Follow Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. Loving Hut offers a $9 vegan buffet in Addison. So, while it is cheap, right off the bat it’s most of my least favorite things. First,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. From the outside, El Rincon De Villa doesn’t look like much…
You’re probably not headed to Oak Cliff’s new wharf-style seafood eatery for the burger, but you could. You could do it. When your friends order crab cakes or the shrimp and bacon mac and cheese, you could shout “actually, I’m getting the burger,” and hand the large menu to the…
Amid the competing tortilla smells of Mi Cocina and Taco Diner, LYFE officially opened in the West Village yesterday, holding a special event last evening for media and food bloggers. I sneaked in during lunch service earlier that afternoon, half because I was curious about the place Mark Bittman called…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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 may be hard to construe a glass of beer as…
There’s no escaping it. When you gaze at the silhouette of the building that houses Pera Wine & Tapas from the parking lot, you’re looking the shell of a decades-old fast food business. While a burger business or two and even a fish fry restaurant stand between them, what now…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Unless you’ve been fasting for a day or so, you’re going…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. You can find croissants all over town, in grocery stores, coffee…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Cubans are blowing up menus all over Dallas. The toasted sandwiches,…
In “Shigging,” we ask pitmasters to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they’re allowed to lie once. This week, we’re asking Justin Fourton, pitmaster at Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum (maybe you’ve heard of it), how he smokes…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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 know what you’re thinking: This one isn’t even a dish…
The concept of “Christmas In July” promotions has never really made much sense to me. This is Texas, and nothing about triple-digit temperatures makes me think of the holiday season. Still, what likely started as a clever marketing strategy for stores to boost sluggish summer sales has inspired a damn…
It’s been more than a year since I talked with Gigliola Aguilera about the salteñas she planned to cook occasionally in her tiny kitchen at Joyce and Gigi’s. I called Aguilera out for not putting the stew-filled pastries on her menu, mostly because they’re delicious but also because the delicacy…
In an area that is hot for most of the year, it’s somewhat surprising that there aren’t more local ice cream shops in Dallas-Fort Worth. There are plenty of places to find paletas and popsicles, but a pint of hand-churned ice cream made with local ingredients is a little more…
After months of taunting Oak Lawn with its contemporary design and one-two punch of a name, Scotch & Sausage (2808 Oak Lawn Ave.) finally opens its doors today at 11 a.m. The causal restaurant and beer garden offers more than 20 varieties of sausage “sandwiches” (which are basically like giant,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Trying to pick a favorite elotes stand might be the most…
I’m in a movie called Tavern. That’s what you think when you walk into The Ivy Tavern, the new pub on Lemmon Avenue. It’s the most taverny tavern ever, as though you’ve accidentally strolled into the movie set approximation of a tavern filled with previously unused tavern props. There are…
Number of people who were clearly pissed that I discovered their favorite secret mall restaurant: 3 Babies in highchairs throwing fits because “Mom, what the serious fuck is this chia seed pudding bullsh?”: 1 Green House Market is a fast, farm-to-table restaurant inside NorthPark Center that features locally sourced options…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. When a reader recommended I head to Spiral Diner to try…
Staring down at my plate at Jon Stevens’ newly minted Stock and Barrel in the Bishop Arts District, it’s hard not to conclude, suddenly and depressingly, that I got the shaft as a child. When I was growing up, meatloaf was a callous and passionless dish wrought from lean ground…
Unlike other town centers, where everything looks like it was erected in late 2010, McKinney’s town square holds a lot of character. Some of the small boutiques are worth taking a peek into just to check out the old buildings that house them. An antique dealer now sits in the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Look at the bottom right corner of the tray in the…
