The words “Desi-style pizza” beckoned me with a neon glow from the front window of India Chaat Café, a small, brightly lit restaurant tucked into a strip mall at Preston and Frankford. I walked in expecting Americanized, watered-down food, or maybe the Bollywood version of Pizza Hut, and was surprised…
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 had my first patty melt ever at Katy Trail Ice…
Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they’re peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we’re ranking Dallas’ food trucks to sort out which one’s are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow…
Ten Bells Tavern opened this past week at 232 W. 7th S., just across the street from another new bar, The Oak Cliff Social Club. Ten Bells Tavern is a casual, low-key spot with potentially two personalities. Inside is a hideaway dive inside, while outside, where big picnic tables are…
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. When I wanted a special occasion meal for my birthday and…
There are many options if you’re hungry for a bowl of pho in Dallas. Out in the suburbs, countless restaurants offer cheap bowls of noodle-laden soup to Vietnamese immigrants and local diners in the know. Closer to downtown, more refined and Americanized bowls of pho cater to timid diners who…
June was another incredibly busy month in the Dallas restaurant scene. Dallas welcomed a ton of new restaurants last month, and alas, said farewell to a few. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or…
Go ahead and thank me now, because I’ve discovered the perfect summer hangover treatment: winesicles. They’re called SocialIce, and they’re made in Grand Prairie with fruit purchased from local farmers markets. The pops come in two flavors, Mimosa Orange and Sangria Grape (I don’t think oranges or grapes grow around…
So, the deal with Maid-Rite is it’s really old (85ish) and their meat is loose. And apparently the funny naming homophones are simply attributed to the original founder’s inability to spell — not that I’m throwing stones, seeing how my own house is kind of glassy there. Maid-Rite is 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. El Tizoncito can call it whatever they want — alambres bistec…
This is a blog written by a complete barbecue amateur. You see, the thing is, in the UK a barbecue is something you cook a burger on and is largely a celebration of the few and far between days when it’s not raining. There’s no sauce except tomato, and any…
It was moments before kickoff, the sun was beating down and the AC ran full blast, belching cool air out of gaping garage doors flung open to bring the outdoors in. A gentleman to my right ordered four Nodding Donkey Punches and a Miller Lite, reminding me where I was,…
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. Charbel Hamad wants you to focus on his wife Fadia’s sweets…
July is National Hot Dog Month if you didn’t know, and the Fourth of July always promises to be one of the biggest hot dog consumption days of the year. Just because hot dogs are ubiquitous doesn’t mean a casual cookout has to be pedestrian. Start with some high quality…
“That’s the one.” I tapped the glass with my finger, pointing to a lone, menacing-looking doughnut behind all the rest. This one was topped with a mound of emerald green and vivid orange pepper slices, in sharp contrast to the others so innocently adorned with pink frosted animal cookies, M&Ms…
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. Deviled eggs are seemingly on every bar menu, but many of…
I was going to start this out with a little baseball anecdote, but I don’t actually know much about the rules of the sport so it would have read something like this: Number 8 on the green team hit the ball and then a bunch of kids ran around, then…
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 I hadn’t passed the old man’s table, littered with little…
The Oak Cliff Social Club recently opened at 238 W. Davis St. Pete Saucedo lists himself officially as the “janitor” of this “upscale dive bar” and, honestly, his recent past does include a lot of janitorial-type duties. But, after six months of fixing up the place, hopefully most of the…
If you had grown accustomed to ordering pad Thai and spicy stir-fried shrimp at this stand-alone building on Davis Street in Oak Cliff, you won’t recognize the space now. There’s still shrimp to be had, and Asian ghosts linger in lemongrass, fish sauce and cilantro-laden sauces and other preparations, but…
Turns out we’re all really late to the juicing trend. After Brent Rodgers spent a year traveling around the world, he found that juicing is old business everywhere else. He was at the Syria-Israel border when he had the idea to start a juicing business in Dallas after he stood…
Café Brazil is celebrating four years at its Bishop Arts District location. Today from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., diners can get a free entrée and dessert with the purchase of a beverage. Entrée options include chicken crepes, Amazon salad, lemon pepper chicken pasta, pumpkin pancakes, apple chipotle chili and…
