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. Ceviche may be one of Dallas’ most abused dishes. Until a…
Everyone’s talking about the coming cold front, and the weekend is closing in. Sounds like a good time to get outside and explore. We’ve started offering a list of notable food events here, but before you make plans, we’ve got a week to wrap up. This week I reviewed Island…
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. Let’s not get sucked into semantics of Kurobuta versus Berkshire when…
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. You can get breakfast burritos all over Dallas but the only…
Last November when I was a newly branded food critic, running around Dallas trying to figure out who had the best chips and salsa, Alice Laussade sent me an invite to a backyard barbecue. She called it “Meat Fight,” and while no punches were thrown, a fierce battle ensued as…
The scent of allspice-infused meat roasting over smoking coals of pimento wood is the sort of thing food writers attempt to turn into poetry, but capturing the aroma adequately is like trying to grasp the air that carries the fragrance. Smoky, earthy and full of spice like Christmas, with a…
Strauss Marketing, the Public Relations firm that represents Sissy’s Southern Kitchen and Bar released an announcement today detailing a new lunch service that will begin September 18. The release describes pickled gulf shrimp, herb poached snapper and a New Orleans-style muffaletta but it neglects to mention who will be cooking…
I am, for lack of better words, an addict. When I think about jerk chicken, endorphins surge, synapses fire and memories from my past play themselves again so clearly they might be in high definition. I fell in love with with the technique when a college trip took me to…
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. Latkes? The first random thought that bloomed from my subconscious was…
I’m having a hard time sitting on a recent fantasy regarding Meze, the new spot to be opened by the Ziziki’s folks in One Arts Plaza. The Commissary may have been plagued with consistently poor service and other snafus, but they actually plated up an exemplary burger. Its recent shuttering…
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. Should you find yourself in need of a trip to downtown…
Three-day weekend on the horizon. It’s your last chance to do all those summery things like wear seersucker pants and drink Pimms cups and other cucumber cocktails. I don’t want to keep you guys from happy hour, so let’s wrap this up quickly. This week I reviewed Ten Bells Tavern,…
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 know. Never thought I’d see back-to-back popovers on CoA’s hundred…
We made it! At least unofficially. Labor Day weekend is here, and with it hopefully an end to triple-digit heat. Actually, compared with last year, this summer was pretty comfortable. I might say I even enjoyed it. I won’t miss it, though, because with fall comes what I think it…
Remember when Sean Connery ordered a Smirnoff martini “shaken, not stirred,” while appearing in Goldfinger? The vodka bottle’s label was not-so-casually displayed facing the camera, kicking off a whorish product placement campaign that runs through all the Bond films. Back in the Connery days, though, vodka was simple. It came…
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. Chicken salad slides in right behind tuna salad for the most…
In no way did the Ten Bells Butty seem attractive to me. “It’s basically a french-fry sandwich,” the bartender said, when I admitted the menu description left me confused. The description was clear — house-made chips means french fries when you’re in an English pub, and more often than not…
Jason Boso, the owner of the growing Twisted Root burger chain just announced he’s taking the taco business for a test drive. Boso is closing his Cowboy Kitchen location in Roanoke for a few weeks to renovate and re-brand the space. When he’s done Tacos and Avocados (101 South Oak…
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. A recent trip to an Indian grocery in Carrollton had me…
Menu size makes a difference, but unlike other matters where bigger is better (wallets), smaller is preferred when it comes to designing a restaurant’s offering. The first thing I noticed when I checked out Ten Bells Tavern during my first visit was that I didn’t have to think a lot…
If you’ve driven around the suburbs, you’ve undoubtedly seen countless Indian groceries dotting the strip malls. They’re everywhere. And while they have a lot of similarities with other ethnic grocers in the area, many of which are much larger, they do have some ingredients that are hard to find elsewhere…
News that Rohst, the Korean fusion restaurant that opened a year ago on Greenville Avenue, had closed began making it’s way around the internet last week, which is telling considering the restaurant closed on August 2, according to a Facebook post. Rohst’s original owners, Michele and Steve Choi, who sold…
