Spiral Diner is a vegan diner in Oak Cliff. Every vegan cliché is there: massage therapist business cards; dreads; a flier suggesting that we all get together and build a dog park; good-for-you-smelling air mixed with patchouli stank; employees who are all totally, sincerely, Jehovah’s Witness nice all the time…
What a difference a hostess, a knowledgeable waiter and a month can make. I first visited Asador almost two months after it had opened, and I left that evening concerned for its future. After all, there were high hopes. The Renaissance Hotel had undergone a $3-million renovation and much of…
Every couple’a months, a truly transcendental holiday comes along. One that crosses religious and cultural boundaries, makes us take a firm step back, and realize just how thankful we all should be — for merlot. And chardonnay. And pinot noir and Franzia and, hell, even Boone’s Farm — whatever your…
The first Texas gin and the first spirit ever created by a chef is about to make its debut. Former Coca-Cola executive Don Short and James Beard Award-winning chef Robert Del Grande are the two men behind the enterprise and look forward to its early June release here in Texas…
Thanks to everyone who contributed their suggestions on which beer to drink in toasting a Mavericks return to the NBA Finals in this item about three upcoming beer dinners. Nick made a valid Rick James-endorsed point and appealed to our love of hops with his suggestion of Sierra Nevada Celebration…
I have spent about 17 minutes of my entire life dieting. I did it to teach myself healthy eating habits so my body doesn’t explode on my 25th birthday, when my metabolism is supposed to screech to a halt. But in those 17 minutes, I was even grumpier and hungrier…
Food trucks have been popping up all around town, from the Green House Truck, to the Good Luck Food Truck, and the ever-so-kitschy Grillenium Falcon. Now, expect to spot another four-wheeled culinary wagon cruising around Dallas, as Jack’s Chowhound is set to hit the road in the next week or…
Boy, that was a doozy. Nothing like stuffing yourself in a closet with five other people plus a dog to put apple pie and mopping floors in perspective. (Of the former: Life’s short and I should eat more; of the latter: extremely overrated when your house is about to get…
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma might have changed my thinking about food, but it sure didn’t produce any big changes in my actions. Oh sure, there was plenty of stomping around self-righteously for awhile, spouting big talk about joining a CSA and buying hens for the backyard and only eating…
Three of Dallas’ premier beer bars have planned three very interesting beer dinners in the next few weeks, including a chance to meet the founder of a leading American craft brewery, a unique beer-vs.-wine dinner and a post-American Craft Beer Week dinner celebration with an eclectic food and brew menu…
Remember when we first discovered the Internet and all we used it for was pretending we were dudes and asking dudes who were pretending to be chicks if they wanted to cyber? Well, the Internet has come a long way and now we live in a time when you can…
After 12 years of growing grouchier and more haggard, Alton Brown announced a few weeks ago that he’s putting Good Eats out to pasture. Presumably, he’s ditching science class for something more lucrative, like Welch’s grape juice and the warmed-over Iron Chef: America, leaving viewers to get their food science…
The folks at Jamba Juice have a gimmick up their sleeves. While the smoothie bar is known for its fruit and veggie smoothies, freshly squeezed juices and healthy snack options plastered across their colorful menu boards, turns out the California-based chain has a not-so-secret, secret menu. All one has to…
In 1964, Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters hopped into a brightly painted bus and traveled eastward in a hallucinogen-inspired stupor with the hopes of expanding their perceptions of reality. This Saturday, in a slightly less psychedelic but far more delicious bus trip, Dallas’ Scardello Artisan Cheese will…
This food truck is quite operational. While food trucks are inching closer and closer–please, hurry!–to being parked in the Arts District in Dallas, the Grillenium Falcon has made its way to Arkansas. The force seems pretty damn strong with this one. Besides the effing genius art, the menu features sandwiches…
The line started 10 feet away from a table in the back of the store, snaked around long rows of wine, out the front doors, all the way to the back of the building, then past another building and into a parking lot, which was so jam-packed with cars tow…
The clever marketing folks at Shiroma Southwest sure know how to impress a lady while advertising their client’s appearance at this past weekend’s Taste Addison. Last week, the PR and communications firm sent me a lone meatball from Kenny’s Italian Kitchen, along with a card touting the meatballs and a…
Every year, chefs, restaurant owners and vendors take a week off, dust off the old expense accounts and meet in one of America’s larger cities for a few days of snacking, drinking and pretending to be interested in a 3000W blender for a chance to win an iPad or stare…
There are spicy foods, and then there is 1 Plus Chicken. Holy moly. I’d been meaning to try the Korean fried chicken joint for some time, and the opportunity finally presented itself this weekend. It’s situated next to the popular K-town watering hole, Bar A, and I was always disappointed…
Next month’s Supper Club, our monthly dinner and music series with local chefs, is showcasing the raw meat talent of Chef Tim Byres of Smoke. Later this week, we’ll post Chef Tim’s menu for those lookin’ to get their Supper on (as well as hear some good tunes from Austin…
This week, presumably, Dallas has moved past waiting three hours for and crying over hamburgers. We’re on to more sophisticated things, like hamburgers with 8,000 calories, ballpark grub and how much we all hate the word “gooey.” Read on. City of Ate Jenny Block couldn’t find much wrong with Vijay…
In parts one and two of this week’s Three Course Meal, we gave you a look at Chad Kelley, executive chef at Meddlesome Moth, and his thoughts on the national food scene and the Dallas dining scene. Today we give you the five rules you have to follow if you…
