How are the hard-working folks who can make or break a restaurant meal cared for at the end (or beginning) of a long shift? Do they send out for pizza?Used to be, in the family-run restaurants of yore, the staff would sit down to a communal meal together each day,…
Chefs from 10 of the top kitchens in Dallas vied for top honors in the Sunday night’s Caesar salad competition, vying for diners’ votes with salads dressed up with merguez sausage, scallop ceviche or brisket tacos, or restyled as carrot-wrapped salad sticks, romaine gazpacho topped with Caesar sorbet, or stuffed…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Mango Thai Cuisine4448 Lovers Lane214-265-9996Promised delivery time: about 45 minutesActual delivery time: 48 minutesFriendliness of the guy on the phone: 11Ease of personalizing an entree: 25Reading back my order to ensure accuracy:…
Central 2145680 N. Central Expy214-443-9339My waitress claims that in all those months of filming for “The Naughty Kitchen,” Oxygen’s culinary reality show featuring chef Blythe Beck, there was only one moment of real drama. Seems a female guest recoiled from the cameras because she was on a date–though not with…
Somewhere in between this weekend’s soccer games, F1 coverage from the greatest racetrack in the world and MotoGP at Indy, I managed to fit in a few restaurant visits…um, which makes it seem like I spend half my life in front of a television.Kinda pathetic, I guess. And it only…
Our respect for the SMU student body knows few bounds. So this little exchange from a couple of undergrads sitting at the next table made us proud.Boy, explaining that his taste in food has expanded: “I’m diversifying.”Girl: “Is that a word?”…
Much to our delight, the mini-burger craze has hit a bump in the road. Hey, don’t get us wrong–we’ve got nothing against two-biters. They’re cute and small and often even feature fancy meats. It’s just the “s-word” that grosses us out. But whatever you wanna call ’em, there seems to…
The comfort food trend strikes again. Chefs Scott Gottlich and J Chastain have updated the menu at The Second Floor to focus more on contemporary comfort food along with its signature bistro items. But this being the place that claims to have the largest Scotch selection in Dallas, they needed…
In the week that brought a spirited City of Ate debate over the merits of eating in the Dallas suburbs, even if you live in the city, we covered plenty of other reasons to try new things. This week saw looks at ultra-pure water, soul food for the fancy, and…
A notice pops up in my email just about every day announcing the arrival of some new fro-yo stand. Is there really a demand for all this? If so, what’s driving it? And what the hell’s wrong with ice cream?In other words, how many of these places will make it?Results…
So we could have awarded just about everyone posting comments to Eddie Garza’s piece this week on the waterborne controversy at Bliss. Just a few examples: bc: “In unrelated news, I’m going to live in a hyperbaric chamber filled with angel farts. Living angel farts.”Handsome Lance Manion: “Ever since they…
Years ago I took a glass tasting course from Riedel–which I’m sure you understand means I sampled wine from Riedel stemware.It’s an extraordinary thing: wine poured into a normal red or white wine glass tastes very different when served in one designed for the specific grape. In fact, the change…
In this week’s paper, Dave gives Lola a hello, goodbye as the decade-old Uptown spot prepares to shutter later this fall. The full set of photos from our photographer’s trip to the restaurant are here in this week’s Dish Extra slideshow.The Lola photo set caps off a fine month in…
Many kids and young adults are heading back to school right now. Some lucky stiffs, however, will trade cracking books for grilling, baking, sautéing and flambéing. Ever wonder what it’s like? We have. Turns out, culinary school’s lighter on the Gordon Ramsay-style discipline than you’d think and heavier on the…
Take a look at that grid of little boxes. Just like East Dallas, really–with newer homes and fewer trees. And no backyard chicken farming.Just this afternoon we received a note from Brian Rudolph, urging us to visit his Holy Grail Pub (an Old Monk spin-off), located somewhere in the ‘burbs…
A liter a day keeps the doctor away. –Old German proverb (at least according to the Bavarian Grill’s Stein Hour menu)Along with a handful of other local eateries, the Bavarian Grill in Plano is in the running for GermanDeli.com’s designation as The Best German Restaurant in America. Kuby’s may have…
Something about America’s Northeastern states grates on us Southwestern hicks.OK, so I’m really a Midwestern hick–our distrust of New England is about the same. So the opportunity to pit a local enterprise against a national chain bearing a blue blood name? Couldn’t resist.Rotisserie cooking relies on little more than heat…
Palomino500 Crescent Ct. (Atrium)214-999-1222Age can fray a restaurant. Leather wears, fittings crack and the room begins to lose its allure.Not so in the case of Palomino. The dining space at this veteran Crescent Court locale speaks of timeless dinner club finery, with an inviting bar and patio that’s just plain…
My good friend Sara and I met a few years ago at a yoga class. We instantly hit it off, and started doing everything together…grocery shopping, dining, working out. She even moved into my building. But over the past couple of months, we’ve both been on crazy schedules. No more…
Recipe Demonstrated by José, Chad and Janice of Parigi In a town obsessed with new, there’s something refreshing about longevity. Dallasites love to flock to the latest hot spots, packing dining rooms three deep for about three weeks and then forgetting the place altogether. A classic like Parigi, though, which…
Sometimes trying new things sucks. Por exemplo, I joined Twitter this week. And when I went to pick a username, I found out that @bigbagodongs was already taken (total suckitude), so I had to settle for @thecheapbastard. Super lame, but I guess that’s what I get for waiting so long…
“It’s kinda weird, honestly,” chef David Uygur says of the impending closure of a restaurant he’s been associated with for seven years. “It’s only gradually becoming real.” For almost a decade Lola—the Van Roberts-owned cottage restaurant on Fairmount—stood as an icon of fine dining in the Uptown area, whether in…
