Stephan Pyles

BREAKING: Restaurant People Love Crossing Their Arms in Photos

Dallas chefs and restaurant owners looooove crossing their arms in photos. We should make it stop. It's the most important change that needs to happen in our restaurant scene. Seriously. Evidence:

Best Restaurants in Dallas for a Fancy Lunch

Sneaking out of the office to enjoy an extended meal with a glass or two of good wine or beer is one of life's great pleasures. Especially when you're eating in a fine dining restaurant. I love a good lunch. And when I can get in and out of a polished place for 20 bucks, give or take, I feel like I' ... More >>

Stampede 66's Bright Lights

If you want to show an out-of-towner Dallas, Stephan Pyles' latest will give you a show.

Stampede 66 is Now Open for Lunch

Stephan Pyles latest concept, Stampede 66 (1717 McKinney), opened in early November as an ode to southwestern cuisine from the creator himself. Pyles also helped create much of the Dallas dining scene with an honor-roll of students that studied in his kitchens; like Tim Byers of Smoke, Jeana Johnson ... More >>

Komali Plays It Timid, But Stampede 66 Plans To Pick Up Where The Contemporary Mexican Restaurant Falls Short

In this week's review I take a look at Komali, the contemporary restaurant that promised big Mexican flavors but delivered only timid tastes. When Anastacia Quiñones took over the pass earlier this year, I was excited to see how things would change at the restaurant. Previous meals presented Mexica ... More >>

Chef Stephan Pyles Blogs Progress of New Restaurant Stampede 66

Chef Stephan Pyles' new restaurant Stampede 66, which will be at Park 17 in Uptown (1717 McKinney Ave., northwest corner of Akard Street), is expected to open in early October. Chef Jon Thompson of Samar has been anointed executive chef. The concept: "Think modern Texas with a casual, creative and h ... More >>

The City of Ate Interview: Grape Sous Chef Danyele McPherson on Life as Luscher's No. 2

The Grape's sous chef, Danyele McPherson, sat down with us last week to chat about the life as a sous. Let's just jump right in. How did you initially get into cooking? Well, I went to normal college - got a degree at North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked in offices full time, in a cube. Cube ... More >>

The Most Amazing Thing Stephan Pyles Ever Ate

FacebookStephan Pyles: Founding Father of Southwestern Cuisine, Eater of Grubs​Chefs for Farmers, a Dallas based group who celebrate small, local farms, is having some fun on their facebook page to promote their annual event.They asked Brian Luscher from the Grape to come up with a random ques ... More >>

Stephan Pyles To Pack High-End Airport Lunch Boxes at DFW

Flickr​Airline dining has been synonymous with substandard eats forever, as multiple decades of prepackaged, lifeless meals have graced our flimsy fold-out tray tables. We've became collectively aware of a basic and undeniable fact: This stuff is absolutely terrible. In response, airlines ha ... More >>

An Interview with Campo Chef and Stephan Pyles Vet Matt McCallister

Kevin Marple​Chef Matt McCallister worked his way up from line cook to executive chef at Stephan Pyles in Dallas, then took off around the country to stage at other top restaurants: Daniel in New York City, McCrady's in South Carolina and Alinea in Chicago. Now he's opening a new restaurant in ... More >>

Hey, Stephan Pyles: Eat This!

Alice Laussade​Behold, Samar's caramelized apple empanadas with cinnamon ice cream. Yeah, the dessert is super pretty and yeah, it's shockingly small. If we're just talking about looks here, this is the Salma Hayek of desserts. But, hey, you're the kind of person who orders dessert at lunchtim ... More >>

Homesick Restaurants: How Dallas Became a Dining Nowhereville.

Stephan Pyles Thanksgiving Cooking Class: You'll Never Want Another Butterball

Stephan Pyles​Among other things, the Thanksgiving cooking class at Stephan Pyles taught me that the main things I know about journalism are wrong. I had a journalism professor open his class with, "You think you're going to be happy? You're not. You think this career is going to be easy? I ... More >>

Ace Chefs

Part 3: Matthew McCallister Show Us
To Whip Up Something Cool, Smokey and Fishy

Photo by Robert Bostick​In part 3 of our interview with Matthew McCallister, executive chef at Stephan Pyles, he shows us how to create a cooling fish dish perfect for these sweltering summer days: Stephan Pyles' Lenguado Ceviche. It's a fairly straightforward to prepare, but one note: It requ ... More >>

There Is Strength In Flavors

Stephan Pyles Executive Chef Matt McCallister
Is Living Every Food Fan's Dream

Photo by Robert Bostick​With the crush of talented wizards working magic in Dallas kitchens, it pays to know just who is behind the saute pan at your favorite eatery. To help you keep track, City of Ate brings you Three-Course Meal, a three-part chat with some of the best, most inventive chefs ... More >>

Dallas Chefs Choose Sides in the Fray Over Children's Menus and Kids in Restaurants

White couches in The Second Floor's Lounge, the natural prey of juice-box-slurping knee-biters.​Chicken fingers to the left. Chicken fingers to the right. For years, the issue of kids in restaurants and children's menus has divided chefs and patrons alike. From New York--where one Brooklyn piz ... More >>

Will Loft 610 Push Tre Wilcox from Top Chef to Best Chef?

