In this week’s Observer, Dave visits India West in Addison, where he finds the kitchen fine at times, underwhelming at others, and generally filling the more upscale, less cutely named void for the Kebab N Kurry crowd.Check out more photos from the restaurant, and what you’d find to eat there,…
See, I’ve started this whole “eating well and exercising” bullshit that’s totally overrated because it’s making me feel better, sleep better, lose jiggle…wait, what? Yeah, it’s working and I’m totally pleased, so I guess it’s not really BS, but I like the snark so whatever.Only problem with my new life…
Pizza can be a scary subject, but one that I am not easily shaken from. For this week’s challenge I felt the need to be slightly scientific in choosing the correct opponents. I randomly asked strangers for their ideas on a perfect Dallas pizza.. I polled about 40 people from…
Russo’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria700 E. Campbell, Richardson972-235-7992I still remember a moment, back in my baseball-playing days, when I popped a hanging fastball straight up. An easy out on a pitch I should have ripped. I was more than a little annoyed, so as I jogged down to first I berated myself…
Recipe Demonstrated by Chef Anthony Bombaci of Nana I’m not too familiar with the feeling of winning a prestigious award, unless you count a participation ribbon in every sport I’ve ever played or beating out all the other 5th graders in my English class to win the weekly spelling bee…
There are two possible reasons why India West’s dining room was so sparsely populated the evening of my final visit. One involves the presence of a Russian businessman speaking in ponderous, but voluminous tones to three young patrons of Indian descent. On the phone—which he used several times, once even…
I was all hyped up to eat lunch at ChaCha’s—which surprisingly (and disappointingly) is not a gentleman’s club, but instead was a kickass-lookin’ Mexican restaurant I’d spotted right across from Keller’s—and then I got there and the place is closed. Directly below the window paint that shouts, “Nice People!” it…
Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Huevos rancheros is a simple and traditional ranch breakfast of eggs, salsa and tortillas–though sometimes people would add beans.This “sometimes” is the problem. Order the dish at one place and it comes with…
I had a Frito Bandito eraser. I can still hear that leering, gravely voice. And the song–oh, I remember the song.At least I remember the second version. Frito-Lay introduced the animated Mexican bandit to advertise Fritos in 1967. He wore a sombrero and a couple of six-shooters, sported a gold…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Nobody gets tongue tied when the subject is, um, tongue.Writing in the Weekly Volcano (Tacoma and Olympia Washington’s “only edgy, irreverent, and thought-provoking alternative newsweekly”) Jake and Jason de Paul relate their encounter with lengua…
Big Al’s Smokehouse BBQ3317 Inwood Rd. 214-350-2649Dude Factor: 6, or Tony Romo, on a scale of 1 (Brad Johnson) to 10 (Roger Staubach)Texas being one of the reddest of red states, medical marijuana isn’t going to happen any time soon without intervention by the federal government. But if you’re, say,…
If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining what’s wrong with me.It has been dismissed as a white Snickers. The company that makes them has changed hands so many times it’s near impossible to keep track. And when I went to the 7-Eleven by our posh, teak-lined…
This week I had the rare pleasure of spending time with my mom. She is in town, well, technically in the country, for the next few weeks and I have been waiting anxiously for her arrival. One of my favorite pastimes is embarking on adventures of the food variety with…
Grapefruit can change your life. Cabbage soup, too. Balancing the right carbs with the right fats extends one’s youth. Smoking shaves off the pounds. Eating only vegetables is ethically right…While Americans didn’t invent ridiculous weight loss incentives (they date way back) or the assumption of moral superiority in one dining…
I was in Naan for lunch one day last week.Really I just wanted to reacquaint myself with the place–it had been about five years. Instead I was reintroduced to an issue that seems to plagued Dallas area sushi joints: carrying the “everything’s bigger in Texas” notion too far.Japanese chefs roll…
Scarlet Ibis14833 Midway, Addison972-661-8886Sometimes you feel sorry for well-meaning restaurants stuck in unfortunate locations. In this case, it’s a Caribbean spot hiding behind the sometimes decaying facades along Midway, surrounded by parking and wedged under insurance offices and other small businesses.Nothing could be more evocative of island cuisine.But you have…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Hong Kong Express4760 Preston, Frisco972-377-8850Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 30 minutesScoring summary:Finding a place that delivers when you have no phone book and the Internet is useless: 19Classic ‘column A,…
Just the other day, we were in a supermarket in Frisco and thought, “You know, all this food is nice, but it sure would be great if we could pick up a diamond pendant for the wife and maybe an end table and some throw pillows while we’re at it.”…
This week, points for the first to locate the following:A restaurant with real “reality television” connections.”Cheaters” doesn’t count. Sound too easy? Probably is, but no one has found last week’s scavenger item, so…We’re keeping last week’s on the board, too:A restaurant or bar with a blue Dirk Nowitzki jersey hanging…
There’s Tuscany and Provence. Sushi and other dishes from Japan have circled the globe. People argue the merits of Argentine beef or Scottish salmon. But who ever says “I’d love a good Russian head cheese” or “let’s have some Irish food tonight”?Unless by that they mean Jameson’s.Closer to home, could…
OK, so I should have had this thing posted half an hour ago.But, you see, I just finished a long conversation with Jesse “Hophead” Hughey on the relative value of doing beer flights in a crowded pub. Before that I was involved in a discussion about rye whiskey. Then our…
Don McLean, you lied to us. Or, at the very least, you misled me. His “American Pie” hit the airwaves in 1971. How was a nine year-old listener supposed to know, first off, that good old boys really drink Bud–although maybe it was Schlitz back then–and, more importantly, that rye…
