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. Dolmas get a bad name because so many pre-made versions are…
As we prepare for Taste of Dallas’ opportunities for extreme gluttony, lets first look back on the week in Dallas’ Dining scene. Then it’s time to grab some kebab at Fair Park. This week I reviewed Pera Turkish Kitchen, a small suburban restaurant devoted to Middle Eastern cuisine with a…
See also: *Dear Bartenders of Dallas: Just Say No to the Bottle-Top Pop Since my call for the end to aggressive bottle top popping was so well received (to the tune of angry comments in the hundreds) I’m looking forward to hearing some feedback on my next great idea for…
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. Judi Restaurant and Bakery turns out a football-shaped Iraqi samoon that…
See also: The Food at Taste of Dallas 2011 Taste of Dallas takes over Fair Park this weekend, which means I’m coming up on a full year here in Dallas. Whoa. Last year, the list of participants seemed overwhelming. All I recognized at the time was La Madeleine and Jack…
I knew it wasn’t a good idea. Passionate decisions almost always bear a cost. I’d just watched scores of tweets extol the virtues of Snuffer’s cheddar fries with such enthusiasm I was incensed. Surely, there is no way something worthy of such praise can come from a dingy Greenville Avenue…
I’m often bitching about Dallas’ bread culture: bad hoagies, worse cheese steaks, zippy bagels and a dearth of crusty baguettes. Some places work at it, though. At Carbone’s, which I reviewed a few weeks ago, Julian Barsotti makes a likeable focaccia. It reminded me of the puffy breads that come…
Richard and Tiffanee Ellman (the people behind Oak) and John Paul Valverde (one of the people behind Campo) started teasing a few weeks ago that they have made a move on the old Lumi space on McKinney Avenue. This morning they announced the name and some details about the concept…
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. Usually when I’m done with a review I’m done with a…
Pay no attention to the nondescript signage that might just as easily advertise appliance sales or spray tans. Pera Turkish Kitchen, its name spelled out in plain, red letters on a white background, will set you at ease as soon as you walk through the double doors and enter 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. There’s a perception that there’s no ramen to be had in…
The Marquee Grill became the latest Dallas area restaurant to change its name because of pressure from a similarly branded concept in another state. A spokesperson for the restaurant wouldn’t discuss pending legal action but did confirm a Marquee Grill restaurant was located in Las Vegas and Kansas City. Dallas’…
I’m not much of a Ghostbar type, but I recently visited the club at the W Hotel for a farewell party for one of our writers here at the Observer. It was a Thursday night, and we arrived at 10 p.m. (pretty early by club standards) and the bar was…
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. All Good Cafe’s Chicken-Fried Steak made last year’s 100 Favorites list,…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company announced it has shipped a couple of kegs to Massachusetts. This is the first time the brewery has offered its beer outside of Texas, so I called their sales ninja Tait Lifto to find out why they’d set up their next accounts so far away. “It’s…
Bliss Raw Cafe, the raw, vegan restaurant in University Park, closed late last week. Paula Sepulvado announced the space will soon be occupied by Be Raw Food, a similar concept run with her partner John Vandelicht. Sepulvado had been eating at the restaurant for the past year and used the…
A reader sent me the website last week. There’s a new pizza in Dallas and it comes in a cone. An Epic Cone. You can buy one inside Excuses Cafe, which used to be One Bar before a round of special-use permits pushed the owners to reclassify their business as…
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 might want to bring a fan. While a portion of…
This week I reviewed Dalat, a new Pho place on Fitzhugh Avenue that stays open late and takes a whimsical approach to Vietnamese cooking. I also took a closer look at Gandolfo’s, the deli truck that hails from NYC. Elsewhere on CoA we noted the opening of Ten Bells Tavern,…
Every once in a while someone mistakes Scott for a food expert and risks ruining dinner by trusting him to answer to a burning question. Got a question about food or restaurants? Send it via Twitter @scottreitz, Facebook @ Cityofate or in the comments. I’m from Charleston, and I’m going…
Cheryl Hurt has only been the manager at The Mecca for three years, but she talks like she’s been with the restaurant for all 74 of them. I called her when a reader emailed to tell me the restaurant was making a move form its spot on Harry Hines 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. I had my first patty melt ever at Katy Trail Ice…
