I tracked down the Bombay Street Food food truck yesterday. It’s as close as I’ll get to any type of interesting travel or cultural experiences this spring break. Not that Port Aransas in the early 1990’s was a hotbed of cultural experiences, but you know, we play the hand we’re…
Springtime in Dallas is a wonderful time, in between the ice of the winter and the oppressive heat of the summer, so grab every possible chance you can to get outside. While you’re there, get drunk. It’s what every responsible person does on a Friday in the sunshine. We’ve gathered…
Tickets are now on sale for the annual Community Cooks Event at Paul Quinn College, an annual garden-setting feast where some of the best chefs in Dallas pitch in to help out with a fantastic cause. See also: – – The Students Behind The We Over Me Farm at Paul…
If you have 10 minutes to spare you should spend it watching this TED Talk. Ron Finley is a Los Angeles resident who refers to himself as a guerrilla gardener. Finley noticed that his South L.A. neighborhood had tons of vacant lots — enough to fill 26 Central Parks in…
For all of you hard-core McDonald’s enthusiasts trying to watch your waistline, we’ve got great news. This might be the year you don’t have to buy bigger pants, because on April 22 McDonald’s will introduce a yolk-less McMuffin. According to The Daily Meal, this new sandwich is called the Egg…
Earlier this week Robb Walsh predicted a tsunami of ramen on his blog Texas Eats, but the deluge has already started here in Dallas. News that a dedicated ramen restaurant called Tanoshi Ramen would grace Deep Ellum with steaming bowls of noodles broke late last year. That restaurant is expect…
There’s something a bit charming about the Irish. Maybe it has to do with the rich, sometimes mystical, elements of their culture. Like leprechauns, a penchant for being a tad hotheaded, folk songs that can bring everyone in a bar to tears, and Jameson, of course. See also: – Your…
Each week (or thereabout) we ask a local chef three burning questions about their favorite culinary reads, food shames and best (or worst) meals. Today we chat with the proprietress of Sissy’s Southern Kitchen and Bar, Lisa Garza, who has small library of cookbooks, but swears off some foods. What…
Remember when I brought some Sichuan peppercorns into the office to try out on the rest of the Observer staff? I’ve been looking for fiery Sichuan cooking on and off ever since. At the end of that blog post I mentioned Royal Sichuan, a small Chinese restaurant on Greenville Avenue…
This week I took a break from judging the finer points of food construction to talk with Tizeta Getachew. We sat in her restaurant last week as she told me about the events that led up to her quitting a promising career at a domestic violence shelter so she could…
“Should I turn on the sign?” Yemi Lemma asks. Months of preparation have led up to the opening of Desta, an Ethiopian spot far up Greenville Avenue, just inside Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway. Co-owner Lemma was well prepared for her first night of business, but still she was nervous. The…
This week is a doozy. Students are either starting or ending spring break, there’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities, Savor Dallas, blossoming farmers markets and (thankfully) ambitious chefs. What to do? What to do? Let’s evaluate the options. See also: 10-Point Plan for St. Patrick’s Day Thursday, March 14 Savor Dallas…
Beer is a lovely word. We can all agree on that. Beer. There it is. If you had to add an adjective in front of such a glorious noun with the aim of improving it further, what would it be? Delicious? Cheap? Gold-plated? What about free?! FREE BEER. That is…
This year the luck of the Irish is upon us in glorious fashion. The real St. Patrick’s Day is on Sunday, but we prefer to do things like parades and concerts on Saturdays, so we get two days of celebration! Here’s your 10-point, two-day plan: Saturday morning Well, of course,…
It hit my desk Monday — the galley of Daniel Vaughn’s upcoming book, The Prophets Of Smoked Meat. For more than 300 pages Vaughn lays out stories about his travels across the great state of Texas interspersed between so much meat porn I’m blushing while I type this. The book…
If you spent some quality time with The Dallas Morning News on your couch this Sunday, you likely stumbled upon the BBQ Posse’s latest piece, which lists a group of journalists’ favorite barbecue places in Texas. And if you saw the map and noticed all of their spots were tightly…
Craft brewers had one week to reach a compromise with the Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas (WBDT) regarding five pieces of legislation recently introduced through Senate Committee on Business and Commerce. Senate bills 515, 516, 517 and 518 were a set of bills carefully crafted after a year of work,…
Food & Wine recently announced that Matt McCallister, chef-owner of FT33, and Omar Flores, who chefs at Driftwood have been nominated for the magazine’s The People’s Best New Chef award. See also: – FT33 is Now Open in the Design District – FT33 chef Matt McCallister and Driftwood chef Omar…
Happy Aloha Tuesday, Dallas. There’s a new Hawaiian barbecue place on Lemmon Avenue, and it looks pretty interesting. Aloha Hawaiian BBQ opened just last week with bamboo window treatments, a mural of the Hawaiian mountains painted on the wall, and Hawaiian radio playing over the sound system. I’d tell you…
Lark on The Park, the new Shannon Wynne restaurant that promises to anchor Klyde Warren Park, is open for dinner service this week. If you’ve been to the park recently you know that on sunny days the space is absolutely packed with park-goers, who previously had only food trucks for…
Chad Montgomery, the organizer of the Big Texas Beer Fest, says tickets to this year’s event are now on sale. Brewers from Austin, Houston and other parts of the state will be on hand this go around, in addition to the Dallas-based brewers who participated last year. Ten local food…
For a long time I didn’t love to prospect at farmers markets, if only because I had no clue how to use them. As a home cook, when I wanted to make a meal, I paged through my cookbooks looking for inspirational pictures, wrote down a massive ingredient list and…
