Since 1999, Abacus has represented the quintessence of creative dining injected with a good dose of common sense. Now, after a complete overhaul of the dining room and the addition of the Bar at Abacus, a transformation fueled by modern chic, lighter hues and rich textural finishes of wood,... More >>
Chef Avner Samuel has recast his American interpretation of the Michelin three-star restaurant with shaven prices and an emphasis on organic and locally grown ingredients graced with a Tiffany touch and classic French technique. Pan-fried, free-range Good Earth Farm eggs with crispy pancetta,... More >>
Bijoux is not the most expensive restaurant in Dallas. Yet. But it just may be the most worth it. Nourishment can be had in one of three forms: a nine-course tasting menu and a three-course prix fixe and five-course prix fixe menu that offers a choice of appetizers, entrees, cheeses and... More >>
With installments in New York, Las Vegas, Sonoma, D.C. and Reno, among other locales, chef Charlie Palmers Dallas increment sits in the Joule Urban Resort in a rehabilitated Main Street building, in all of its Texas handsome, breezy-themed glory. So it at least has an old Dallas pedigree.... More >>
Stay for the exquisite Wagyu skirt steak and the buffalo tenderloin or the Alaskan halibut, but be blown away by the austerity of the vegetables: the Jerusalem artichokes, sautéed haricots verts and the lady creamer peas. Celebrated founding chef Tom Colicchio founded his New York... More >>
Perhaps more than any restaurant in recent memory, the setting of Fearingslocked in the Ritz Carlton, honed by the Johnson studio of Atlanta into a set of distinct design chapters in the Fearings dramais as critical to the experience as the mopped rib eye on the plate.... More >>
The French Room remains one of Dallas truly great plunges into dining opulence. Far from French, the cuisine is an inbred mutt of culinary royalty, with genetic specks from a few European corners pestered with American ingenuity and freshened with Japanese anal retentiveness. Its... More >>
Slipped into the historic Boyd Hotel, a Deep Ellum spot that made beds for luminaries like Bonnie and Clyde and Huddie Ledbetter, Local serves food that is fiercely simple, fresh and impeccably tight. Flavors dance in these dishes without blurring the palate with fussy complexity. Even simple... More >>
Chef Tre Wilcox took over Loft 610’s kitchen at the end of September, 2009, just as his television fame (Top Chef and Iron Chef) was beginning to wane. His arrival brought a new level of sophistication to the lounge/restaurant—soft smoke easing through a beautifully crafted tuna and cucumber... More >>
New Mansion chef John Tesar is the dark horse on the Dallas dining terrain, the diamond in the pot-holed asphalt rough. This outsider could not compete with or build upon the traditions and culinary movement iconography that unfolded from the Mansion through the decades under the Lucchese-booted... More >>
Billed as an urbane tavern with a relaxed ethos, The Porch is instead a sleek, polished brasserie with tongue-in-cheek menu entrants. The peel n eat shrimp are obese. The chicken Cobb is loaded with so much of every Cobb element you get lost in the bulk. But the capstone is the Stodg... More >>
Billing itself as an amalgamation of traditional Southern cookery and modern culinary style, Screen Door is really both and neither of these, though it splits its menu into then and now. It mixes the heartiness and nomenclature of Southern cuisine with a little European flavor. Hence foie gras... More >>
For some 10 years now, this tiny destination/neighborhood has ignored wayward trends and big-buck makeovers, sticking to the fundamentals of, um, Asian-lashed, Mediterr-ized American fare, with some global twists. Chef-owner Gilbert Garza and his kitchen sidekick Jeffery Hobbs change things up... More >>
Open since 1989, York St. has seen its share of ups and downs. In early 2001, the restaurant was purchased by chef Sharon Hage. She cleaned it up, added more light and converged her attention on the menu. You will find an offbeat collection of dishes dictated by Hage's whims and what is fresh... More >>