You see all those chain restaurants, Dallas? All those bright shiny lights, beckoning you in to eat products of a questionable providence at a price so reasonable there’s no need to go home and time-consumingly construct a meal for your baying, hungry, ungrateful family? You grew up around them (the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Potato skins are usually a snooze. Most restaurants fill dried out…
Elotes en vaso is a simple and delicious Mexican snack that can be found all throughout Dallas. Elotes en vaso, or more commonly just referred to as “elotes” is a savory combination of corn, butter, mayo, crema mexicana, Cotija cheese (sometimes Parmesan), salt, hot sauce, lime and sometimes lemon pepper,…
Central Market’s 17th annual Hatch Chile Festival is back in full swing and Dallas is still making a big deal about it. Are they worth the hype? Will they rearrange your culinary universe? That friends, is up to you and your palates. Go sample, enjoy. But if you’re like us…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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 had no clue what I wanted to order till I…
I’m an unflinchingly loyal Fuzzy’s fangirl. The bright pops of neon on the aluminum walls, the funky T-shirts, the large souvenir cups (which make up my entire drinkware collection), the feta on everything — I’m completely drunk on the marketing Kool-Aid. So when I sauntered into the newest location on…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. If you’ve ever smelled jerk chicken smoking away on the grill,…
The new English Premier League season kicks off this weekend, and what better excuse can there possibly be for getting down to a bar, drinking the cheapest beer you can find and joining in some incoherent chanting/possibly having a bar fight? The time difference might make for some early drinking…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. My chicken sandwich list is weeks old, but I’m still on…
This morning, Torchy’s Tacos on SMU Blvd (at Greenville) officially opened and the first 100 people in line at 7:00 a.m. received free breakfast tacos. With the new semester about to start, we all feel better knowing that some students will be well fed. Although, it may add a bit…
Shortly after you take your seat at Rosemont, Deep Ellum’s newest breakfast, lunch and brunch spot by Local’s chef and owner Tracy Miller, you’re presented with a small porcelain-white bowl that could just as easily land on a snack table in a preschool. Miller chose this as the first food…
I feel like I’m not the novice I used to be with these reviews. When I started out I didn’t know what brisket was, what heavenly planet barbecue sauce had descended from, why I could just suddenly order meat by the pound now (and why I’d never been able to…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Before dining at Pepper Smash, the comic-book-themed-cocktail-den-restaurant-monster way up in Plano,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Every time I’ve cooked with kaffir lime leaves, I’ve purchased big,…
Go Loco is a new taco fast-casual chain on mission to fill the bellies of travelers along the great highways and byways all across Texas. It’s owned in part by Jim Baron, president of Blue Mesa Grill, David Pencsak of TNT Tacos in Austin, along with Ali Sharaf, president of…
If humans are anything, they are adaptable. When I lived in D.C. I had a serious cheese steak problem. After a night out with friends, if burritos weren’t immediately available I’d be willing to walk miles for a cheese steak. I did it many times. I’m convinced this habit has…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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 I wrote up some chicken sandwich alternatives for those looking…
It’s that time again. This week I reviewed Acme F&B, the whole hog restaurant on McKinney Avenue with a looker of a dining room. It’s a great place for a drink, and if you’re hungry they have one hell of a pork chop. Elsewhere on the blog we took a…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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 still regret my decision sometimes, when I sat at the…
In a city bulging at the seams with gluttonous plates of nachos, barbecue, hamburgers and fried chicken, it’s hard to nail down the highlight reel. The options are bold and plentiful. Few, however, have the girth of an extra large “Big Meat” from Serious Pizza in Deep Ellum. It’s a…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. For a little while I tried to figure out whose pork…
Without the neutral colors, sleek design and healthy food, Start could be a Raising Cane’s, or (gasp!) even an Arby’s. Diners order and pay at a register, grab drinks, and sit to wait for their names to be called. The open kitchen delivers food in a fast food-style, with labeled…
