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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 09:28 |
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“Dr.” Andrew Bell, PhD, BBQ, NoMSG
By The Law Reviewers, M.D., Anthony LowenMcDreamy and Michael AnderMcSteamy
Downtown is filling up with some mighty fine and swank restaurants, whose “chef driven” menus (we have no idea what that means either), truffle oils, and valet parkers await your fickle taste buds. That’s because said fickle buds will be at Dr. Bell’s BBQ getting their ‘Q on, at least twice a week. See, we had another restaurant all ready to go for this month’s review, but then Dr. Bell’s came along and Pretty Woman-ed us with its Lamborghini brisket, smoked turkey polo match, and a future guest spot on Friends. We’ve heard it all before, Dallas is not a barbeque town, there’s too many corporate chains, you’re within 100 feet of me and violating the restraining order, yadda yadda yadda. But Dr. Bell’s is the real deal, and we hope the chefs driving Smoke a couple of miles away take notice, for their own sake. You heard it here first: Dr. Bell’s will be around in a year, and Smoke will be but an odor in your clothes that you can’t get out (Curse that $4 pickle plate – curse it all to Houston!). |
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Saturday, 09 January 2010 11:59 |
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Maple and Motor Doesn’t Need a Catchy Headline
It’s That Good, Says the By-Line
By The House-Ground Law Reviewers
There have been two recent developments in the sometimes wonderful and always artereosclerotical (note: made up word) world of hamburgers. The first was a not-so-Earth-shattering-but-still-kinda-frightening article in the Sunday New York Times several months ago about the dangers of some types of ground beef. This disturbing and revealing article got us to put down our ground beef hamburgers for a couple of days and subsist solely on lamb kebabs and turkey burgers (which taste great for breakfast, btw), just to be safe. Less noticeably, your Law Reviewers have been on a mission for the past five months to rate the best burgers in the area, and invited some of our hard-core followers (the ones who go through our garbage and have Law Reviewer tattoos) to join us. We call it Burger Court, and you can read all the rules, rankings and summary judgments here. Unless you enjoy a thorough grilling on cross-examination, you do not want to be held in contempt of Burger Court! Burger Court would be a total success, except for the fact that our two choices rank near the bottom of our burger rankings so far. We blame the NYT article. |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:22 |
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The 2009 Golden Gavel Awards
By Michael Anderson and Anthony Lowenberg
Your Undiscovered Law Reviewers (Hey, we’ve been here all along!)
The future is the undiscovered country. At least, that's what Star Trek VI told us, and Star Trek movies never lie! Never mind what Hamlet had to say about it, he never had to escape from a Klingon ice planet prison by sleeping with a shape-changing alien who looked like David Bowie's wife half the time and a blue skinned iguana-man the other half, now, did he? Anyhoo, now that our obligatory random intro is out of the way, let's get to this year's Golden Gavel Awards V: The Undiscovered Country. No, this year's theme is not which places around town serve the best Romulan ale and tribble pie (that's next year's theme). Instead, we’re giving awards this year to the undiscovered/underrated food and food-serving establishments that fly under the radar in our fair city. You won’t see these dishes or places listed on the annual ‘Best of’ listings in other “publications” around “town” cuz they ain’t the sexy, popular picks, but they’re all good eatin’. And the Undiscovered Gavelies go to… |
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Sunday, 01 November 2009 21:38 |
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Taj Mahal II: Electric Vindaloo
By: The Law Reviewers
Thanks to globalization, there is finally Indian food in the Central Business District (or the CentBizDiz to those of us who just made that up), let’s hear it! Nope, we’re not talking about Stephan Pyles’ latest foray into East Asian/Middle Eastern/WhateverSideoftheBedheWokeupon fusion, but the cleverly-named Taj Mahal, which is the bold newcomer to the West End/El Centro/Creepy Empty Parking Garage cheap lunch scene on the west side of downtown (711 Elm St., (214) 741-4225, sorry, no web site, we looked). This is not to be confused with the beloved and longtime Taj Mahal restaurant located at Central Expressway and Meadow Lane, or with the other 5,421 Taj Mahal restaurants located in every country but India.
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Monday, 21 September 2009 16:31 |
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What Were They Smoke-ing?
By Michael Anderson and Anthony Lowenberg
Your Mesquite-smoked Law Reviewers
So many snarky titles, so little time… Some other ones we considered were: “Smoke-ing Is Hazardous to Your Wallet”, “Mind If We (Criticize) Smoke?”, “Smoke Is an Expensive Habit”, “Please Don’t (go to) Smoke”, “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Price-Gouging”, “Smoke, Um, Don’t Got ‘Em”, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes… And Your Clothes and Hair" and “Thank You for Not Smoke-ing”. That should give you a rough idea of what we thought of the place. It’s not that Smoke is entirely bad, but it sure feels like yet another example of an over-priced, over-done restaurant concept that will appeal to the right (read: Paper City) crowd for about six months before they move on to the next big flashy streetlight along the highway. We hope that Smoke will turn out to be better than that, but it needs to make some changes for us to want to go back anytime soon on our dime. |
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Sunday, 09 August 2009 11:36 |
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The “Passion and Panache” of Fedora… Oh, and Pasta and Pizza Too.
By The Law Reviewers, who remember the Sicilian (or was it Klingon?) proverb that Revenge is a dish best served cold.
The Law Reviewers are big Godfather fans - we've seen all three movies 10 minutes at a time and out of order on the AMC channel over the years, and we want you to know that someday we may ask you for a favor you can't refuse before Michael kisses Sonny at a toll booth. Fedora Restaurant & Lounge wants you to remember that it’s not just a Godfather-inspired Italian restaurant, it’s also a Lounge. Aw hell, let’s just quote the cheeky website and let the in-your-faceness that is Fedora explain for itself (for best results, use your inner “The Most Interesting Man in The World” voice): |
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 00:00 |
Sushi World: Definitely Tastier than SeaWorld
By Michael Anderson and Anthony Lowenberg,
The Often-Imitated but Never-Duplicated Law Reviewers
Ah, the dog days of summer are here and, as Norm Peterson would say, we’re all wearing milk-bone underwear. But, fear not, gentle denizens of oven-baked downtown Dallas! If you live or work anywhere near the corner of Ross Ave. and Griffin Blvd., then you finally have a nearby dining option where you can coolly enjoy a meal in the air-conditioned confines of a new sushi restaurant. You just have to walk a couple of blocks through the scorching heat to get there. Or drive there if you prefer, you Earth-hating, gas-guzzlers! Anyway, Sushi World is the newest establishment from the owner of K-Tokyo on Lower Greenville, and it serves some decently-priced sushi and other assorted Asian dishes in a location that has sorely needed a food establishment for a while now. |
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Saturday, 18 July 2009 00:00 |
Looks like Texas Monthly has come out with a list of the "Top 50 Burgers in Texas", and it's kicking up all sorts o' local controversy! TM isn't posting the list on its site (you have to subscribe to the mag), but Nancy Nichols first posted the list locally on SideDish, then Eats Blog cut and pasted it, and TG went the extra mile on PegNews posting the list with links to all the local places listed (nice job, you win No. 1 linker in Texas!). Judging from the blog comments, plenty of people are steamed that their fav place didn't make the list.
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