All-Star Ballpark Food From Around the Country

Searching for photos of amazing ballpark food is like a self-inflicted wound. At the end of it all, I’m overwhelmed with the pain I’ve caused myself. Thanks to everyone’s inclination to take pictures of food they eat, here’s an ode to great ballpark food. (With one caveat: no hotdogs. That’s…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 54: CFS At All Good Cafe

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. All Good Cafe’s Chicken-Fried Steak made last year’s 100 Favorites list,…

Bistro B Gets an “A” for Awesome

Camera count: 1 million Someone yelling “egg roll” in the kitchen count: 53 Bistro B (Authentic Asian Cuisine) is all kinds of awesome. It’s delicious awesome. It’s cheap awesome. It’s what-the-fuck awesome. It’s scary awesome. It’s “Aww, dammit, this Thai iced tea has those chewy brown gelatin bubbles in it…

Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza at India Chaat Cafe … Say Whaat?

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…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 56: Patty Melt At NHS

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…

Gandolfo’s Food Truck Could Use A Bit More Wizardry

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 Is Open in Oak Cliff

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…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 57: The Burger At Local

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…

Dalat’s Pho Goes Late Night

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…

Beat the Heat While Copping a Buzz with SocialIce Winesicles

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…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 58: Bistec Con Queso At El Tizoncito

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…

Smoked Wings Should Be Dallas’ Official Bar Snack

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,…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 59: Falafel At Fadia Bakery

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…

Eight Hot Dog Toppings To Make Your July Cookouts Awesome

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…

I Ate the Hellfire at Hypnotic Donuts and Lived to Tell About It

“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…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 60: Deviled Eggs At R&D Kitchen

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…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 61: Spicy Fish Soup At Korea House

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…