Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. We were told via text to meet at the back of a parking lot and to look for a white car with the window down (yes, just one…
I feel like a lot of kids are going to be asked to report to the class in a few months what they learned during quarantine. Mommy Likes Wine. I Miss Unlimited Screen Time. I Forgot How to Tie My Shoes. Why Zoom Class Was Better. Daddy Is Bad at…
While some restaurants are opening dining rooms for limited tables for families to get a Mother’s Day brunch, lunch or dinner, there are plenty of ways to stay home and safe, if that’s what you prefer. There are tons of restaurants offering kits to go. Here are 14 options for…
Back in the good old days of restaurant dining, the idea of leftover barbecue was a little strange. You’re sitting at a long wooden table with a tray full of spectacular smoked meat, and you can’t finish it? How Texan are you? But in the time of coronavirus, the very…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Rene Ramirez of 225 BBQ says he “just gets bored” when he’s asked why his menu is ever-evolving. This is despite the fact that he’s raising a young…
The people at restaurants in town are getting creative with how to keep us returning to their businesses, and one decent way is with kits. While cooking on your own can be great, these days, masking up, sanitizing, shopping for ingredients, hoping they’re there, sanitizing everything when you get home…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Here’s a splurge offer you should take advantage of: Veritas has discount wine and charcuterie boards to go. I’ve been concerned about your love life during the pandemic…
The big-hearted eatery offers six tacos and a bottle of wine for $30.
A cheese expert has never faced these obstacles. The biggest problem now is taste testing — it might be a small thing to us non-mongers, but removing the ability to watch a customer taste a tiny triangle of, say, aged manchego, turns a cheesemonger’s job into a Sherlock Holmes-level puzzle…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters, like any coffee shop, is used to regulars. What they weren’t expecting was a whole new crop of them while the coronavirus pandemic took…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. March 16, a day before Plano’s City Council voted to close restaurant dining rooms in response to the spreading coronavirus, one of the city’s leading Taiwanese and Chinese…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Melissa and I have been cooking a lot. I got up the other morning and reeled off scratch breakfast tacos down to handmade corn tortillas. Melissa organized a…
Reyna Duong needs a moment for family meal. Today it’s literally a family meal: On a Tuesday at high noon, she’s away from her restaurant, Sandwich Hag, after adapting the schedule to give her staff rest on Monday and Tuesday. Home is for mammoth plates of spaghetti. She’s made a…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Up until this week, it had been a minute since I had been to Palmieri Cafe in the Farmers Market. But it’s one of those places that’s just…
I’m crazy about Dude, Sweet Chocolate. I mean, really: I recently came across a social media post from 2014 when I had returned to work after living in the Philippines, and what had my co-workers surprised me with when I walked in the newsroom? Dude, Sweet. When I moved into…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. I remember the days when we’d crave Louie’s, but alas, it would be Monday, so we’d end up at Lakewood Landing. That Monday rule still applies, but we…
Wendy’s has breakfast now. I suspect many people have probably gone most of their lives unclear on whether Wendy’s has breakfast. But they didn’t before, and now they do. Former World Series champion Aubrey Huff tells me we’ll all be dead inside three weeks, so I wanted to give the…
Thursday afternoon, Caroline Perini is vacuum-sealing raw bacon. Air-tight packs of bacon are not a typical part of Easy Slider’s operations — she’d spend the average Thursday midday in her brick-and-mortar spot cycling down from the lunch rush and worrying about the beer cooler holding its icy temperatures. That was,…
I’ve been pretty darn healthy during this pandemic — at least in the way of eating pretty well, seriously monitoring portions and working out an average of twice a day. But last week, my body got tired. And after moving myself to a new apartment and not yet having a…
4/20 is a special day in my culture. I guess there are probably some people who write about fast food semi-professionally who don’t have an edging-toward-troubling relationship with what’s celebrated that day, but there probably aren’t many. Let’s just say I don’t know anyone like that. So here’s a list…
Sisters Laura Sanchez and Alma Rubio have seen a lot in their 39 years of running La Calle Doce in Oak Cliff. But, of all the things that could have thrown them for a loop, they never thought it would be shelter-in-place orders. “At first, we were flabbergasted,” Rubio says…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. To give in to a craving you have nearly every day can really make you happy. Especially when you’re quarantined. That happened yesterday, while I was not only…
