Last week, Food & Wine magazine listed what it considers the 25 best burgers in the nation. The nation, okay? So, I’m thinking cattle-speckled Texas has got to be on their fancy list, based on the odds of landmass alone. Plus, there are some pretty solid chefs in the southwest…
Remember when Oscar Mayer came out with the “bun-length” hot dog? They ran a series of commercials featuring white-bread Americans at cook outs wondering what to do with that bit of bun remained after they’d taken the last hot dog bite. This will not be a problem with the new…
Oh, pink slime, where did it all go wrong? Your name alone is gross, your photo induces a gag reflex and, unfortunately, the image has been seared into our brains (for now, anyway). And now grocery stores — including Walmart, where just about everything goes there — are banishing you…
I was out running errands in the Old Town shopping center at Lovers and Greenville when I found myself hungrily eyeing the guinea pigs on display at Petsmart. Alarmed by my newfound taste for small domesticated mammals, I checked my watch and realized it was 4 o’clock and all I’d…
If you went out for lunch today, you’re well aware that spring is here. Summer probably isn’t too far off, which has me thinking about crab shacks, lobster rolls and other things near the shore. Maybe that’s why I decided to review Sea Breeze Fish Market and Grill. The Plano…
Savor Dallas will be kicking off next week, and while it’s easy to focus on the pinnacle of the event, the grand tasting hosted in Las Colinas at the Irving Convention Center, there are a number of other, smaller events leading up to the finale. Last year, some attendees complained…
If you happen to be in the area Skillman and Northwest Highway, you may notice a bunch of hoopla over at a new CiCi’s Pizza. This newest member of the chain is celebrating their grand opening, throwing a party with balloons, face painting — the usual crap kids love –…
A number of articles have been published in the last few days as Safeway and Kroger have announced their intentions to stop selling ground beef products that contain lean finely textured beef. The ammonia treated additive has gotten significant attention after receiving the nickname “pink slime.” If you’re not familiar…
Down at SXSW this past week, which was pretty well Cool Ranchified with junk-food advertisements, one of the day parties was sponsored by The Bell. They were giving away free Doritos Locos tacos by the crate. Sounds fantastic, right? The problem, of course, is the Doritos Locos taco shells carry…
John T. Edge wrote about Tostilocos in Wednesday’s New York Times and describes the Mexican street food as Tostitos corn chips topped with shaved jicama, pickled pig skins and stumpy tamarind candies in one instance. Sounds a little like the Frito Pie we wrote about a few weeks ago, right?…
Rice Bowl Express, 11419 Garland Road, is fast and cheap. How could Cheap Bastard not love it? By eating there, unfortunately. Times I was like, “Is that a hooker? Yes. Is that also a hooker? Yes.”: 12 Trucks in the Fiesta Mart parking lot next door count: 21 I’ve driven…
I love bakers. Not because they smell like brown sugar and cinnamon. Or even because they make superhero birthday cakes. Nope. I love bakers because they’re scrappy. Back in June, the state enacted the Cottage Food Law, allowing home bakers to sell their goods under a few guidelines. Within that…
Yesterday Robert Wilonsky over at the Dallas Morning News (that feels like putting a shoe on the wrong foot) reported on a fast-tracked code issue aimed at easing restrictions on Dallas microbreweries. As it stands now, these small independent brewers are relegated to “heavy industrial” zones and in order to…
Sea Breeze Fish Market and Grill, the subject of this week’s review, has had me thinking a lot about seafood and freshness. While the flesh of every animal begins to deteriorate the second that animal dies, seafood is the most fragile of animal proteins. Beef kept under refrigeration actually improves…
While reviewing Campo, and bitching about truffles, I’ve been alluding to Matt McCallister’s new restaurant but not coughing up the name. A server squeaked while I was reviewing Campo, and when I followed up with McCallister, he asked I not print it. I’m glad I didn’t because I was just…
Last year Dallas was going to have its very own beer festival. Then it wasn’t. Then it was again. And now, finally, tickets have gone on sale for the April 14 event at Fair Park. General admission tickets are $35, and if you draw the short straw and end up…
Last night The Chesterfield hosted an event called the Mix-Off Battle. It featured five local bartenders whose cocktails were pitted against one another in the name of awareness for Chefs For Farmers. Here’s what you missed if you weren’t there…
Back in February, we noted numerous closings in the Knox-Henderson area and referred to the neighborhood as the restaurant Bermuda triangle. Fish City Grill, Horne and Dekker, Alma, Cafe San Miguel and others in the area had closed in less than a year, leading me to question why the neighborhood…
The first lobster roll I ever ate was purchased in a run-down seafood restaurant on Route 12, 60 miles outside of Boston, in a town called Fitchburg. I’d seen the sign on my way to a wedding in New Hampshire: “Lobsters, $3.99 a pound,” it read, and it sat next…
NOOOOOOOOO! A spritely tipster just alerted me to a phone recording she heard while trying to call in a breakfast burrito this morning. I called them myself and tried to transcribe as best I could. (Vicky talks fast!) Thank you for calling La Victoria. We are unable to answer your…
The James Beard Foundation on Monday announced its finalists for its highly coveted culinary awards, and included in the category for Best Chef in the Southwest was Bruno Davaillon of Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. Originally from Loire Valley in France, Davaillon joined the Mansion in 2009 after a globetrotting…
Originally from Akron, Ohio, Patrick Stark, chef at Sundown at Granada, enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America fresh out of high school at 17 years of age, partially because he just wanted the get the hell outta town. He’s worked throughout the United States, a few spots in Europe…
