This weather is just odd. I find myself craving things like morel mushrooms, asparagus and spring peas as of late, even though I’ve not nearly gotten my fill of braised lamb and other hearty winter dishes. I wonder if the recent warm weather indicates anything about the coming summer. If…
Exciting news from the T-Gubbins Party Line. Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare have bought the old Watel’s spot, which used to be York Street. York Street broke hearts when it closed back in 2010. For 10 years, Sharon Hage created a quaint East Dallas restaurant that became a landmark in…
Yes, select Waffle House locations will actually whip out nice white table cloths and candles for Valentine’s Day this year, as it has done at some locations for several years now. All of which I think is absolutely awesome, for these reasons: 1) Those big white globe lampshades that can…
Maybe I’m a bit of a nerd, but I love a good documentary. SMU Students for a Better Society will host a screening of a new film that spends significant time not on the problems with our current food system, but on better ways of producing grub that people actually…
Kartik Rathore opened The People’s Last Stand in Mockingbird Station more than a year ago, and the foremost concept was it would be an upscale bar serving high-quality drinks. It was his first endeavor in the restaurant and bar business and he admittedly had a hard time in the beginning…
The former home of The Bicycle Café at the corner of Northwest Highway and Lawther Drive is now The Lake House Bar and Grill. The spot, which is just northeast of White Rock Lake, has been completely remodeled and transformed into a nautically themed, sunny hang out, replete with two…
I’m sorry. It’s an obnoxious headline. I’m really ashamed of it. But it tells the story, it really does. The Flaming Lips commissioned a hundred anatomically correct chocolate hearts from Dude, Sweet Chocolate, as part of a promotional package. The special box featured a USB drive containing 15 of the…
The last bar list I put together was all about food. But if you’ve finished up your dinner or ate an entire hot mess for lunch, you don’t always need a bar that serves up a great burger. Sometimes you just want a drink. Sometimes you just want several. See…
After months of anticipation, Pop Diner (3600 McKinneyAve.) has officially opened its doors to the West Village. The 24-hour diner, located next to Max’s Wine Dive, celebrated its soft-opening this morning. At quarter past eleven, owner Nik Gjonaj boisterously announced to his staff (who’d been darting around in their lime…
The best thing about the Top Chef chefs being in Alaska is that Josh Valentine gets to wear even more hats! He wore three hats in this episode. You think that’s uninteresting, and that nobody gives any of their shits about what he’s wearing? I completely agree. And it’s still…
Last night Hofmann’s Hots held a media preview at their new hot dog restaurant in Trinity Groves. They gave out a bunch of free hot dogs, and a lot of bloggers and reporters from newspapers took pictures and conducted interviews. The fast food restaurant is brought to you by the…
Dallas restaurateur Phil Romano opened the first Macaroni Grill in 1988 and thus began the schooling of waiters around the country on how to write their name upside down. (That was a thing the waiters once did there. Not sure exactly why, but people seemed to like it.) In 1989,…
J. Pepe’s Tex Mex at 3619 Greenville Ave. was oddly empty during lunch on an otherwise picturesque day for a plate of nachos on the patio. Party’s over, folks. Everybody out of the pool. Pegasus News got the scoop late last week from long-time owner Jimmy Bharmao that they have…
I couldn’t wait any longer. I’m a sucker for good seafood, and Marc Cassel’s new casual restaurant promised oysters on the half shell, fish and chips, sandwiches and more. Cassel leased the space right next to Goodfriend and Good 2 Go, rounding out a trio of restaurants offering tacos and…
Even in reality TV-obsessed Texas, where there are more shows filmed about drunks, housewives, pint-sized beauty queens, gays, bling, dance moms and cowboys than you can count, odds are you won’t score a cameo in one. Still, the more I hear about new Trinity Groves concept Kitchen LTO, the more…
I don’t normally point to the Daily Deals promotion that’s offered in tandem with the Observer website, but this one looks too good to pass up. If you read my recent review of Qariah Lebanese Restaurant & Lounge you know I’m pretty smitten with their sandwiches and lunch buffet. Today…
My excitement for Meso Maya quickly withered after dining at the restaurant two times. The food isn’t bad. In fact, some of it is quite good. What’s disappointing is what’s left on the table when multiple locations of the same restaurant open in one city. It’s boring. See also: -…
Meso Maya has a very likable chef working its kitchen. If you sit at the bar at downtown’s newest Mexican restaurant, which opened last December, you’ll easily find Nico Sanchez. Just over the bottles of tequila stacked behind the bar like a yellow sunset you’ll see him in the open…
In this week’s news feature, Observer staff writer Brantley Hargrove takes an in-depth look at the demise of Irving-based snack food company Hostess. The photos that accompany the story feature Hostess products strategically places in CSI-type scenarios. Below are a few of my favorite photos from the shoot. Also, make…
Last year when the folks at the Common Table had an idea for a little craft beer block party in front of their Uptown restaurant, they probably didn’t realize they were creating a monster. A really loveable and wonderful monster like Mr. Snuffleupagus, though. Interest in the craft beer event…
Thursday, February 7 Bolsa Mercado is reviving Meet & Eat this Thursday. Chef Jeff Harris is creating a dinner in honor of the Meridian, Texas-based Red Caboose Winery, which was recently selected as a Top 10 Hot Brands by Wine Business Monthly. Dinner includes Gulf Coast red snapper, roasted and…
Both the Bowery and The Stand sought to bring casual hot dog concepts to McKinney Avenue. Each closed shortly after opening. It would seem the Uptown hot dog bubble collapsed as quickly as it inflated. Now the Bowery’s creators, Richard & Tiffanee Ellman from Oak and John Paul Valverde, who…
