See also: *Best Food Orgasm – 2006 President Ronald Reagan designated every third Sunday during the month of July as National Ice Cream Day. If you’re a true ‘Merican, you’ll follow the orders of our beloved Dutch and have a scoop or three. We have a list of a few…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Judi Restaurant and Bakery turns out a football-shaped Iraqi samoon that…
I knew it wasn’t a good idea. Passionate decisions almost always bear a cost. I’d just watched scores of tweets extol the virtues of Snuffer’s cheddar fries with such enthusiasm I was incensed. Surely, there is no way something worthy of such praise can come from a dingy Greenville Avenue…
News this morning from Goghee To Go, maker of Korean barbeque tacos at 2222 Inwood Road, is that the small drive through spot is now closed, but will open in a larger spot soon. The Goghee on Inwood was about as unassuming as a Korean-Mexican fusion taco place could be…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Usually when I’m done with a review I’m done with a…
If a hard freeze in April hadn’t annihilated northern Michigan’s tart-cherry crop, a little boy in Beijing might have been pouring Herkner’s Original Cherry Topping over his mung-bean ice cream right now. But the fickle weather forced Lynda Herkner, 74, and her sisters to delay plans to export their siren-red…
It was early in the morning on Father’s Day and Mark Bolten, the president of the German singing society that owns Millheim Hall, was sitting in a folding chair at one end of a 75-foot-long barbecue pit watching a 20-man crew tend the meat and douse flames. A handsome man…
Pay no attention to the nondescript signage that might just as easily advertise appliance sales or spray tans. Pera Turkish Kitchen, its name spelled out in plain, red letters on a white background, will set you at ease as soon as you walk through the double doors and enter the…
Overaccessorized old ladies count: 12 Prada count: 5 The Zodiac Room in Neiman Marcus downtown is an old white lady’s wet dream. Here, you can brag about your Louis Vuitton luggage and talk shit about that chick who always shows up late to church (“And then, gasp, she has the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. There’s a perception that there’s no ramen to be had in…
This is a blog written by a complete barbecue amateur. In the UK a barbecue is something you cook a burger on and is largely a celebration of the few and far between days when it’s not raining. In Texas I have quickly come to learn that barbecue is an…
Searching for photos of amazing ballpark food is like a self-inflicted wound. At the end of it all, I’m overwhelmed with the pain I’ve caused myself. Thanks to everyone’s inclination to take pictures of food they eat, here’s an ode to great ballpark food. (With one caveat: no hotdogs. That’s…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. All Good Cafe’s Chicken-Fried Steak made last year’s 100 Favorites list,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. You might want to bring a fan. While a portion of…
Camera count: 1 million Someone yelling “egg roll” in the kitchen count: 53 Bistro B (Authentic Asian Cuisine) is all kinds of awesome. It’s delicious awesome. It’s cheap awesome. It’s what-the-fuck awesome. It’s scary awesome. It’s “Aww, dammit, this Thai iced tea has those chewy brown gelatin bubbles in it…
The words “Desi-style pizza” beckoned me with a neon glow from the front window of India Chaat Café, a small, brightly lit restaurant tucked into a strip mall at Preston and Frankford. I walked in expecting Americanized, watered-down food, or maybe the Bollywood version of Pizza Hut, and was surprised…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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 had my first patty melt ever at Katy Trail Ice…
Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they’re peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we’re ranking Dallas’ food trucks to sort out which one’s are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow…
Ten Bells Tavern opened this past week at 232 W. 7th S., just across the street from another new bar, The Oak Cliff Social Club. Ten Bells Tavern is a casual, low-key spot with potentially two personalities. Inside is a hideaway dive inside, while outside, where big picnic tables are…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. When I wanted a special occasion meal for my birthday and…
There are many options if you’re hungry for a bowl of pho in Dallas. Out in the suburbs, countless restaurants offer cheap bowls of noodle-laden soup to Vietnamese immigrants and local diners in the know. Closer to downtown, more refined and Americanized bowls of pho cater to timid diners who…
June was another incredibly busy month in the Dallas restaurant scene. Dallas welcomed a ton of new restaurants last month, and alas, said farewell to a few. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or…
