Hypnotic Donuts. Today. For one glorious hour. From 11 a.m. to noon. They’re calling it Lone Star Wednesday. (Because they’re giving away Lone Star beers and also it’s Wednesday.)…
It was only a matter of time. First corn-batter dipped hot dogs and funnel cakes went into the frier. They tasted good, so vendors at the State Fair of Texas thought they should fry other things. Next thing you know, brownies, cookie dough, marshmallows, biscuits and gravy, salsa and chicken-stuffed…
I have no excuse for taking so long to write about this glorious ramen bowl. The soup had been recommended to me numerous times, but the chatter only got louder when I laid into Private Social’s version a whole back. So I ducked in Tei-An for a late meal after…
Our inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week’s foodfull best. Google Offers: $10 for $20 at Lindt.com Ever since last week’s candy grabber deal, I’ve been asking myself WWWWD? (What Would Willy Wonka Do?) This week, the…
As we’ve mentioned before, the White Rock Local Market is a great place to buy local produce from local farmers, which might sound locally redundant but unfortunately it isn’t always. This community-inspired market is held the second and fourth Saturdays at the Green Spot, at 702 North Buckner Blvd. This…
Chef Tim Byres, chef and owner of upscale meat palace Smoke and the latest recipient of Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef award, opened his new fast-casual chicken joint on Monday at Pittman and Fort Worth Avenue in North Oak Cliff. Chicken Scratch is a small, corrugated-metal-and-glass building right…
Truckstock is coming this weekend to the Sylvan | Thirty development site. The folks behind Def Star, a truck that sells t-shirts and other apparel while spinning records, have thrown together what I think is the largest gathering of food trucks Dallas has seen yet. Eighteen trucks are confirmed, according…
One of my greatest culinary achievements was borne out of necessity. I was in a late-morning haze and needed sustenance, and I found some leftover chana masala and some rice in the fridge. While the rice and curry was heating in the microwave (stay classy, self), I fried an egg…
With St. Patty’s Day behind us and spring break in the books, summer is just around the corner, which means it’s time to get serious about our curvy figures. One of the worst offenders to the best of all diet plans is alcohol. Not only for the calories within each…
Jay Jerrier, owner of Il Cane Rosso, put it best: “Santo Merda!” (Holy Shit!) It’s not too often that the best pizza shop in town offers up its authentic Neapolitan red-brick pizza oven to one of the best chefs in the city. A chef whose restaurant takes reservations a month…
I was down near Austin over the weekend (not for SXSW) and decided to check out the South Congress food truck park, to get a little sense of what may happen in Dallas by 2027. The food truck park is a testament to the best weirdness of Austin, as demonstrated…
St. Patrick’s Day is coming, y’all. And it’s bringing all of its crazy food and drink with it. Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait. Why? I’m glad I asked…
Welcome to the longest weekend of your life. Between the parade, block party, concerts (stoked for Ryan Bingham by the way) English breakfasts, cabbage dinners, green beers, Irish pubs, whiskey shots, sunshine, crowds, food truck parties and other happenings, there’s a good chance some of us will never recover from…
The restaurant at 5760 State Highway continues its dance to please Plano natives. It first opened as Loft 610 with superstar Tre Wilcox at the helm, cooking Top Chef plates intended for fancy palates. Then Wilcox left for the Marquee Grill and Scott Siers bought the space. He renamed the…
Pete Snyder knows a little bit about food-borne illness. In addition to earning a doctorate in Food Science and Safety, he owns his own company that helps retail food operations improve their safety. NBC featured him in the report that uncovered Dallas’ failed code compliance system. He’s the one that…
(This week, Cheap Bastard hits Dairy-ette (9785 Ferguson Road, 214-327-9983) and finds something better than Sonic and Whataburger. For that kind of digging, we’re thinking of moving her to investigations.) Ceiling leaks: 2 (size large) People actually reading the whole newspaper: 3 Dairy-ette is like a Sonic. Only better. Their…
I want to love it like Alice does. I’ve been looking out my office window and noticing how all the tree buds have filled out; Dallas is awash in a sea of green, and it won’t be long before the sun bakes everything into a mottled brown. Why not throw…
Any time St Patrick’s Day falls on a weekend, you know you’re in for trouble. It’s just like that friend you have whose birthday always seems to stretch into a week-long celebration while everyone else is content to have a single dinner out with friends. St Patrick’s Day on Saturday…
This week I review 303 Bar and Grill, an Oak Cliff newcomer with macabre decor and grim cooking. I wasn’t excited about the time I spent in this interesting space, but I was very excited about the neighborhood. Oak Cliff has been a hot bed of innovation for the Dallas…
Hoochies Oyster House (207 S. Bell, Denton) held a quasi-secret soft opening last week to a small but boisterous group of beer-guzzling Dentonites. We checked it out on a perfectly breezy night and have already planned the next few visits just to sit on that magic patio and drink beer…
Mark Cuban has caused me to completely rediscover St. Patrick’s Day. Gratuitous party-givers with no strings attached plays well into the whole theme of “friendliest day of the year.” So I tracked down my favorite Irish lass, Theresa Magee, earlier this week to have her show me how to make…
No need to shove string cheese and corn chips down your pants for the St. Patty’s Day parade this Saturday. The kind folks at Madison Partners will bestow upon throngs of sloppy drunks the St. Patty’s Day Pop Up Food Park. Trucks from Il Cane Rosso, Nammi, Easy Slider, Trailercakes…
