Warm and heartfelt pretty much characterizes things at AmberJax. It’s a family affair: Larry Williams, who formerly ran the kitchen at Rex’s Seafood, does the culinary honors here; four daughters and a son join their mother in the dining room. I can think of a lot of families who shouldn’t be running restaurants — who...
The 2014 James Beard Foundation Awards Restaurant and Chef semifinalists have just been announced, and there is plenty among the nominees for Dallas to cheer about. Casa Rubia, Omar Flores and Jonn Baudoin‘s modern tapas restaurant in Trinity Groves, is one of 30 semi-finalists for Best New Restaurant (in the country!). New York and California dominated that category, with five...