Don’t you hate it when the waiter at the Mexican food restaurant gets pissy when you ask for a take home box of 30-40 hot tortillas? Or when you ask your neighbor to make you some like she did in the old country and she gets all judgemental and is…
There’s a fairly standard lunch routine here at Observer headquarters: meander around staffers offices and cubicle like brain-hungry zombies until a restaurant decision is made. Often, it’s tacos. Even more frequent: the consumption of meat (Sorry Anna). Hell, it’s usually around lunchtime when our hunger overrides our visual accuity and…
The Venue: If Chef Tiffany Derry at Private Social needs to borrow a cup a’ sugar from a neighbor, the new uptown Del Frisco’s Grille would probably be her best bet. The two modern glass-heavy storefronts split the remodeled section of One McKinney Plaza with Del Frisco’s Grille taking up…
I’m partial to Cajun and Creole food. I like their rich and crazy approach to meals, both in terms of flavors and attitude. So, with high hopes, last Saturday night we had dinner at The Free Man Cajun Café in Deep Ellum. The atmosphere was lively and original. They don’t…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she finds the man of her dreams at La Victoria, 1605 N Haskell Ave., 214-827-0101. Dinosaur toy guarding the barbed wire fence count: 1 Times I’ve driven…
Local, the sleek little restaurant in Deep Ellum, opened late in the winter of 2003. It was met with tempered praise from this newspaper, which lauded the elevated simplicity of chef-owner Tracy Miller’s modern American cooking, touting her brilliance with fish and gently spooning other praise on a “restaurant unsullied…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Capriotti’s Sandwich: The Bobbie ($8.39) Bread: Hoagie Toppings: Fresh roasted then even more freshly chilled turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mayo The Case: In case…
Navigating Dallas’ best mac and cheese dishes was hard work. (Editor’s note: He’s a food critic. It’s all relative.) Any dish that leverages an ingredient as great as cheese sufficiently to put it in the title is usually going to be decent, and many of the versions I tried were…
Café Istanbul has been in the Inwood Village Shopping Center on Lovers Lane for over 15 years, but this summer regulars found their go-to Mediterranean spot closed for renovations. When the restaurant reopened in mid-October, customers returned to a more slightly modern vibe, with new dark wood accents around the…
The City Tavern is quite direct. “These ain’t poppers,” the menu states of their stuffed jalapeños, arguing that chicken and spices added to the mix of typical cheese makes for an elevated bar snack. And they’re right. The level of attention they’re paying to a seemingly mundane deep-fried appetizer has…
Known: Thanksgiving is one of the best food holidays ever. So, where do the other 99 holidays we could think of rank? We’re so glad you asked. 1. Day After Thanksgiving: All the food, none of the family. Plus you get Leftovers Sandwiches. Choose to deny that this is the…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she goes gluten-free at Company Café, 2217 Greenville Ave. Spice rack wall art count: 1 Stroller count: 451 Company Café on Greenville Avenue is for high-maintenance yuppies…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Hard Eight BBQ The Sandwich: Sliced Beef ($5) Bread: Fresh Baked Jalapeño Roll Toppings: Sliced brisket and a little self-applied barbeque sauce The Case:…
Mr. Mesero opened at 4444 McKinney this week in the old Burger Girl spot. Brought to you by local restaurateur Mico Rodirguez, who also brought us Mi Cocina, Mr. Mesero offers mostly Mexican (tacos, enchiladas, barbacoa) and a little standard American (burgers, strip steak, pork sandwich). The food definitely isn’t…
McKinney Avenue welcomed yet another bar and grill to the strip last month. The Den Bar & Grill has taken over the space where Liar’s Den used to be, boasting three stories of hangout space. The Den serves food all day, but it’s more of a bar than a grill…
The sun just set on SWIG, the new bar and grill at the heart of Henderson Avenue, and a pair of valets are already hard at work, cramming cars in the small parking lot that runs alongside the restaurant. Inside, customers sip on craft and import beers, wine by the…
Sundey McClendon occasionally goes searching for some of DFW’s farthest-flung gems. Have a suggestion? Leave a comment and she may check it out. A while back I heard a tale of a restaurant run by a landscaper and a local celebrity in Mansfield. Unable to turn down a local celebrity…
This is bad. Between decadent meals (for work, of course), I try to temper my eating with dishes I think are at least a little healthy. I could argue that chicken wings are low in carbohydrates and high in protein. And that pizza I love to indulge isn’t too bad…
Sitting at Bolsa in Oak Cliff, snacking on a Boar’s Head Reuben, I asked my bartender about the small, run down-looking taqueria across the street. “You eat at that place?” I asked him. “Too much,” he replied, lamenting that they sometimes closed just before his shift ended at Bolsa, often…
It’s getting cold outside and that means one horrible, awful, nasty thing: It’s meatloaf season again. Not sure if you know the origin of meatloaf, but it was invented hundreds of hundreds of years ago by other horrible cooks. The following is the two-step process for making your own meatloaf:…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she cuts the cheese at Scardello Artisan Cheese, 3511 Oak Lawn Ave., and we hope we mean that literally. Level of fancy I felt eating prosciutto and…
Campo Modern Bistro opened this week at 1115 N. Beckley Ave. in Oak Cliff. Owners Miguel Vicéns and John Paul Valverde of Coevál Studios recruited Matt McCallister, formerly of Stephan Pyles, to run the kitchen. McCallister has been dabbling in many different things lately, including homemade charcuterie, preserves and pickling,…
