If you’ve been to Knife, the much-loved steakhouse from chef John Tesar, you know Tesar is really interested in serving diners his kitchen’s old meat. That doesn’t mean he’s dragging out whatever steaks have been languishing in the walk-in. Tesar’s restaurant is equipped with a state-of-the-art dry-aging room that’s used…
Veteran’s Day is one of those holidays that doesn’t get as much fanfare as the ones where you get presents or chocolate. Whatever your feelings on United States foreign policy, the men and women in the United States Armed Forces give up a lot, and this holiday is meant to…
Even though there’s football on every day of the week, you should probably peel yourself away from the TV and get a little culture now and then. Unfortunately, tickets to the theatre and opera can be prohibitively expensive. That is, of course, unless you know where to look. This week,…
When we think about the “LGBT” community, most of us tend to focus on the “L” or the “G.” Nell Gaither, executive director of Dallas’ Trans Pride Initiative, has been exclusively focusing on what is likely the most underserved population in the LGBT community, transgender and gender non-conforming people. In…
I am generally skeptical of any cocktail that a bartender describes as “savory.” Drinks should not taste like dinner. That kind of sensory dissonance is fine for trying weird new foods, but getting drunk should be a much more pure pursuit. Even if I’m being interesting, the drinks that I’m…
Even for restaurateurs, Josh Yingling and Matt Tobin are incredibly busy. When they’re not running their successful restaurants and plotting new ones, they can’t just survive on artisanal sausages and brisket-topped burgers alone. Despite their insane schedules, they still manage to make it out for a meal from time to…
In theory, Thanksgiving is the time of the year when you get together with your family to be grateful, watch football, and eat yourself into a coma. Unfortunately, though, this holiday often ends up being more about listening to your racist Aunt Edna rant about ebola and Obama, and worse,…
The past three years have been kind to Josh Yingling and Matt Tobin. After opening Goodfriend Burger House in East Dallas to rave reviews and a dedicated neighborhood following, the duo struck gold a second time with Greenville Avenue gastropub The Blind Butcher. Whether it’s the unlikely ascent of the…
If you didn’t grow up frequenting museums or galleries, navigating the art world can be extremely intimidating. Thanks to the state of arts education, most of us have a very limited knowledge of art outside of recognizing the “Mona Lisa” or that Van Gogh painting of sunflowers that hung in…
Usually, when you have a good formula, you don’t fuck with it. The pizza at Zoli’s is widely considered by food-eaters in Dallas among the city’s best (and is considered by our critic as the best), so it was surprising to some when the New York-style pizzeria made some sweeping…
Halloween is the one day of the year when you pretend like you don’t give a shit about what other people think of you, dress up like an idiot, and proceed to get really hammered while looking like a Ninja Turtle or something. Some people start planning for their Halloween…
All chefs are busy, but the husband and wife duo behind Malai Kitchen have set a new standard for what it’s like to have a lot on your plate. When they’re not brewing their own beer, expanding their restaurant, or learning exactly how hard it is to make their own…
Compared with five years ago, Dallas has really stepped up its farmers market game. The Dallas Farmers Market Downtown has undergone a pretty intensive renovation, and markets in neighborhoods like Vickery Meadows are cropping up seemingly every other day, to go with the established local markets in McKinney, White Rock,…
I am a relative newcomer to the world of fancy dranks. Up until about three years ago, I considered a good cocktail to be a girly and syrupy cosmopolitan or lemon drop. I had no problem swilling a now-undrinkable combination of budget vodka and Minute Maid lemonade. It got the…
If you needed any other reason to believe that the time for Dallas’ varied and unique dining scene is finally starting to have the day in the sun it so deserves, turn on your television. Many of the city’s best chefs, including Roe DiLeo, Patrick Stark, and (of course) John…
For most chefs, the flavors that dominate their cuisine come from a very personal place, like a decades of mom’s home cooking or a few years of intensive training at a French culinary school. For others, though, that passion for a cuisine develops in relatively unexpected places. Braden and Yasmin…
Most of us would much rather buy something than make it, especially if it’s hand-made by a much more creative and talented person. Fortunately, the rise of Etsy and the DIY trend has made it much easier to find unique goods crafted by individual artists and not sweatshop workers. No…
Today, John Tesar joins a small but growing contingent of people who are inking book deals and television contracts based on their ability to raise rabble on Twitter. Sure, Tesar has been working in kitchens for decades and is currently operating two wildly successful restaurants, but there’s no doubt that…
Generally, we leave talking about music to our friends at DC9, but the food and booze this weekend’s Untapped Festival at Gilley’s may actually be more interesting than the music. Sure, Cake will be there, and Polyphonic Spree is going to show up in their robes, but that should only…
When she’s not busy planning her new restaurant, Remedy, Chef Danyele McPherson likes to focus on the parts of her life that aren’t just in the kitchen. “Food is my passion,” says McPherson, “but I also like to do other things, too. I like to ride bikes around Dallas and…
Right now, as this story is being written, four clinics provide abortions in Dallas: Abortion Advantage, Planned Parenthood, Routh Street Women’s Clinic and Southwest Women’s Surgery Center. Two, Whole Woman’s Health and Planned Parenthood, are open in Fort Worth. But read quickly, because it’s possible some of those will be…
Since 2009, some of Dallas’ best chefs have come together a few times a year to host dinners that showcase the bounty produced by local farmers. Organized by FT33 chef Matt McCallister (duh) and his wife, Iris, Chefs For Farmers dinners over the past few years have raised money for…
