It may not feel like it today, but spring is officially here, but that’s not the only change we saw in March. Restaurants and bars looking to capitalize on patio grazers opened their doors, most notably the Katy Trail Ice House, which received lots of buzz during its soft opening…
No date with a guy last week. Instead, I went to dinner with two of my girlfriends at Ku Sushi and Japanese Cuisine. The sushi restaurant ranks as one of my friend’s and her husband’s favorite Preston and Forest neighborhood date spots. Even though it was just us girls, Ku…
Over spring break my husband and I loaded up our kids and took a road trip out to Lake Mineral Wells State Park. We hiked, climbed, cried, threw rocks into the water and generally disturbed nice people trying to embrace the serenity of nature. After all that hoopla, my husband…
A peek inside the Meddlesome Moth’s formidable walk-in cooler reveals kegs carefully piled on top of each other, carefully placed to maximize efficiency like some oversized game of beer Tetris with as many as 120 kegs at a time in the cooler. Some have been there or strategically placed in…
There’s an elephant in the room. Or maybe at the Dallas Farmers Market. Read on. City of Ate For her next-to-last Dallas review, Hanna Raskin visits Park and finds the dishes overwrought, misleading and inconsistent — and drowned in lemon juice. Alice Laussade describes the food at Szechwan Pavilion to…
Today in Buffalo, New York, it’s 37 degrees. There’s snow on the ground, and more is expected tonight. Who cares, right? Well, Arron Wight does. He’s from Buffalo and came to Texas for opening day at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington with his uncle Steve Greis, who lives in Dallas. So,…
Moments ago at 5 p.m., the Meddlesome Moth tapped a cask of Saint Arnold Divine Reserve 11, which almost immediately shot to the No. 4 spot on Beer Advocate’s Soutwest ratings. As you probably know, Divine Reserve is the Texas brewery’s sporadically released series of a relatively small batch of…
More changes afoot at MCrowd. Three months after chief executive officer Greg Good’s replacement with Michael Cox, Matthew Dunn — former Stephan Pyles and Central Market chef and famously one of the few Dallas chefs to cook at the James Beard House — joins MCrowd as director of culinary operations…
With the Dallas International Film Festival in full swing and the Deep Ellum Arts Festival beginning today, you already have two reasons why you shouldn’t be glued to your couch this weekend unless you’re doing really well on your March Madness bracket and plan on watching the Final Four. Plus,…
The latest round of the surprisingly engaging and even moving Chopped All-Stars contest couldn’t have come fast enough for me, for it involved the table finally turning on four of the series’ normally imperious judges. For once, Maneet Chauhan, Geoffrey Zakarian, Amanda Freitag and Aaron Sanchez — all much-decorated and…
Tiferet Israel’s kosher chili cook-off returns this weekend for the 18th year — a milestone that’s the Jewish timekeeping equivalent of a silver anniversary, thanks to Hebrew numerology — with its biggest-ever field of contestants. Cook-off chairman Scott Janco reports 47 teams have registered for the event. “It’s going to…
Michael Peticolas’ microbrewery is a step closer to opening, as he applied March 14 for a zoning change to request the creation of “a new subdistrict that will allow for the manufacture of alcohol,” according to the wording on his zoning change application to the city’s Department of Development Services…
Five-year-old Coal Vines is going national. After a successful licensed launch in Kansas City, Missouri, the bistro concept operated by Nick & Sam’s partners Joe Palladino and Phil Romano, has its eyes set on more Texas locations and a national expansion. CoalVines Over Texas LLC, which is licensing the brand…
Bolsa partner Chris Zielke hopes an upcoming fundraiser benefiting Paul Quinn College’s Food For Good Farm will help change how people think about Oak Cliff. “From the Oak Cliff community standpoint, I want to show people it’s more than just Davis Street,” Zielke says. “There’s a big area out here.”…
While Baconalia, Denny’s super pork festival that features seven bacon-laden dishes including the Maple Bacon Sundae, is in full glory, we thought it’d be a swell time to let you know about the freshest way to inhale bacon.J&D’s, known for their bacon salt, is proud to announce “the next quantum…
A plan to revamp Olive Garden restaurants nationwide is getting its start in Texas. Three Dallas area stores are among the nine “remodel locations” recently announced by the Italian-American restaurant chain. According to spokesperson Kristen Johnson, more than half of the chain’s 700 stores will eventually be updated to reflect…
Each week, Happy Eating highlights a restaurant happy hour food menu. This week, we migrate to Las Colinas to see how the IT folk and corporate types like to party. Where: The Keg, 859 West John Carpenter Freeway, Irving. When: 4-7 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Scene: It was the middle of…
From the outside, Szechwan Pavilion totally looks like a strip club. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—some restaurants look like strip clubs, and some strip clubs look like herpes. Shit, maybe Szechwan Pavilion used to be a strip club and they just kept the name and the super buffet…
On the ingredient lists that now pass for menus, it can be hard to discern exactly how a dish is assembled: Squid, rutabagas and chocolate sauce sounds so daring when the nouns are lined up neatly as cornstalks, but the wow factor fizzles when the plate arrives with the fish…
A Cedar Springs landmark will be serving its last rounds of mimosas and eggs Benedict this Sunday. The Bronx Café, which has resided near Observer headquarters at Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs for almost 35 years, has been sold to the adjacent Warwick Melrose Hotel. Co-owner Jess Gilbert told us…
I’m just back from lunch at S. & D. Oyster Company, which easily made the cut for my “last five meals in Dallas” list. The list isn’t just a theoretical exercise: I pull out of town Friday morning, so I gave some serious thought to where I’d eat out this…
Every eating contest is brutal in the end, but some sound harmless enough right up until you’re in the thick of the competition. How bad, for instance, could a few sandwiches hurt? Turns out, plenty. But sometimes there’s a contest — and I’m talking about Grand Prairie’s annual World Championship…
