Food & Drink

This morning the Food Network posted a simple and absurd tweet on its Twitter stream (@FoodNetwork): “What taco is tops?” This tweet can be construed as an assumption that the fascination with tacos is a fleeting trend. Furthermore, the update is clearly tied to their new show, The Great Food…

An upcoming barbecue contest in Oak Cliff may be among the first nationwide to demand its entrants use sustainable, grass-fed meat. Teams participating in the September 11-12 competition will receive beef brisket, pork ribs, whole chicken or homemade sausage suitable for smoking from Urban Acres, a co-op that partners with…

The sign’s up for Kenny’s Italian Kitchen, the newest entry in chef Kenny Bowers’ collection of casual eateries. According to Brian Williamson, manager of Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill, the Addison restaurant should be open by November. “It’s still a work in progress,” he says. “We’re just happy we got the…

Dallas could have been a fried pie town. Simon Hubig, who put his name on the pies that define grab-and-go sweetness in New Orleans, opened his first bakery in Fort Worth during the First World War. But Hubig’s bakery failed, becoming one of the first great DFW fried pie ventures…

Well, besides being the hottest month of the year, August is also National Sandwich Month. That’s  31 days honoring the carbo-loaded food item and the sandwich artists (that includes us) who make them. We figured we would share a few local restaurants where City of Aters might enjoy commemorating the…

Hard to remember the last time the temperature was less than 100 degrees. Aside from holing up in our air-conditioned house and jacking up our utility bill, we’re starting to think there are no other means of keeping cool. But Twisted Root Burger Co. has given us another way of…

Last week, I had the pleasure of being proven wrong. For the majority of my food-seeking life, I’ve had an aversion to Asian restaurants of the fusion variety. Deep Ellum’s Lemongrass restaurant rocked my prejudice to the core. Wanting to find a satisfying Asian meal without having to drive outside…

The Green Room, the Deep Ellum legend that’s back in business as of this afternoon, has put quail eggs and halibut cheeks on its elegant opening menu. According to a press release, executive chef Joel Harloff’s menu features “modern American cuisine with European influences that will change regularly, not just…

When friends and loved ones offer unsolicited praise for something, usually a movie, a dismissing hand is usually a sufficient reaction to get them off my back. This week, however, they sucker-punched my weak spot: tacos. “Did you hear about Taco Bell’s new ‘street tacos’?” “When the hell are you…

Japanese celebrities locate the DFW’s epicenter at the crossing of Belt Line and Rochelle roads in Irving. That’s the intersection that’s home to three authentic-leaning Japanese restaurants, including Mr. Max, an izakaya around which traveling Japanese musicians, comedians and ballplayers plan their layovers. Rumor has it that Ichiro’s a fan…

Promised delivery time: 35-40 minutes Actual delivery time: 22 minutes THE SCORE Delivery earlier than promised: 20 Points No online ordering: Minus 5 Points No MSG: 10 Points Fresh tasting food: 40 Points Food securely packaged: 10 Points TOTAL: 75 points E-mail menus, snail-mail menus, and door-hanger menus. Where would…

After living in a well-established neighborhood for many years, we made the decision a few years ago to move to a newly developed addition in the suburbs. We love our new home, but as always, a new set of challenges has emerged. Most notably, getting food delivered in a timely…

Friday night, it was Busch Light and a basket of chicken tenders with gravy at one of Old East Dallas’ premiere dives, The Dallasite Club, for karaoke. Pop-country was sung, dances were dunced, and all was well until the bartender advised Man O’ The Hour that a spirit we’d never…

Uhh… I don’t get it, Texadelphia. I thought for sure it was more important that I find your queso than that I find God. But, OK. I’ll go find God. Thanks?…

I’m a big fan of chicken feet. Chicken feet are the flavor-giving ingredient in my mother’s matzo ball soup, and the first item I swipe from dim sum carts. But I’d never come across duck feet on a menu until I dined last night at First Chinese BBQ in Richardson,…

When Texas winemakers began ramping up production in the last dozen years, they first planted conventional varietals: cabs, chards, pinot noirs and the like. After much trial and error and a few mediocre vintages, however, many of them discovered that some grapes such as pinot noir did not fare as…

There’s a growing number of apron collectors who scour eBay and antique shops for pretty, frilly pinafores. But apron expert EllynAnne Geisel says there still isn’t much interest in what she calls “opinionated aprons.” “I think there are too many beautiful designs out there,” says Geisel, author of The Apron…

Let’s get right to the announcement: our brand-spanking new Dallas Observer iPhone App is available for download, right now, in the iTunes App Store. Before we launch into an epic “presenting” speech, where we tell you that’s it’s completely FREE and has an exciting little logo and everything–let’s break down…

This week Dallas food bloggers and critics searched for exotic pizzas, beat the heat with cold beer and colder snow cones, followed the scent to taco stands and learned a lesson in German-to-English translation. Check out this week’s Sloppy Seconds.  The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Hanna Raskin learned the hard way…