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 was surprised it took me so long to find these,…
The Texas Rangers announced yesterday that soon you’ll be able to upgrade that Boomstick dog to a combo meal, which includes two one-liter bottles of Coke. And, in fairness, since Nellie got a hot dog in honor of his hot bat, Joshie gets one too: The Great Bratbino. John Blake…
When I checked in with chef David McMillan back in March, he told me some significant changes were taking place with for John Tesar’s legacy CVap burgers at The Commissary. For one, they were supposed to be thinner, so the coloring would be more consistent throughout the center of 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 us. I never expected to eat some of the best ribs in…
It’s a nice enough image. A sizable square of mahi mahi boasts perfect 90-degree hashes: the mark of a careful quarter turn on a searing hot grill. The visual perfection carries through to the very center of the fish, where my fork encounters firm and fresh flesh, cooked a moment…
Other people in line in front of me count: 8 Days I’ve been thinking about this chicken since I ate it: 3 (whole) As I yelled, “Elaine just popped my jerk-chicken cherry and my goat-curry cherry and I really liked it!” in the parking lot of Elaine’s Kitchen, I realized…
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 was worried I wouldn’t be able to include this dish…
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. Last year Cane Rosso’s pizza made our 100 Favorite Dishes list…
That contest was the humor-writing division of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual awards, which were given out earlier this month, apparently in secret. She lost to this woman. I’m sure Alice will gladly accept your praise in the comments. Or she’ll call you a shithead. One or the…
Recently a new 73,000 square foot Kroger Fresh Fare grocery store opened at 4901 Maple Avenue in what is considered an “economically distressed Census tract.” It is also adjacent to two food deserts as defined by the USDA, a designation that indicates limited access to groceries, particularly fresh food. A…
It’s been one week since I pledged to abstain from all animal products, and I kept a journal to track my progress during the week. Here are some highlights for your amusement: Monday, 10:30 a.m.: Day one. Cold-brewed coffee with a splash of almond milk and a vegan banana muffin…
As many Dentonites are aware, especially those (un)fortunate enough to live a stone’s throw from the UNT campus, the “high rise” apartments going up on Fry Street have created quite a state of multi-variable chaos. Construction, no parking, there-is-seriously-another-nail-in-my-tire syndrome: the list goes on for miles. In the end, however,…
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. It could just be the picture. I’ve admitted my obsession with…
Pink gorilla robot + cheesesteak + plus fresh, super-sweet doughnuts + Alice. We’re just grateful no one was injured in the frenzy at Pookies Donuts (6522 Lemmon Ave.). Other people count: 13 People-watching amazingness level: 2,310 When you see the giant pink gorilla robot waving at you in front of…
I couldn’t sit on it anymore. Way back in January someone slipped me the news that one of Dallas’ greatest Reubens was gone. The Cock & Bull’s Reuben was legendary. I called Asher Stevens, the chef responsible for the sandwich, to find out the deal. Stevens: My vendor stopped supplying…
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. And now the real reason I went to The Porch comes…
It’s getting warm out, and that only makes me crave one thing: a steaming bowl of noodle soup. OK, not at all. But if there is one bowl of noodle soup I would eat sitting in a puddle of my own sweat, it would have to be the beef noodle…
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. Royal China has been banging out beef and broccoli for almost…
It was back in the fall that Citizen Pictures, a Colorado-based production company, contacted me in hopes of finding some restaurants to feature on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. The company hit up all the food writers in town, hunting for what it called great food, great characters,…
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’m not going to spend a second trying to point out…
I wish I had never ordered the mac and cheese at Neighborhood Services Tavern. But there it was, beckoning me with its siren song from the bottom of the menu, listed under “$5 Sides”: Cheeto-crusted mac and cheese. Cheetos have, in recent years, made their way onto my “Do Not…
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. Too often, bar snacks are relegated to frozen staples, dropped in…
