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. See that knife sitting on your table? Ditch it. Toss the…
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’ve never had much control with chips and salsa at Tex-Mex…
My liver is limping. A five-day-long trip to Chicago threw so much meat at me I’m still in recovery, eating a strict diet of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Trust me I’m not complaining. While my body may be upset with me, my heart (at least the spiritual one) is…
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. When Monica’s Nueva Cocina and ME Lounge opened a few weeks…
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 there are a few places to get a decent sandwich…
Two small, round plates descend onto a linen-clad table protected with a white square of butcher paper. One holds aushuk, a sauteed leek dumpling wearing a thin veneer of pasta dough and topped with yogurt and meat sauce. The rusty-red stew of beef and tomatoes is warm, comforting and familiar;…
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 a Buffalo wing purist, you’re not going to like…
See Also: The College Diet: Breaking Down the Food at SMU’s Cafeteria Digg’s Taco Shop: Yeah, We Can Dig It I left the RFOC dismayed and hungry, mostly because I pushed more food around my plate than I ate. As I walked across the street to jump in my car,…
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. Potato skins are usually a snooze. Most restaurants fill dried out…
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 had no clue what I wanted to order till I…
America’s future leaders are piling back to their schools, and we’re honoring them with how-to’s, survival guides and personal stories of failure from Observer staff. That’s right, It’s College Week. See also: The Top 20 Dorm Room Posters Of All Time As Nick and I walked into SMU’s RFOC Cafeteria…
Restaurant week is wrapping up this weekend, and the weather promises to be a little more relaxed. Seems like a good time for a little patio drinking and perhapsa little pesticide bathing. Or maybe you’re off to the Londoner tomorrow morning to watch the opening weekend of the English Premier…
A news release announcing the push back of the closing date of Craft contains some additional details on the concept that will replace the W Hotel restaurant. The bar program at the new Cook Hall will be run by Belinda Chang, who won a James Beard award while working as…
See also: *Want To Fix The Farmers Market? Ditch The Cars. Earlier this week, news leaked that a proposal submitted by Spectrum Properties detailing its plans for privatizing the Farmers Market had been tentatively accepted. The development company is responsible for Third Rail Lofts, an apartment complex that offers downtown…
Restaurant week is about to wrap up, or is half over depending on how you look at it. The promotion named after its duration has become a bit of a misnomer as restaurants expand it into what might more accurately be described as restaurant month. Back in July, when restaurants…
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’ve ever smelled jerk chicken smoking away on the grill,…
Dallas has plenty of seafood restaurants, but I have a hard time settling in at any of them. They’re either too fancy and weird, like the Dallas Fish Market and Oceanaire, or they’re too scrappy and dump all of their dishes in a deep frier. What we need is something…
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. My chicken sandwich list is weeks old, but I’m still on…
Shortly after you take your seat at Rosemont, Deep Ellum’s newest breakfast, lunch and brunch spot by Local’s chef and owner Tracy Miller, you’re presented with a small porcelain-white bowl that could just as easily land on a snack table in a preschool. Miller chose this as the first food…
If you need an indication that Rosemont, the subject of this week’s review is still finding its footing, just look at the plain, gray facade. There’s no sign indicating the small, stand-alone building houses a restaurant. The only reason people know Tracy Miller’s latest is open for business is word…
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. Before dining at Pepper Smash, the comic-book-themed-cocktail-den-restaurant-monster way up in Plano,…
New data on obesity is out, and according to some really smart people, we’re all still fat. Unfortunately, it’s hard to say if the problem is getting better or worse because the CDC established a new method for analyzing the data, and thus a new baseline, making comparisons with previous…
