Each week the Dude Food guys assess the ‘masculinity’ of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating…Taqueria El Si Hay601 W Davis St.214-941-4042Dude Factor: 10, or El Santo, on a scale of 1 (these guys) to 10.Sorry for the tardiness, blog…
You probably remember the moment you first saw Jessica Simpson slink into a Pizza Hut and, quite seductively, feed some dorky tween an oh-so-cheesy popper while moaning the line “one of these days these bites are gonna pop right into you.” Yeah, it was pre-the now post- Tony Romo and…
It shouldn’t be this easy, right? I’ve pinned this entire column, too many times, on a long-winded kvetch about how many questions I have to ask–and how resentful I suspect the various wait staffers must feel–every time I go out to eat. So when I found out that not only…
A couple of new food-related sites caught our eye last week…while we maybe should have been working. Aren’t you glad we’re willing to procrastinate? [Editor’s note: you should have been working–and stealing stuff from the Internet to cover your tracks doesn’t count].SympathyFood.com: Why say it with flowers when you can…
Cafe Istanbul7300 Lone Star Drive, Plano972-398-2020The northern addition to Plano’s Legacy development supports a hive of restaurants, all clustered near the big fountain that supposedly distracts from the vista of an office building and the distant blue of IKEA.But the grouping–and others spread around the entire complex–is what makes Legacy…
I’ve all but given up on my anti-slider campaign. Not trying to stamp out small sandwiches, you understand, just use of a word referring to the kind of distress one never likes to associate with dinner.Of course, I’m still dedicated to erasing smarmy things like the F-word (“foodie”). And I’ll…
Once the mercury bubbled up past 100 last weekend, you might have been more drawn to the nearest open freezer than to downtown’s sweaty West End–but then, you would’ve missed the “crown jewel” of local summer street food events, Taste of Dallas.Sure, the menu options leaned a little to the…
It may be Barbershop Music Appreciation Day, but…really, who cares? It’s also Reservation Day. Today is the big reveal for which restaurants are participating in KRLD’s Restaurant Week Aug. 17 through 23, and the first day during which you can call in your reservations. More than 130 Dallas/Fort Worth restaurants…
“I’m a regular-person raw foodist,” says Miranda Martinez with a gleam in her eye. “I still live in the real world.” Coming from her, we actually believe it. Two years ago, the Dallas-based actress and producer turned off her oven and didn’t look back. Sixty-plus pounds later, she claims she’s…
Meat, in its many exotic forms, took center stage this week in local food writing, from steak tartare and meat loaf in the Morning News food reviews, to meatballs and veggie-friendly (but primarily meat-serving) restaurants on City of Ate.The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Lemongrass is the site…
Why do we ask? Well, a town in Australia just banned bottled water for environmental reasons–all that plastic waste, you know. But there are also those studies proving that, in most cases, tap water is every bit the bottle’s equal, in taste as well as good-for-you-ness. Indeed, some brands simply…
We’ve stopped trying to give things away, but we do like to call some attention to clever/accurate/downright impressive comments posted on City of Ate. So our favorites from the past seven days, no prizes attached:From TLS, in response to the Question Of The Week:”The Costco sampling stations are always crowded…
Just when I thought the DFW area had sidestepped at least a few of the more pointless food trends–TV dinner restaurants, bubble tea–comes this story from Teresa Gubbins and Pegasus News.The Cereal Bar in The Colony serves, you know, corn flakes, Special K, maybe even Count Chocula–the stuff you can…
Perhaps only gin has a more dubious reputation than rum–although to earn it, gin had to beat out rum’s association with slavery, pirates and the rough drink known as “kill devil” preferred by islanders of previous centuries.Hell, even the name comes from “rumbullion,” an archaic British slang term for the…
Ben Verdooren might have been down, but he was far from out. Just weeks after the abrupt closure of his restaurant Zymology, this popular young entrepreneur is staging a comeback. And you might be surprised to learn just how far he didn’t travel to find a new gig. Bandera sits…
In this week’s paper, Dave pays a visit to Lemongrass in Deep Ellum, and has plenty of time to consider the experience while he waits for the waiter to return.More shots from the pan-Asian bistro and sushi spot, including more of the spring rolls Dave praises in his column, are…
Last week’s Hophead featured the Kansas City brewery Boulevard’s Saison, part of the company’s Smokestack series. Though not a life-changing beer, the Saison was impressive enough to warrant further investigation into the Smokestack series. A recent night at home with pizza seemed a perfect opportunity to pop the cork on…
Hook, Line & Sinker3103 Lemmon Avenue214-965-0707Fans of the popular Uptown shack may find it harder to support their ‘best catfish’ claims, thanks to at least one more upscale challenger. I’ve never been certain they deserved the accolades lately, anyway, given their simplistic approach to the fish. On the other hand,…
The Taste of Dallas opens tomorrow for three days of ‘too hot to eat anything,’ ‘I’ve had enough of this cover band,’ ‘what’s Darryl Dawkins doing over there’ fun.Organizers bill it as the largest free festival in Texas–which, of course, means it costs you nothing to walk around (unlike other…
You know those people who are disgustingly picky about where in a restaurant they sit? Those people who, no matter where a host or hostess puts them, want to sit somewhere else, and are willing to pull the strings and smile ingratiatingly enough to get themselves moved? And who then,…
Recipe Demonstrated by Scott Whittall of Buli The half-mile stretch of Cedar Springs from Oak Lawn to Wycliff has remained staunchly Starbucks-less in a world where corporate coffee shops are as common a sight as burger drive-thrus and SUV’s. But nobody on the block seems to care. Who needs one…
There’s a Burger Street in a Motel 6 parking lot. Duh. Going there. Gimme the Junior Burger Combo, which comes with a drink and the choice of curly fries or tater tots. Now, there is a huge difference between curly fries and tater tots: curly fries are curly fries and…
