Scott

• 6 months, 4 weeks ago
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  Barbecue Report: Odom's Bar-B-Que in Dallas

  One of the main attractions of Odom's (and, for that matter, most barbecue joints in Southern Dallas) is the late hours, allowing you to pick up some ribs long after just about everything north of the Trinity has closed.

  Nice to see the FCGBBQ crew on Pegasus!

• 7 months, 1 week ago
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  Tiny mom-and-pop Chapman Chile Kitchen opens in East Dallas

  Sounds very cool.
  

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Nick & Sam's restaurant in Dallas throws glitzy over-the-top 10th-anniversary party

  Love the whole roasted pig!

• 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Scara's New York Gourmet Italian Ices opening branch in north Fort Worth

  Italian ice, at last. Cool news item!
  

• 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Tei An in Dallas' One Arts Plaza to open rooftop patio, reports The Brad

  Will there be food on the roof? If so, from a different menu than the main restaurant?

• 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Eating on the cheap at Aurora in Dallas

  Looks like a lot of value for the money. (Artichoke soup with black truffles at Guy Savoy: $68.)

• 8 months ago
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  Dallas-based Wingstop expanding to Mexico

  Great news! Now I'll have someplace to go next time I'm in Mexico and would rather forego the native offerings of one of the world's richest food cultures and get a dozen syrupy, soggy, heat-lamped, factory-farmed chicken wings!

• 8 months, 1 week ago
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  New restaurant Lazare takes over Ferre spot in Dallas' West Village

  Sounds like a good fit for the neighborhood.

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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  UPDATED: Dallas restaurateur Bob Sambol, of Bob's Steak & Chop House, indicted for theft

  You do know, amuse, that civil and criminal redress are not mutually exclusive? It's not at all unusual for the same acts to give rise to civil litigation and criminal prosecution. Your framing of this discussion as an either/or (i.e., civil/criminal) is mistaken.

  There are also plenty of situations where one may incur civil liability, without committing a crime. You apparently think this is one of them. But why? Do you have information that isn't publicly available? Do you have all the information that the grand jury had? More than they had?
  

  I can understand the desire to not leap to conclusions about someone's guilt on the basis of an indictment. But you've gone way beyond that, insisting not only that Sambol has not committed any crime, but that the DA is behaving corruptly and abusively. Again, what basis do you have for claiming that?

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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  UPDATED: Dallas restaurateur Bob Sambol, of Bob's Steak & Chop House, indicted for theft

  We'll see if Alex's read on the situation is justified by the facts, as they continue to emerge.
  

  If Sambol spent Thompson's money on contractors, consultants, architects, etc., for the expansion, he should have no difficulty producing the documentation to show where the money went.
  

  But what if the money is gone and Sambol can't show where it was spent? Or what if prosecutors can show that it was spent to retire personal debts or for some other purpose unrelated to the expansion?
  

  If I give a stockbroker money to put in GM stock and I lose money on the stock, there's no crime. But if I give a stockbroker money to put in GM stock and he loses it all at the racetrack, that's not "capitalism"--it's a crime.

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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  UPDATED: Dallas restaurateur Bob Sambol, of Bob's Steak & Chop House, indicted for theft

  It's safe to say that the grand jurors had much more information than any of us do. Regardless of whether Sambol is ultimately convicted of anything, the very fact of indictment means that at least 9 ordinary citizens believed the evidence justified criminal charges.
  

  That means they didn't think it was a mere lack of communication or misunderstanding. Maybe they were right, maybe they were wrong, but it seems odd to confidently second-guess the grand jurors without seeing the evidence on which they based that decision.

• 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Nearly 1,000 turn out for Tool singer wine event at Whole Foods Market in Plano, Texas

  Great story.

• 8 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Second branch of Twisted Root now open in Richardson

  The "made from scratch" line is overstatement. Most critically (for a gourmet burger joint), they don't make their own buns. (Their seasoned curly fries aren't from scratch, either.)

  Still, they do more "from scratch" than most burger joints in Dallas, which is to be commended. If CK can pull himself away from the grinding stone and set his ax aside long enough to direct us to a gourmet burger place in Dallas that does more from scratch than Twisted Root, it would be appreciated.

• 8 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Either Briefing is going gangbusters, or they're grasping at straws

  I started getting it last fall. It was just what I wanted--daily litter to clear off my lawn. I went through the cumbersome process of "opting out" and it stopped after a week or so. They recently started showing up again, so I had to "opt out" in stronger terms.
  

  Subscription newspapers aren't litter, since they're solicited by a resident. But is it legal for the DMN to abandon refuse on private property when the property owners *haven't* requested it? I'm guessing there are some municipal ordinances that would apply. Next time I find a soggy wad of DMN briefs on my lawn, I may have to research that.

• 9 months ago
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  ALDI discount supermarket chain to open 25 stores in Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2010

  So the planned opening of the stores in 2009 (previously reported here: http://tinyurl.com/abo5n9 ) has been delayed. Too bad. They could probably really get some mileage out of their business model in these economic times.

• 9 months ago
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  Robert Zimmerman likes Billy Joe Shaver

  I haven't even fully absorbed the three discs of Tale Tell Signs and now there's a new release? Bob is a god.

• 9 months ago
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  Movie review: Watchmen

  Is the squid in the IMAX version?

• 9 months ago
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  D Magazine lays off 12% of workforce

  Any recognizable names on the list, other than Adam McGill (who always seemed like a nice guy)?

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  Fort Worth Star-Telegram raises newsstand price to $1

  If their intent is to follow the DMN's lead in declining circulation, that would be the way to do it. What other business raises its prices in the face of falling demand?

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  Incredible Japanese "food porn" on Dallasfood.org

  Very tough and not great on taste? The few times I've had it (in Europe; always cooked), it's been noteworthy for its tenderness. The avoidance of horse meat in the English-speaking west has nothing to do with its quality as a meat, but purely cultural hangups.

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  Fairmont Dallas has fancy chef's tasting room with price they won't reveal

  It's great that a potential customer has absolutely no idea what price range to expect? I don't think so. That's just a bad marketing decision.

  The ability to meet with a chef and sommelier and craft a custom menu is not unusual. Nearly every upscale restaurant in Dallas has one or more wine/tasting/special event rooms for that purpose. But if you called the manager of one of those restaurants, they would be able to give you a rough price range.
  

  Since this is the only thread in all of Pegasus News that you've demonstrated any interest in, I'll leave this last comment and move on. You can respond with another affirmation of how great this idea is and then move on yourself, if you like.

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  Former Mansion chef John Tesar headed to Fishtail by David Burke in New York

  Good for him. Seems odd that the press release would come from him rather than David Burke. Looks like there was chatter about this yesterday in NY: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/02/s...

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  Maximo Cocina Mexicana in North Dallas now open for lunch hours

  Went back to El Rancho this morning and both of the molcajetes pictured above were still there. Housewares, Aisle 10, below the brooms and mops, along with the comals and tortilla presses, as one would expect.

  The one on the right is no longer there, as I bought it for the price stated above: $13.59 (plus tax). Consider it my gift to you, w4p. I'll find some way of getting it to you.

• 9 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Maximo Cocina Mexicana in North Dallas now open for lunch hours

  w4p, I'm happy to help. The molcajetes in question are pictured below:

• 9 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Maximo Cocina Mexicana in North Dallas now open for lunch hours

  And that wasn't my intent, as hopefully I've made clear. I like Maximo and will continue to go there from time to time. (Maybe you and I will bump into each other there without knowing it!) Though it's a tough time to be opening a restaurant, this is one I would like to succeed.

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