Before the door even closed behind us, Misty David belted out, “There’s free beer in the cooler,” and sure enough there was. There are worse ways to start your barbecue experience, and the box of iced Lone Star and Shiner Bock was in stark contrast to the offerings of the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. You can get a whole fish presented table side all over…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Yes, sure, OK, Bonchon is a chain that’s slowly taking over…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. “Did you save some room for dessert?” A preposterous question, yet one always posed, including by servers who have witnessed with their own two eyes me…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Every kitchen has its hazing practices. Jiro Ono of the famous…
Last week the newest location of Hopdoddy opened on McKinney Avenue in the old Frankie’s Sports Bar space. By Friday the line for lunch-time burger action reached out the door. If you’ve chomped your way through any of Hopdoddy’s sloppy burger creations at the Preston Center location, you’ll know what…
Alice Laussade is a longtime Dallas writer and the founder of Meat Fight. I decided to go vegetarian for a month, just to see how the meatless live. After a week and a half, I can tell you that the vegetarian people of Dallas are offered a lot of cheese…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Handmade tortillas are always a welcome sight, but some are better…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I’ve consumed and written about the ramen at Tei-An a number…
Outdoor drinking spaces are hardly a differentiator in this town. Most restaurants have at least some summertime seating, and many have stunning, carefully designed spaces that envelop drinkers in a temporary hideaway, outfitted with ample booze, that can last as long as they can drink. Look at the shipping container-framed…
San Salvaje, located downtown at 2100 Ross Avenue (in the former home of Samar) opened its doors early last month, plating dishes that are inspired by chef and owner Stephan Pyles’ travels through South America. The menu is divided into seven sections, and includes creative twists on Latin cuisine with…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It was back in February that I dropped into Spoon after…
It seems there is a national “holiday” for practically everything these days. According to Food.com yesterday was National Rocky Road Day, and tomorrow might be the greatest day of all, Cheese Day. But today is National Egg Day, and so we put together a list of some of our favorite…
Well, fellow Texans, we’ve breezed past that lovely time of year when it’s cool enough to wear long sleeves with flip flops, yet we’re not quite to the miserable heat of summer in Texas. Right about now is when you want to get outside on a nice patio — read:…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The other day we got a fresh batch of summer interns…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. El Ranchito has long been famous for its loud mariachi, big…
The last time I heard about Lyfe Kitchen it was mentioned in an article in the New York Times Magazine a little more than a year ago. Mark Bittman was lamenting the options for affordable, healthy dining on the quick in America, and was resigned to bean burritos from Taco…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. With such a large Vietnamese population in Dallas, this list would…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Village Baking Co. sells all sorts of treasures for those looking…
It was a food critic’s seventh-worst nightmare: While trying to get caught up on new bars and restaurants, I found myself at the Whistling Pig, a new bar on Ferguson Road in East Dallas, down an eating partner. Most of chef Asher Stevens’ new menu looked good, but the pastrami…
There are two or three blocks along Travis Street, south of Henderson Avenue, that have long been a sort of culinary safe zone, the restaurant equivalent of those houses in the neighborhood where you knew you could seek refuge if the ice cream man got weird. Fernando’s Mexican Cuisine will…
Two weekends ago I was walking up La Vista Drive after a particularly egregious Yumilicious session (strawberry tart, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips) when I noticed the Ginger Man’s balcony was packed with beer swillers. The bar was having its grand opening, and the place was mobbed. My stomach was…
