Eating at Lucia Without a Reservation

Yes, Eater recently wrote an article about this very same subject. I've already written about eating at New York City's Eleven Madison Park and Uchi without a reservation in June, therefore it is time to write about the reservation headache that is Lucia. Eating at Lucia without a reservation has been a bother since moving to Dallas three years ago because their reservation system hurts my...

Purposely Eating at Olive Garden in New York City

We took a walk to Times Square soon after checking into our hotel. Standing as high as the sky was none other than a gigantic Olive Garden. If not being held at gunpoint, there's really no way to fully explain eating at Olive Garden while visiting New York City. Sometimes it's fine to do things that boggle the mind. Things that make you second guess your purpose in life. Make you shake your...

Truck Yard’s Cheesesteak Sandwich & the Scary Reporter

Before making it to the food trucks parked out back, there is an area inside a little building located at the entrance of the Truck Yard. This is the exact spot where a practically world-famous cheesesteak sandwich can be found. People apparently drive beyond the state line for this particular sandwich. It even has a special place where customers walk through doors to watch the glory in...

Campisi’s Service Sucked Tonight

Darkness is wonderful at times and inside Campisi's is really dark. I'd been asked to have dinner there almost three times since living in Dallas and had the nerve to say no way each and every time. Was there a reason? Validity of some sort? Absolutely not. I'm pretty sure the drive-by glance of the parking lot had everything to do with my nonsense answer of no, which was horribly unjust. I...

La Perla d’Italia Tasting

Food writers around Dallas were invited to “dine around” the many different restaurants located at Village on the Green last night. Our first stop was La Perla d’Italia. People need to know the owner of La Perla has the best Italian accent in the history of Italians living in Dallas with fantastic Italian accents. Please do not tell anyone, but when the owner said Naples, I thought he...