It’s been one week since I pledged to abstain from all animal products, and I kept a journal to track my progress during the week. Here are some highlights for your amusement: Monday, 10:30 a.m.: Day one. Cold-brewed coffee with a splash of almond milk and a vegan banana muffin…
As many Dentonites are aware, especially those (un)fortunate enough to live a stone’s throw from the UNT campus, the “high rise” apartments going up on Fry Street have created quite a state of multi-variable chaos. Construction, no parking, there-is-seriously-another-nail-in-my-tire syndrome: the list goes on for miles. In the end, however,…
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. It could just be the picture. I’ve admitted my obsession with…
Pink gorilla robot + cheesesteak + plus fresh, super-sweet doughnuts + Alice. We’re just grateful no one was injured in the frenzy at Pookies Donuts (6522 Lemmon Ave.). Other people count: 13 People-watching amazingness level: 2,310 When you see the giant pink gorilla robot waving at you in front of…
I couldn’t sit on it anymore. Way back in January someone slipped me the news that one of Dallas’ greatest Reubens was gone. The Cock & Bull’s Reuben was legendary. I called Asher Stevens, the chef responsible for the sandwich, to find out the deal. Stevens: My vendor stopped supplying…
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. And now the real reason I went to The Porch comes…
It’s getting warm out, and that only makes me crave one thing: a steaming bowl of noodle soup. OK, not at all. But if there is one bowl of noodle soup I would eat sitting in a puddle of my own sweat, it would have to be the beef noodle…
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. Royal China has been banging out beef and broccoli for almost…
It was back in the fall that Citizen Pictures, a Colorado-based production company, contacted me in hopes of finding some restaurants to feature on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. The company hit up all the food writers in town, hunting for what it called great food, great characters,…
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’m not going to spend a second trying to point out…
I wish I had never ordered the mac and cheese at Neighborhood Services Tavern. But there it was, beckoning me with its siren song from the bottom of the menu, listed under “$5 Sides”: Cheeto-crusted mac and cheese. Cheetos have, in recent years, made their way onto my “Do Not…
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. Too often, bar snacks are relegated to frozen staples, dropped in…
I just consumed my last meal, consisting of a deliciously bloody flat iron steak with Boursin cheese and caramelized onions cooked in bacon fat, topped off with a fried egg also cooked in bacon fat. I’m not being marched off to my execution, though — my fate is slightly less…
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 should try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Not every sandwich has to be a full-service gut bomb. Sometimes you…
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 should try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Meddlesome Moth’s menu takes some careful navigation. The mussels are a safe…
Pizza and beer go together like everything else and beer, so it’s easy to deduce that pizza and pitchers of beer are even better mates. It’s the American way, right? Fireside Pies sells a lot of both pizza and beer, and I finally ducked my head in the Henderson Avenue…
The other day I was trolling about Burleson when a new burger joint called SandBurgs (that’s sandwiches and burgers) caught my attention. I felt like something special was going on inside, and again, my instincts were spot on. SandBurgs, it turns out, chicken-fries bacon. Yes, they take thick slices of…
Last month was a busy one in the Dallas restaurant scene. Read on for the full slate of opening and closing restaurants, and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: Driftwood (642 W. Davis): Oak Cliff is home…
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. NHS Tavern’s Cleaver and Block Burger has an unfair advantage over…
It’s 7 on a Friday night, and there’s something odd, eerie even, about the Bishop Arts District. There are these things called “pedestrians” here (pronounced “ped-ESS-tree-ans”), moving past crowded patio tables on long, limb-looking contraptions that are strangely devoid of mufflers. Elsewhere people are idling — standing, it’s apparently called…
It’s a bit tiresome to hear a critic gripe about all the food they’re forced to eat. (There are worse ways to make a living.) After reviewing near back-to-back Southern comfort restaurants, though, I felt pretty pummeled with fat and meat. I needed a break. While interviewing an Italian chef…
Baker’s Ribs in Deep Ellum has moved from Commerce Street and South Crowdus Street to a new location at 3033 Main St., at the intersection with Hall St. The new digs are decked out in Western décor and it’s every bit as bright, clean and nice as you would expect…
