It’s been cold — the kind of cold that turns everyone in our city into a bunch of whining, sniveling hermits. After a few weeks of middling cold-ass temperatures, the end of this week plans to bring cold weather, ice, and snow like we’ve so blissfully missed out on so…
After the City of Dallas announced that it would be imposing a 5-cent tax on non-reusable shopping bags, most of us hauled the eighty-seven reusable bags out of our closets and put them in the car in anticipation of saving those nickels for more important things, like beer. Unfortunately, on…
Now that the holidays are finally over, most of us are slogging back into our regular routines as we throttle into 2015. Out with the holidays also go festive performances and shows. Now that the Dickens costumes and Santa suits have all been packed away, it’s back to business for…
Working in the service industry inspires a special kind of misanthropy. You spend your day being bitched at by rude people who don’t tip, and often have to deal with all kinds of other work-related bullshit. But that doesn’t mean that servers should follow the lead of one Arlington server,…
Liquor stores are the grown-up equivalent of toy stores. These are the places that lushes are more excited to go to than anywhere else, and will happily plunk down a huge chunk of money on barrel-aged, triple-distilled ways to make our heads hurt really, really bad the next morning. We’ve…
2014 was a banner year for Chef John Tesar. He’s battled his way back from being the designated “most hated chef in Dallas” to running one of the city’s hottest restaurants, his modern steakhouse, Knife. Before Knife opened, though, Tesar had been operating Spoon, a high-end and critically lauded seafood…
There is no shortage of boob-themed messaging when it comes to breast cancer research. After all, boobs are fun, right? Right. Cancer, though, is not. As we mentioned earlier this year during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, sexualizing a hideous disease isn’t exactly the best way to raise funds, but there…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Much has been said this year about the influx of progressive arts and theater into Dallas, but there is still a very strong dedication to the classics in our fair city. Despite these leaps and…
Pop-up restaurants are, well, popping up all over the country, and Dallas is no exception. Outside of Dallas-based underground dinners like those put on by chefs like David Anthony Temple (Chef DAT), our fair city is attracting chefs from afar who are interested in bringing their cuisine to Dallas. Gwyneth…
There were plenty of excellent new restaurants that opened in the city over the past year, and their arrivals signified a shift in the Dallas food scene. But 2015 may be even better. With openings from chefs like Brian Luscher, Tyson Cole, and Shannon Wynne, there is potential greatness coming…
Dallas has plenty of barbecue restaurants, but you’re going to find the same proteins and sides, prepared in the same way, everywhere you go. Each barbecue joint has its own rubs and preparation methods, but ultimately, Dallas’ pitmasters don’t offer much outside of brisket, ribs and sausage…
However you feel about the holiday season, it is finally drawing to a close. After Christmas Day on Thursday, the shimmering lights and Christmas trees will be packed away as we all get back into the regular routine. (Most of them anyway, and is there anything sadder than Christmas lights…
Dallas has no shortage of burgers, that’s a verifiable fact. Outside of the usual chain restaurant suspects, there are what seems like dozens of Dallas restaurants who have built their entire concept around being able to elevate the classic combination of meat, cheese, and bun. Now, Fort Worth-based Rodeo Goat…
2014 was good to us, Dallas diners. We saw the opening of some of the city’s most exciting restaurants along with some pretty devastating closings, but overall, things seem to be trending up for the foreseeable future. As such, that means that there is going to be a lot of…
As Americans, it is our sworn duty to spend our days insulting and ridiculing other countries. But D Magazine’s food critic Nancy Nichols may have unintentionally gone too far and created an international incident when she called poutine, the best thing to come out of Canada since maple syrup, “gross…
The oft-overlooked Cedars district south of Downtown is known for some of the city’s best cocktails and beer lists, but there isn’t really much in terms of food options for people who live and drink in the area. You can find fancy snacks at Cedars Social and bar fare at…
There are some years that are better for restaurants than others. In 2014, we saw explosive growth as restaurants of all kinds opened all over Dallas. Many of the city’s restaurateurs have been very lucky this year as they took risks and opened restaurants in locations that seemed tricky, if…
If you haven’t already wrapped up your holiday shopping, you’re probably very near entering panic mode. Who knows what you should buy your picky grandpa, but you’re still going to have to suck it up and find a gift before December 25. You could fight the crowds at the malls…
Whether or not you appreciate the come-and-go nature of restaurateur Casie Caldwell’s Kitchen LTO concept, you have to admit that it’s interesting. The idea of a constantly rotating slate of chefs has promise, especially in attracting new talent to Dallas’ culinary scene. Some of the restaurant’s components may get a…
As we’ve mentioned, 2014 has been the year of the young, up-and-coming chef in Dallas. The old guard continue to be successful in our city’s food scene, but it’s the youngsters who have really driven this period of innovation and revival in Dallas cuisine. Sometimes that innovation doesn’t even have…
The West End’s glory days in Dallas have long since passed. Now, the touristy area is just a couple of sad-looking chain restaurants and the House of Blues. Most people in Dallas haven’t even been to the West End since the 1990s, but you may soon have a delicious new…
It seems like this week, plumbing issues are damned and determined to take out some of Dallas’ best places to buy and eat delicious food. First, we found out that Tom Spicer was losing his Spiceman 1410 storefrontover extensive plumbing issues in his ancient building, and now, Driftwood in Bishop…
