Nick Rallo
Dallas Observer
Dallas, TX, United States
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The Best Grilled Cheese in Dallas, Anyway You Damn Please, at Sky Rocket Burger
The special-order grilled cheese is an off-menu but popular way of doing things at Sky Rocket Burger — you’ll need to call-in or, in Deep Ellum only, order online to build your own. → Read More
The Best Fried Chicken Sandwiches in Dallas in 2020
Dallas is saturated with fried chicken, but these are the restaurants serving the best fried chicken sandwiches in Dallas. → Read More
20 Years of Mom's Cooking at Lalibela
If you give Genet Mulugeta a few days' notice, she’ll prepare the doro wat like it’s done back home. Plenty of onion softens in the pan, low and slow for hours with the pottery-red of berbere chili powder, butter, garlic and zaps of cardamom. → Read More
Fall Back for KST (Klobasnek Saving Time) with the Best in Dallas
They're the savory counterpart to kolaches, and we want them always. Especially from these spots in Dallas that have the best ones. → Read More
The Best Fried Chicken Sandwiches in Dallas
There are a lot of versions, but these eight fried chicken sandwiches are the best in Dallas. → Read More
Will Hot Dogs Ever Work in Dallas? New York Sub Tries Franks (and Shaved Ice)
Hot dogs haven't had an easy time in Dallas. In the past decade, a number of mom-and-pop hot dog joints — whether they have burgers or fried chicken sandwiches or wings on the left side of the menu — have opened and closed in a blink, quicker than a Texas... → Read More
The Hidden Gem of the Dallas Farmer's Market: The Roti Tacos at 8 Cloves
They scramble eggs in the morning, wrapped with veggies and potatoes in a blistered roti, but that’s not why you should stand in line at the brightest food stand at the Dallas Farmers Market. → Read More
Good to Go: How Does a $23 Burger Hold Up During Takeout?
Good to Go is a column in which our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. One of the strangest food moments of the year has to be ordering takeout from a luxury steakhouse during a pandemic. The Town Hearth parking lot was... → Read More
An Ode to the Kolaches (Klobasneks) at Jarams Donuts
It's been a hellish year — you need this hot dog sunk in a tomb of bread. → Read More
Eight Years After Launching a Food Truck, Easy Slider Is on-Wheels-Only in the Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has Caroline Perini back to basics in her business. → Read More
Did Greenville Avenue Pizza Company Make the Best Original Hold Music in Texas?
The first time I heard the song, I was in a wash of red lights. Traffic stacked up Buckner Boulevard for a couple of miles at the Garland Road intersection — typical for a Friday evening — and a text message from my wife blinked on my phone: “Should we... → Read More
The Cheeseburger at Desert Racer Is a Big Mess
The cheeseburger at Nick Badovinus' Lowest Greenville spot is a big mess. → Read More
After 20 Years, AllGood Cafe Adds a Cheeseburger. Is It Worth the Wait?
It’s been 20 years since his restaurant opened, and Mike Snider is just now finding the room for a cheeseburger. In 2000, he held a “restaurant shower” — the community showed up with booths and tables and slices of tile that were headed for the dumpster, because Deep Ellum adapts... → Read More
Meet the Cubano You Can Order at 7 a.m. at the Design District’s Bodega
David Zhu was tired of the downtown grocery store dance. You’re probably familiar with the struggle if you live in the heart of Dallas: the eternal circling of Uptown, downtown and anywhere near the high-rises to find a single open parking spot. He’d been living at the AMLI in the... → Read More
The Big Nostalgia Energy of the Fried Chicken Tenders Sandwich at Maple & Motor
Eleven years after Jack Perkins opened his first restaurant, the tenders basket is a rocketship to an older, simpler time. → Read More
The Seven Best Sandwiches in Dallas Right Now
These are the seven sandwiches in Dallas we're looking forward to eating in 2020. → Read More
A Tribute to 8 Fried Chicken Sandwiches of the Decade
Move over, Popeyes, Nick Rallo has the best fried chicken sandwiches Dallas has to offer. → Read More
Behold the Sensational Chorizo Burger at Bo-Leo’s Taco Shack
There was absolutely no way a burger was going to be on the menu. Nope. They would not be swayed by the gravity pull from planet beef. No way. The previous owner had a griddled cheeseburger on the menu of this taqueria for years in South Dallas — the building... → Read More
The Grape in East Dallas Will Close This October
The Grape opened on Lower Greenville in 1972, and the Luschers have owned and operated the institution for the last 12 years. → Read More
Porky's Burgers and Wings Has Some of the Best in the Dallas Area
Porky's is rich, salty decadence. The burgers are immense half-pounders, piled just high enough with toppings, to awe-strike you for the price. It's a giant meal, stupendous and mustardy and cheesy. In other words, it's a cheeseburger you're imagining when you think you want a cheeseburger. → Read More