Café Istanbul has been in the Inwood Village Shopping Center on Lovers Lane for over 15 years, but this summer regulars found their go-to Mediterranean spot closed for renovations. When the restaurant reopened in mid-October, customers returned to a more slightly modern vibe, with new dark wood accents around the…
The City Tavern is quite direct. “These ain’t poppers,” the menu states of their stuffed jalapeños, arguing that chicken and spices added to the mix of typical cheese makes for an elevated bar snack. And they’re right. The level of attention they’re paying to a seemingly mundane deep-fried appetizer has…
Known: Thanksgiving is one of the best food holidays ever. So, where do the other 99 holidays we could think of rank? We’re so glad you asked. 1. Day After Thanksgiving: All the food, none of the family. Plus you get Leftovers Sandwiches. Choose to deny that this is the…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she goes gluten-free at Company Café, 2217 Greenville Ave. Spice rack wall art count: 1 Stroller count: 451 Company Café on Greenville Avenue is for high-maintenance yuppies…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Hard Eight BBQ The Sandwich: Sliced Beef ($5) Bread: Fresh Baked Jalapeño Roll Toppings: Sliced brisket and a little self-applied barbeque sauce The Case:…
Mr. Mesero opened at 4444 McKinney this week in the old Burger Girl spot. Brought to you by local restaurateur Mico Rodirguez, who also brought us Mi Cocina, Mr. Mesero offers mostly Mexican (tacos, enchiladas, barbacoa) and a little standard American (burgers, strip steak, pork sandwich). The food definitely isn’t…
McKinney Avenue welcomed yet another bar and grill to the strip last month. The Den Bar & Grill has taken over the space where Liar’s Den used to be, boasting three stories of hangout space. The Den serves food all day, but it’s more of a bar than a grill…
The sun just set on SWIG, the new bar and grill at the heart of Henderson Avenue, and a pair of valets are already hard at work, cramming cars in the small parking lot that runs alongside the restaurant. Inside, customers sip on craft and import beers, wine by the…
Sundey McClendon occasionally goes searching for some of DFW’s farthest-flung gems. Have a suggestion? Leave a comment and she may check it out. A while back I heard a tale of a restaurant run by a landscaper and a local celebrity in Mansfield. Unable to turn down a local celebrity…
This is bad. Between decadent meals (for work, of course), I try to temper my eating with dishes I think are at least a little healthy. I could argue that chicken wings are low in carbohydrates and high in protein. And that pizza I love to indulge isn’t too bad…
Sitting at Bolsa in Oak Cliff, snacking on a Boar’s Head Reuben, I asked my bartender about the small, run down-looking taqueria across the street. “You eat at that place?” I asked him. “Too much,” he replied, lamenting that they sometimes closed just before his shift ended at Bolsa, often…
It’s getting cold outside and that means one horrible, awful, nasty thing: It’s meatloaf season again. Not sure if you know the origin of meatloaf, but it was invented hundreds of hundreds of years ago by other horrible cooks. The following is the two-step process for making your own meatloaf:…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she cuts the cheese at Scardello Artisan Cheese, 3511 Oak Lawn Ave., and we hope we mean that literally. Level of fancy I felt eating prosciutto and…
Campo Modern Bistro opened this week at 1115 N. Beckley Ave. in Oak Cliff. Owners Miguel Vicéns and John Paul Valverde of Coevál Studios recruited Matt McCallister, formerly of Stephan Pyles, to run the kitchen. McCallister has been dabbling in many different things lately, including homemade charcuterie, preserves and pickling,…
The Fan Sports Lounge officially opened last night at the corner of Olive and catching-a-game-at-the-AAC. Between TV-plastered walls, a live broadcast booth for KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan and the Uptown sports scene, there’s plenty to watch. While this spot isn’t actually owned by CBS Radio, it houses a fish-bowl-like broadcast…
Chewing on a tender veal cutlet coated in a thick and soggy layer of flour and blanketed in a lemony but bland sauce studded with artichokes and olives, I almost had to ask: Am I in the right place? Earlier in the week, I’d lunched at Princi Italia, Preston Hollow’s…
Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it out. Venue: Gennarino’s Neapolitan Food Truck The Sandwich: Granny’s Sunday Gravy ($5) Bread: Warm hoagie Toppings: Turkey meatballs, bracioli, pork loin, mozzarella, parmesan, tomato sauce The…
In Happy Endings, foodbitch goes on the hunt for Dallas’ unsung and unsurpassed desserts. Today: the coconut cream pie at Malai. After finishing off a delicate salmon dish at Malai, our incredibly perky waitress convinced me to try the coconut cream pie. She swore everybody loved it. Everybody whom she…
On a tip from a friend, I recently visited Tortas Las Tortugas in Oak Cliff. In a building that might have once been a Dairy Queen, this very friendly and sharply run establishment is mostly void of the standard Tex-Mex fare found in Dallas. Instead they specialize in hearty Mexican…
Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she checked out the Mama Faye’s, 2933 Commerce St. They serve meat, lots of dead animal flesh, which Alice loves so much, we’re starting to worry she’s…
Stackhouse Burgers on Gaston opened this week in a refurbished house near Baylor, with James Rose formerly of Bob’s Chop House at the helm. In addition to juicy burgers, one of the standout features of this new place is the amazing view of downtown Dallas from the upstairs treetop patio…
I’ve been looking for Dallas’ best Reuben for some time now, my hunt guided by some specific criteria. The brisket has to be brined in-house and slowly simmered to a tender temperature. The meat should hold together when sliced without shredding or falling apart. The dressing should have character –…
