Max’s Wine Dive’s indulgent combo of booze & pub grub ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor “Fried chicken and champagne — why the hell not?” is emblazoned across the waiters’ T-shirts at Max’s Wine Dive, which recently moved into the West Village’s vacant Borders space. Why the hell not, indeed? We live in the era [...]
Chef Matt McCallister brings an artistic flair to the kitchen of his new Design District restaurant, FT33 ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Most fine dining veterans will tell you a great restaurant experience is not merely about the food, but about the Gestalt of eating out. Sure, we’ve all talked into a clown’s nose [...]
Not sure what to do for Thanksgiving dinner? Queers in the Kitchen has some fab recipes TASTY! | Kyle Tatum, above, and John Boerger, opposite, just launched QueerIntheKitchen.com, a website dedicated to putting gay twists on familiar recipes. (Arnold Wayne Jones/Dallas Voice) ARNOLD WAYNE JONES Like many good gayboys, Kyle Tatum and John Boerger grew [...]
With Stampede 66, gay chef Stephan Pyles goes home ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor It hasn’t even officially opened yet, but Stampede 66 may already be just about the hottest table in town. That’s not actually surprising — at least when Texas’ most famous restaurateur, Stephan Pyles, announces he’s opening a new eatery. Pyles [...]
Texas Veggie Fair, Burgers & Burgundy, & Pyles set to open ARNOLD WAYNE JONES Everyone knows the Texas State Fair specializes in fried foods (usually bacon is involved in there somewhere). But it’s not just at Fair Park this weekend where you can gorge yourself. Roll on over to Reverchon Park Sunday for the third [...]
With each new menu — and he does a full overhaul at least three times a year — Andre Natera, exec chef at Pyramid inside the Fairmont Hotel, shows more polish. He’s in the season of his default skills with fall, serving up the kind of warm, autumnal dishes that breed feelings of hominess and comfort, [...]
Tex-Mex favorites take an elegant turn (with a kick) at Uptown’s Mr. Mesero ARNOLD WAYNE JONES You know the rule about trying to fit a round peg in a square hole? Well, the principle also applies to tortilla chips. When you first arrive at Mr. Mesero, the so-called “American-Mexican” (but really Tex-Mex) bistro in a tony [...]
Hey, y’all! Paula Deen does Dallas; Sissy’s serves lunch ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor If you’ve stopped by the website of Sissy’s Southern Kitchen any time in the last five months, you’ve seen “lunch coming soon” promised. Well, “soon” finally arrived. Lisa Garza’s Henderson Avenue eatery, already Dallas’ favorite destination for fried chicken, began [...]
Monica Greene’s one-two punch of Oak Lawn’s Nueva Cocina and Mi Lounge is a knockout ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Consider the humble tortilla chip: A simple patty of corn masa, sliced and deep fried — a food not so much in itself, but as a medium for delivering other foods: cheese, sour cream, salsa, [...]
From the acorn of the Design District has mighty Oak grown ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor The epigram “from small acorns mighty oaks grow” could hardly be a more apt metaphor for the fine dining restaurant Oak. Almost everything about this bastion of new American cuisine is as solid as its namesake: The décor, [...]
