Wyland’s Ocean Blue isn’t any one thing. It’s a restaurant. It’s an art gallery. And it’s a darn good parlor game. The conceit behind the maritime eatery is that folks who like to look at paintings of drifting fish would no doubt appreciate finding the same composition on their plates…
Bars on a restaurant’s windows = lunch costs less than 10 bucks. It’s just a theory, but if a restaurant’s cheap-ass owners went for bars over an actual alarm system, there’s no way they’re gonna charge you an arm and a leg to eat lunch. I walked into window-barred Mai’s…
If you’re not Tweetin’, you’re not in on the eatin’ from the The Green House Truck. Every day the gourmet grub lunch truck tweets out highlights of the day’s menu. This week, with the air feeling crisp and fall-ish, they’re making lots of soups, all from organic produce. When they…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Students enrolled in the Turkish American Women Association’s Saturday afternoon cooking classes in Richardson learn as much about cross-cultural dialogue as the right way to roll dolmas. Trying to determine how thinly she needed to slice her beef for a hunkar begendi accompaniment, a student asked “Do I want it…
There really is no shortage of incredible burgers in this town. We gave Angry Dog our Best Of Dallas nod for their always juicy, shredded cheese-topped hamburger–knowing full well the worthy contestants in the mix. Let’s just say, it was a difficult decision. With Wingfield’s, Plano’s Holy Grail, The Grape…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Photo by Elaine LinerLalani Amin makes juice. Lots of juice. Fresh juice from Louisiana-grown sugarcane mixed with fresh-squeezed lime and kiwi, a cold, green kiss of a juice that tastes just sweet enough to be a treat instead of a health drink (though it is). Amin also makes falooda, a…
Stephan Pyles wants your cheap ass to feel fancy. That must be why he opened Samar in the middle of downtown, put a buncha hookahs out front, hired hosts in suits who insist on opening the door for you and did a million other things so that when you look…
My father is American, Chicago-born. I mention this only because I feel compelled to set the record straight, since he claimed otherwise when he accompanied me on my first visit to Platia Greek Kouzina. “I’m Greek!” he yelped when one of the restaurant’s owners, also a Chicagoan, tried to establish…
To celebrate Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, available this week, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
On weekends hungry customers line up five-deep at the chaat counter at the back of Tajmahal grocery store (501 W. Belt Line Road, Richardson). Chaat, roughly translated, means snack or street food. On a recent visit to this friendly all-vegetarian spot in a shopping center lined with Indian cafes and…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
After eight months of charitable cooking, the chefs behind the ambitious 48 Nights project recently put the popular weekly event to bed. Dallas restaurateurs Chris Jeffers, Chris Zielke and Tim Byres raised more than $100,000 for charity by offering mystery chef BYOB dinners on Monday and Tuesday nights. To mark…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
What’s fancy? As the brand new sequel to The Official Preppy Handbook reminds us, fancy isn’t surface glitz and remarked-upon glamour; real wealth is more likely to be conveyed by threadbare blazers and decades-old recipes for mild Bloody Marys than diamonds and Cristal. Fancy entails an insistence upon quality and…
Sarah Johnson As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey,…
Southerners rue, curse and unhappily abide kudzu, but few of them ever eat it. The Internet’s awash in recipes for steamed kudzu leaves and powdered kudzu root starch, yet most folks who live where the Japanese vine’s transformed once-recognizable landscapes into undulating humps of green would no sooner cook up…
