All photos by Jay Barker

Oh Snuffer's cheese fries, where would we be without you?

One of the many events the weekend was Taste Addison. The fest, which celebrated its 20th birthday, served up bites from sixty-plus restaurants in the metroplex.

Rhett Miller and his Hair was on hand, but photographer Jay Barker just grabbed a whole beef-truck full of food porn.

Enjoy.

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The Arts and Jazz Festival should be called the My Chest Will Hurt On Monday Convention. Taking a step into city limits, you're olfactory sense is assaulted with the undeniable, comforting aroma of all things battered and fried.

If only Village Voice Media would invest in smell-o-vision.

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photo by foodbitch

So there's this burger. A burger that lives inside a sushi restaurant. Its creator claims its fame to every customer who will listen. The claim is that it's the best in town.

A co-worker told me about it a while back. I'd been to NAAN before, and it's fine. Nothing to write home about. But the tale of this burger intrigued me. How could this guy think he has the best burger in town? In Dallas, no less, a town of many, many acclaimed burgers? "He owned a steakhouse," my co-worker replied.

Well, I owned a Barbie Dream House once. That doesn't mean I can make tiny plastic high heels.

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Arcodoro & Pomodoro's award-winning Ravioli Arcodoro (large handmade ravioli stuffed with scallops and shrimp, topped with bottarga mushroom sauce and saffron lobster sauce)

While temperatures might be more complementary to poolside Popsicle-licking than steaming heaps of comfort food, it's safe to assume there are a few more brisk days ahead of us. In honor of the season, we've put together a slideshow of Dallas' winter pastas, so delicious it's guaranteed to stimulate your salivary glands. Please try to refrain from licking your monitor. That'd just be weird.

All photos by Sara Kerens

The Burgundy Pasture Beef burger basket at Local. Comes with gruyere, caramelized onions, tomato, horseradish secret sauce and panko tater tots.

A hundred years ago (in Internet Time), we posted about the epic burgers of Dallas. We return now, at the turn of the year that was supposed to be a zombie apocalypse or something, to update you with burger photos that are currently blowing our socks clean off our feet. Our contributing food photographer genius Sara Kerens, of course, is responsible for photo-ing the meat. (Check out the full slideshow.)

Surely, we'll be updating this slide show throughout the year unless the world ends. Because, let's be honest, only a world-ending phenomenon would stop us from eating cheeseburgers.

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Bacon Cheeseburger @ Dairy-ette

​​Each week, we browse local food blogs to find the most jaw-unhingingly tasty photos for you gastro deviants out there. Here are some of this week's best images.

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Kimchee Fries @ Goghee to Go

Each week, we browse local food blogs to find the most jaw-unhingingly tasty photos for you gastro deviants out there. Have a suggestion? Leave it in the comments and we'll check it out.

Here are some of this week's best images.

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Patrick Michels

A Chicago dog at Wild About Harry's

There's a fairly standard lunch routine here at Observer headquarters: meander around staffers offices and cubicle like brain-hungry zombies until a restaurant decision is made. Often, it's tacos.

Even more frequent: the consumption of meat (Sorry Anna). Hell, it's usually around lunchtime when our hunger overrides our visual accuity and Scott Reitz turns into a steaming turkey leg instead of human moaning "what's fooorr lunch."

Anyway, in honor of our year of eating meats--we have a slide show for you: the best meat photos of 2011. We've even crowned a winner of the Best Meat Photo of 2011 after the jump (seriously, it's a meatacular one). Check out the full slide show over in the section for slide shows, and after the jump check out our favorite shot of the year.

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Samantha Guzman

Bolsa's "Chocolate Thingy" with almond brittle and Grand Marnier Anglaise: more in the slide show.

We're mostly savory animals at the Observer. We like our fried things, cheeses and big burgers. In the last year, we've sent food photographers to shoot Dallas' meats, tacos and chicken-topped waffles. Lately, however, we're developing a sweet tooth. It's probably caused by the fact that we sent crack photographer Samantha Guzman out to round up some photos of Dallas' snappiest desserts.

So, yeah, that's what we did. From Lucia, Asian Mint, La Duni, Bolsa, Kathleen's Sky Diner, and The Grape, we collected some of Dallas' sticky, delicious, photogenic desserts. Check out the full round of shots in Sam's slideshow: The Great Desserts of Dallas.

Sara Kerens

At Deep Ellum's Anvil Pub, chili, mac and cheese makes every time "Hammertime."

In the grand tradition of the pie- and taco-photo-tours we've taken around Dallas, today we draw your attention to our latest visual gutbuster: The Greatest Mac 'n' Cheese in Dallas.

Over the past few weeks, we gathered up your suggestions over Twitter and dispatched photographer Sara Kerens to take a dangerously close look at the cheesiest, gooiest, most meatful of Dallas's mac 'n' cheese offerings.

From Anvil Pub, Tillman's Roadhouse, Screen Door and newcomer Oddfellows, then, comes this photo set upon which to feast your hungry, weekend-ready eyes. Enjoy.