Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Spiral Diner - Dallas


So my band tour continues. As we roll into Fort Worth and stop at a coffee shop near the venue to escape the heat (no AC in the tour van, + 40 punk points), when what do I see right across from the coffee shop? The Spiral Diner. I didn’t remember this being the location of The Spiral Diner last time I was in Dallas. Well it seems that it isn’t. The Spiral Diner is so good and badass that they have two locations, one in Dallas and one in Fort Worth. I guess they’re two different cities…although it seems like one big city to me. Now I didn’t want to say that though, because those Texans get mighty feisty. It’s probably because of the balls summers. Where scrotum and labia alike are batwinged to various underwares for months on end. But I remember what they did to that guy who offered them salsa from New York City. Momma Chee Chee didn’t raise a dumbass.


I digress. The vegan gods had opened up the sky and shined their love down upon me by placing me unbeknownst right next to the sister location of Dallas’s finest vegan food eatery. I beamed with joy as I walked towards the Diner with a blossoming food boner. All was good and great with the world. All of a sudden the fact I had been sweating for 5 days straight didn’t bother me. The tangy stank from my tour shorts didn’t bother me. The world is good, oh wait, fuck me, they’re closed on Mondays.

That night I ate a small bag of Fritos and some French Fries for dinner. Since I’m getting older a meal like that made me feel like garbage. Lucky for me the place we crashed at that night was in Dallas and we had time to hit up the Dallas Spiral Diner for breakfast.

Spiral Diner has a HUGE menu. And everything looks awesome on it. Fucking food heaven. As much as I wanted to order a big heavy meal, I needed raw veggies. I scanned the menu and saw what I needed…the chef salad. I also had to get a side of their Mexican quinoa because it just plain rules. I have tried to recreate it at home but so far have only succeeded in making inferior clones. One day dammit.


Look at this salad! Loaded with awesome veggies, daiya, bacon bits, and a bunch of great grilled tofu. The spicy ranch dressing didn’t taste necessarily “ranchy”, but I didn’t give a shit because it was delicious. Now let me mention the coffee. Its bottomless. Big plus right there. Also they have soy creamer for it, which I don’t think I have ever seen at a restaurant before. I like soy and rice milk and all…but its inferior in coffee. I have to put so much in my coffee to get it how I like, it really just becomes coffee flavored soy/rice milk instead of coffee. And finally, the coffee was totally amazing! Fair trade Ethiopian that was light and flavorful. I’d go back just for the coffee….I had 3 cups.

Spiral Diner rules very much. It’s probably the most extensive menu I have seen at a vegan restaurant. They have containers of nooch on the table for fucks sake. You can cover all your food in nooch and they don’t give a fuck. That’s how rad they are. 

http://www.spiraldiner.com

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