Preston Center

Il Cane Rosso White Rock Opens and More from a Busy April

Another month has come and gone and with it a handful of restaurants have opened. Read on for the full list of restaurants happenings in April, and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Openings: Il Cane Rosso White Roc ... More >>

Wicked Po'Boys Now Open in Preston Center

Chi and Joey Le have expanded their N'awlins sandwich shop, Wicked Po'boys, to Dallas proper, after opening their first spot in Richardson (1811 N. Greenville Ave.) just last year. This second restaurant is in the heart of Preston Center (6030 Luther Lane, Ste. 130), which is ripe with new restauran ... More >>

Lovin' That Tesar Spoonful

I kind of wanted to hate John Tesar for putting his fine-dining seafood restaurant in the middle of the Preston Center. While the people that live nearby are no doubt grateful, I don't like driving that far to park near a DSW and look out the window at a guy running on a treadmill while I'm slurping ... More >>

Your Dallas Foodie Gift Guide: Chocolate, Coffee, Breads and Barbecue

If you haven't started your holiday shopping, then good for you! I think we all perform best under the pressure of deadlines, so just let it happen. Wait another few days, then get around to it. Most places will be open on Christmas Eve anyway. And a lot of gas stations are open 365. Lotto and scrat ... More >>

Yes, There Are More Burgers and Even A Meat Maelstrom: This Week In Dallas Dining

Did someone say Wintervention? Looks like a nasty cold front is on its way. Time to break out those dutch ovens and braise some lamb shanks, I'm thinking. Or maybe a hearty beef stew is more your style. Whatever you plan on cooking, cold weather dishes make your kitchen smell amazing and always have ... More >>

Spoon Bar & Kitchen Opens, Il Cane Rosso Announces a Second Location and More From November

While a handful of restaurants popped up in the DFW area last month, November wasn't nearly as busy as October for restaurant openings and closings. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about new and/or dead restaurants in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Spo ... More >>

Dude, Sweet Chocolate Opens New Location in Preston Center and Fort Worth Next Week

Dude, Sweet Chocolate has just opened a second location at 8304 Preston Center Plaza Drive, between Taco Diner and R&D Kitchen. And another spot is set to open next week at 2925 Crockett (just south of Seventh, near Fireside Pies) in Town of the Cow. Prior to becoming a chocolate-dealer, Dude Kath ... More >>

Chef John Tesar's Spoon Bar & Kitchen is Now Open in Preston Center

Chef John Tesar's latest culinary project, Spoon Bar & Kitchen (8220 Westchester Drive) is now open in Preston Center (directly across from Hopdoddy Burger Bar). The dinner menu offers raw caviar, oyster and crudo options, salads, pasta (including house-made fusilli with red wine braised octopus ser ... More >>

Cook Hall Opens, Love Shack Closes and More From a Very Busy October

Another very busy month has come and gone, and with it several Dallas restaurants have opened while others have closed their doors for good. Read on for the full list and be sure to share tips about restaurant openings or closings in the comments section below or at dish@dallasobserver.com. Opening ... More >>

GRIP Mediterranean Grill in Preston Center is Now Open for You To Make the Ultimate Gyro

GRIP Mediterranean Grill has opened in the Preston Center at 6030 Luther Lane (a few doors down from Hopdoddy) as a fast-casual pita wrap in the same vein of Chipotle. Like, exactly the same vein. If you tested the DNA, it'd be the same, just taste and smell different. The dining room is sleek and ... More >>

Restaurants Come and Go: Openings and Closing in September

September was another churning month for the Dallas restaurant community. Sisu opened in Uptown, Ser took over the 27th floor of the Hilton Anatole and Campo said goodbye. Read on for the full list of openings and closings and be sure to share tips about shifts in the scene in the comments section b ... More >>

Hopdoddy Burger Bar Opens Wednesday in Preston Center

Hopdoddy is an upscale, yet casual, burger restaurant and bar that originated in Austin just a couple years ago. Founders Larry Perdido and Chuck Smith are old hats in the restaurant business. According to Austin Culture Map, they sold their Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood Grille to the ... More >>

Sprinkles Cupcakes' Cancer Fighting Initiative Gets Literal

If you're like us and didn't even know that the Cattle Baron's Ball is a real thing, you might be tickled to know that for a mere $750 (per single ticket), you too can help fight cancer by attending a private Blake Shelton concert. Or you could buy a few dozen Sprinkles cupcakes from September 24 th ... More >>

John Tesar is a Jedi of Self-Promotion

Allison V. Smith​Back in January, chef John Tesar announced he was kind of over the whole Commissary, One Arts Plaza thing. He was pulling out and shifting his focus to a new restaurant on Westchester Drive in Preston Center. Spoon was what Tesar called the space, and bloggers got to bloggin ... More >>

Southpaw's Brings Its Oddly Unfried Food to Uptown

Southpaw's Grill​Reza Anavarian, originally from Azerbaijan, flies to Georgia this weekend for an ESI Ironman Competition, which includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile jog through beautiful downtown Augusta. In addition to conditioning for that insanity, he's also training a ... More >>

