I can only gather and repeat admonitions based upon my own experiences at a particular restaurant. For that reason, I will never return to Lemongrass unless work demands a revisit. This statement should not, however, be read as a condemnation of the place. It’s just clear from a few meals…
But It Is Pretty Damn Confusing, Even For The Servers Themselves. A More Than You Ever Want To Know Primer…The restaurant industry might be one of the shadiest in the country. It is populated by the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Jason Sheehan, after all. But mainly this is due…
The last time the Kids Eat tasting crew sampled organic, natural, healthy snacks, they were not impressed. So I didn’t have high hopes for Lifeway’s ProBugs, a line of fruit-flavored organic whole-milk kefir drinks. Kefir, by the way, is a fermented milk beverage that is catching on as a health-food…
Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Maybe I’m jumping the gun on this. Then again, writing a corn dog piece around state fair time seems far too cliche.So what the hell–it’s summer, the season of food on a stick,…
Dallas, as we’ve discovered over the past half-year, has a surprising wealth of options for vegans and vegetarians. And though its shining stars are usually the veg-only places–Spiral Diner, Kalachandji’s, Veggie Garden and the like–that doesn’t always leave room for vegans to bring along our good ol’ meat-eating friends. With…
On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.If Cole Porter, world-famous composer, musical philosopher and inspiration for the Jonas Brothers…yeah, right…were alive today and writing about food instead of music, he might term El Salvador’s love affair with pupusas this way: “Birds…
Summertime wine buying often leads to an irksome game tug-of-war between your mind and your wallet. You love your friends (well, most of them anyway; at least you want to be nice in hopes you’ll get something out of them someday), and you don’t want to serve them swill until…
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…Fireside Pies2820 N. Henderson Ave.Dude Factor: 6, or Warrant’s “Cherry Pie,” on a scale of 1 (Don McLean’s “American Pie”) to 10 (Led Zeppelin’s “Custard…
My first introduction to a cucumber sandwich was sometime back in the mid-1990s, when I was a young teenager on some kind of church or tennis trip to the Deep South. Somewhere between Georgia and Louisiana, which might be Alabama, I remember stopping in a tiny town where the air…
Somewhere in the back of a darkened warehouse, surrounded by half-eaten buckets of chicken, a cartoon sailor and a country colonel are quaking in their boots…and no, that’s not one of those “don’t ask, don’t tell” scenarios. “Damn that Zaxby’s,” they’re hissing between bites. “Damn them and their plump, juicy…
Actually, you pay nothing extra for a subscription to Hot off the Grill, our email newsletter. That makes it a…scratch that–our marketing gang just said it’s a whole lot for nothing, not what I originally wrote. And believe me, you don’t argue with marketing. Not if you don’t like lengthy…
Dallas’ latest incarnation of the Hard Rock Cafe…yawn…where were we…oh, it is getting set for a soft opening in the middle of next week at Victory Park’s southern end, about a block from the House of Blues.While work crews finish up the flooring and the gift shop, and the cooks…
Last week, web editor Patrick Michels threw down the gurgitation gauntlet, challenging a few local media members to compete against him and me at the Libertine Bar’s inaugural Brass Knuckle CornDog Beatdown Saturday, July 4. None had the stomach for the fight, begging out of the competition with pathetic excuses…
I’m curious about the thought process restaurateurs go through when plotting their web presence. ‘A picture, logo and marketing blurb on the main page. Maybe a link to the menu. Ooh–how ’bout a photo gallery. OK, let’s stick the address here under “contact” so it’s out of the way. Think…
Does California’s storied burger chain have it in for Dallas? Unfair Park has the answer…for the time being…
Go Go Burger6129 Main St., Frisco214-472-2715Cute, the place is cute. So much so that it has a teenage girl atmosphere about it.In fact, five suburban kids sat gossiping behind me last time out. And I must say, teenage life in Frisco is really, really scandalous. Their hushed innuendos repeatedly burst…
AMPM (300 N. Akard St., in the Mosaic building) promises “Dallas’ only ultra urban luxury dining experience,” which one presumes means that it’s the only place in the city of Dallas where you can enjoy the fine people-watching of an ultra-lounge as well as get a bite to eat. The…
Each week in ‘Knockers’ we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Wang’s Chinese Café6033 Luther Lane214-265-1688Promised delivery time: 45 minutes Actual delivery time: 60 minutes Scoring Summary:Having all my info on file for an easy phone transaction: 15 Providing entertainment ( in other…
The deserted parking lot should have been a red flag. Our trip to Mari’s Taqueria started out with a promising tip, and somewhere between taking the flyer from the taco-loving lady at the gas station and walking into the restaurant that day, we’d worked ourselves up into a lather, wondering…
We’re back after technical difficulties left unspecified by those who deal with such things. Bunch of posts coming…
As we pause today to grill, drink and honor America, we recall those leaders who’ve helped shaped the country through skill, hard work and strength of personality — appropriate enough for the end of a week of local food writing that embraced the power of the individual at the top.The…
The Southwest Foodservice Expo, in the Dallas Convention Center last week, was a sprawling, fascinating deconstruction of the business, as if some omnipotent conventioneer had taken apart a restaurant piece by piece, and laid it all out, labeled, under a grid of fluorescent lights.Strolling around the convention floor, you could…
