Some proprietors are meant to be bar owners and some are meant to run restaurants. I’d venture that Rudy Delgado and Alex Vest should open up a sports bar and leave the French Quarter-themed eatery to someone else. As it is now, the two concepts collide inside a loud, dark,…
In Japanese, it is written, genki means energy, vigor or spirit. To this the Genki Sushi & Steak menu adds: “It is our hope and commitment to restore your full energy with our dishes.” Genki strives to live up to such boldness. Lined up on the mantel above the sushi…
Laps of parking lot required before you’ll find a spot count: 15 Chip varieties count: Bites left on your plate count: 0 I saw the Web video “2 Girls, 1 Cup” (do NOT look that up) and that made me feel like having some lunch, so I decided to check…
Lunch special: Hamburger, sweet potato chips and a drink for $9.46. Homemade root beer at the fountain count: 1 “Sofa King tasty” jokes count: 1 Paper towel holders hanging on the wall for you to use as napkins count: 58 Some days, I’m just hungry. But other days, my stomach…
You can order food to go at Exposition Park Café, but just about the only reason to do it would be to get a change of scenery if you already ate all your meals there. A sign over the bar at this decidedly un-haute haunt says, “Welcome, You Are Home,”…
Lunch specials: Monday-Friday $5.95 TVs playing soap operas: 2 Guy walking around asking if everything’s OK and refilling my Kool-Aid: 1 South Dallas Café has a big sign outside that says, “No Panhandling. No Loitering. No Soliciting. No Trespassing.” So I went inside instead. I knew they offered a bunch…
By the time you read this, Ounce Prime Steakhouse will be cutting up meat in the former La Valentina de Mexico space in Addison. Who birthed this measure? “It came from me. I’m it. I’m the driving force behind it,” boasts managing partner Danny Schertzer, a former Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse…
Not long after the Aló Cenaduria & Piqueos menu was unleashed, founding chef Taco Borga was chided for his spelling. Ceviche is lettered “cebiche” on the menu, a composition Borga hastens to add was molded with the considerable help of Aló executive chef Julia Lopez, who steeped herself in Peruvian…
There’s an old adage that gets thrown around at business dinners and happy hours and parental lectures: Do one thing and do it well. Or, as someone who helped pay my college tuition once said with frustration, “Focus. Remember, it’s better to be great at one thing than to do…
Lunch special: Burger, fries and a drink for $7.85 People in line in front of me: 15 Number of french fries in one order of french fries: 572 A fan of Mooyah recommended that I test it out, so with high expectations, I did. Almost completely distracted by the fact…
Sifting through the flashy, noisy contrails of Ghostbar, N9NE Steakhouse and Nove Italiano, nightclub entrepreneur Jesse Herman determined the key to Victory lies in dressing down. Call it dingy chic. Herman, who made his name propelling New York’s celebrity cauldron Pangaea, has linked with hospitality facilitator Donald Chick (Mansion, M…
Lunch: Dog and a drink for $6.33 Times employees resist making hot dog/dick jokes a day count: 1,000 Times employees make hot dog/dick jokes a day count: 1,000 As I was waiting for the Condom Sense on Lower Greenville Avenue to open so I could purchase a dildo (which I…
There is no music in Pho New Bay, but there is a high-definition television set anchored in one corner. It is tuned to the Discovery Channel. Right now on the screen is Bear Grylls, British Special Forces hunk-turned-adventurer-survivalist star of Discovery’s Man vs. Wild (among his favorite reads is Messy…
Lunch special: three tacos, rice, beans and a drink for $6.16 Cashier yelling at her cook in Spanish count: 1 Tables and chairs indoors count: 0 I was driving down Ross Avenue a few days ago, and the lunch special signage at Tacos Y Mas taco/burger stand at Ross and…
Walk into a restaurant and you want to feel welcome, wanted. There’s something to be said for a chic, modern dining experience or traditional white linen eatery, sure, but there’s also value in a warm, friendly café. A place to hide out and nurse a coffee when you should be…
Wednesday Lunch Special: $6.39 for a meat, a veggie, a roll and a drink. Add a peach cobbler for a buck. Corona bottles filled with barbecue sauce and sitting on a warmer count: 30 Guy yelling your name when your food’s up count: 1 Free pickle bar count: 1 In…
It has the look of a speakeasy, or a port of ill-repute where scruples are scarce commodities. The entrance to The Club is in the quiet, expansive alley-like causeway that drains into the central courtyard at the Centrum building. The frame around the large door is black and leather-like. Gas…
Remember when Rosewood was courting chef Chris Ward (Mercury Grill), hoping to lure him into his own namesake restaurant in the 19-story Rosewood Court development in Uptown? Us neither. The deal seems to have fallen through before it was committed to paper. Enter Jack Baum. And David Gilbert, the talented…
Lunch special: Every Day Special, $4.99 for one slice of pizza, a salad and a soda Fake plant count: 50 Chicks in short shorts and heels count: 0 You ever been to Fireside Pies? The pizza there is outstanding. It just sucks that you’re out standing on the porch for…
Luna de Noche’s Gourmet Tex-Mex in Victory Park is the sixth location for the chain helmed by Lisa Galvan-Cuevas. She started the first of the restaurants in 1998, and with this one has expanded the menu to include four “nuevo gourmet” dishes and additional items in various sections on the…
Lunch special: Burger, fries and a drink for $6.36 Tiny, tiny building count: 1 Burgers on the grill count: 7 bazillion Either a car just backfired or that was a gun shot count: 1 Every time you drive your car through a Wendy’s, you’re cheating yourself. Every time you order…
Fearing’s is a well-oiled machine. Service is prompt. Water is chilled and filled. Wine recommendations are astute. Skipping through the list, wanting a light-to-medium-bodied red to successfully straddle the orders of fish and red meat at our table, sommelier Paul Botamer talked up the Peltier Station Petite Syrah from Lodi,…
