For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Any fan of chef Omar Flores’ cooking at Driftwood would expect an…
When people talk about Allen, they mostly talk about that stupid Allen Eagles football stadium. Which is understandable, given that they spent $60 million on it and the concrete wasn’t even poured right. But Allen is more than football, no matter what people say. More importantly, it is where the…
Meat Fight, the barbecue competition, fundraiser and saucy brainchild of our Bearded columnist, Alice Laussade, returns to Trinity Groves on Sunday, November 16. You want to go. You need to go. But will you go? Depends on the accuracy of your clock and the quickness of your clicking fingers. Tickets…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Let’s be honest. The term “slider” doesn’t exactly scream refined. The diminutive…
It started with a simple desire to steer State Fair goers away from lesser grub. I was ready to take things one step further than Alice Laussade, who opined in her State Fair guide that the Big Tex Choice Awards for most creative were fried bullshit. In fact, I wanted…
“Dallas has the most restaurants per capita of any city in the U.S.” Have you heard this one before? The statement is as pervasive here as “Hey, where is the valet stand?” and “I’ll have my steak well done.” Usually, it’s issued as a sort of bragging right. Dallasites who…
I have to make a confession. I’m a vegan. Every minute of the day that I’m not on the clock as a food critic, I’ve been pounding vegetables and soy protein at a feverish pace. It’s all in response to the diet this job has imposed on me — an…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Don’t order the bistro-style mussels at The Grape, ever. The order is…
Best of Dallas has arrived, and in addition to arts, culture and music picks it’s filled with more food than your stomach could ever hope hold for the rest of the year. I should know because I ate all of it. I love each one of those picks, much like…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. If you’re used to getting your taco fix at a taqueria…
Picking the best of anything can really lead to some stress, if only because there are so many great restaurants and food businesses in and around Dallas. And since we’re in the middle of a desert here, you might think there may not be too many seafood restaurants to choose…
Videographer Kathy Tran is your guide through the beer and bratwursts of Addison’s yearly Oktoberfest. Many, many beers are contained within…
Unlike the last chef at Kitchen LTO who was brand new to Dallas, Blythe Beck is intimately familiar with the food scene. Which is not surprising, considering that she worked in some of the city’s best restaurants before moving away for a few years to pursue consulting opportunities. Now that…
Last year, tickets to Meat Fight (my barbecue competition that benefits the National MS Society) sold out in a flash. So, this year, we decided to have a meat scavenger hunt so that one lucky bastard could have easy access to our meat tickets before any other bastard. This is…
Come rub shoulders with the man who loves to rub shoulders (usually pork, but sometimes human) this Thursday evening. John Tesar will step down from his meaty throne for Foodiepalooza, a benefit to raise money for the East Dallas Boys and Girls Club. Tesar will be on hand in order…
We sent Alice, our resident State Fair of Texas expert, to sample the eight finalists at this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards. Well, actually, that’s a lie. We didn’t send her. She was going no matter what. In fact, God help the poor soul who stands between Alice and a…
Ever wanted to make your State Fair trip a little… competitive? Yeah, we got you. Right here at the top of this post you can find your very own State Fair bingo card, and clicking on the little words below it will pump it up to size. Print several, hand…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I’ll get straight to the point: This ain’t no Reuben sandwich…
The burger trend may — may! — be slowing down, like a lipid clot in an old man’s artery. Sure, burger restaurants including Liberty Burger, Hopdoddy, Mooyah Burger, Five Guys, Smashburger, Twisted Root, Jake’s, Off-Site Kitchen and more are opening all over Dallas, and all over the country, but health-centric…
Thanks to a seemingly unstoppable food trend, ramen is no longer those disgusting packets you subsisted on in college. Iterations of the Japanese staple dish have been showing up on menus across Dallas for the past few years, especially as chefs like David Chang drove the dish to national prominence…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Bun bo hue is a brash and angry angry bowl of…
Beer is one of those paradoxical liquids that can make one feel both supremely good and devastatingly bad. In our never-ending effort to help them imbibers of Dallas maximize their good vibes and justify their wrongdoing, we’ve compiled this list of local craft beer companies that make a point of…
