eye on his own project, Retiz asked the question…
Nearly every chicken-fried steak I’ve been served in Dallas has committed a single, fatal sin. Nothing is more upsetting than plunging your fork and knife into the crunchy exterior of a breaded and fried steak only to have the coating slough off in a sheet. See also: – This Week’s…
