BrewFest If the Untapped festival whetted your whistle for good beer amongst great friends in a festive setting, then you should make haste to the Arts District this Saturday for our very own BrewFest. Highlights, with the exception of impromptu shenanigans (which we’ll have pictures of Monday morning), include 150…
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 may never find another cochinita pibil dish as good as…
This small East Dallas diner moved locations a few years back and continues to endure, selling quick, low-cost breakfasts, cheap burgers and roast beef sandwiches. Order at the counter and wait for the owner to belt out your number, “two-thirty-nine!” before digging into a simple breakfast plate that hasn’t changed…
Let’s get hypothetical. You’ve subscribed to Meatless Monday and have been trucking along just fine for a few weeks. Given the somewhat limited culinary scope of vegetarian dining in the mass market, your Mondays have been subject to quite a few sandwiches featuring grilled zucchini. And probably a lot of…
Frank and Ann Todora originally opened their small family-run store and deli, Parkit Market, on Greenville Avenue in 1962. At the time, Central Expressway was a dirt road and the store was surrounded by pastures and cows. This year marks 50 revolutions around the sun for Parkit Market, and despite…
Jon Taffer, host of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue, is in town tomorrow for his Rescue Tour Workshop, which is basically how to save your bar from yourself. I’ve watched Bar Rescue a few times, often grimacing at the dumb things people do and wondering, “Why are these people even in…
Comedian Josh Sankey has two weeks to travel from New York City to Los Angeles with nothing but bacon as his currency. His wallet has been emptied of credit cards and cash, and instead Sankey has refrigerated trailer with 3,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer Butcher Thick Cut Bacon to barter…
This past weekend The Mecca opened its doors after moving to its new location in East Dallas. On Sunday morning a line snaked out the door as customers waited to check out the ages-old diner that took over the Molly Maguire’s space on Skillman. Things inside the old pub have…
National TV Dinner Day happened. Which is probably as underwhelming as the frozen chunks of processed “food” this day attempts to celebrate. So let’s discuss the horrifying, shameful crap hidden in the back of your freezer, shall we? Specifically, the worst ones to ever exist in the frozen tundra wasteland…
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. Ceviche may be one of Dallas’ most abused dishes. Until a…
The new NYLO Dallas South Side hotel (1325 S. Lamar St.) offers two dining experiences. The Terrace Bistro and lobby bar, located on the first floor, has a chic loft vibe. The space is adorned with exposed concrete and bright jewel tones. Wooden tables and plush leather seats line the…
After a 20-year career in psychology, last year Emilia Flores decided she wanted to change paths. “I want to nourish people in a different way now,” she says. So, she opened the Taco Stop at 1900 Irving Blvd. this February and, on most days, you’ll find Flores on the other…
Saturday’s Untapped fest combined the best of my two favorite worlds, beer and music, by putting equal importance on both. Each was strong enough to stand on its own. The beer selection is usually an afterthought at music fests, its only purpose to boost the revenue, while the music selection…
Kung Fu Saloon is a new arcade and bar situated at the corner of Routh Street and Cedar Springs Road, in what used to be the Place at Perry’s (2901 Routh St). This Austin-import opened Labor Day weekend and is already getting quite acclimated in its new digs. On Saturday…
Eating feels good. Giving to charity feels good. But what to do when you get a hankerin’ for both? One idea: Grab one of only 75 tickets available for Dine Around Uptown, an event put on by the North Texas Food Bank’s young professionals group and hosted by celebrity chef…
With the brief, if glorious, respite from 100-plus degree weather, we took again to outdoor activities that, for many of us, have been shelved since late May. And though fall may be upon us, we have at least a solid three weeks, if not more, of summery weather perfect for…
Everyone’s talking about the coming cold front, and the weekend is closing in. Sounds like a good time to get outside and explore. We’ve started offering a list of notable food events here, but before you make plans, we’ve got a week to wrap up. This week I reviewed Island…
You’d think that there’s no way that Firexbox could be the name of a restaurant, but you’d be wrong. When I first saw it, I thought, “Surely there’s just a typeface issue here with their logo and they mean Fire Box with chopsticks in the middle and that design element…
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. Let’s not get sucked into semantics of Kurobuta versus Berkshire when…
See also: *Candy Corn: The Worst Halloween Candy in the History of Ever Buzzfeed is reporting, brace for it, that Monday, September 10, will be the day the twist-off cookies officially jump the shark: Nabisco will debut candy corn-flavored flavored Oreos. So often you’ve sunk the crispy cookie into milk…
Another north Texas Trader Joe’s opening, this time in Plano, at Preston Towne Crossing. Please try not to wet yourself. Suffice it to say, no matter how much you love Two-Buck Chuck and Cookie Butter, one Trader Joe’s location begets another (and another and another), all of which are pretty…
See also: *Jon Alexis of TJ’s Seafood Market on Expansion, The Fishing Industry and Lobsters that Need a New Home Jon Alexis of TJ’s Fresh Seafood Market is pitching his tent in East Dallas this weekend for another impromptu fish market at Urbano Café. Jimmy’s Food Store, Tom Spicer’s garden…
