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Cafe Brazil
Deep Ellum Cafe Brazil I’ve written recently about vegetarian restaurants in my neighborhood, and about Indian buffets – but today I wanted to mention my favorite restaurant in the Dallas Fort Worth...
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Oddfellows Chicken and Waffles
On the extremely rare occasions that I watch certain films or especially certain television programs featuring fashionably cool people (Sex and The City come to mind immediately) I am always gobsmacked...
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Bistro B on Christmas Day
The wrapping paper has been rent and Santa has been sated. The day now stretches sleepily on – sports on television, fudge on the kitchen table, a cold, gray spitting rain day outside. What is there to...
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Babe’s Chicken Dinner House
On Sunday we met some friends for a late lunch and to exchange holiday gifts. They live on the opposite side of the Metroplex, so Candy chose a casual restaurant about halfway in between. She decided...
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Cafe Veracruz
Dallas is well known for being inundated by that delicious abomination – the Tex Mex Restaurant. So, if you want to open a Mexican sit down eating place not dedicated to Velveeta Cheese Sauce or plates...
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No French Fries
Judice Inn, Lafayette, Louisiana Lee wanted to go eat at the Judice Inn before the Rugby game in Lafayette. A friend of his at Tulane is a member of the family that owns and runs the restaurant. It’s...
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Tabasco or Crystal
I’ve been watching what I eat with some success but sometimes I give in. Candy left a newspaper article in my office from last Friday – there is a new Cajun Restaurant in Richardson, Wicked Po’Boys. I...
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Tampopo
Do you have a recipe that requires egg yolks? This provocative scene from Tampopo is one hell of a way to separate an egg. It was early afternoon and I was down in East Dallas, overheated and very...
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He had met her through a mutual friend that thought they would be good for each other. On their first date, he had taken her to Olivier’s and it felt like they had known each other all their lives....
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Taking Flight
A “Heavy Hitter” flight at Luck, in Trinity Groves. Heavy Hitter beer flight at Luck, in Trinity Groves, Dallas, Texas From left to right: Velvet Hammer, from Peticolas Brewing Company – One of my...
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Zoli’s New York Style
Try driving across a city when you are hungry – you will notice that there is a pizza joint on every corner. There is pizza everywhere. Plus, the simple word pizza means something different to...
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Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind. Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy, ‘Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time. —-Bob Marley, Redemption Song I always...
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I Venture a Long Long Way For a Waffle
Unless you live in North Texas – you have no idea how horrifically big the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is. The entire complex of cities is seventy miles across… side to side or top to bottom… from...
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Tabasco and Log Cabin
“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always...
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Verti Marte
“I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.” ― Louis C.K. For a week in New Orleans...
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Another Christmas, Another Bowl of Pho
2018 Christmas Bowl of Pho, Bistro B, Richardson, Texas Everyone has their Christmas traditions. I’ve been keeping this incarnation of a blog since 2011 and we went to Bistro B for Christmas that year,...
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Khao Noodle Shop
When I was a student in Vientiane, street food was a huge part of my daily life. There was always a woman at a stand under a tree selling different delicious foods; Kua Mee, stir-fried noodles with...
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Sandwich Hag
“I made a sandwich out of things. I’m an American. We can eat anything as long as it’s between two pieces of bread.” ― Jim Butcher, Small Favor Sandwich Hag, The Cedars, Dallas, Texas Sandwich Hag, The...
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What I learned this week, July 29, 2022
Making the noodles disappear, Khao Noodle Shop, Dallas, Texas. Fed gauge on inflation hits 40-year high I’m old. I remember 1980 very well. This feels exactly like it did then – and that is not a good...
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