Ho. Lee. Fried garnishes for your cocktails. Christi Erpillo, the supreme mega fried badass who brought us those glorious, award-winning fried peaches in 2009, just gave every wine-box-chugging lady American the only thing she’s ever wanted at the fair: wine plus fried. The photo of these beverages doesn’t do the…
Now that I’ve graded more than 50 beers since introducing the Hophead Beer Scoring System, it seems a good time to take a look back at all of them and list them in order. The system (which I have called by a different name in every post, a running gag…
Comments come in many forms, and this one fluttered in on a twitter stream. Within a day of the sort-of-soft opening, the foodnicks were chattering about Deep Ellum’s new sandwich shop, Uncle Uber’s (2713 Commerce St.). Twitter user @imccanntx laid down the gauntlet shortly after we posted a quick look…
Today I tracked down the new food truck Gennarino’s, which serves Neapolitan-style fried food and is owned by three brothers from Naples, Italy. It’s just their second day in business and they were parked between two office buildings in Irving just off of Hwy 161. They’d be parked in Dallas,…
While most everyone I talked to had a blast at Oktoberfest, there were a few bitter beer faces. The complaints are always the same for event’s like these centering on cost, supply of food (HOW CAN THEY RUN OUT OF SCHNITZEL AT A GERMAN FEST!?) and lines. Getting to events…
Last week, my friend told me about a batch of cookies she made with Oreo cookies crumbled inside them. “It’s a cookie in a cookie!” Pretty impressive. But what would obviously be more impressive? We had to fry it. (begin Ghostbusters parody) “Who you gonna call? FRIED JESUS!!” It would…
Last weekend, I took my fried obsession on a tour of Austin, and good gravy did I find some winners. Here they are for your artery-clogging pleasure:…
Crimson Asian Cuisine opened last week at corner of Blackburn and McKinney in the West Village, serving pho and other Vietnamese dishes such as stir-fries, rice noodles and spring roles. The atmosphere is on the casual side. Not fancy, but nice. There’s a decent size patio area out front and…
I’d walked past the same food truck for a few weeks but never had the nerve to approach it and order anything. It was one of those big, plain white United Caterer trucks with the blue slanted windows on the top, parked in the same spot at a construction site…
Primebar opened in Uptown last week, and I got to check it out briefly on Friday. I’ll definitely put it on my places to go when I want to dabble in swank while a watching a playoff game and drinking a microbrew. There are several different areas to explore in…
Last night my family and I putzed around Richardson looking for some decent ethnic eats. I Yelped and I Googled and I finally decided that Sing Kee Chinese BBQ looked like a decent spot for a late meal. When I walked through the door, the clouds swelled behind me, and…
Friday night marked the grand opening of SugarBox, Dallas’ newest dessert and coffee bar. The sweet shop — located under the Mondrian apartments where Dimples Cupcakes used to live, at 3000 Blackburn Street — boasts a broad selection of cupcakes, French macarons, cake balls, cakes and dog-friendly pupcakes. What was…
One Art is coming! The Commissary folks sent out a press release last week and invited the media to a preview dinner this evening; look for lots of pretty food photos tomorrow in the Dallas blogosphere. Dinner service opens to the public Tuesday, offering two seatings — at 6:30 and…
I stopped by the Addison Oktoberfest this Saturday, arriving just past noon to a rising thermometer and an already swelling crowd. I was expecting a sizable event, but nothing like this. With all the food venders representing local Bavarian and German cooking, tents selling decent art, bad art, chicken hats,…
With Oktoberfest and other events coming up, it’s High Beer Season, which explains why the White House has been serving up some of his homebrews. But why stop with beer? House-made anything is a worthy endeavor that rewards the laborer with a fresh, interesting product you can serve with a…
This week we brewed at the zoo, ate some disappointing things, and Leslie Brenner told us another thing wrong with Dallas. Read on. City of Ate/Observer Even if Taj Chaat has Amruth beat as far as charm, interest and adventure, the humble vegetarian former stumbles into second place when it…
Nonna’s been serving stellar Italian since 2007, earning accolades from every critic that crosses the restaurant’s threshold. Lunch service is, however, a somewhat more quiet affair, only available on Friday from 11 to 2. I stopped in to see if chef Julian Barsotti’s daylight offerings matched up to the gushing…
They just don’t make them, or at least not many of them, like Lucille Mathews. Legend in Dallas, she started working at the Lakewood Landing in 1959, shortly after leaving Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club, and tended bar there for over 30 years. In a profile that ran in the Observer’s…
They’re approaching mythical status these days, featured recently on the Food Network’s Sugar High and in every third dessert-related conversation that takes place in the city. But if, like I was, you’re writing off Tillman’s Roadhouse’s Tableside S’mores as over-hyped gimmickry, you and your appetite are making a tactical error…
A post on food terms that no longer carry their weight has gotten some love. While we picked on “all natural,” “fun size” and “cage free” (can you see me doing dramatic “air-quotes” at my desk?), commenters chimed in with their own over-abused terms. James Scott penned my favorite: I’ve…
Gennarino’s announced last night they are officially hitting the streets. Gimme a big FINE-A-FRICKIN’-LEE! They’ve been teasing us about their Neapolitan-style friggitoria for over a month. Now, Raffealel, Armando and Alessio are ready to roll. What is a “friggitoria,” you ask? Well, in Italy it is a cart, truck or…
CBS DFW.com’s most valuable food blogger award, with which we quibbled a while back, has been announced with little fanfare. A small announcement has been added to the voting page, which reads: Congratulations Dallas MVB’S CBS DFW’ss inaugural Most Valuable Blogger winners have been announced! We want to thank everyone…
