Carl’s Jr., which has a location within a terrifying-close range to Observer headquarters, is testing the “Ice Cream Brrrger.” Now, now: keep calm. A “brrrger” isn’t actually an ice cream-flavored burger. That, sources say, is still a few months away, and will likely debut in Japan, where the really crazy…
Brackets has closed. The restaurant that earned a scathing review from Hanna Raskin just over a year ago clearly never solved its identity issues. Raskin trashed nearly every dish, likening the crust on a passable pizza to Chuck E. Cheese’s, referencing a bloody and cold steak and calling nachos limp…
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 was surprised it took me so long to find these,…
The Box, if you haven’t been following along, is the Cheap Bastard’s brainchild, wherein chefs turn a box full o’ crap and turn it into foodstuffs. Between Brian C. Luscher’s weird-ass terrine of spam and quail eggs and the twinkie crowning inside a banana with homemade nutella, we’ve gotten some…
The Texas Rangers announced yesterday that soon you’ll be able to upgrade that Boomstick dog to a combo meal, which includes two one-liter bottles of Coke. And, in fairness, since Nellie got a hot dog in honor of his hot bat, Joshie gets one too: The Great Bratbino. John Blake…
Bros, aren’t you pumped? Let’s get effing pumped, bros. Why? Because Ruffles Ultimate Fucking Ruffles is “giving guys their first taste of the Ultimate party.” Whose biceps undulated when you heard that? Mine did, like a goddamn ocean. It’s gonna be unapologetic. You see, Ruffles Ultimate Potato Chips and Ruffles…
When I checked in with chef David McMillan back in March, he told me some significant changes were taking place with for John Tesar’s legacy CVap burgers at The Commissary. For one, they were supposed to be thinner, so the coloring would be more consistent throughout the center of the…
The Third Annual Peep at the Coops: The East Dallas Urban Coop Tour is this Sunday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There are few rules for the tour. First, you can’t bring your dog. (Really? Do we have to make that a rule? If you thought you…
American Craft Beer Week kicked off Monday and fine watering holes throughout the city are celebrating with rare keg tappings and tastings. Design District gastropub and beer-nerd destination the Meddlesome Moth is creating special dishes each night this week to complement its beer offerings. Tuesday night the Moth presented Grand…
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 us. I never expected to eat some of the best ribs in…
It’s a nice enough image. A sizable square of mahi mahi boasts perfect 90-degree hashes: the mark of a careful quarter turn on a searing hot grill. The visual perfection carries through to the very center of the fish, where my fork encounters firm and fresh flesh, cooked a moment…
When I was in elementary school our menu was extremely one-dimensional, relying on a handful of staples rotated throughout the week in a failed attempt to keep things fresh. We did not eat well. Fish sticks were prominent, and I remember watching in disgust as some of the other kids…
When the pink slime fervor began, Beef Products Inc, the largest national producer of what it prefers to call Lean Finely Textured Beef, halted production at a few of its plants. They claimed that free-falling demand, caused by Kroger, McDonald’s and other large scale retailers’ rejection of the ammonia-treated beef,…
DFW Food Truck Foodie reported last night that the Fort Worth Food Park is opening its own cantina, which sounds great until you realize the rub: The park is no longer BYOB. Food truck dining can be a little, well, not cheap. But the BYOB aspect made it completely pleasurable…
Other people in line in front of me count: 8 Days I’ve been thinking about this chicken since I ate it: 3 (whole) As I yelled, “Elaine just popped my jerk-chicken cherry and my goat-curry cherry and I really liked it!” in the parking lot of Elaine’s Kitchen, I realized…
As previously noted on several occasions, last year the Texas legislature passed a law that allows home bakers to legally sell their goods from home under some very specific guidelines (Senate Bill 81). And each time I type out another article about this issue, I think, “Well, that should do…
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 was worried I wouldn’t be able to include this dish…
I’m pretty sure there is a holiday honoring some sort of food product every single day, with overlapping weeks and months to celebrate others. They reach a saturation point at which I tune them all out. But American Craft Beer Week, which began yesterday and runs through Sunday, is an…
Oh it’s just another beer festival, that’s all. ‘Cause that’s how we roll here in Dallas. Beer festies every weekend. This one even involves running, which is great because there’s such satisfaction in digging a hole just to fill it right back up. Sunday brings the Third Annual BrewRiot Homebrew…
Confining sows in small gestation crates has come under great scrutiny lately. Major companies like McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and most recently the nation’s second largest grocery chain, Safeway, have announced a phase-out of pork supplied by farms that use gestation crates. However, recently Domino’s Pizza shareholders rejected a resolution…
The mobile food eatery Rock and Roll Tacos is taking over the kitchen at LaGrange in Deep Ellum in an effort to help both businesses spread taco love. The partnership solves a couple issues: For one, LaGrange is primarily a swanky lounge offering up local music and good drinks. “To…
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. Last year Cane Rosso’s pizza made our 100 Favorite Dishes list…
