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DateDallas, TX 75214
(972) 502-4400
Woodrow Wilson High School
Category:
Middle Schools & High Schools
Euless, TX 76039
(817) 545-0913
Lifetouch Portrait Studio
Category:
Department Stores
1 Previous Review:
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12/2/2011 First to Review
This has been the MOST PAINFUL AND DIFFICULT process I've been through since child birth. Seriously!
I called and ordered photos, when they did not arrive I called again. My photos were not printed and no one could tell me why. They processed the order again. They didn't arive AGAIN. I called AGAIN and was told they must have been delivered to the wrong address. The order has been processed again, for the THIRD TIME. The photos won't arrive until December 15 at the earliest.
Some of these photos were supposed to be part of relitives b-day gifts, now they are Christmas gifts; and even that is in jeapordy becuase I still have to purchase frames and ship them. I can't even see the photo to get an idea what frames to purchase because the half-wit photographer didn't give the children an access code when the photo was taken.
This has been a nightmare. I will be letting my church/school/and anyone else who will listen how terrible LifeTouch is.
My daughter ordered the Key West Shrimp and Pasta--it was bad mac'n'cheese with about 5 shrimp on top. I can go home and open a box o Kraft for less than the $13.95 they charged for that bowl of poo. And it was so salty it was hard to eat.
Service was slow and the place was not crowded on a Saturday near Christmas. The store was packed. I guess we should have known.
Anyway, if I don't have time to take a long lunch, I don't go. If I have the time then I enjoy the food.
1 Previous Review:
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10/21/2010
The Basil Rolls ROCKED...but they were tiny for the price. The lunch special was huge, but it didn't taste as good as other places I'm used to. I had the basil beef but the sauce was a little thin on flavor. There was enough between the rolls and the lunch special for two meals, easily.
My favorite part of the meal was the spicy peanut sauce which came with the Basil Rolls. I could have drank it straight. But I didn't...co-workers were watching and it would have been poor form. If I were alone I totally would have used my fingers to get every last bit a sauce out of the ramekin.
5% discount if you pay cash. Decent for a little lunch walk from the new office digs.
Dallas, TX 75202
(214) 377-0499
Fatal End In the West End
Categories:
Nightlife,
Party & Event Planning
Neighborhoods: West End, Downtown
We went on Monday night before Halloween and the same night as the Ranger game--we'd promised the tweens we'd go. There was no line. Even with no one ahead of us or behind us it still took us about 20 minutes. This place put some time into their displays.
One area looked like we were in a cave, one put us in a funeral, one was a graveyard, etc. There's a lot of neat stuff and a lot of darkness.
The actors were...hmmm...skilled. And they were more than happy to scare the bejezus out of the gals. Seems teens are tastier. I don't want to give anything away, so I'm going to stop with the descriptions. But since it's $25 per person it's worth it. Most of the other houses are $30 and you HAVE to get the special ticket that gets you to the front of the line. The line wasn't bad at Fatal End.
Down side is you pretty much have to pay for parking unless you take the train, which is a cool option. And at least we know where the Heart Attack Grill vicitms ended up. Hee hee.
Dallas, TX 75202
(214) 651-8475
Spaghetti Warehouse
Category:
Italian
Neighborhoods: West End, Downtown
The West End is a little better than it was a year ago, but it's got a long way to go if it's really going to be a tourist stop. They've opened an all year haunted house and there are street musicians.
I've seen a lot of review saying the food isn't that great. I eat a lot of Italian food and the food here is as good as most of the other places I go to in Dallas with the exception of Pietro's--which rox my sox clean off. They use the same recipes they used before SW became a chain, so I always forget it expanded. I love the trolly car and the beds made into tables. My daughter want's to have her birthday upstairs in the gazebo--only $13.50 per person and that's all inclusive (tax and tip). We are going to take the train from White Rock Station. It should be a hoot.
Anyway, I suspect that a lot of people knock off a star before they start writing because it's a "chain" and that makes me sad. The food is yummy!
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1 Previous Review:
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4/9/2010
There was more food than any two little women could eat...but yah, we ate it all anyway. Butternut and I went here on a Saturday afternoon. We were starving like marvin because we'd skipped traditional lunch time immersed in the JFK-ness of the Sixth Floor Museum.
1. We sat in the trolley car--which is always awesome. "Look I'm on a TROLLEY CAR INSIDE A RESTAURANT!
2. Huge plate meant to feed 2 Dallas Cowboys Linebackers--big ones. And yes, we ate it all. Did you really think for a second we couldn't.
3. Food was awesome and the waiter took our photo for us so we didn't have to stop stuffing our face to snap it ourselves.
GREAT FOOD and just like I remember it being when I was a little butternut myself.
I still love this place and I've yet to be disappointed by it. Maybe I got lucky and hit it at the right time, maybe everyone else hit it on an off day. Who knows, but I'll go there again on Memorial Day for sure.
Dallas, TX 75215
(214) 421-3191
Cafe Delicious
Category:
Southern
Neighborhood: South Dallas
Lunch plates are one meat, three sides and a bread. Sweet merciful Southern crap the sides were the best ever. I had cabbage with a side of cheese, mac-n-cheese, black-eyed peas and jalapeno cornbread. Everything was great. The cabbage was so amazing that I didn't need the cheese sauce. It had a spicy bite to it. I loved it as much as I did my pork chop.
