Grannie’s Soul Food Kitchen
Not Bishop Arts*, this is downtown Dallas, honey: Grannie’s Soul Food Kitchen, kinda behind Neiman Marcus, in a location that’s seen its share of comers and goers (who remembers Snappy’s Seafood? How bout Obie’s Sandwich Shop? Anyone? Anyone?). Grannie’s usedta be in Pleasant Grove 'til that location burned down, whereupon owner Dorothy Davis took it to the CBD. It's lunch-only, sigh. Her bestsellers are chicken tetrazini and smothered pork chops. Thursdays, she does chicken & dumplings. Peach cobbler and banana pudding are homemade.
1702 Commerce st. #A 214-647-0994
*Sorry, Bishop Arts Week decided to take Friday off.
posted by TG @ 11:02 AM
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38 Comments:
tg: unless grannie actually makes the cookies at home rather than at the restaurant, they should be described as HOUSEMADE
excuse me, i should have said puddings and cobblers. the link to the "homemade cookies" also used the wrong adjective.
Speaking of pudding, where's the best Bread Pudding in town?
paula, one of the pleasures of no longer being an indentured servant at a shitty-ass daily newspaper means that i can 1. use two commas in a series of three (such as this, this, and this); and 2. use words like "homemade" instead of the bullshit "housemade" if i damn well feel like it. my use of "homemade" here was not just deliberate, but downright gleeful. but hey, thanks for your input. i look forward to reading "housemade" in your very-fine restaurant reviews in the future, and will silently issue a nod of compassion.
to twisted: who or what is MW?
i still beg to differ, even with MW. a restaurant is often referred to as a house, as in "it's on the house," but it very seldom is someone's home. and TG, i don't envy you the restaurant reviews. we in the grammar police earn enough to eat out without having to write for our dinner.
handmade doesn't sound all that sanitary when you are talking about puddings.
is vern's still open? they do some of the best soul food in dallas in my humble opinion
I've read about Vern's! But never been.
There's a place in Fort Worth that really IS a house. It's called Santos (I think) and a lot of the prominent types go there. You get whatever it is they feel like cooking that day.
Of course I've not been as I'll thow a tantrum if my scallop's cold. (Cold, frozen, whatever).
i once took The Rock to rosemarie's, the sibling of gennie's bishop grill, not knowing that she didn't eat ANYTHING that had a speck of oil or fat in it. think she had a small iceberg salad, no dressing.
the people that run that italian restaurant on richmond between greenville and matilda live over the restaurant. someone will think of the name; starts with a p, i think
ms.ery: i remember that lunch. why do you think your raise was so small that year?
jess, do you mean the one behind the 7-11 across from whole foods? is it possibly "pietro's"?
what is life without oil and fat
Or at Tony Bourdain say's "without stinky cheese and pork fat."
i do think "homemade" implies more than simply "someone made it in a home."
in any case, if any restaurant could say it has "homemade" items, it would surely be a place such as "grannie's soul food kitchen."
i reviewed a similar place last yr down by the DART Rail station at 8th and corinth called faye's kitchen - again, lunch-only, and very tiny. her food's "homemade" too!
soofsayer is correct. it is pietro's. knew someone would know it.
So is Pietro's any good? As TG knows, I know nothing about Italian food.
Twisted: why do you want to know? (haha)
Homemade in the sense that it tastes like the dumplin's my mama used to make, works for me.
Yo! twisted!
da craigs ad says to please drive by the building before making an appointment.
what kind of drive by are ya lookin for? we can do all kinds ya know.
Pietro's is VERY good - we eat there frequently. Very reasonable Chianti plonk too.
Pietro the dad started it in the early 60's and used to do his green grocer shopping at a grocer that is now the space the Hurricane Grill is in - a buddy of mine was a bag boy there as a kid. Then his son took it over - he's in his 50/60's now. It's *his* son that was killed.
Captain, that new picture makes you look like the illegitimate love child of Janet Reno and Bill Gates.
from-scratch is better than homemade; too many moms use pudding mixes and cream of mushroom soup.
dean: illegitimate love child is redundant.
No, because he could have been legitimated by marriage. And seeing as how Bill is married to Melinda and Janet is well, urm, not married, he remains illegitimate.
Charlotte Ruse makes a good point, but she also begs the question; what exactly is “from scratch”? I mean, at what point do we stop cooking and become merely assemblers of prepared ingredients? The answer depends largely on exactly what are we “creating.”
For example, if we make a casserole and use store bought chicken, cream of mushroom soup, canned vegetables and store bought herbs and spices, have we really created anything “from scratch”? That’s just one example, but following that logic, would it not then be true that no matter where we cook, whether it’s in the smallest shoebox efficiency or the finest restaurant kitchen, cooking is nothing more than an exercise in integration and assembly? It’s just the degree that varies. Sure, with unlimited time and unlimited resources, we would all grow our own wheat and corn, milk our own cows, churn our own butter, tend to our chickens and farm our own eggs. But the reality is, only a handful of people actually do that.
What then, about the rest of us? Well, I’ll leave you with this illustrative distinction between “home made” and “from scratch.” Take slice and bake cookies as an instance in point. These may well be “home made,” but are never made “from scratch” regardless of whose home they happened to have been baked in, because everything you needed to complete that dish was pre-prepared.
Maybe Sandra Lee’s right. Maybe everything really is better semi home-made.
There endeth today's lesson.
dean: haven't checked webster's, but i don't believe legimated is a word. and love child doesn't just mean borne out of love, as you apparently think, but has the further meaning of born outside marriage
Paula: I said "legitimated." It's a word. Look it up.
An illegitimate child may be legitimated by its parents' subsequent marriage.
Hey, the estimable kirk did some legwork for us by visiting Hermosa Bakery & Pupuseria (NYCE's Aug. 6 item). here's his report
It is indeed a word and that is me circa 1981. Now as far as I know Bill G isn't my Daddy but my Mom was in Washington St. in the early 70's so if he wanted to claim me he certainly could. I would prefer to be adopted by Steve Jobs though. It would make getting my dream job at Pixar easier to achieve.
And if the little bastards are conceived in a moment of passion at either of the parties' abodes, could we venture further that the love children are homemade?
oh ron, you are just the most delicious item on the menu
today's NYCE item is running a little late, pls. forgive, coming soon, swear to god etc
Nice one Ron. Now, TG, you were saying . . .?
dean: i stand corrected (a position i am seldom in) on legitimated. there is indeed such a word. but it is still REDUNDANT to say illegitimate love child. that is like saying illegitimate illegitimate. you could say a legitimated love child, to show the bastard's illegitimate status had been legally changed, however.
Well seeing as there was nothing new (hint, hint) to post on, I just kinda went with the flow.
oh dean how you torment me. i am done with my deadlines; is it too late to post an item? maybe i can do a cheezy throwaway item on, say, starbucks or sumfin
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