Have you ever been out on a date with someone who is absolutely beautiful, holds a high-paying position at an awesome company, makes good conversation, and then somehow just don’t do it for you? That’s always how I felt and about The Tried and True. Just take a look at…
It is a scene that belongs in a thousand places, the last of which is Dallas. On Main Street in Deep Ellum, past the cluster of bars and restaurants that anchor the neighborhood as a nightlife hotspot, Monkey King Noodle Co. sits in comparative isolation. The sky is overcast, and…
Dallas was long-protected from the ramen craze until Tanoshii Ramen Bar set up shop in Deep Ellum. Now a second is already on the way. Carol Shih at Sidedish reported that Teiichi Sakurai, the owner of Tei-An, planned to open a fish market at Sylvan|Thirty, but apparently he’s pivoted. Instead…
Good news for the adventurous eaters out there who think they’ve tried everything Thai food has to offer: CrushCraft Thai Street Eats, the fast-casual restaurant from retired chef Paul Singhapong and restaurateur Jack Nuchkasem, will open in mid-January at 2800 Routh Street in Uptown. The menu will be divided into…
If you’re an East Dallas resident and a fan of Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, more than six months of anticipation comes to a close today. The second location of the Dallas-based burger restaurant opens today, the restaurant announced on Facebook…
While there were certainly ramen restaurants in New York City before David Chang began rolling and cutting his alkaline noodles in the East Village, they have exploded since he opened up his famed Momofuku almost a decade ago. Chang made waves with his creative take on traditional Japanese cooking, viewed…
Grub Burger has been showing low rumblings of being alive for the past few months, and now like a Coke-ad polar bear it’s finally rousing to take advantage of the holiday shopping season. The last thing any of us want to do right now is to look past the mountain…
Despite the perplexing news that Dallas drinks less than any other major city, now is a good time to be a beer lover here. The city just keeps getting more and more good beer news lately. Tap-crazy restaurants with beer-based desserts are opening. Growler-filling stations are spreading to different neighborhoods…
Doughnut shops are one of the few establishments that can get away without actually having a proper name, either on their building or anywhere else. All they need is a sign, preferably one that lights up, that proclaims “DONUTS” to the world. Pawn shops may be one of the only…
Meat Fight 2013 from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. If you prefer your pictures stationary, check out this Meat Fight 2013 slideshow. If you prefer them with too many words, here’s a recap of this year’s event, which raised $50,000 for charity…
It’s been a foregone conclusion for months that Pecan Lodge, Dallas’ Mecca of smoked meat, would leave its perch in the downtown Dallas Farmers Market, which has been turned over to private developers apparently unmoved by the Lodge’s cult following. The question, until today, was where the smoke trail would…
Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison and Stevie Ray Vaughan walk into a bar owned by Jesus and they all eat a cheeseburger and drink a Velvet Hammer and laugh about stuff. There isn’t really a punchline here because this actually happened in Denton last night. Well, sort of. The LSA Burger…
The first time I encountered the phenomenon, I was sitting at the bar at Sheba’s Ethiopian Kitchen, my fingers pinching a small portion of raw beef from the bread-lined plate in front of me. Two men were at the end of the bar, also eating with their hands but from…
In Happy Endings, food critic Scott Reitz travels part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. This is the first in an occasional series. By definition, dessert offers a conclusion. Growing up, if we wanted dessert at home, we’d first…
For a couple weeks, all we knew about Miss Chi is that it was coming. The signs of its arrival were all there, specifically an actual sign with the name of the restaurant and a couple posts about it on the Facebook page for Tanoshi Ramen. Since then we’ve been…
See our full slideshow from Sunday’s Meat Fight here. Sometime on Saturday I started prepping my wife for her first Meat Fight, the annual barbecue competition organized by our long-time columnist, Alice Laussade, and her husband, Mike. It’s more meat than you realize, I cautioned. You don’t want to finish…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. An oft-overlooked brisket is the lunchtime variety, guaranteed to make your afternoon at work a slow and lazy…
In honor of Sunday’s sold-out Meat Fight, we’re celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. When fortune smiles on something as bloody and delicious as meat, it seems proof like no other that,…
Last month Souk Moroccan Bistro and Bazaar opened immediately over the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Trinity Groves. Neighboring Kitchen LTO and LUCK, it’s the creation of Dallas restaurateur Yaser Khalaf and Moroccan-born, Spanish-raised chef Najat Kaanache The restaurant is designed to evoke a marketplace, with strategically placed baskets and…
Not long after walking into Mesero Miguel, you may start to wonder whether the restaurants that failed in this two-story space could have made it if they simply looked this good. Cuba Libre put in a solid 10-year run on the highly visible corner of Willis and Henderson avenues, but…
One of these days I’m going to find a way to create a sandwich ranking system that stacks the world’s best sandwiches in order of deliciousness. I’d have already done it but I can’t figure out how to take the provincial nature of sandwich love into account across an entire…
The McRib is returning to McDonald’s restaurants across the country, and in honor of that special season we bring you another look at one of America’s most popular “meat” sandwiches. We all know the McRib, with its patty machine-molded to resemble bone-in ribs and its spare dressing of onion and…