Chris Meesey​Fearing, Pyles, Gottlich, Hage, Luscher. These are some of the names that are automatically given as answers whenever the question is asked, "Who is the best chef in Dallas?" They have all prepared thousands of wow-inducing meals for their grateful patrons, they have worked in some ... More >>

Work up an appetite for the Super Bowl with NFL Dinner Series; Attend Backyard Braising Class and $30 Dinners at Landmark

Sarah Johnson​ Chef Kent Rathbun and the Taste of the NFL are partnering up again with a new event called Taste of the NFL Dinner series. This will be a string of culinary events leading up to next year's Super Bowl XLV and the annual Taste of the NFL's Party with a Purpose. The dinner series will ... More >>

Hash Over: Six Dallas Restaurants Earn Four-Star Forbes Rating, The Place At Perry's Opens For Happy Hour And More

​Forbes Travel Guide, formerly the Mobil Travel Guide, has named six Dallas restaurants to its four-star and five-star hospitality ratings for restaurants and hotels. According to the comprehensive rating system, which uses more than 750 standardized criteria (which is approximately 748 criteria m ... More >>

Seasons Eatings

Seasons Eatings

The Year/The Decade: Best Chefs

​Best is a matter of degrees, whether you're talking about the top chefs over the course of months or years.Certainly this city's kitchens are staffed with more than competent sorts: Brian Luscher, Jean-Marie Cadot, Marc Cassel, Joel Harloff, Graham Dodds...we could go on and on. So in defining ou ... More >>

Review and Gallery: Samar

Sara Kerens​This week Dave gets to know Stephan Pyles all over again, with a visit to Samar, his new Pan-Mediterranean-Indian spot on Ross.For more photos from inside Pyles' latest endeavor, please consult this week's Dish slideshow, shot, as ever, by Sara Kerens.

On The Range: Jalapenos

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.Take a couple slices of meat and stuff them into my flour tortilla, along with some handy rice, beans, salsa and, finally, jalapenos. We know the last ingredient colloquially as a pepper, yet pepper is also the name ... More >>

Pyles-Style

Top 5 Bathrooms In Dallas Restaurants

Photos by Patrick MichelsThe john at Neighborhood Services: Just like being back at home, if the kids ever remembered to refill the ice in the sink.​Normally we roll out a Top 10 list in this space. But, quite honestly, we stalled somewhere around number six.Yet bathrooms are surprisingly importan ... More >>

Hash Over: Libertine Fights Brain Cancer, NBC Starts Fish Fight, and Stephan Pyles Holds Celebrity Dinner Sunday

​The Libertine Bar may have the Best Bar Food in Dallas, along with a great selection of beer and wine--and, of course, the monthly Playlister P local-music DJ nights. But beginning at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the bar's brain cancer awareness event gives yet another reason to love the Lower Greenvil ... More >>

Chefs' Choice

10 Questions: Terri Provencal

Provencal (second from left) with Kenneth Craighead, Stephan Pyles and Carmaleta WhitelyThe chair of Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation for North Texas is busier than ever these days as she prepares for the big fundraising dinner.Since 1988, annual events in up to 20 cities around the country ha ... More >>

Hash Over: The Pits, Pizza for the Soul And Free Wings

Clay Pit in Addison expected miracles from chef Vijay Sadhu when they hired him in June. Five months later—or “awhile ago,” according to a manager—they tired of his antics and unceremoniously canned the one time savior.

Shenanigan's Will Feature Go-Karts, Bowling and Full Service Bar and Restaurant

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Bones to Pick

Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?

How 'Bout Something for the 469?

Killer Zupa

Waiter, Waiter!

Decades Pyled

Stephan Pyles: a perfect 10?

Home Runs

Can great chefs cook ordinary food?

Driving Pyles

Star Canyon creator helping develop new restaurant

Fly Cook

Jeff Moschetti joins team ZaZa

Taco Takeover

Taqueria Cañonita changes hands

Something about Stephan

After 25 years in Dallas' restaurant jungle, Stephan Pyles has come out respected and rich. How does he stay so clean?

Second Coming

Patrick Esquerré offers some sinful delights at ungodly prices

Taco Star

Taqueria Cañonita

Attitude adjustment

Star Canyon has replaced its smugness with smiles, and we're all the better for it

Hash Over

Hash Over

International waters

AquaKnox successfully cross-dresses fish in Dallas

Stampede at Star Canyon

Will success ruin Dallas' favorite restaurant?