I’ve always been intrigued by restaurants known for one great dish. Is it really that good? How’s the rest of the menu? Is it worth waiting in line or making an expedition to unknown territory just to try this one dish? These are the questions I asked myself when I…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Only for the last few weeks he blew off this very important assignment to attend to way-less-important ones, including getting married. Apparently he was a little excited because he filed about 4,700 words about a chicken sandwich. I was…
Simmered down to an elevator pitch, Sissy’s Southern Kitchen and Bar might sound like a handful of other Dallas newcomers: Food Network contestant comes close but doesn’t win it; television near-miss spawns pseudo celebrity; fame spurs restaurant dreams and the masses come to eat. Mostly this model has been applied…
Nation’s Restaurant News reported yesterday that eatZi’s will open two new spots in the ‘burbs. The first will open on May 17 in Grapevine and will occupy 10,000 square feet “of freestanding retail space in a former Luby’s Cafeteria site.” The Plano store will be a newly constructed 10,000 square-foot…
UPDATE: Earlier we sent an email Tim McCallum, owner of Vapiano, asking if they might open back up. “We hope so, we will send out info when we do,” McCallum replied. Vapiano at Mockingbird Station has, to put it delicately, closed. Or, if one were to read the sign on…
Julian Barsotti, chef and owner of the highly acclaimed Nonna, is set to open Carbone’s Fine Food and Wine at 4208 Oak Lawn today. The name Carbone is a relic of Barsotti’s past. His maternal grandparents (the Carbones) owned a deli and small grocery of the same name in New…
It’s been a long time coming for Driftwood (642 W. Davis). The seafood spot in Oak Cliff was supposed to open months ago, but electrical and plumbing issues kept setting them back. Finally, last week, Chef Omar Flores and owner/operator John Baudoin planned a soft opening for family and friends…
You may have seen this week’s cover story, which is Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Being a Cheap Bastard in Dallas. If you read it, or are familiar with CB in anyway, you know that she has a black belt in Boobeuphemismskata. In honor of Bastard-y phrases like “your freezer will…
Poor, poor Sēr. The restaurant that befuddles html code for bloggers everywhere and requires pronunciation notes (it’s sear, get it?) has left a bad taste in Dallas’ mouth before it’s even served up its first plate. When the folks behind Nana announced the restaurant would shutter to reopen as a…
Fact*: Fifteen million people are getting burger wasted in Dallas right now. And every day, that number grows higher and higher**. If you or someone you know is burger wasted, please call the number at the bottom of this helpful guide. Pretty, pretty please. Get more facts*** in this week’s…
It was Easter Sunday, and I wanted to eat breakfast like I would if I were with family. So I trekked out to Kirin Court in Richardson for dim sum. There’s a lot going on during dim sum, carts racing around the dining room with waiters hawking their goods (usually…
Fred Messick never intended to be a chef — at least not at first. He’d thought about cooking, sure, but culinary school seemed like a waste of money and time. So for five years he kept doing what he’d been doing since his high-school graduation: working construction with his old…
For this week’s cover story, Alice “The Cheap Bastard” Laussade provides an extensive and profane guide to, as she puts it, her “favorite restaurants in Dallas where cheap meets delicious (without meeting diarrhea).” It follows. Also, now you can Cheap Bastardize freakin’ anything. Drive-Through Deals White Rock Coffee 4216 Abrams…
There was some social media gossip about a Yu Dog at the Rangers Ballpark on Monday night, so I contacted Casey Rapp, the Operations Manager with Metroplex Sportservice, which coordinates most of the food for the stadium. (Rapp has a pretty cool, yet tiring, job and keeps in touch throughout…
Denton’s historic downtown square has long been a revolving door of independent shops and eateries. In the former Madison June baby boutique space (turns out drunk college kids don’t have a need for a $40 onesie), former popcorn business-owner Tim Loyd has opened Atomic Candy. This place is just damn…
March has come and gone, which means that somehow three months have already passed since we began this whole Meatless Monday endeavor — I’ve eaten a lot of vegetarian meals over the past hundred or so days, some memorably delicious, others notably terrible, as well as some not worth mentioning…
On a January weeknight, one of the unseasonably warm ones, The Chesterfield was absolutely packed. Not with patrons, necessarily; the space was far from capacity. But downtown’s newest temple to mixology was overflowing with good vibes. Pandora filled the room with the redundant baseline of 12-bar blues and drinkers shouted…
As usual, last month was a busy one in the Dallas restaurant scene. Read on for the full slate of opening restaurants, and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: Chicken Scratch (2303 Pittman St.): Tim Byres’ new…
If you’re a Baseball Person, walking through the concourse of a stadium and seeing that massive expanse of emerald turf for the first time each year fills your soul with the feeling of potential. For a northerner, baseball invokes the potential for warmer weather ahead; interrelationships of the celestial bodies…
Rex’s Seafood Market was running wide-open, full-throttle on a recent Friday afternoon. Lent and the army of Catholics who adhere to its dietary restrictions might have had something to do with the surge, but I think it was the lobster roll that inspired the droves. Rex’s puts the New England…
Welcome to the return of The Box. Last time, Craig Cottier turned the ingredients from The Box into radass St. Paddy’s Day drinks. This time, we gave our big box of crap to Chad Houser, Cafe Momentum do-er and Parigi cheffer (“Parigi” means “fucking delicious deviled eggs” in French talk)…
Oysters may be nature’s most perfect food. They’re rich and sensual and best served with little intervention: freshly opened and raw, with a few drops of liquid sunshine from a lemon. But April is here, and while oysters can safely be harvested in northern waters year round, Texas oyster season…
