Building a restaurant from the ground up is one of the most difficult business moves there are. Restaurants are notoriously volatile, with tight margins and the ability to suck up every single waking hour of one’s life. That’s why creating and subsequently maintaining a successful establishment with a devoted and…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. They have pizza, cheeseburgers and local art you can buy right out of a vending machine, but staff at The Bodega at Hi Line has huddled their top…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Ginger Thai could’ve easily been included as great takeout before we entered a pandemic that forced us to focus on regular food items that are “good to go.”…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. As we’ve watched Deep Ellum evolve over the years, there are some spots we see lovingly hold on, and one of those is St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin. St…
Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger, please accept this humble love letter from a Texas kid dumb enough to move to Seattle: I miss you, big guy. Living in Seattle, there are a few things I’ve come to realize. I won’t bore you with details on what the Mexican food is like,…
In strong winds, the Angry Dog staffer carries the to-go bag to the car window. Construction slices and pounds on Commerce Street — cones and barricades narrow the one-way street down to one lane; nearby they’re replacing a broken water line. On Clover Street, which runs directly behind Angry Dog,…
The original Mia’s Tex Mex on Lemmon Avenue is closing. But, calmate, they’re moving to the old BuzzBrews location at 4334 Lemmon Ave., just 171 feet up the road. That’s less than a football field. Speaking of great segues, the original location has some Dallas football history. Sometime in the…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. There are special, large, triangle boxes. A little preview window gives you a glimpse of what’s inside. But don’t let it sit there too long. It is, after…
Two weeks went by, and Braden and Yasmin Wages hadn’t received a delivery of fresh fish. Malai Kitchen’s menu is about 20% fresh seafood, and they couldn’t get a single shrimp sent to their 9-year-old restaurant. “It was a disappointment to our guests,” Braden Wages says through exhales. It’s been…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. We were told via text to meet at the back of a parking lot and to look for a white car with the window down (yes, just one…
I feel like a lot of kids are going to be asked to report to the class in a few months what they learned during quarantine. Mommy Likes Wine. I Miss Unlimited Screen Time. I Forgot How to Tie My Shoes. Why Zoom Class Was Better. Daddy Is Bad at…
While some restaurants are opening dining rooms for limited tables for families to get a Mother’s Day brunch, lunch or dinner, there are plenty of ways to stay home and safe, if that’s what you prefer. There are tons of restaurants offering kits to go. Here are 14 options for…
Back in the good old days of restaurant dining, the idea of leftover barbecue was a little strange. You’re sitting at a long wooden table with a tray full of spectacular smoked meat, and you can’t finish it? How Texan are you? But in the time of coronavirus, the very…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Rene Ramirez of 225 BBQ says he “just gets bored” when he’s asked why his menu is ever-evolving. This is despite the fact that he’s raising a young…
The people at restaurants in town are getting creative with how to keep us returning to their businesses, and one decent way is with kits. While cooking on your own can be great, these days, masking up, sanitizing, shopping for ingredients, hoping they’re there, sanitizing everything when you get home…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Here’s a splurge offer you should take advantage of: Veritas has discount wine and charcuterie boards to go. I’ve been concerned about your love life during the pandemic…
The big-hearted eatery offers six tacos and a bottle of wine for $30.
A cheese expert has never faced these obstacles. The biggest problem now is taste testing — it might be a small thing to us non-mongers, but removing the ability to watch a customer taste a tiny triangle of, say, aged manchego, turns a cheesemonger’s job into a Sherlock Holmes-level puzzle…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters, like any coffee shop, is used to regulars. What they weren’t expecting was a whole new crop of them while the coronavirus pandemic took…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. March 16, a day before Plano’s City Council voted to close restaurant dining rooms in response to the spreading coronavirus, one of the city’s leading Taiwanese and Chinese…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Melissa and I have been cooking a lot. I got up the other morning and reeled off scratch breakfast tacos down to handmade corn tortillas. Melissa organized a…
Reyna Duong needs a moment for family meal. Today it’s literally a family meal: On a Tuesday at high noon, she’s away from her restaurant, Sandwich Hag, after adapting the schedule to give her staff rest on Monday and Tuesday. Home is for mammoth plates of spaghetti. She’s made a…
