Jimmy’s is one of the first iconic brands I encountered when moving to Dallas. While I’ve seen their sausage on many menus, my favorite way to enjoy the DiCarlo’s links is at home on a Sunday with a bottle of red wine and a mountain of spaghetti. If my story…
We tracked down a few Dallas chefs to get a little insight on how a Memorial Day cookout in their backyard might look, taste and smell. From grills and smokers to favorite cuts of meat, plus some tips for the novice, let their words serve as inspiration as grilling season…
No doubt this Memorial Day weekend you will skewer, scoop and toss foodstuffs on the bright flames of your awesome grill. We sure will. Maybe we’ll throw some snappy Jimmy’s sausage on there too. Maybe some rosemary studded lemons. Some garlic lamb. Some brussel sprouts. Some peaches. Some bison anus…
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. Brisket Tacos: perhaps one of the few foods Dallas can take…
Creepy business dudes drooling on servers count: 8 Bard count: 0 Chaucer’s Sushi & Grill came up several times when I internetted “cheap sushi Dallas.” So I checked out their website, and let me tell you, the Chaucer’s website is more amazing than any website I have ever seen or…
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. Union Bear’s beer list is a reason to go all on…
The dish reads from the Meddlesome Moth’s menu like a classic State Fair artery-clogger: “Nueske’s Bacon Lollipops with funnel cake and maple hollandaise.” Sounds like a food coma waiting to happen, right? Slabs of high-quality Nueske’s bacon are sliced about three-eighths of an inch thick and threaded on wooden skewers…
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 leave a restaurant I’m reviewing, I immediately spend some…
After nearly a year without venturing outside the loop, I finally got out of town for a brief weekend. I toyed with going to Marfa, but I’m not yet Texan enough to drive eight hours for a weekend getaway, so I chose Austin, as much for its culinary diversity as…
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. My first Texas brisket was eye opening. Back in DC, there…
Bishop Avenue was blocked off on Sunday afternoon for the third-annual Brew Riot, a homebrew competition featuring more than 50 homebrew teams. But while beer drinkers sipped their carbonated beverages, kiddies under the age of 21 weren’t left with many options, as The Soda Gallery was closed. The space that…
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 went back to confirm, after last week’s post. The Reuben…
One of the many events the weekend was Taste Addison. The fest, which celebrated its 20th birthday, served up bites from sixty-plus restaurants in the metroplex. Rhett Miller and his Hair was on hand, but photographer Jay Barker just grabbed a whole beef-truck full of food porn. Enjoy…
For the last three years and change, Taco Joint at 911 N. Peak Street has consistently offered up kickass breakfast tacos, Disaster Queso that punches regular queso in the queso balls and jalapeno ranch that makes me love being alive. And they just opened a new location at 6434 E…
Brackets has closed. The restaurant that earned a scathing review from Hanna Raskin just over a year ago clearly never solved its identity issues. Raskin trashed nearly every dish, likening the crust on a passable pizza to Chuck E. Cheese’s, referencing a bloody and cold steak and calling nachos limp…
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 was surprised it took me so long to find these,…
The Texas Rangers announced yesterday that soon you’ll be able to upgrade that Boomstick dog to a combo meal, which includes two one-liter bottles of Coke. And, in fairness, since Nellie got a hot dog in honor of his hot bat, Joshie gets one too: The Great Bratbino. John Blake…
When I checked in with chef David McMillan back in March, he told me some significant changes were taking place with for John Tesar’s legacy CVap burgers at The Commissary. For one, they were supposed to be thinner, so the coloring would be more consistent throughout the center of the…
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 us. I never expected to eat some of the best ribs in…
It’s a nice enough image. A sizable square of mahi mahi boasts perfect 90-degree hashes: the mark of a careful quarter turn on a searing hot grill. The visual perfection carries through to the very center of the fish, where my fork encounters firm and fresh flesh, cooked a moment…
Other people in line in front of me count: 8 Days I’ve been thinking about this chicken since I ate it: 3 (whole) As I yelled, “Elaine just popped my jerk-chicken cherry and my goat-curry cherry and I really liked it!” in the parking lot of Elaine’s Kitchen, I realized…
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 was worried I wouldn’t be able to include this dish…
