If you find yourself in the soul-sucking portal of travel delays and cancellations at DFW Airport soon, well, happy holidays! While you channel Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, you can now have a spot o’ tea at the new tea emporium Teavana, located in Terminal A. If you’re…
Here is a brief list of five European things that make a good Christmas, but that you might be afraid of. Embrace change, Texas! I have included pictures so you don’t think I’m insane, and links to Amazon where you can still get these things (albeit with now very expensive…
I do not know Mark Followill, but if I met him, Id buy him a taco. I’m digging on the top five taco spot he just delivered on the popular Sports Radio Station known as The Ticket. As a fellow taco lover I have to challenge a few of his…
Facing out onto a bleak parking lot and just the right side of the tracks, Baker’s Ribs is in direct competition with Mama Faye’s for the Deep Ellum barbecue coin. Thing is, neither of them seem to be doing particularly good business. Baker’s had but one other family in there…
Certainly if there’s one food genre Dallasites would defend to the bottom of a bowl of queso, it’s Tex-Mex. My blog post that lists my nine favorite spots for sour cream enchiladas and beans drew scores of comments overnight. Most either professed a support of my picks, or demanding I…
Dain Pool and Jon Wagner really should have known better. They both come from families in the food industry. Pool’s father runs the Georgia-based Pool’s Restaurant Group and Wagner’s grandfather founded Johnsonville Sausage. So, a lot of people would argue that they should have known better then to stay in…
The moment I realized that food comes from animals was during one of my family’s tamale making sessions. I was about 4 or 5 and after waking from a nap I wandered down the hallway of the temporary trailer my grandparents were living in while they awaited the completion of…
Remember this? The beer bike that was banned in Germany because of all the ruckus it caused on the roadway? We can’t imagine how 15 drunk people pedaling a bike through a busy city could possibly be a distraction, but we honestly wanted to find out for ourselves. Well, our…
If you’re a fan of Taverna Pizzeria in Uptown, you’ll have to walk a few blocks north of their current location to enjoy their pizzas, salads and really big pork chops crowned with a fried egg. The Lombardi group just announced the restaurant would be moving to Knox Street, right…
Way out on Harry Hines Boulevard, just past the bazaar bearing the same name, Continental Liquor makes its business not only selling booze and sodas, but as a landlord too. In 1998 Maria and Roberto Velasquez rented 800 square feet from the owner and set up a small kitchen and…
If I’m writing this blog post too quickly it’s because I just got back from Ascension Coffee and I’m a very thorough journalist and I really wanted to capture a short video that demonstrates some of the characteristics of espresso and crema and it took me multiple attempts to get…
That time of year has come again. There’s nothing better than going to the closet and dusting off the old Laserdisc collection of Christmas movies. Stories old and new take you to a world where the temperature is less than 60 degrees and of the food is always…memorable. Here’s a…
The best part of researching Soleo, the subject of this week’s review, was ducking into El Paisa, the tiny taqueria tucked into the back of a liquor store next to the Harry Hines Bazaar. This is where Maria and Roberto Velasquez started their first restaurant. Nine locations later they made…
If you haven’t started your holiday shopping, then good for you! I think we all perform best under the pressure of deadlines, so just let it happen. Wait another few days, then get around to it. Most places will be open on Christmas Eve anyway. And a lot of gas…
Apparently you guys celebrate Christmas by eating tamales. No, me neither. I’ve no idea what you’re doing. What screams Christmas about a tamale? I suppose you could take this reductionist argument to any Christmas food (what’s Christmassy about slaughtering a turkey and then roasting it, or, as some people are…
Thursday, December 20 With a $20 donation to the North Texas Food Bank, which equates to 60 meals, you and all your adult-like friends can crawl through the tubes at the Neiman Marcus in downtown. Yes, it’s real: Adult Crawl Night. And perhaps the first event ever named a crawl…
When I reviewed Dalat this summer, I loved the concept of a late-night pho restaurant close to downtown but had problems with the consistency of the food I was served. My pho was salty one day and bland the next, and noodles that were consistently over-cooked would break apart when…
The supermarket of gas stations, Buc-Ee’s, recently opened their newest and largest store half an hour east of Austin in Bastrop. As I’ve advised before, if all hell breaks loose, try to make it to a Buc-Ee’s because you could live there for weeks. I find it fascinating that one…
The end of 2012 is quickly approaching, and in honor of Dallas’ eventful year we’re asking all of our readers (who have smartphones) to send us their Instagrams. Send Instagram photos of your favorite events, places, people, restaurants, chefs, cocktails, art exhibits, animals and basically anything that happened in Dallas…
Well, sure the brew at the newly open Ascension Coffee is good. Really, really good, in fact. And, the shop’s Design District space is lovely. Broad windows send light flowing into a space filled with blond wood and open ceilings. The air is not saturated with the heavy aroma of…
I’ve spent days stuffing my gullet, looking for something that should be relatively easy to find. It’s called a puffy taco, and apparently it’s delicious, but I can’t be sure because you can’t purchase puffy tacos here in Dallas — anywhere. The puffy taco got its start in San Antonio,…
I have a bread baker on my holiday list, which means I’ve had a solid excuse for spending time researching various cookbooks the past few days. First, I landed on Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. It seemed a perfect fit for the baker who…
