I spent five days last week stumbling my way through the tenth annual Tales of the Cocktail event in New Orleans and came away with some new friends, blisters on my feet, tons of new booze knowledge, and a pretty wicked hangover. I’ve also got memories that will last a…
Forest Lane has a new burger place. Becks Prime opened last week promising fresh, fast, burgers, steaks and sandwiches. The Houston based fast food chain with 13 locations, comes endorsed by the same Texas Monthly list that honored Brian Luscher with the greatest burger in Texas. How does Becks stand…
On Monday we reported on the grand opening of the Cedars Food Park at Dallas Heritage Village this past weekend, and in that report we included the schedule. Well, that’s been changed. They’ve decided to scratch lunch. So, beginning August 16, the park will open on Thursday evenings and after…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. The last time I wrote about Ali Baba’s tabouleh, I’d had…
Lots of changes for the Lombardi’s this month. Last week we heard that the Screen Door was closing and Lombardi Family Restaurants would be taking over the space to open a bistro concept. This week the group released details about the new spot. Cafe Des Artistes will focus on a…
Sigel’s is hosting a Summer Rum Festival and Tasting this Wednesday, August 1, at their Inwood Road location. There are going to be more than 50 rums to sample with distillery representatives ready to answer all your hard-hitting questions. If you’ve spent more time than you’d like to admit in…
If there was one thing you were thinking during Olympic beach volleyball action yesterday, it was, “Sports bra over a sleeved shirt and pants? Dangit.” If there were two things you were thinking, they were, 1) “Sports bra over a sleeved shirt and pants? Dangit.” 2) “I need a drink.”…
Downtown Dallas doesn’t offer much it terms of grocery stores. Urbanmarket closed earlier this year because it couldn’t find is place in the fickle grocery-shopping patterns of downtown residents. Other than that, CVS and 7-Eleven are the choices. It’s like a grocery store desert — with lots of tall buildings…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. No human with any semblance of self-respect, dignity or care for…
While I wait for the USDA to sort out its feelings about Meatless Monday with breath that is most certainly bated, I continue the valiant search for meatless dishes that don’t suck and aren’t cheese nachos from 7-Eleven. This week, I couldn’t ignore the dull roar of ballyhoo any longer…
Rita’s Italian Ice, or Rita’s Water Ice, or as the corporate website put its, Rita’s Ice-Custard-Happiness, is a quickly growing frozen treats franchise out of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, (near Philly). In addition to their many names, they also have many many many combos. One can have a straight Rita’s ice (think…
In the comments of my recent review of SNACK, Torchness asks: Can you please explain why the Observer reviews every week are almost always the same restaurant as the Dallas Morning News Reviews (or, vice versa)? I find this obnoxious. Why can’t there be different reviews week to week? Personally…
When Mark Stuertz reviewed Cafe Pacific, in 2004, he called the Highland Park Village seafood restaurant a cliché. The menu has crab cakes and veal Oscar, he said. Breaded veal cutlets with crab and asparagus were alive and well in Dallas. And here I am eight years later sitting at…
See also: Photos from the Cedars Food Park Grand Opening Saturday evening a surly red rooster greeted visitors at the entrance of the Dallas Heritage Village with an ungracious crow from its coop. Inside the Old City Park south of downtown, the bright green sloping lawns were speckled with picnic…
The opening ceremonies have just kicked off, and the Olympics are under way. Seems like a good time to check in with our resident Brit for his primer on food from the other side of the pond. While most of the dishes Gavin Cleaver listed are impossible to find here…
See also, from Unfair Park: *Meatless Mondays at USDA Out-and-Out “Treason,” Ag Commish Staples Says An internal USDA Newsletter has some Republican tweeps in an uproar. On July 23, the USDA posted a five-page newsletter for employees, offering tips and status updates on “greening efforts” including cool roofing systems, recycling…
Greetings from currently rainy New Orleans! I’m here till Sunday checking out the 10th annual Tales of the Cocktail, a gathering of bartenders, liquor reps and booze enthusiasts that draws attendees from all over the nation for a week of seminars, tasting rooms, dinners, parties and general alcohol-fueled revelry. (I’m…
Babies get an aisle. And dogs get an aisle. And the entire store is designed for women. So, it seems only fair that men should at least get their own aisle, right? First question though, what should be on the man aisle? The Westside Market in New York City (the…
The Screen Door will be the second restaurant in One Arts Plaza to close this week. A reader who tried to make a reservation for next week was told that the popular Southern cooking restaurant would serve its last meatloaf sandwich on Saturday. I just called chef David McMillan to…
Last night amidst a whirlwind of whiskey shots inside the business card-encrusted walls of New Orleans’ Old Absinthe House (the only bar on Bourbon Street I’ve found that’s worthy of visiting so far, and the spot where everyone who’s anyone seems to convene post-Tales dinners and parties), I ran into…
For more of Gavin’s swim in Texas barbecue sauce, see also *The Englishman Reviews Taste of Dallas’ BBQ Scene *An Englishman Reviews the BBQ of Hard Eight for The English *An Englishman Reviews the BBQ of Mike Anderson’s for The English I finished my blog the other week with the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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’ve had my fair share of bad Scotch eggs. Usually the…
