Yesterday Chef Nico Sanchez of Meso Maya told City of Ate a bit about his background. In part two of our interview, we learn his thoughts on the Dallas food scene, particularly Tex-Mex, and the simple art of actually Mexican Mexican food. What are your three favorite restaurants in Dallas?…
This Sunday, October 2, chef Kent Rathbun of Abacus, Jasper’s and Blue Plate Kitchen, and his wife, Tracy, will host their eighth annual Art Party benefiting the Dallas Division of March of Dimes. The event will feature works by local artists along with gourmet food and drinks. “Together with these…
When Mike Kearns, owner of El Fenix, set about opening an authentic, regional Mexican food restaurant in Dallas, he tapped Nico Sanchez, who’d spent his youth working and traveling throughout Mexico and learning about regional foods. The resulting restaurant, Meso Maya, has been open for just over a month but…
“I’ll put my dumplings up against anybody’s.” — Cindy Gifford Gifford’s confidence in her dumplings at The Eatery in Haltom City, which she and her husband own, is borderline scandalous, yet enticing. They offer a menu full of traditional home-cooked meals, all made from scratch, but their dumplings are their…
Gorditas Doña Tota is a chain restaurant out of Mexico that serves, you guessed it, gorditas, and just yesterday they opened their northern-most restaurant on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff. It all began more than 50 years ago when Carlota Murillo started selling her homemade street sandwiches out of a…
The commercial breaks during Monday Night Football are an utter beat-down. That’s my game analysis. Now for the food. Following are five highlights from tailgating and inside Jerry’s world: 1. Hans Yoo of Plano made the above from-scratch paella on a sidewalk, with everything he needed in one brown grocery…
There’s a little known yet painfully true secret amongst locals about central Arlington: “Division Street, it’s not just for bums and hookers anymore.” A perfect new example of this just off Division on Mesquite Street is The Grease Monkey Burger Shop, which is about a mile and half from Cowboys…
Meso Maya, the new Mexican restaurant at Preston and Forrest, describes its food as an “adventure into the roots of regional Mexican food.” Don’t let that scare you off, though. No, the plates aren’t covered in melted orange cheese, but I think we can agree Dallas has already got that…
Last night a bartender at the Blue Goose Cantina on Greenville Avenue reached a milestone that not too many can claim. Juan Valdez, who has worked the there for 25 years, served his one millionth margarita. About 10 minutes after they posted the news on their Facebook page, I rang…
The other day I drove past The Free Man Cajun Cafe & Lounge in Deep Ellum, where Sol’s Taco Lounge used to be at 2626 Commerce, and later Googled them to see what the buzz was. One reviewer wrote that they had the best bread pudding she’d ever had. Pfffft!…
Recently we told you all about Ben & Jerry’s new ice cream Schweddy Balls, which is based on the SNL skit featuring Alec Baldwin. Well, One Million Moms, a project of the American Family Association, which promotes “the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on TV…
Reza Anavarian, originally from Azerbaijan, flies to Georgia this weekend for an ESI Ironman Competition, which includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile jog through beautiful downtown Augusta. In addition to conditioning for that insanity, he’s also training at the Maple Avenue Boxing Gym to get…
Today I tracked down the new food truck Gennarino’s, which serves Neapolitan-style fried food and is owned by three brothers from Naples, Italy. It’s just their second day in business and they were parked between two office buildings in Irving just off of Hwy 161. They’d be parked in Dallas,…
Crimson Asian Cuisine opened last week at corner of Blackburn and McKinney in the West Village, serving pho and other Vietnamese dishes such as stir-fries, rice noodles and spring roles. The atmosphere is on the casual side. Not fancy, but nice. There’s a decent size patio area out front and…
I’d walked past the same food truck for a few weeks but never had the nerve to approach it and order anything. It was one of those big, plain white United Caterer trucks with the blue slanted windows on the top, parked in the same spot at a construction site…
Primebar opened in Uptown last week, and I got to check it out briefly on Friday. I’ll definitely put it on my places to go when I want to dabble in swank while a watching a playoff game and drinking a microbrew. There are several different areas to explore in…
They just don’t make them, or at least not many of them, like Lucille Mathews. Legend in Dallas, she started working at the Lakewood Landing in 1959, shortly after leaving Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club, and tended bar there for over 30 years. In a profile that ran in the Observer’s…
Gennarino’s announced last night they are officially hitting the streets. Gimme a big FINE-A-FRICKIN’-LEE! They’ve been teasing us about their Neapolitan-style friggitoria for over a month. Now, Raffealel, Armando and Alessio are ready to roll. What is a “friggitoria,” you ask? Well, in Italy it is a cart, truck or…
Slow Food USA is a non-profit group that works to bring good, clean and fair food to everyone in the country through grassroots movements. And this Saturday, Sept 17, they’re asking you to redefine the value of a meal by participating in a $5 challenge. “… Take back the value…
Lover’s Lane Olive Oil Company opened over the weekend, an expansion from its mothership store, Grapevine Olive Oil Company. It’s at 5627 West Lovers Lane, just west of the Tollway. Owner Rebecca Knop imports more than 40 extra-virgin olive oils from around the world and balsamic vinegars from Modena, Italy,…
On a bridge 10 miles outside of Saint Jo, Texas, a small, sleepy town an hour and a half drive northwest of Dallas, a handful of locals have gathered on a July afternoon to look at a sand mine being built off a remote country road. Rolling hills dotted with…
Well, surprise, surprise. This morning Bryan and Kathy Crelly woke up and said something like, “Soft openings are for pussies. Let’s do this!” Because just yesterday the owners of Uncle Uber’s Sammich Shop in Deep Ellum were a bit hush-hush about their opening plans, but today a “Now Open” banner…
