For my money, Cackle & Oink on Texoma Parkway in Sherman is the best sit-down BBQ place in the area. My opinion is that for BBQ at its best you can’t beat a top notch stand, joint, or shack. But when it comes to a comfortable place to sit and enjoy a plate of ribs [...]
John Payne began Huck’s almost twenty years ago in Pottsboro. From the start, Payne has served farm-raised channel catfish from the Mississippi Delta. He’s done business with some of his suppliers for two decades, so he know he can rely on the quality of their product.
Alan and Sheila Hardin left Grayson County when Alan’s job evaporated. Now the pair is back in town. This time as owners of Palio’s Pizza Café, which opened in July at Sherman Town Center. Back in the eighties Alan worked for T.A. Reynolds, a hotel management company in Sherman.
They say if you want to find a good place to eat, ask the locals. As a foodie, finding a new and interesting place to eat is always on my agenda. If a trip south to Dallas is required, I plan it so that it coordinates with a meal time, and my goal is to [...]
Trinity Hall Irish Pub and Restaurant has been serving traditional Irish fare since 2001 from its Mockingbird Lane location in Dallas. The location was built specifically for the development of the Mockingbird Rail station and shopping center complex near downtown Dallas. Another is located on the west service road of Hwy 75 South in Allen. [...]
The Old Mining Camp is back for the second time in our barbecue roundup. Darrell and Rebecca Harris just keep cooking and folks just keep coming back for more. Following the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” adage, the Harrises haven’t changed much from last year, but there are few new items on the [...]
Another of last year’s discoveries, Nick Williams is the hands down choice for the Po Sam Memorial Brown Gravy Sauce Award for the second year running. We have not tried his elixir—Williams just calls it “sauce”—on chocolate cake yet, but it’s an intriguing idea. It probably would be good on cardboard, but across the river [...]
If you want to know what Galen Gibson is doing in Van Alstyne, close the magazine and take a look at the cover. Ann-Marie Shumate shot the picture and Gibson, the “G” in Smoky G, provided the food. And yes, it tasted as good as it looks. Gibson, who is making his second appearance in [...]
The building at 2921 South Eisenhower Parkway in Denison has seen more than a few barbecue and hamburger stands rise and fall in the past few years. (For quick a reference, that’s near B&N Music, across the street from Team Bonner Chevrolet on Spur 503.) Edd Fleming and his nephew Marvin Fleming have been there [...]
Years ago I attended the great annual Labor Day dove shoot in Cartersville, Georgia. A company that made automobile transporters sponsored the event each year, and it attracted everybody who was anybody in the business and political environs of Georgia. I was in neither of those elite categories, but I knew a secretary who worked [...]
