Hen of the Wood is extremely dark inside. So these are not the best pictures ever taken of food.
Gnocchi
Pork Two Ways (There should have been way more of the shoulder)
Swiss Chard
Deconstructed Carrot Cake. I prefer my carrot cake properly constructed.
Oysters, meaty creamy Sea Cows on the left, briney funky Blue Pools on the right.
Crab cakes. I can never get enough.
I almost didn’t make it there, but I’m so glad I did. The Brooklyn is great, but for just oysters, and variety of oysters, this is the place.
First you make a decadent grilled cheese made from brie and cheddar on brioche grilled with the perfect amount butter. Then, because this is how I roll, I knock it up a notch by adding bacon jam. But that’s not even close to good enough. I then added a fried chicken thigh. It was ridiculous.
Dallas continues to turn itself into the city I want to live in. Not satisfied by opening a Top Pot (a must put in my face event for every trip to Seattle) three blocks from house, Dallas has now brought me my favorite Texas restaurant – Uchi.
Previous fawnings can be found here, here, and here.
And no, it did not disappoint.
On to the porn:
Oysters
Toro Salmon
Breen
Hamachi Cure
Escolar – the best non liver based dish of the night.
Wagyu short ribs
Scallop Sushi – freebie randomly given to us.
Hamachi
King crab
Bacon Steakie
Foie Gras Nigiri
Peanut butter semifreddo.
This was my second beer dinner at Cook Hall in The W near the AAC. Both times the food has been phenomenomnomnomal!
Tres Vaso’s Ceviche – Shrimp, Tuna, Scallop
Pairing: Monarch Filtered Wheat
Corn Goat Cheese Soup
Pairing: Belgian Saison Spring Seasonal
This was the winner of the evening. Both soup and beer.
Spice Rub New York Strip
Pairing: Night Watch Oatmeal Stout
Churros
Pairing: Sir Williams English Brown Ale
These pictures were amazingly captured without a flash on my new Galaxy S6 Edge with just a tiny bit of adjustment from Adobe Lightroom.
At last, a hot dog place within walking distance of work. And not only is it close, but it’s also very good. Downtown just keeps getting better.
Those onion rings were ethereal albeit a bit greasy. The Meat Fight pictured in the back was very good.
One of the advantages of working downtown is the availability of a variety of food trucks. Well, at least that’s the theory. Since working downtown, I’ve only encounter the same food trucks you see at Klyde Warren Park or every other beer festival.
Until today.
I was delighted to look down from my window in Thanksgiving Tower and see a food truck and an ethnic food I’ve never ever encountered: Momo Family Tibetan Food Truck. That’s right, for the first time in my life, I ate Tibetan food. Who knew that was even a thing??
Seriously, check this out if you see this truck. It’s a dude and his Tibetan mom making delicious dumplings. I had a combo of beef and chicken curry. And be sure to double down on momma’s hot sauce.
Be sure to follow them @momotruck.
JT was in town and he dragged me not once but twice to his friend Uno’s restaurant, Chino Chinatown. It’s a good thing it’s one of the best restaurants in Dallas or I’d be pissed.
Elotes. The most delicious corn in the world.
Tostones
Ahi tuna nachos.
Chicken Lollipops.
Duck-fat Fries.
Drunken Noodles. I could eat this three times a day every day forever.
Regrettably not pictured, the duck fried rice with duck breast and a duck egg. It’s a chock full of duck.
And while I a had my camera over there, I took another nice picture of the bridge.
Like any food nerd I take pictures of stunning dishes whenever I can. But sometimes I forget to post them. This was eaten about a month ago. Mot Hai Ba is quickly shooting up to near the top of my favorite Dallas restaurants.
Oh, U Fleků, what’s happened to you? Or maybe it’s what’s happened to me. Four years after my first visit you seem so touristy and brightly lit. And please believe us when we say we don’t want any shots. And what are those other shots? In the good old days four years ago there was just one shot, Becherovka. Oh well, the pork knuckle was still great and the beer flowing.
Yuuuupppp, more beer.
It’s been a long day of drinking.
Garlic soup in a bread bowl
Sausage with fresh grated horseradish.
Duck
Goose
Day 13’s highlight was dinner at an Austrian* restaurant featuring a variety of fine Austrian wines.
Schnitzel with a white asparagus underneath and a like a liter of hollandaise sauce in the background.
Onion quiche.
Cheese strudel.
Strawberry fritter
*G’day Mate!!
It’s mostly been rainy, cloudy and cold here in the ‘dorf. But finally the sun broke through and I got to walk around the city a bit. And could there be a better way to end a day than with copious amounts of altbier, schweine haxe, some blutwurst and then more altbier?
Still South Dakota. Found a cute campground that most of the year is a hopping family holiday retreat. But it’s cold and snowy and latish Oc...
