Let me just say, I never set out to eat 29 beef carpaccio dishes over the course of 60 days. What started as a mild curiosity spiraled into a full-blown obsession that cost me nearly $700 and involved 22 innocent bystanders.
My carpacciodyssey began when I realized I could get carpaccio delivered on DoorDash. I’ve always loved this dish. It reminds me of my mom, who ordered carpaccio with the kind of excitement normal people reserve for spotting a celebrity. If carpaccio was on the menu, she treated it like she’d just found a rare gem. Apparently, that enthusiasm is in my genes.
I identified two places that would bring the coveted dish to my door: Panevino Osteria and North Italia. I am a fan of both and would regularly alternate ordering between the two, but even I got burned out on the duo eventually. I started Googling “carpaccio near me” like it was a medical emergency. I searched DoorDash and Uber Eats for “Carpaccio” and couldn’t find any other restaurants that would deliver it. I started to panic. After sifting through dozens of steakhouse and Italian restaurant menus to see where I needed to drive, I realized I was collecting some valuable carpaccio data. Perhaps others could use a handy guide to Dallas carpaccio.
But first, what is beef carpaccio?
In addition to trying them all, I wanted to understand and know everything I could about this dish. Turns out the dish was born in the 1950s at Harry’s Bar in Venice, when Giuseppe Cipriani whipped it up for a countess who needed more raw meat in her diet. You go, girl. I feel the same way…