Russo’s Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen

Russo’s is a chain restaurant in Richardson that has no business being semi-expensive. Our experience had bits and pieces of good, bad, and dirty. Russo’s menus were dirty enough to make me wonder why the menus were so dirty. When a severely sweaty waiter walked over to take our drink order, little did we know he would soon return with a red lipstick-wearing wine glass worthy of scaring air....

Please Freak Out: Haute Living Magazine is Filled with Stolen Dallas Photographs

Now that the holidays have come and gone, it is time to find out exactly what is going on at Haute Living Magazine. I haven’t been able to do my culinary school homework since the day a Dallas writer messaged saying this shady stack of paper has been using my food pictures as their own for months and months and months and months and months. Who does this? Who is OK with this kind of pretend...

Dim Sum at Maxim’s

Let’s just cut to the Dim Sum chase. No one around here is trying to keep a Dim Sum secret. Just because a person writes about food doesn’t mean that particular person knows what Dim Sum means. It’s the holidays, so please do not be a hater. After seeing Dim Sum twitter tweets for years, I never even asked Google for help. This debacle of not knowing about Dim Sum is probably the dumbest...

Tanoshii Ramen + Bar

Tanoshii Ramen + Bar began serving lunch this past week. Being located a few doors down from Cane Rosso in Deep Ellum easily makes the sun shine brighter each day. Park on the street or pay the parking lot guy. Do not be a rule breaker in Deep Ellum. No one in Deep Ellum likes this. Ramen is a Japanese noodle dish that everyone in existence loves even more than the cheddar fries at Snuffer’s....

Franklin Barbecue

The guy across the street from Franklin Barbecue is called the chair guy. The chair guy probably no longer answers to his forced birth name, which was given before the chair guy had a choice. Who wouldn’t change their name to the chair guy when daily five dollar bills continuously bust jean pocket seams. The massive chair gig the chair guy snagged across the street from Franklin Barbecue is...