The Obscure 45-Year-Old Song by Some Oak Cliff Kids That Sold Yesterday For $3,122

Via.At the Studio Club on Sherry Lane in Preston Center, The Gentlemen were, from left to right, Tommy Turner on keybs, a kneeling Tim Justice on drums, Mike Kelley on guitars and vox (on "Cry'n Shame"), Bruce Bland on bass and Seab Meador on lead guitars and vocals.​Fans of the Dallas garage-rock ... More >>

One Day Before Its "Open 24 Hours" Sign Goes Dark, Metro Postcards (From Gaston Avenue)

Photos by Dylan Hollingsworth James Adams, in front of the iconic Gaston Avenue diner he opened more than four decades ago​Tomorrow at 2 p.m., Wayne Adams will do something he hasn't done since The Great Remodel of '97: He will lock the front door to the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue. Which is why ... More >>

Good News, Bad News: Gaston Ave. Metro Closing April 10. But Not Before Buck Breakfast.

​We've known for two months that the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue is closing, but till today we never had a solid date -- just "end of March." Not so fast: Owner Wayne Adams, whose just-turned-90 dad James originally started the landmark diner, just called to say that last supper will be served on ... More >>

Damn, Damn, Damn It: Owner of Metro Diner Confirms Gaston Ave. Location Is Closing

​My cell phone is still packed with photos I took of my dad and son in front of the Preston Center Metro Grill on its final day of operations in August 2008. And now this? Teresa Gubbins breaks the news that the Gaston Avenue Metro, an institution since '68, is also about to close. I just got off ... More >>

No Love Lost in Match.com Class Action

​Speaking of Courthouse News ...The lawsuit aggregator brings our attention to this class action filed late last week in Dallas federal court, which accuses Preston Center-based Match.com of breach of contract and negligent representation. It's not the first time Match.com has been accused of dece ... More >>

Name Change at Houston's in Park Cities Worries Fans

From Hillstone.com​Houston's in Preston Center is now officially Hillstone, a name change that executive general manager Francis Luttmer reports has provoked some worried inquiries from longtime customers. "Their concern is we're going to take away their favorite dish," Luttmer says. "We're telli ... More >>

Cedars Mediterranean Mezza: Lots of Choices, but Mostly Mediocre

Wrestling the Ghost of Jimmy Buffett at Preston Center's Flying Fish

Photos by Patrick MichelsI once at a fish this big.​Flying Fish6126 Luther Ln.214-696-FISHDude Factor: 8, or Don Knotts, on a scale of 1 (Kevin Costner) to 10 (Ernest Borgnine) I'd been too long on the turf, dudes, and got the hunger for a little surf. Fish Shack would have done nicely, but no way ... More >>

Tramontana: A Restaurant Made for Grandma

Veggie Girl: Houston's

This week, Veggie Girl braved the crowds of plastically enhanced Women Who Lunch to try out Houston's. Rumored to have one of the best house-made veggie burgers in Dallas, Houston's is part of the Hillstone Restaurant quasi-chain that includes R D, across the street in Preston Center, and a few ... More >>

Singin' The Blue Plate

They tried to make us work for the details by sending us on repeated trips to KentRathbun.com, which slowly leaked information over the course of a few weeks. Clever. Of course, Robert Wilonsky cracked the case some time ago on Unfair Park, but...But now, Kent Rathbun is spilling lots of informatio ... More >>

Panic in Preston Center!

We tried this once before, so here goes again: Can you please, pretty please, help the folks in the Dallas Public Library's Texas/Dallas History & Archives figure out just what in the heck's going in this picture? Because, right now, this is all they got to go on: "Crowds of children outside Pre ... More >>

Best Hurry to the Metro, Before Preston Center Gets a Lot Less Greasy

Newsweek Goes House-Hunting, So Laura Bush Doesn't Have To

Sure, Cremona's Gone. But Now, Dallas, We're Getting a Nicola's.

At Gordo's, Everything Must Go. Including Gordo's. For Now. Not Forever.

No One Voted, But They Did Eat Cake...

Back to the Future

Join the Gun Club

Best Breakfast (Tie)

Landmark Restaurant & Original Pancake House

Riding Coattails

Plus: The Snub; A Dog’s Life

Tom Tom Croak

Preston Center noodle house closes

Bib Rustle

At Lobster Ranch, the main course claws its way to the top

Routh Riddle

Enigma locks its doors

Lights Out

The food at Bistro Latino rises above the darkness

Does a Bear Shop in the Woods?

Don't get malled. This year, do your business al fresco.

Best Kids' Shoes

Stride Rite

Staked

It's now all meatloaf

Best kids' haircut

Stride Rite (ask for Ginger in the back)

Cold wind blows

Tramontana gets some small tweaks. It needs bigger ones.

Hash Over

Grapes of glory; Coming and going

Let's not

'Doing lunch' in Dallas can leave you holding the bag

Hot Dish

Dim memory

Szechuan Pavilion is a shadow of its former greatness

Little enough

Success is in the details at Tramontana