100 Favorite Dishes, No. 69: Bolognese At Princi Italia

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. While Princi Italia failed to inspire me with many of their…

Why Did Alice Cross the Road? To Get to Taqueria Mezquite.

Times I kicked myself for every time I’ve eaten at Ojeda’s in my life instead of eating across the damned street at Taqueria Mezquite: 126,229 Credit card machine count: 0 Taqueria Mezquite is across the street from Ojeda’s. And you want it in your face. The murals on the outside…

Saigon Block’s River Monster

I’ve eaten a lot of Vietnamese food in my life, and I thought I had tasted, or at least seen, everything; I was way off. I would have continued living blissfully ignorant, but I was tipped off to a Vietnamese restaurant in Richardson that was known for serving a particular…

Eat This: The Farnatchi Burger

Farnatchi. It’s a little Mediterranean joint tucked in between Jersey Mike’s and City Cigars in Knox Park. Its menu spans Italy, Turkey and the Middle East with offerings that tempt your senses and push the boundaries of your average lunch. You can order zaatar bread followed by pasta pomodoro. Turkish…

Nando’s Is Open at Preston and Royal

Nando’s opened a couple of weeks ago at the southwest corner of Preston and Royal (specifically, the opposite end of the strip from Gazebo Burgers where Le Rendezvous used to be). The chef is from the landmark Original Mexican Café in Galveston. At Nando’s entry is a bar with a…

Carbone’s: Jimmy’s for the 1 Percent

Dallas has plenty of Italian-American restaurants. The problem is very few of them are any good. While Lucia, Nonna and other regional Italian restaurants pay homage to the Old World with brilliant dishes featuring little fishes, hand-rolled pastas and wild game, Dallas has a dearth of decent spaghetti and meatballs…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 72: Italian Combo At Carbone’s

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’re from Philly or the surrounding area and love hoagies,…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 73: Fish and Chips at the Londoner

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 likely done with the Londoner till the Premier League kicks…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 74:Veracruz Cafe’s Sopa de Atlahua

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’s a bit like a French bouillabaisse but with Mexican leanings…

Flowers? Pshht. Get Him A Meat Basket.

I just picked up a special order I made from Pecan Lodge: a meat basket. It’s an idea I had a while ago when I was trying to think of something to get a guy friend who’s been sick. Didn’t want to get him flowers. And bacon roses seemed so…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 75: Pepper Bomb At Goodfriend

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 wonder if I’d known what was about to happen if…

Dough Pizzeria: A Fancy Pie for Not A Lot of Dough

Realtor count: 3 Mom count: 2 After a serious workout sesh at Curves (beer dumbells), a manicure at Beauty Times (Yes, it’s actually called that. Makes me want to open Sick Times and Swim Times and Food-Eating Times.) and a three-hour browse at the LDS Books and Antique Bibles store…

Tracy Miller’s Rosemont Opens In Deep Ellum

Tracy Miller’s long awaited Rosemont (2912 Elm St., 214-741-6066) opened its doors today, an event marked quietly by a tangle of white balloons tied up out front under cloudy skies. I first learned of the new restaurant while interviewing Miller during my review of Local last November. A tipster alerted…

Cafe Maya’s Achiote Acoustics

It was a small, unassuming, black plastic dish I might have overlooked had it not come with an ominous warning. My waiter was very clear. Be careful, this is spicy, he warned the table. The salsa was dark greenish-brown and flecked with the black blistered skins of deeply roasted habanero…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 77: Pho At Lemongrass

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. Most of the oho I’ve eaten in Dallas leaves a lot…

Real Japan at Mr. Max

With blacked-out windows and a big sign with an ambiguous name that could be a front for anything, Mr. Max may not look like much from the outside, but step through the doors and you’re transported to the other side of the globe…