On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.In Spain, as well as throughout Latin America, the dining public is big on pig. How big? Well, it is estimated that the entire chorizo production of Spain is 65,000 tons annually, more than the…
The ‘Boys host a team whose fans dress as female pigs on Sunday. Another fact about Northern Virginia’s attic…As a rookie, Redskins great Dexter Manley was beaten up by the kid from the “I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener” commercial.**Source: A skinny gentleman who we saw in a…
El Jordan Cafe416 N. Bishop Ave.214-941-4451Dude Factor: 9, or Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, on a scale of 1 (The Axeman) to 10 (Pete Perkins).This morning I awoke with the type of breakfast hankering no pop tart, oatmeal or yogurt smoothie could cure. I needed some man-size desayunos. You know, the…
Normally we roll out a Top 10 list in this space. But, quite honestly, we stalled somewhere around number six.Yet bathrooms are surprisingly important. A clean, bright and polished space reassures guests of the entire operation’s standards while a smudged, rusty room with splash marks all over the floor is…
In Pho From Home we seek out the variety of pho–authentic, Texified, good and bad–available in restaurants, starting in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and winding all the way around the Dallas area.I am staring at a forty-paged PDF file on my laptop. My mother, who lives in…
If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I’m so damn warped.It’s funny how memories become jumbled sometimes. For several decades now I’ve remembered sitting in our London flat, pouring clotted cream over McVitie’s apple pies. These were tarts sold in boxes of six at the…
I find it rather off-putting when militant vegans say things like, “How vegan are you?” or “[I’m] a true vegan.” Hmm…guess I didn’t realize this was a competition. Fact is, no one living in modern day society can be completely vegan. As one of my pals puts it, “If you’re…
The ‘Boys host the symbol of our nation’s concern for native peoples on Sunday. Another fact about Maryland’s second team…The Redskins are known as a “cupcake” on NFL schedules because linebacker London Fletcher bakes treats for opposing teams in the Easy-Bake oven he’s used since childhood.**Source: Jim Schutze told us…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Dominos.comdelivered from 4420 Gaston Ave.Promised delivery time (implied): 30 minutesActual delivery time: 27 minutesScoring summary:Money saved by online coupon (dollars): 1.11 Time wasted tinkering with interactive pizza order system (minutes): 15 Big…
A reader using the name Foodbevlaw posted an interesting comment to Friday’s Question of the Week: “Doucheries can almost always be identified by, and the numberb of Douchers are almost always proportional to, the number of premium tequilas in the back bar.”Keep in mind the question at hand dealt with…
Bene Bene4727 Frankford972-267-2363Old school Italian joints dot the area’s northern reaches. Don’t know why, really–but if you want typical lasagna, chicken parmigiana, bruschetta with nothing fancier than garlic and basil, or any other dish common to Italian restaurants up through the 1980s, your best options exist in a swath just…
Golden Spirits has come up with an idea so perfectly suited to the artificial luxury embodied by Dallas ultra-lounges that you’d think the Madison, Wisconsin distillery was based here. Well, to use the old bumper-sticker phrase, Million Vodka wasn’t born here, but it got here as fast as it could…
The ‘Boys host a tribe of rednecks–or something close–on Sunday. An important fact about the beltway…FedEx Field, home of the Redskins, has vomitoriums installed in each individual luxury box, as well as one for the masses. It is the only NFL stadium with this feature.**Source: A guy named Lou…
The bar door swings open, and orange sunlight, hazy with cigarette smoke, briefly lights the sparse, dingy environs. On the hardwood bar top, a half-dozen dice tumble from a Yahtzee cup, landing close to a smudged envelope stuffed with cash. Near the door, a paunchy, graying man holds a stream…
Driving down Greenville the other day, a sign caught my eye: homemade sandwiches. Does that mean somebody makes sandwiches at his house and then brings them here and sells them to me a few hours later? Better question: Is somebody’s home making these sandwiches? Subquestion: How much do you pay…
Smoke is—and isn’t—what you think it is. There’s barbecue all right, just as the name implies: brisket, ribs, even pulled pork. Chef Tim Byres spent the better part of this summer on the road in a rebuilt VW bus. He clattered around the Mississippi delta, over the hills of Tennessee…
Just glancing through posts and comments I’ve learned that only douche bags go to The Porch, which is not surprising, given that Henderson Avenue is populated by them. So are the restaurants of Uptown. The suburbs? Full of douches. Maybe not North Richland Hil…no, that must have a share of…
In this week’s Observer, Dave gets back to barbecue with a visit to Smoke, the Oak Cliff spot alongside the Belmont Hotel, opened in August by Bolsa’s Chris Zielke and Chris Jeffers.Beyond the food, the place has style — Chris Jeffers’ snakeskin coat at the grand opening left no doubt…
Such a week–people congratulating us, berating us, questioning the sexual orientation of those who post and comment, and pausing with us to praise shit on a shingle. Wouldn’t have it any other way.A good prize this week would have been some bottles of that Texas whisky. Unfortunately we couldn’t rightly…
Chip Tate and Stephen Germer for some reason decided the time was right for a craft Texas whiskey to hit the market. So they formed Balcones Distillery and set up along I-35, just south of Waco, amongst fields of heather and weathered peat bogs soaked by clear mountain springs…no, that…
Next week, look for a taste of D.C. But for now:The ‘Boys travel to America’s ice fishing capital on Sunday afternoon. Another “fact” about the land where people really need four-wheel drive…Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers owned a popular restaurant that sold American caviar–until health inspectors pointed out that, while black,…
A Pyramid PR representative recently sent a press release announcing the Gold Medal awarded to the brewery’s Haywire Hefewiezen at the Great American Beer Festival, and offered to send over sample bottle or two. As if she needed to ask.Ben E. Keith beer distributors did her one better and delivered…
