The term “Farmer’s Market” covers a lot of things. Gone are the days in the late ’50s of this country when it described a place and time farmers assembled to sell their wares. Today a hodgepodge of incense, hand-made tie-dye T-shirts, cheap hats, and as-seen-on-late-night-TV specials fill the stalls on…
Remember the last time you were in central Arlington and you wanted a good burger? No, really, serious starts now: Suppose you are in central Arlington and you find yourself in need of a great burger. Well, you’re in luck. You actually now have a reason to drive to there…
This past weekend’s food truck fete at Earth Day Dallas had a clear winner in creativity and popularity, the chicken and waffle dish offered by City Street Grille. The new menu item, Rolled Gold, exclusively revealed to City of Ate last week was presented as a waffle pita — or…
Everywhere you look in the area east and north of Park Lane and Greenville Avenue, there is an Ethiopian restaurant or business. Within one of those shops, a pupusa maker offers a golden alternative to sour, spongy, wonderful injera. The handmade quesadilla-corn cake hybrid treats, a source of Salvadoran pride,…
“This is the society we’re living in,” rants angry-guy podcaster/comedian Adam Carolla. “You can order iced tea and get something that tastes like somebody took a pillowcase of potpourri and boiled it.” Ask for iced tea at Alma, the latest addition to Consilient Restaurants’ Henderson Avenue collection (along with Hibiscus…
Lately the afternoons have been stupid hot. It’s not butt-sweat hot yet, and we’re nowhere near the balls-hot temperatures we’re sure to see in August. (Yes, those are technical terms. Ask Pete Delkus. He’ll confirm.) With afternoon highs in the 80s, though, it’s definitely time for a brain freeze. And…
When Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers used to frequent the Cosmic Café (then called the Cosmic Cup), they could be found taking in the restaurants eclectic, Zen-inducing ambience, and maybe even conjuring up a plot or two. Former owner of the café Kumar Pallana can be seen in several…
When Katy Trail Ice House opened along the eponymous exercise trail on March 25, it was feted as the next it-bar. Capitulating to this hysteria, I too visited the bar on opening day, much to my chagrin. Anticipating a fine pint of Jester King or Thirsty Planet as a reward…
Most Americans see Mexican cuisine through queso-colored glasses, content to crack open a box of store-bought hard-shell tortillas, stuff them with something fatty and vaguely chili-flavored and call the result “Mexican.” In Texas, though, some are beginning to understand that Mexican food is more than gelatinous cheese sauces and leaden…
The Atomic Pie website claims that their pizza is “the first ‘American style’ pizza in Dallas.” Weird, because I thought Pizza Hut’s Ultimate Stuffed Crust Pizza (get the Meaty and the crust has pepperoni, sausage, bacon and cheese packed inside it), in which they manage to stuff another entire pizza…
Originally an off the menu item at Matt’s El Rancho in Austin, Bob Armstrong dip, named after former Texas Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong, titillated the taste buds of Austinites before word traveled up Interstate 35 to Mattito’s Tex-Mex in Dallas. Once word got out, Matt’s El Rancho put the dip…
Since 1924, the Luna family has been selling chips, tortillas, tamales and such through The Luna Tortilla Factory. And now, almost 86 years later, they have finally opened a family restaurant. And, guess what? They’ve been holding out on us. Shame, shame. It all started back in 1923 when María…
People say you should give a restaurant time to “find its stride” before you go there and judge their food. To those people I say: bullshit. Don’t open your restaurant if you’re not ready for people to eat your food. And now, a public service announcement: Taquería La Paloma and…
The cashier at Lockhart Smokehouse nodded as he rang up my order for the day’s special, a smoked trapezoid of ivory-hued fish graced with three slim lemon wheels. “I’m glad we’ve got this,” he said. “The vegetarians have been asking for something.” Putting aside the question of whether non-meat eaters…
The only thing more exciting than discovering delicious off-the-menu items at a restaurant might be finding savory morsels where there’s no menu to begin with. Or even better, discovering such tasty treats after a few PBRs, which is exactly what happened to us Saturday night at the Double-Wide. One would…
It may not feel like it today, but spring is officially here, but that’s not the only change we saw in March. Restaurants and bars looking to capitalize on patio grazers opened their doors, most notably the Katy Trail Ice House, which received lots of buzz during its soft opening…
Over spring break my husband and I loaded up our kids and took a road trip out to Lake Mineral Wells State Park. We hiked, climbed, cried, threw rocks into the water and generally disturbed nice people trying to embrace the serenity of nature. After all that hoopla, my husband…
From the outside, Szechwan Pavilion totally looks like a strip club. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—some restaurants look like strip clubs, and some strip clubs look like herpes. Shit, maybe Szechwan Pavilion used to be a strip club and they just kept the name and the super buffet…
On the ingredient lists that now pass for menus, it can be hard to discern exactly how a dish is assembled: Squid, rutabagas and chocolate sauce sounds so daring when the nouns are lined up neatly as cornstalks, but the wow factor fizzles when the plate arrives with the fish…
A Cedar Springs landmark will be serving its last rounds of mimosas and eggs Benedict this Sunday. The Bronx Café, which has resided near Observer headquarters at Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs for almost 35 years, has been sold to the adjacent Warwick Melrose Hotel. Co-owner Jess Gilbert told us…
A local raw food company appears to be on the brink of becoming a nationally recognized brand, thanks to the confluence of a major industry award and a new distribution contract. Hail Merry, maker of granolas, flavored nuts and macaroons, this week won VegNews’ “Best of Show” title at Natural…
The first thing one receives at Oishii Sushi & Pan-Asian Cuisine is a large laminated menu and paper menu overflowing with sushi options. But if you sit at the sushi bar, there’s a small, wall-mounted chalkboard above the chopping and dicing sushi chefs. The very top of that chalkboard reads…
