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ORIGINAL MARKET DINER
4434 Harry Hines Blvd.
(214-521-0992)
Open Mon–Wed 6 a.m.–3:30 p.m., Thur–Sat 6–9, Sun 7–3.
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Dallas
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(From February 2011) Corporate types, UT Southwestern med school employees, police officers, and ordinary folk make this Dallas institution a madhouse at noon. If you’re thinking about the meat loaf, make sure to get it with plenty of the slightly spicy Creole sauce of onions, peppers, tomatoes, and carrots. Sides (there are more than 20) are pure comfort food; we especially like the pinto beans. A separate menu proclaims that “pie fixes everything,†and we’d have to agree after devouring our piece of chocolate–peanut butter cream pie with a chocolate cookie crust. |
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RAILS
615 Schreiner, just off Texas Hwy 16
(830-257-3877)
Open Mon-Sat 11-9. Closed Sun.
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Kerrville
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(From March 2011) California bistro–style cuisine is served up in a historic 1915 train depot that’s more homey than cutesy. There are plenty of lunch options—axis venison burgers, grilled salmon salad, portobello quesadillas. The soup du jour is definitely worth ordering, especially if it’s the Brie-mushroom bisque. Dinner entrées lean toward steaks, seafood, chicken, and pasta, plus a couple of nightly specials. Vegetable sides are fresh and generously portioned: heaping mounds of sautéed spinach, red-skinned mashed potatoes, tender baby green beans. A dessert tray, piled with tempting treats, is helpfully brought table-side for selection. Beer & wine. |
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CROSSROADS DINER
8121 Walnut Hill Ln
(214-346-3491)
Open Tue–Sun 7 a.m.–2 p.m. Closed Mon.
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Dallas
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(From June 2011) Good morning, sunshine! We love this high-ceilinged room, with the sun streaming through the windows, and we love the break-fast even more. Is there anyone who could re-sist a delectable frittata with roasted red pepper, chorizo, and goat cheese and sides of hash browns and “hippy†bread (i.e., lots of grains)? And nowhere is it written that you can’t have dessert after breakfast, espe-cially in the form of delicate, crispy lemon cannoli. |
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URBAN FARE
(361-883-1400)
Open Mon–Thur 11–7, Fri 11–3 a.m., Sat 2–5 & 8–3. Closed Sun.
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Corpus Christi
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(From November 2011) Urban Fare adds welcome variety to the food available downtown, catering to both the business lunch crowd and the wee-hours survivors of nearby party places. Try to ignore the industrial furnishings and depressing decor and focus on food that would be more at home in Santa Monica than in this recycled ex–pizza parlor on a South Texas side street. Dishes are all over the map, from a chicken-vegetable soup and a spicy Thai chicken wrap to a “Montreal Style” roast beef sandwich and a teriyaki beef rice bowl. We wish the proprietors enough success that they can afford to make the environment worthy of their kitchen. Beer & wine. |
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LA PATISSERIE
602 W. Annie
(512-912-0033)
Open Tue–Fri 8 a.m–4 p.m., Sat & Sun 9–5. Closed Mon.
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Austin
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(From November 2011) What a delightful find, in South Austin but far from the SoCo hipster scene. In this quaint cottage (exuding just the right amount of country French atmosphere), we found ourselves struggling to choose from the tempting array in the deli case. We finally settled on a Hope Farmers Market Salad (fresh and crisp) and a scrumptious tomato-and-cheese tart, which sated our appetite but didn’t leave us stuffed. Thank goodness our willpower failed at the prospect of a lemon curd tart. |
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