Last week we got word of John Tesar’s trifecta of plans for 2012. First, he’s sold his share of The Commissary to co-owner Lucy Billingsley and plans to open other two other independent Commissaries; one at Northwest Highway and Midway and the other in cowtown at the Museum Place. Then,…
Foodbitch’s inboxes fill each day with a metric shit-ton of offers, flash sales and discounts. Here are some of this week’s best. (Weekly deals are helpfully divided into Silver Spoon and Wooden Spoon, for your pricey and less pricey finds, respectively.) SILVER SPOON DEALS Because you’ve got to drop some…
Over the weekend, Meddlesome Moth featured the above dish, an off-the-menu heap of mouthwatering comfort on a plate: three biscuits smothered with sweet potato mash, topped with fried chicken, gravy and onion strings on a plate covered in sauteed zucchini and diced white onions, dotted with dried cranberries. The plate…
This week’s drinking dispatch is brought to you courtesy of my complete inability to pass up dollar drinks, particularly when said bargain drinks involve the words “gimlet” or “Collins” rather than “McCormicks” or “Bud.” While performing my morning ritual of catching up on the latest in Food Blog-Land over coffee,…
“No regular potato fries? Goddamn hipsters.” So spoke the quintessential Meatless Monday opponent, also known as my boyfriend. We sat across a bar-height table at Sundown, the new restaurant/beer garden situated next to the Granada Theater, on a stretch of Greenville Avenue that’s also home to seafood shack Aw Shucks…
The fourth annual SOUP’S ON! Stewpot Alliance Luncheon and art sale is tomorrow at Union Station. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, will be the keynote speaker, and nine of Dallas’ top chefs will serve up signature soups. The art sale will feature more than 50 paintings and handmade…
For those unfamiliar, Wingfield’s is more of a trailer dropped onto cinder blocks rather than a fully functioning restaurant. It doesn’t look like much — bars on the windows, a window air conditioner humming on hot days, in a southern Dallas neighborhood that’s seen better days — but it’s all…
Yes, it’s National Pie Day. No, we don’t know why it isn’t a National Holiday. Yes, we’re drafting a letter to address this degradation of our national food. In the meantime, we’re offering up a few of our favorites to guide you through your four-hour lunch in which you try…
We arrived at Wild Salsa a few minutes before our reservation on Saturday night, but the door wasn’t even closed behind me when I realized we wouldn’t be sitting soon. America’s librarians, in town for a big conference, had descended on the downtown cantina in force, and the waiting area…
When I moved to Texas I was very upset about the weather. Multiple weeks of triple-digit heat and no rain had me begging for relief. I asked everyone if winter was at least mild. No, everyone said. There’s ice and it’s so cold it burns your skin. Fortunately you guys…
It’s no secret I love a good cupcake. So last time I was at NorthPark center, I noticed some hard-to-miss signage promoting something called a Cupcake War. I took a photo (pictured) so I wouldn’t forget. Like I could. This is the stuff of foodbitch dreams. I picture well-dressed local…
Every now and then I page through the hundreds of photos in my iPhone and wonder what the hell I’m doing to myself. I am a man made of burgers and fries and tacos, and apparently since coming to Dallas I’ve eaten a shit-ton of Reuben sandwiches. Most of them…
I visited the Chesterfield when the bar first opened, and have been back a handful of times. Downtown’s newest bar promises great drinks and a stylish space. And I want to love the place, I really do. But it’s too crowded and too noisy at times, and I often feel…
Nick Rallo and I have both written before about how deliciously hoppy, caramelly and boozy Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA is, so no need to regale you once again with tasting notes that border on erotic fiction for hopophiliacs. Instead, just enjoy his beer-porn snapshot that shows how this 18-percent…
Update, January 20: This sandwich, which Justin built on his own and named the Doc Brown, is now officially a thing. And it’s being served. Now. Each week, Justin Bitner goes hunting for DFW’s most interesting sandwiches. Have a sandwich suggestion? Leave it in the comments and he’ll check it…
Dallas native Abraham Bebell previously kept spirits hopping at Cuba Libre and Victor Tango’s, and now is the bar manager at the new Oak in the Design District. He’s part of cadre of local bartenders that are rediscovering the old approach to booze. I recently drank his booze and spoke…
Chef Kyle McClelland moved from New York City to Dallas last October to take over the kitchen at The Cedars Social. The French Culinary Institute grad has an impressive pedigree and previously we spoke about his “clean” approach to cooking. Needless to say, I have been anxious to try it…
It’s time, Aters. We’ve been watching the playoffs since the wild cards, and the championship games are this Sunday. We’ve been blogging about potential menus and discussing them in the comments, but now it’s time to execute. If you want to put on an awesome spread to get you through…
Chad Houser and Janice Provost are gearing up again. The faces behind the non-profit organization Cafe Momentum are preparing to announce their next pop-up dinner, to be held in February at Bolsa Mercado. The event will feature chefs Jeff Harris and Matt Balke. Last year, Houser and Provost used similar…
Crispy skinned black chicken, perfectly moist, claw still attached, over fois gras and tiny cubes of beet, their blood-like juices splattered on the plate as though the unusual dark poultry underwent a brutal execution — all topped off with a quail egg, symbolic of the chicken’s unborn chick. That was…
303 Bar and Grill opened last Friday, and by the following Sunday afternoon people were packed into the Oak Cliff joint, eating, drinking beer and watching football. The restaurant is located in an old, renovated house on West Davis and Madison; the owner bought two houses then demolished one for…
Recently I had lunch at Ali Baba Grill in Irving. I’m usually anti buffets, but the lunch all-you-can-eat spread here is actually executed quite well. They’re good at rotating in new stuff so, for the most part, the food stays fresh and warm. And if you want flavor without the…
