If you hadn’t seen them hoist the sign into place, or otherwise been familiar with Victor Tangos’ facade, you would likely miss it. The new sign bearing the restaurant’s name was bolted into place recently, marking some changes that have been more than a year in the making. The new…
Fast food breakfast is coming in all sorts of portable shapes and sizes these days. There’s the billfold shape, the cylinder, the oddly perfect sphere and the oblong doughnut, and — looking at you,Taco Bell — the frisbee / ninja star. Thanks to the enduring charm of the fast food…
If there is one image that sticks in my mind most from the White Rock Lake Local Market, besides one of Luscher’s Red Hots ascending toward my face, it was that of kids streaming away from the van pictured above, popsicles in hand, faces painted in a rainbow of orange,…
Stephan Pyles’ replacement for Samar was announced earlier this week. San Salvaje, which translates to “wild saint,” is expected to open at the end of this month, and it sounds like it’s shaping up to be the most interesting restaurant he’s opened to date. The old Samar focused on Indian…
Michael Martensen has announced that he and partner Sal Jafar II, co-founder of Driftwood in Oak Cliff, have taken over the One Arts space that used to hold The Greek. The barman responsible in part for Smyth and Cedars Social (he’s since parted with both bars) plans to open Proof…
The good news is: Dallas will not crumble tomorrow if a new cheeseburger isn’t debuted in the city limits. All new cheeseburgers are welcome, of course: I’m not purporting some sort of cheeseburger xenophobia here. I’m just saying that on the burger majesty scale we here in Dallas are Burger…
Cured meats and craft beer. Simmered down to its tagline, Blind Butcher is about what you’d expect from its founders, Goodfriend veterans Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling, even if they did team up with a fine-dining chef to pull it off. Because in the mind of this fine-dining chef, Oliver…
Click the photo to embiggen, and read Scott Reitz’s review of Blind Butcher here…
Have you bumped into Hey Kimchi yet? Hopefully not; it’s likely bigger than you are. You do want to get to know it though: Dallas’ latest Korean-fusion food truck specializes in what they refer to as CupBop Rice, a cup of rice with layers of meat that add chewiness and…
If you like Bistro B but don’t have time for a full-service dining experience (or to make your way through their 500 item menu), you might check out Rollngo on Greenville Avenue. Bistro B’s sister restaurant opened last week, just south of Northwest Highway, and offers Vietnamese food on the…
Two years. Two years, one month and 23 days, to be specific. That’s how long it’s been since my favorite neighborhood restaurant closed. Oh, sure; others have stepped in to capably fill the void. But nothing will ever quite measure up to the restaurant that’s dearly departed…
On a recent Friday afternoon, CrushCraft gave off the appearance of a restaurant that was firing on all cylinders. Customers from nearby office buildings had trickled down into the Quadrangle storefront, filling at least half of the tables in the dining room and the patio out front — not an…
How’s it going, Texas burger taco? Hope all is well on your end. I’m heading out to see you soon — in just a few minutes I’ll be all smoking tires and fishtailing-Honda out of my apartment building. My plan was to order you, with a glacially cold local root…
A surprising number of business people have business lunches at Off-Site Kitchen. You might think, being business people, in suits and ties, discussing contracts (all business people ever discuss is contracts) and tapping away on their Blackberries like it’s 2004 might shy away from a place as earthy as Off-Site…
It’s time to start thinking about this year’s Iron Fork competition. On May 7, Matt McCallister will have to defend the title he won last year in the sweltering confines of the Dallas Contemporary against Scott Romano. His next challenger is Richard Gras, the chef that recently took charge of…
The dream of the ’90s is alive and well in Addison’s Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse on a Saturday night. Turtlenecked parents toast their daughter for kicking ass in the school play. A grandmother celebrates her 87th birthday with three generations of family and a store-bought ice cream cake. First-daters…
By now you’ve perhaps heard the news: Village Kitchen and Toko V are done at the end of the week. The closure, paired with the recent demise of The Greek and Cafe des Artistes in One Arts Plaza, has local restaurant cognoscenti debating the state of Dallas’ dining scene. Each…
Everest Restaurant is a little Nepalese hole in the floor located far enough out in Irving that you will probably only visit when you’re on the way to the airport. It’s BYOB, but that isn’t much of a hassle because there’s a corner store on the same block with plenty…
When you walk into CrushCraft, there are two menus to peruse. One looks a little like the menu board at Chipotle, with 10 or so dishes you’ll mostly recognize. The other menu is scrawled on a a series of sheets of butcher paper that serve as a sort of proving…
Last May I hit my breaking point with One Arts Plaza after I reviewed The Greek, which was a major disappointment. I wrote that the menu might provide a decent substitute for sleeping pills and described some of the ingredients used there as terrible. The restaurant closed yesterday, as reported…
Woodshed Smokehouse’s menu has been teasing me for months. With all those exotic items (smoked mozarella! Bizarre sausage! AN ENTIRE GODDAMN SHIN OF BEEF! Smoked rutabaga, which is called “swede” back home because “rutabaga” is literally impossible to say in a British accent), I had actually spent what might be…
I think I mention the length of time it took a restaurant to open in about one of every three stories I write about a new place. It’s tough getting the coveted certificate of occupancy from the city, and unexpected delays can pile up like tile dust on the floor…
