To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Briskizo? Brisketzo? Chorisket? Trying to come up with a word that…
In “Shigging,” we ask barbecue experts to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they’re allowed to lie once. This week, I’m asking Wayne Mueller (pit master and supreme badass at Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor, Texas) how he…
Steven Harrell is a Dallas freelancer. He writes about beer for the Observer. On Saturday night, more than 4,000 Dallasites descended on the Farmer’s Market for Dallas Observer Brewfest. The event made for great people watching if you want to get to know all of the different kinds of awkward…
Several weeks ago the neon Majestic Spa sign, mounted to an abandoned Oak Lawn building in the Design District, went missing. While the “spa” itself had been closed since I can remember, the beacon had always stirred a personal interest. It appeared to have been chiseled off the concrete storefront…
For the longest time, we’ve been told breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Without two eggs and a square of toast before 9 a.m., we’d be doomed to walk around like reverse-negative sun zombies, drooling, chewing on pencil erasers and unable to form complete sentences. Recently, though,…
As if we needed another reason to thank Jay Jerrier for moving to Texas from Connecticut and bringing some of the city’s best pizza along with him, now he’s branching out to do some real, non-pizza-related good. In the past several months, Jerrier has been working tirelessly to found Cane…
Tomorrow, the Dallas Observer Brewfest will take over the Dallas Farmers Market, blanketing the area in six inches of beer foam, countless wobbly bodies and, most importantly, tiny pretzels strung together into delicious necklaces. If you have already purchased tickets, great. Feel free to skip ahead. If you haven’t, follow…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. Steak and eggs are a throwback plate. The kind you’d order…
The exact words exchanged between Deep Ellum Brewing sales rep John Wiewel and Dylan Elchami, who owns Oak Lawn’s Scotch & Sausage, will likely never be agreed upon. Wiewel made a sales call to the restaurant recently, and then accused Elchami — on Facebook — of illegal practices with regards…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. When I invited my runner friend out for dessert at Toulouse, I never should have mentioned that the cafe is a frites-length away from the Katy…
We hear you, DFW. No more screaming, “WHAT’S HAPPENING? AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING HAPPENING, ARE THERE CHILDRENS’ TICKETS?” into the void. Starting this week, and every week forever after, we present you with a down-and-dirty schedule of food and drink-related events. You can always find more events at dallasobserver.com/calendar…
A few feet behind the bar at So and So’s is a deer wearing a bright red t-shirt. Playing cards are stuck to the wall like they were sprayed on, and nearby a S&S logo has a single, sheathed knife below it. Also behind the bar: A tiny giraffe is…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. The recipe for a classic Mornay sauce calls for a measure…
Aaron Garcia hasn’t always been a commercial beer brewer. Not long ago, he owned part of a company that handled web design, making his company’s tools accessible to their users. The money was good, but Garcia didn’t have much passion for CSS and HTML. In his downtime, he’d tinker 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. Milkmaid HJ count: 0 Beer “fuck yeah” count: 3 Should you find your cheap self traveling to The Great North, aka The Nearly Oklahoma, aka…
For a long time, naming a restaurant with a single word lent a sort of coolness to a place. Just in Dallas, Local, Suze and Oak grabbed the spotlight with names that could seemingly mean anything. But like all trends, the one-word restaurant name is becoming outdated — replaced, of…
Ask anyone who’s involved in the Dallas food scene what our signature dish is, and they’ll pretty unanimously come up with one answer: steak. Even though Dallas restaurants have been throttling toward lighter, more produce-focused offerings, beef is still king. Or maybe, in the case of Dee Lincoln’s Steak Bar,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 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. The smoked salmon you see pictured above demonstrates exactly why you…
While America begins to post about the return of the Pumpkin Spice Lattes on Facebook, craft brew enthusiasts turn their attentions to another autumn-heralding beverage — Oktoberfests. Oktoberfest-style beers (more traditionally known as Marzen) are one of the most popular seasonal releases in the craft beer market. See also: Five North…
It might be hard to envision it today, but eventually cooler weather will descend upon the DFW area. When it does, local farmers markets will start to offer cool-season crops. This makes it good timing for the start of the new Vickery Meadow Local Market, which will have its inaugural…
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It’s been more than a year since news first came out that Grape chef-owner Brian Luscher planned to open an eponymous restaurant in East Dallas. In July of last year, Luscher announced that he’d signed a lease on a building that previously housed a corner store on Gaston Avenue. Luscher…
