{"id":9790,"date":"2023-02-21T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:48:02","slug":"dallas-eats-2022-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/21\/dallas-eats-2022-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas eats, 2023 edition."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My trip to Dallas didn\u2019t involve many meals worth discussing, since I was mostly at the ballpark in Arlington (and ate stadium food, something I very seldom do, for good reason). Most of my food journeys involved coffee, as it turned out, with two very good spots near my hotel in downtown Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stupid Good Coffee<\/a> actually lives up to its name, serving beans roasted by nearby third-wave roaster Oak Cliff Coffee, with the drip coffee I had on Friday their Honduras El Puente (according to what I could see, at least). They also do a lot of ridiculous, sugared-up drinks that mask the coffee itself, but they\u2019re at least using the right beans to start with. It\u2019s a small shop in a small shopping area inside an office building next to the Renaissance on Elm St., but with just one employee on Friday \u2013 I know it\u2019s hard to find staff now \u2013 the service was slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekend<\/a> is another tiny shop, this one tucked into the Joule boutique hotel, serving coffee from Counter Culture \u2013 in this case, another Honduran offering from El Puente, so quite likely beans from the same wholesale lots. Weekend does pour-overs, which is the better option as their drip coffee is actually brewed too hot, while they also have espresso drinks and some small food options, including some prefab breakfast tacos and real croissants. Every hotel needs a caf\u00e9 like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had two meals of note on the trip. One was at Angela\u2019s Caf\u00e9, an all-day diner in the Bluffview neighborhood that serves Mexican-American cuisine. I went there for breakfast with my alter ego, who just happened to order exactly the same thing I did \u2013 chorizo and eggs with hashbrowns. It\u2019s a simple dish but one of my favorites, and not something I ever see on menus up where I live. Angela\u2019s\u2019 version was excellent, although I\u2019m also willing to accept that the eggs in this are always cooked more than I like, and their hashbrowns were perfect other than that they needed more salt (but I almost always think that, don\u2019t I?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other was a quick bite between games from Flying Fish<\/a>, a local chain serving Cajun-influenced seafood dishes. Their shrimp po\u2019 boy was \u2026 fine, nothing special. The shrimp definitely weren\u2019t as fresh as they could have been, but I would have also consumed an entire bag of the hush puppies that came with it. I wouldn\u2019t go out of my way to eat at a Flying Fish, but it\u2019s certainly better than eating anything in that ballpark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did get what I thought was pretty solid Mexican-American food from a place called Fernando\u2019s, close to Angela\u2019s, as some friends ordered dinner from there before they all came with me to the Saturday night TCU-Arkansas blowout, but my friends said there\u2019s much better Mexican-American food to be had in the area and this was just the closest option. Of course now I\u2019m going to leave more time on the next trip to make sure we eat at one of these better places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My trip to Dallas didn\u2019t involve many meals worth discussing, since I was mostly at the ballpark in Arlington (and ate stadium food, something I very seldom do, for good reason). Most of my food journeys involved coffee, as it turned out, with two very good spots near my hotel in downtown Dallas. Stupid Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,84,504,206,271],"class_list":["post-9790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breakfast","tag-coffee","tag-dallas","tag-mexican-cuisine","tag-seafood","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9792,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}