Scalini’s Pizza & Pasta 2021 Abrams Road 214.821.8088 Promised delivery time: 45 minutes Actual delivery time: 43 minutes The Score Semi-attractive delivery guy wearing hipster glasses: 4 Creative choice of vegetables: 7 Lukewarm pizza: -3 …that came from three blocks away: -3 …and he drove: -1 …and there’s a $2…
Despite some recent upheaval, The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek remains a Dallas classic, the stage for all types of life’s little fine dining milestones. You know, weddings, birthdays, marriage proposals or the ‘I didn’t get canned’ dinner.That sort of thing. Now The Mansion takes a moment to celebrate. The…
He is responsible, indirectly, for the cooking in many of the city’s restaurants. That’s right–Hodges is one of those teaching chefs. Currently at the AIMS Academy and in the process of advancing his academic credentials through the Certified Executive Chef exam, he has trained hundreds of culinary professionals over ten…
“The contribution of third-party audits to food safety is the same as the contribution of mail-order diploma mills to education.” (Mansour Samadpour, a Seattle-based food safety consultant, commenting on the fact that, with government inspectors under greater pressure due to cutbacks and other issues, private auditors are often charged with…
See more photos in our slideshow here.Victory Park took on the look of a high-class feed lot Friday night as it hosted Savor Dallas, the annual wine, liquor and food-tasting festival.Penned in at the foot of the American Airlines Center, diners — and more frequently, drinkers — got to sample…
Our monthly wrap-up of restaurant openings and closings around Dallas. See what’s been canned, what’s new and what’s sizzling on the back-burner in local restaurant news. Entered Nick & Sam’s Grill: a casual spin-off of Nick & Sam’s Steakhouse recently opened in Uptown. It replaced Strong’s Everyday Tavern at 2816…
Of all the socially reinforced standards of behavior to which we must adhere, tipping must be the most, well, quietly awkward. There’s often an internal debate: was the service that good? Hell, not really. But I don’t want to look cheap. Then again, I gotta pay the cell phone bill…On…
Yeah, we’ve never done this before. Revisiting a topic while the body’s still warm and quivering just isn’t our kind of thing.Unless, of course, it involves drinking heavily in the middle of the afternoon.You see, after we answered this very same question last week, the folks from Macallan called up…
We’ve all heard the saying that happy cows produce good cheese. Yeah, maybe. Irritated oysters produce the best pearls, but that’s a bit different. Anyway, in most cases we don’t really know the happiness level of our dairy products. But sometimes you can straight to the source and see for…
The Dallas-based brand ambassador for Macallan’s single malt Scotch line is charged with an important mission: introducing whisky to a younger generation…of drinking age, of course.Before moving to this city, he spent seven years in the Big Apple as an events manager (with a small but steady role in One…
“The decor of the Anchor Bar calls to mind an Antiques Roadshow prop room overseen by a drunk with impeccable taste in late-twentieth-century detritus.” (John T. Edge,acclaimed writer and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi upon his first visit to the birthplace of the Buffalo…
The state of some food these days is enough to make a man go hungry rather than risk consuming the contents of many processed and pre-packaged items. If it’s not salmonella-tainted peanuts, it’s energy drinks that turn your blood into syrup. Health Canada recently found that 96 percent of sodas…
Amid the tequila and the ornery boss, Dave finds salvation in sauces at Agave Azul, in this week’s Dish column.For a close-up look at their offerings, and the scene around the Carrollton restaurant, check out our slideshow here…
Sambuca2120 McKinney Ave.214-744-0820Sambuca is still around.It still has one of the more sophisticated courtyard spaces in Uptown and still brings in live entertainment. But the room appears somehow stale.As a restaurant slips into middle age–about four years without a makeover–pressure builds on the kitchen. Their work must contend with dulled…
Civilization begins with distillation.–Meridian Room motto, attributed to William Faulkner. (We would argue that civilization begins with brewing, but that doesn’t rhyme.)I wanted to visit the Meridian Room even before it closed and reopened back in the fall, but only managed to get there this week. Before as well as…
Last night, as Los Mavs stomped on Los Spurs, a tequila-specific lounge celebrated its grand opening, way up in the terrace level of the American Airlines Center.El Jimador Tequila Bar, to be really specific.So what can one say about this? The average sports fan has already been elbowed out of…
Demonstrated by Reza Anvarian of Southpaw’s Organic Café “There’s only two things I know how to do. My mother taught me how to work in the kitchen and my uncles taught me how to box.” Reza Anvarian opened Southpaw’s Organic Café in October of last year, taking a break from…
There’s a new grocer in town. Well, not really new. Just bigger, fancier and in a different location. Dallas’ newest Whole Foods Market location opened Monday to much fanfare. Yeah, the store is more than a little bit similar to existing siblings in look and product selection. But there’s a…
The city now boasts several experts so versed in wine they have passed a good chunk of the master sommelier exam. But for years, Lincicome studied the subject, offered recommendations and built a reputation almost without peer.He has served as a wine director for 15 years, most of his tenure…
“Consumer awareness for natural and organic foods is so much stronger now that more retailers want to imitate what we do.” (Mark Dixon, southwest region president for Whole Foods, staking a trendsetting claim. As quoted in a Dallas Morning News story on the opening of a new Lakewood branch of…
What is it about tamales? Lucky ones who grew up with tamales as a staple dish could script odes to the steaming cylinders of masa. Yet few big-time professional kitchens can match the comforting texture and warm, earthen flavors you get even ordering from some roadside vendors. Perhaps they balk…
Beans for breakfast? Are you kidding?Ah, but according to the indispensable tome The Tex-Mex Cookbook, here in the Lone Star State a pot of beans was often used to break a cowboy’s fast on the long trail, whether plain (as preferred by eminent Texas writer J Frank Dobie) or with…
