This summer, one of your friends will inevitably drag you to the Dallas Farmers Market because, “Ohmahgawdy’all!! Texas peaches are in season!!!!” Yeah, that’s great. You know what’s also in season? SWEATING ASS CRACKS. I don’t know if you heard, but the high was 315° Eff yesterday, with a heat…
Cute, isn’t it, how chefs-turned-restaurateurs name their joints now? They slap plain and unpretentious words on the marquee to fool you into thinking they’re selling uncomplicated grub at a good price. The Commissary and its reservations-only fancy eatin’ room, The Table, are like that. Chef John Tesar, formerly of The…
When David Thompson, one half of the TacOCliff blog (tacocliff.wordpress.com) and I chomped down on the grass-fed ground beef tacos that newly opened Company Café was selling from a stall at Earth Day Dallas 2011, we had lofty expectations. The Lower Greenville restaurant, owned by Stephen White and Chris Cowan,…
“Ever had the tacos at Flash Mart?” sounds like a crappy pick-up line some drunk chick would give you at Ghostbar. But, seriously, have you ever had them? No, of course there are no flashers inside the Flash Mart on Abrams Road. Gah. Everyone knows they’re all at DISD high…
The Porch is home to numerous off-menu items, what with their enormous, constantly changing blackboard, seasonal drinks and items that can be altered to suit diners’ needs. Finding elusive bites at the trendy Henderson Avenue location wasn’t a problem for us; the trouble was deciding which off-menu items to order…
Garden Cafe is part hipster, part hippie. It’s as if all the people in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle had consensual big-city sex and made a restaurant baby. Inside, Garden Cafe’s booths are filled with skinny, black-shirt-and-Jeggings-wearing dudes who come here to work on their short stories and hang out…
It’s the rare restaurant that announces its intention to satisfy every possible segment of its customer base with its sign. But for The Office Grill, open since March off a clamorous expanse of the Dallas North Tollway near Trinity Mills Road, its placard says it all: “The Office: Sports, Stocks,…
In 1940’s Belfast, Ireland, there lived the Magee family. Six daughters were born one after the other, followed by five sons all squeezed into a two-bedroom row house. The neighbors on one side were the McCormicks, who had 10 kids. On the other side were the Dunnigans, also with 10…
A few years back, Mario Alfano and Sabino Valle took the old Casa Blanca space on Lemmon Ave. and transformed it into Mario Sabino’s Mexican & Salvadoran Restaurant. Upon entering the first set of doors, we were greeted by a giant dry-erase board that read “Try our new strawberry swirl…
Driving up to La Hacienda Ranch with my mom, all its theme-y ranchified decor made me think for a second that I might be walking into a strip club. I figured, what the hell—there’s nothing like horking down a cheese enchilada with the woman who birthed you while someone sanitizes…
“In here, life is beautiful. The girls are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful!” The line from Cabaret pops into my head as we drive up to impeccably manicured Hotel ZaZa, home to Dragonfly restaurant. The valets appear out of nowhere and graciously help us from the car. “We’re here…
The month of May has proven to be an eventful one. The Californian mega-chain In-N-Out Burger made its Texas debut in Frisco and Allen, The Cedars Social finally celebrated its grand opening, and plenty more new culinary establishments have popped up along the way. Not to mention, a few have…
I’m skeptical of the value of pepper spray and sending people to the hospital, two things that appear on the resume of capsaicin, the active component in chili peppers. So when I found Prometheus Springs Capsaicin Spiced Elixir, a bottled tea whose quirkiness and individuality hinges on the shock of…
Spiral Diner is a vegan diner in Oak Cliff. Every vegan cliché is there: massage therapist business cards; dreads; a flier suggesting that we all get together and build a dog park; good-for-you-smelling air mixed with patchouli stank; employees who are all totally, sincerely, Jehovah’s Witness nice all the time…
What a difference a hostess, a knowledgeable waiter and a month can make. I first visited Asador almost two months after it had opened, and I left that evening concerned for its future. After all, there were high hopes. The Renaissance Hotel had undergone a $3-million renovation and much of…
The folks at Jamba Juice have a gimmick up their sleeves. While the smoothie bar is known for its fruit and veggie smoothies, freshly squeezed juices and healthy snack options plastered across their colorful menu boards, turns out the California-based chain has a not-so-secret, secret menu. All one has to…
The first rule of ordering pizza from Serious Pizza: Read the menu. And when you read it, notice that the large pizza is 24 inches. (For reference, a Domino’s large is a mere 14 inches.) The large from Serious Pizza does not, how you say, fuck around. It’s so big,…
Indian food can be a challenge to the unadventurous diner. Too spicy. Too gloppy. Too exotic with its bevy of sauces and fantastical sounding names. But Vijay Sadhu’s new restaurant Sutra seems to have remedied that problem by mixing the old with the new and creating a modern, user-friendly version…
With all the excitement surrounding the grand opening of In-N-Out Burger last Wednesday, it’s only natural that competitors are looking to capitalize on the hype. That’s exactly what local burger joint Twisted Root Burger Co. is trying to do anyway, as we received a press release late last week stating…
The adult cupcake. No dirty pictures on these. It’s the ingredients, not the decorations, that make these for the 21 and over set only. They’re tequila cupcakes from Elizabeth’s Cakes in Plano. And I don’t know if it’s just the power of suggestion or not, but I would swear that…
The sound of the word is gustatory TKO, fit to play the role of an exclamatory bubble in a classic Batman episode: Pambazo! And eating Tortas La Hechizera’s rendition of a pambazo, a Mexican sandwich of white bread traditionally dipped a red chile sauce and stuffed with potato and chorizo,…
It’s 8 a.m., and it smells deliciously of cooked meats, fresh bread, and sausages. It wasn’t my nose alone that brought me here at this hour, though; Kuby’s was first and most-often mentioned when I asked around for places to purchase sausages in Dallas. Inside the store-cum-restaurant on Snider Plaza,…
