Maybe you’ve been there. You’re all excited to check out the latest blockbuster at the NorthPark Center theater, and after spending 10 minutes jockeying around the lot and shunning the valet to find your own parking, you approach the ticket booth and your show is sold out. Not just the…
About a month ago we reported that the Fort Worth Food Truck Park slightly downgraded its curb appeal by ending its BYOB policy, after it started selling beer out of a new cantina. We suggested this was Dallas’ opening to trump FW on foodtruck parks. Well, the kids at LaGrange…
The first time I ate cabrito was at El Ranchito, a glorious palace of Mexican food specializing in Comida Norteña (that is, the regional dishes of northern Mexico) located on Oak Cliff’s Jefferson Boulevard…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. While Princi Italia failed to inspire me with many of their…
Times I kicked myself for every time I’ve eaten at Ojeda’s in my life instead of eating across the damned street at Taqueria Mezquite: 126,229 Credit card machine count: 0 Taqueria Mezquite is across the street from Ojeda’s. And you want it in your face. The murals on the outside…
I’ve eaten a lot of Vietnamese food in my life, and I thought I had tasted, or at least seen, everything; I was way off. I would have continued living blissfully ignorant, but I was tipped off to a Vietnamese restaurant in Richardson that was known for serving a particular…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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 steamed buns at Howard Wang’s Uptown are made in-house daily,…
Farnatchi. It’s a little Mediterranean joint tucked in between Jersey Mike’s and City Cigars in Knox Park. Its menu spans Italy, Turkey and the Middle East with offerings that tempt your senses and push the boundaries of your average lunch. You can order zaatar bread followed by pasta pomodoro. Turkish…
Nando’s opened a couple of weeks ago at the southwest corner of Preston and Royal (specifically, the opposite end of the strip from Gazebo Burgers where Le Rendezvous used to be). The chef is from the landmark Original Mexican Café in Galveston. At Nando’s entry is a bar with a…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. Remember your mother’s breaded pork cutlet? She probably baked it in…
Dallas has plenty of Italian-American restaurants. The problem is very few of them are any good. While Lucia, Nonna and other regional Italian restaurants pay homage to the Old World with brilliant dishes featuring little fishes, hand-rolled pastas and wild game, Dallas has a dearth of decent spaghetti and meatballs…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. If you’re from Philly or the surrounding area and love hoagies,…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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’m likely done with the Londoner till the Premier League kicks…
Remember how in your last few weeks of high school you caught that whole Senioritis thing hard? Parties and events suddenly seemed lame. The kids who showed up seemed younger and younger and suddenly you found you just weren’t that interested anymore. High school had been awesome, sure, and while…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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’s a bit like a French bouillabaisse but with Mexican leanings…
The Sandbar Cantina and Grill at 317 Second Ave. in Deep Ellum will have a soft opening this weekend. They’re hosting the College Beach Volley Regional Championships on Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. and some league play on Sunday. The guys behind Sandbar are a group of friends who have…
I just picked up a special order I made from Pecan Lodge: a meat basket. It’s an idea I had a while ago when I was trying to think of something to get a guy friend who’s been sick. Didn’t want to get him flowers. And bacon roses seemed so…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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 wonder if I’d known what was about to happen if…
Realtor count: 3 Mom count: 2 After a serious workout sesh at Curves (beer dumbells), a manicure at Beauty Times (Yes, it’s actually called that. Makes me want to open Sick Times and Swim Times and Food-Eating Times.) and a three-hour browse at the LDS Books and Antique Bibles store…
Tracy Miller’s long awaited Rosemont (2912 Elm St., 214-741-6066) opened its doors today, an event marked quietly by a tangle of white balloons tied up out front under cloudy skies. I first learned of the new restaurant while interviewing Miller during my review of Local last November. A tipster alerted…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 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. These little parcels of pasty dough were on last year’s list,…
It was a small, unassuming, black plastic dish I might have overlooked had it not come with an ominous warning. My waiter was very clear. Be careful, this is spicy, he warned the table. The salsa was dark greenish-brown and flecked with the black blistered skins of deeply roasted habanero…
