Eating vegan is hard. It takes dedication to strictly adhere to any diet, especially one that cuts out big bricks of the food pyramid. It can be hard to eat vegan and stick to a healthy, balanced diet, and scientists are split on whether or not simply removing animal protein…
If you’ve eaten at many Ethiopian restaurants around Dallas, you may have noted a glaring omission in the dessert department. Some restaurant menus offer up store-bought confections, but when you place an order the waitstaff often admits they don’t actually carry them. Other menus neglect sweets completely. If you try…
It’s Fourth of July Eve, the 12th-most popular eve of them all. It’s also gorgeous outside, which means your favorite watering hole has broken out the patio furniture and the most deliberately gaudy piece of glassware: the schooner. I despise this awful drink innovation. This bloated goblet has ruined the…
Ruffles is nationally launching Ruffles Crispy Fries Potato Strips this month, “just in time for National French Fry Day on July 13.” Wait — you didn’t know July 13 was National French Fry Day? And that on National French Fry Day, all you are allowed to eat for 24 straight…
Back in June we ran an article calling for more places to eat in Deep Ellum and wondered what would become of the space Tracy Miller briefly occupied with Rosemont. Yesterday, Side Dish dropped news that chef Ivan Pugh would be bringing the Cajun cooking of Alligator Cafe to the…
Unless you haven’t been paying attention, you’ve probably heard about a lot of new developing food-related things over in Trinity Groves. “What’s Trinity Groves,” you ask? Y’know that big-ass white bridge some people love and others hate? The one they call Margaret? If you start out on the downtown side…
The observance of brunch is considered to be an exercise in effortless cool. This is a lie. No, really. Let’s be real for a minute. You’re not wearing those sunglasses indoors in an ironic attempt to achieve effortless cool. You’re not even hopelessly missing the mark and just plain looking…
Last week we noted the passing of Russell Fenton, the man who put the “Rusty” into Rusty Tacos, among other Dallas area restaurants. This week Velvet Taco has announced its weekly special taco has been created with Fenton in mind. Every week, Velvet Taco creates a taco based on seasonable…
State fair season is here, especially in northern states that don’t have to wait till summer’s swelter abates to have a little fried food fun. Iowa and Minnesota recently released their food menus for this year’s events, and there’s a whole lot more to eat than fried things on a…
Oh, just admit it. A national holiday is just two days away, which means you’re just one day away from an early departure from the office, and a whole lot of booze and a farmer’s tan. I’ll bet most of you’ve even put in notice to take Friday off, placing…
If you dine out regularly, you’ve probably experienced it: a server flashing that deer-in-headlights stare and coughing up a lame “I don’t really know” to your question about an item on the menu. It’s enough to make you suggest to your server the he or she consider other career options…
When I interviewed Alberto Neri for last week’s restaurant review, we talked a lot about textures. I was trying to figure out why the taco meats at some locations were consistently more crispy than others. Neri looked confused by my question. If I wanted crispy meats, all I had to…
News broke this morning on Culture Map that Brian Luscher has signed a lease on a restaurant space across the street from Elbow Room on Gaston Avenue. While the restaurant is still in its fetal stage (they’ve only just started renovations) Luscher concedes that his Post Oak Red Hots will…
Dallas Beer Kitchen opened just more than a week ago, bringing more beer, burgers and bar food to the Greenville Avenue nightlife scene. Bryan Kaeser and Joe Scribner, who have been blogging at Best Damn Things, opened the the restaurant and bar with their wives. The website, devoted to food,…
Monday is the start of another special legislative session at the Capitol in Austin. There are a few items on the agenda: transportation, capital murder sentencing guidelines and that whole restricting access to abortions (and women’s health care) thing. Perhaps that last one has upset you a little. Perhaps you…
I got here as quick as I could. That bird was cooking no less than half an hour ago. This is a need-to-know to know kind of deal, and you all need to know. For a little background: Chef Kenny Mills cut his teeth in the mean steakhouses of Dallas…
It goes without saying that most bread in this town is a massive let down. The most disappointing loaves can be found at grocery stores where blonde baguettes with a soft, almost waxy crust fill the bread baskets next to the even more terrible loaves branded simply as French or…
When Jay Jerrier first opened Il Cane Rosso in Deep Ellum in 2011, he was intent on making “authentic Neapolitan pizza.” So intent that not only did he buy an oven from Naples and use a mixer, flour and tomatoes from Naples, but he even recruited a Dino Santonicola, who…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Dutiful young men whipped through Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck, the rotating restaurant at the tip of…
Every time I see a Reuben sandwich on a menu my pupils dilate a bit. I know I shouldn’t eat them as much as I do, and I’ve gotten pretty good at resisting lesser specimens, but there are a few finer points of sandwich craftsmanship I can’t turn down no…
So, there’s probably no need for me to walk you through this. It’s a super strength plastic bag precisely placed inside a sports bra. Kathy Lee first introduced the wine rack bra on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno more than a year ago (surprised?), so if people who actually…
This past Tuesday, The Common Table tapped the first aged barley wine from Peticolas Brewery. Michael Peticolas initially planned to age the brew till this November, but after tasting a little recently he’s having a hard time sitting on it. The early release is one of a few the brewer…
