There’s not much ice left on the streets, but “cold” still seems an inadequate word to describe the weather outside. You can coat your outsides with scarves and mittens, but where does that leave your shivering insides? Dallasites cannot survive on hot toddies alone, which is why y’all should head…
There’s something way too special about the Mama’s Daughters’ original location on Irving Boulevard. It’s the perfect diner: great atmosphere, happy-snarky waitresses and an unspoken promise that when you leave, you’ll be stupid full of delicious food. (Bring your pie stomach. It’s game time.) I have an unholy love for…
A few milestones loom large in the sports world, so rare is the chance of their reoccurring. High on that list is the successful athlete-owned restaurant: Larry Bird, Johnny Unitas, George Brett and Dwyane Wade are among the many, many talented sports stars who couldn’t make a go of steak…
A few dozen Oak Cliff residents and barbecue addicts braved the frozen streets and frigid temperatures to enjoy opening day this morning at Lockhart Smokehouse, the highly awaited new ‘cue joint in the Bishop Arts District. As of 1 p.m., the place was out of meat, but luckily Dude Food…
If you’re in town for the Big Game and want to know if Big D features anything other than barbecue and chicken-fried steak, head down the Dart Green Line to superstar national chef Tom Colicchio’s Craft and enjoy an elegant brunch, featuring Short Rib and Shishito Pepper Hash. Served with…
Everyone’s trying to cash in on the Super Bowl, from those renting their homes for the week, to restaurants and bars offering cheap drinks and food specials to lure in crowds for watching parties. For restaurants that opened their doors in January, the timing couldn’t be better, but for the…
“Dallas, huh?” a Michigander friend asked me upon hearing I’d moved here. “Bet you don’t get much sushi.” Actually, I corrected him, there’s extraordinary sushi here. Sushi’s the perfect fit for Dallas, a city with a bustling airport, a growing Asian and Asian-American population and an affection for high price…
The specialty dish at B.B.Bop’s is the Korean dish bibimbap (which sounds exactly the same if you say it drunk or sober), or as their signage describes it: rice bowls. The restaurant offers a couple of different roads for your rice bowl experience: build-your-own (for you picky bitches) or order…
It’s probably unfair to show up in winter at a restaurant that touts its fresh, seasonal cuisine. Diners who rushed to eat at Brownstone when it opened last summer were feted with Mother Nature’s version of a ticker-tape parade: The kitchen all but pelted them with kernels of Silver Queen…
Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, and if the Academy gets the least bit cutesy, I’ll have hours and hours of movie-watching ahead of me. For more than a decade, I’ve made a ritual of seeing every nominated film in every category: I was probably the only person as…
Well, maybe you don’t want to eat this exactly: Hollow crawfish shells and dirty napkins make for a pretty lousy meal. But you definitely do want to eat what would have shown up in the “before” picture if I’d had the willpower to reach for my phone before digging into…
Crossroads Diner is located just off the corner of Walnut Hill Road and Central Expressway, which, in the world’s compendium of crossroads, is a pretty prosaic intersection. People come here to catch the train, not negotiate with Satan. But the new restaurant’s name isn’t just a geographic reference: Chef-owner Tom…
Just yesterday, Wayne Adams broke the sad news to the employees at the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue: At the end of March, the 24/7 diner — one of Dallas’s greasiest, greatest institutions — will close. He has sold the property for reasons he says he will explain to us…
Good 2 Go Taco finally has a permanent home. After plans of rolling out a taco truck operation and a segment on Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate, co-owners Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare closed their continuously packed space in the back of The Green Spot in late August…
Everybody knows pastrami. Everybody knows lox. But Lisa Giannopoulos, owner of Gio’s Café, a new deli in North Dallas, reports even customers who cut their teeth on knishes are baffled by pastrami lox. “It’s new to them,” Giannopoulos says of the Nova-style salmon that’s prepared like pastrami. Rarely seen outside…
Behold, Samar’s caramelized apple empanadas with cinnamon ice cream. Yeah, the dessert is super pretty and yeah, it’s shockingly small. If we’re just talking about looks here, this is the Salma Hayek of desserts. But, hey, you’re the kind of person who orders dessert at lunchtime, so that’s probably in…
I haven’t been in a dance club in about 10 years, but when I walked into Sabor: A Taco Joint, I thought I’d accidentally broken my streak. (“Shit. Now, I have to give back my 10 Years Free Of Douche Boners In My Back chip and my I No Longer…
How you feel about Saint Ann may depend upon how you feel about Jägermeister ice cream drizzled with a Red Bull reduction. As that sugary debacle demonstrates, the new Uptown restaurant has a firm grip on its young and trendy clientele. Saint Ann is designed to appeal to diners who…
Uptown Popcorn recently opened in NorthPark mall with more than 70 popcorn flavors that are way more tasty than that microwavable Orville Redenbacher’s you have in your pantry. A mini bag of most of Uptown Popcorn’s flavors will only set you back $1.75 and holds about three cups of crazy…
Pity the beef short rib. Once passed over by many people who preferred pork, short ribs staged a comeback in recent years as enterprising chefs started braising them rather than barbecuing. Proper braising allowed them to remain moist and supple, as opposed to dry and tough, and they found a…
A pair of flour tortillas containing flavored rubber cement is not what you think. It’s not the traditional Mexican quesadilla. It’s a stateside creation, part pie, part Frisbee, part Sheetrock and insulation. South of the border, a quesadilla is a half-moon shaped sandwich of cheese with the filling of your…
Recently, one of the kabillions of Cheap Bastard superfans asked, “Is there any way you can write a review about a restaurant without using any 4-letter words???? GUESS NOT.” It’s the truth: 4-letter words are the worst. And since I write to please you, today’s review doesn’t contain any words…
