Local food is one of those trends that has been absolutely beaten to death by food critics and chefs, and has recently become a little lost in translation. Any chef can slap “local greens” on their menu when they’re really buying from a massive multi-national food conglomorate, but others have…
Earlier this week, news that Chicago-based Al’s Beef would set up multiple locations in the Dallas area bubbled up like oil droplets in a pan of simmering jus. Much like Five Guys hired former Redskins player Mark Moseley to head up the burger chain’s expansions, Al’s Beef turned to Chicago…
It seems like the only people who don’t romanticize opening their own restaurant are people who have actually opened one. Home cooks are lulled into the fantasy by guests who gush over dishes that have been slaved over for a day. Diners see mistakes they’re sure they could fix with…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. Grandpa and grandma double-date count: 4 Praline count: 7 One could go to El Fenix at lunch. But it’s much more fun to go for…
I am in Frisco. I am in a strip mall. I am in a strip mall anchored by a CiCi’s pizza and Kroger. I am where culture goes to die. No, wait, I am where culture goes to live when its kid hits kindergarten. I go into this experience with…
Over the weekend, while hipsters danced at Beauty Bar, drunks played Skeeball at Barcadia and coffee nerds slurped java and discussed acidity and flavor notes at Houndstooth Coffee, the Glass Boot Biergarten sat idle. The bar with a massive patio remained locked up Monday evening well into business hours, and…
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The first thing that becomes immediately apparent when walking through the front door of the Bohemian Cafe is that every employee, all the way down to the dishwasher, is exceptionally nice. Customers are greeted with warm, genuine thank-you-for-comings, guided to the Kolache counter and coddled until they walk out the…
Sometimes the best things are found in the most unexpected places. And sometimes they’re right where food television has trained us to expect them: in a rundown gas station on the road to nowhere. If you take US-75 North and get off at Bethany Drive and follow it all the…
As if we haven’t heard enough about Misery Loves Company’s spanking-new restaurant in One Arts Plaza, Proof + Pantry over the weekend announced that it would be expanding the extremely limited lunch options starting tomorrow. Owner Michael Martensen hinted to the Observer in August that the restaurant would begin doing…
Any restaurant that turns out a lasagna like the one pictured above has got to be jockeying to be the Best Italian Restaurant in Dallas. And it turns out Carbone’s, the Italian restaurant responsible for that plate up above, won just that award in our recent Best Of Dallas feature…
Taking a bite from a Cuban sandwich at ¡C. Señor!, it’s easy to understand why the chatter about El Padrino had faded into the background. The crunch of pickles and the bite of mustard waking up fatty roasted pork and cheese requires one’s full attention. And then there are those…
Back in March, we learned that The Grape’s Danyele McPherson had been tapped to open a new restaurant on Greenville Avenue. We knew the new spot, dubbed The Remedy, was coming from the same folks that brought HG Sply Co. to Lower Greenville, and we knew it would be modeled…
It’s become an annual tradition, and I’m not sure how. While other food-freaks try to consume deep-fried everything at the State Fair of Texas, I get to know one dish — always the winner of the Big Tex Choice Awards — a little more intimately. So far my experiences haven’t…
Everything is big at the Henderson Tap House. The patio is hugely open and resort-like with a long row of misters guarding the rolled up garage doors. SPORTS and BEER, as a concept, is present like a soccer ball to the mouth. College football helmets, skis, autographed things, Miller Lite…
The Dallas of 20 years ago exists only on the margins of the current culinary climate. There are more restaurants in this city than ever, and the focus of the chefs who run its best restaurants has shifted dramatically in the last five years. No longer is Dallas known for…
After coming from New York City, Proof + Pantry chef Kyle McClelland knew that Dallas had some big shoes to fill when it came to good eats. Fortunately, the city’s restaurants have provided this East Coaster with plenty to love, especially in the form of Asian food. Most people think…
Like any other job, being a server comes with its share of shittiness. Working all day on your feet is exhausting, patrons can be dicks, and you have to work really, really hard to earl that $2.13 an hour plus tips. And on top of all of the usual stresses,…
“Dinner in Trinity Groves?” It’s a question that so often sends my potential dining companions running for the hill country, a trail of withering dust the only evidence they ever existed. This restaurant empire, rising from the clay of West Dallas, isn’t the only destination that has given me trouble,…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. People saying “Ooooooh” at their food: 14 Times I wondered why there was a full-length mirror next to the shitter in the ladies’ restroom, angled…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. It’s opening weekend for Chef Beck Blythe at the “permanent pop-up” restaurant Kitchen LTO, which is reincarnated every four months with a new chef. Upon learning…
Thursday evenings are good for doing life stuff — washing the car, balancing the check book, the sort of activities that lend themselves to the steady drumbeat of functional adulthood. This Thursday, though, why not forgo those things in lieu of eating many foods and drinking much beer? Grace will…