My munchkin had the fried catfish, mashed potatoes, green beans and fry bread. If you've never had fry bread (hot water bread) you need to. My mom used to make it so I know I love it. Bread in cornmeal deep fried. My step dad is Choctaw and we used to have fry bread as my mother's attempt to preserve his culture. Forget that his mom actually made sourdough biscuits, but you can't blame her for trying. Either way, the fry bread is also amazing. My cornbread was really good to.
The fried catfish was also a huge winner. It was not fishy at all. Loved it.
They also had pigs feet, oxtail, meatloaf, baked chicken, butter beans--etc. Everything looked really good and everything I tasted was top notch.
The folks behind the counter couldn't have been any nicer. Super friendly and they knew their Southern food! I love this place. I would say it's the best meal I've had in months--and I've eaten some great food this month.
GO! Go now! Their credit card machine is down so take cash. And eat a lot! They give you huge portions. I absolutely love this place and cannot say enough nice things about it.
Either way Pulido's tacos are better than Herrera's. They were the absolute best crispy beef tacos I've ever had--in my whole life--and we all know I've had a bunch'o tacos. The meat was well seasoned, smooth but meaty and the shell was crispy but strong enough to hold together almost till the end. The salad on top was standard, but good. I loved them. My plate also had two enchiladas, cheese taco, rice and beans. I believe it was called the Mama Plate, which is appropriate because I'm often referred to as a mother of some type. The Mama Plate also came with tea and a praline. We also had a tamale appetizer which featured 6 mini tamales, 2 pork, 2 chicken jalapeno, and 2 bean cheese. I suspect they were out of bean cheese because I didn't see them. No problem, the mini tamales comes with queso. I lived.
Everything was good. The service was okay. I really toyed with dropping it a star because while our waitress was friendly and very nice, I don't think she's waited tables before. She did not know the menu. She did not ring things up correctly. She did not really know how to wait tables at all. But everyone has to start somewhere and while she was not very good, it was not from lack of trying.
If I'm in Mineral Wells I will eat here again. Would I make a special trip from Dallas--that's 2 hours, prob not. Would I make a special trip from Weatherford--dang skippy I would. Also, this place is better than Herrera's overall if that says anything about it. I think it does.
Irving, TX 75038
(972) 650-9001
Via Real Gourmet Mexican Restaurant
Categories:
Mexican,
Breakfast & Brunch
I requested a box for my three pieces of quesadilla which were left. I waited for freaking evah. Eventually he came back and took my plate to box them up for me. The next day I opened the box and had one tiny piece. WHAT HAPPENED? I'm guessing that he trashed the rest of it.
My food was good, but not amazing. There's too many good places to go in that general area for me to waste time on some place that does not value my business enough to have better service.
Via Real--you totally owe me a tenderloin quesadilla.
1 Previous Review:
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1/24/2011
I wonder how long they would let me sit there and eat chips and hot sauce. I'd like to test that theory some day. Because I'm cheap? Well, yah because I'm cheap, but really because they were THAT good. The chips were lite, crisp and salty. The sauce was thick and tomatoey with the right amount of zip. Even when my food arrived I couldn't stop on the chips.
I ordered the spinach enchilada/puffy taco combo. Yes, I know it has a name but I've slept since then. And while I do not like cooked spinach, the enchilada was effing sweet! I would totally Popeye up that plate'o'joy again. The downside was that the puffy taco shell was stale and hard to rip apart. The brisket inside was completely worth the effort, but I would have loved for the shell to be a little more crispy. Don't worry...I managed.
Service was extra perfect. Atmosphere is swankier than most Mexican places. All in all, this was a four star all the way. Show owner comment »
The menu included burgers and portobello burgers, steak fritte, pepperoni eggrolls, Cajun fries and more.
The folks operating the truck were super nice and really asked a lot of questions regarding locations, and what brings you to their truck. They are really trying to please their public.
I've hit three of the four trucks I'm aware of, and this one by far is my favorite. Here's why--I like plain cowboy food. Most food trucks have some fusion of Asian and tortilla going on. This place is busy fusing my meat with cheese in a Texas sort of way. I can take my meat and tater friends to this truck without having to explain what diakon and kimchee are. Don't get me wrong. I love pickled diakon on my banh mi and caramelized kimchee on my tacos, but it's hard to convince someone who's raised on home cooking that they really want sour cabbage and pickled radish on their tacos.
Food for the common man served with uncommon quality! I'm all about that. And it rolls up to my hood. How SWEET is that?!
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But if your child didn't feed from Lakewood, Stonewall or a private school--it will be an uphill battle. The school is very slanted towards the haves and often leaves the have-nots sitting on the bench. If you can't get your own transportation, you cannot participate in most of the schools after school activities.
I'm a working mother and I have litereally had to move mountains for my daughter to be able to participate in the activities--even in summer.
The teachers are good. The new principal is pulling things together. But the progams are administed haphazardly at best. My daughter was in a Spanish class with a substitute-turned-permanent for the first six weeks. There were over 40 children in the class and not enough desks. Children had to sit in the floor for the first six weeks. A second teacher was eventually hired but they are all very behind now.
My daughter is in the IB program. For the most part, the teachers are AMAZING. But often we find their time taken up with all the meetings they have to attend, leaving little time for tutoring. And if you are in IB, eventually you will need tutoring.
Woodrow, compared to other DISD schools is 4 stars. I will stand by it, but it needs to improve. And while I'm glad y'all are out there pumping sunshine, it comes off very candy coated. Yelpers are smart enough to hear the truth and smart enough to recognize propaganda.