Bob’s Steak & Chop House4300 Lemmon Avenue214-528-9446Quite a number of those who dine out on a regular basis are still in the dark as to Bob Sambol and his legal difficulties. Talk at surrounding tables on a recent visit centered on some encounter with Jerry Jones’ bodyguard Roosevelt (“he didn’t…
After a rough Saturday night–I’ll spare you the details, but I will say this: there was much vodka involved–Sunday’s hangover carried into Monday. Tuesday–still not human. So I got online to Tweet about my misery. Then I saw a Tweet from one of my raw food friends that read, “Alcohol…
Recipe Demonstrated by Scott Gottlich of Bijoux As we speak (or write, as it were), eager food-lovers across the area are anticipating Restaurant Week dinner reservations at some of the finest dining destinations in town. For just $35, they’ll tuck in to three special courses, with a portion of the…
Everyone is familiar with Dean Fearings and Stephan Pyles and the other big boys of the Dallas dining set, but this year a group of relative unknowns is challenging their celebrity chef status. Sure, both continue at the top of the table, and the return of Nick Badovinus and Marc…
With many of my favorite homegrown Dallas restaurants closing down (Mr. Barbecue Bus is gone, Big D’s Dogs bit it and now Vern’s Place is shutting its doors? I hate choo, Dallas!), it’s not as easy to find a $10 lunch here as it used to be. Of course, I…
Several days into the annual charity event and we’ve finally had a chance to poke through some menus.Now, we weren’t looking for the best item or the most original. What we want from KRLD Restaurant Week–aside from a cheap three or four course dinner–is something that jumps from the list…
Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Back in 1982 I took off with a friend on summer long road trip up and down the east coast, from Montreal to Atlanta and many, many points in between.It was a good…
OK, so we’re a little steamed here.First off, our blog system was acting up: running like, well, me on a football field (which is to say slow), cutting off sentences when we pounded the keyboard in frustration, dropping comments. But it’s all better now.Then the people at Lazare, who last…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Be careful how you use the term “gordita”. It can get you into trouble real fast. Like many food-related expressions in Mexican culture, gordita has more than one meaning. You can use it colloquially as…
No segment of the food and beverage industry so reflects the desire for smaller, more personalized purveyors than wine. Wine lovers want magic and prestige–not a mass-market bottle from a corner gas station (usually found in a cooler, right next to the Coors Light).But therein lies the trouble. What we…
Carnival Fantasy1-888-CARNIVALDude Factor: 7, or Jack Sparrow, on a scale of 1 (“In The Navy”-era Village People) to 10 (Popeye the Sailor)Every time it came up in conversation that my family and I would be going on a four-day cruise to Cozumel, I found myself over-explaining or making excuses as…
As ever on top of things going down at Bob’s…Wilonsky reports the details of a deal that may put Bob’s on the block…
Funny how Vapiano, the German-based fast-casual restaurant in Mockingbird Station, actually feels like Germany. Maybe it’s the color scheme–a little like the Nutelleria in Frankfurt–or maybe it’s the fact that the system here is so foreign, and words sorta get lost in translation. As Date and I entered Vapiano, a…
As the food media world warms up for its busiest time of year, a trickle of new releases in television and print are whetting our appetites for the deluge to come. Here are a few of our favorite picks: WWBBD? The Food Network’s newest star is none other than Olympic…
Hophead Jesse Hughey disappeared last week. Then empties of Buckler and Mike’s Hard Lemonade began arriving at my desk–every hour on the hour. You guessed it: the diabolical fiends in marketing were using him as “insurance” to make certain I post this promo… So here goes: If you’re not receiving…
Circle Grill3701 N. Buckner Blvd.214-327-4140″Is the food at that place still good?”Those were the first words uttered by my cab driver after dispensing with the ‘where to’ preliminaries. My car decided to stick around and wait for awhile–see if a willing tow truck would chance by.Circle Grill is a wayside,…
Leslie Brenner’s assessment of dining in Dallas appeared over the weekend–a comprehensive and provocative piece both casting the city in culinary shadows and under a gleaming ray of promise. You may disagree with her assignment of stars for particular restaurants. But the Dallas Morning News critic has hit us with…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Chicago Rick’s3628 Frankford972-307-4257Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 43 minutesLevel of phone honesty that would have given Dick Cheney a heart attack: 50Interest rate on loan necessary to buy a fully…
This past Saturday, a sold-out crowd gathered at Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts in North Dallas for the first-ever DrinkLocalWine.com Conference. Hosted by website founders Jeff Siegel and Dave McIntyre and the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Go Texan program, the event drew wine makers, wine writers, bloggers and…
Paul Burrough at Sacred Cellars has started a new promotion that can make your wine habit a bit less financially ruinous. Steal of the Week, Burrough writes, is Sacred Cellars’ “own version of wine.woot.com, but only waaaay better. For example, [last] week’s offering [was] priced at less than 50% of…
When it feels like the rest of the world is out on vacation, daydreams about island living come easily — and even if a tropical refuge in Bishop Arts doesn’t quite give the same effect, sometimes the right table in the right restaurant is vacation enough for now. Plus, there…
This week’s question comes from TLS, who regularly posts comments and boycotted us for an hour when we listed the sexiest female chefs. So we’ll assume she is a she.Anyway, she says “I’ve always perceived coupons to a restaurant as a sign that their business is suffering. The plethora of…
