Unlike the last chef at Kitchen LTO who was brand new to Dallas, Blythe Beck is intimately familiar with the food scene. Which is not surprising, considering that she worked in some of the city’s best restaurants before moving away for a few years to pursue consulting opportunities. Now that…
Summer’s over. Well, according to the calendar. For North Texans, the end of summer can be bittersweet. On the one hand, the mercury will finally drop to a tolerable level, but it also means no more days spent by the pool, margaritas in hand. There’s nothing more exciting as a…
Thanks to a seemingly unstoppable food trend, ramen is no longer those disgusting packets you subsisted on in college. Iterations of the Japanese staple dish have been showing up on menus across Dallas for the past few years, especially as chefs like David Chang drove the dish to national prominence…
In her relative short time as executive chef of the former Hotel Palomar’s now-defunct restaurant Central 214, Blythe Beck quickly made a name for herself. Known as “The Naughty Chef” from both her Oxygen reality show and the combination of “booze, butter and bacon” that made her famous, Beck is…
In the coming weeks, you will start to see everything from the sleeve on your coffee cup to the jerseys your wife-beating running backs wear in the National Football League turn a Pepto-Bismol shade of pink. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You’ll also start to see restaurant promotions…
It’s no secret that QueerBomb Dallas has been highly critical of the Alan Ross Freedom Parade that is set to kick off this Sunday afternoon. Earlier this year, QueerBomb hosted their own alternative pride parade that was free of corporate sponsorship and placed a larger focus on highlighting gender and…
Last year, when Dentonites Matt Battaglia and Corey Claytor set out to bring local bands together for an Oak Street music fest, there was no one who could have predicted what the small, five-stage festival would grow into in just one year. This year’s incarnation of their young festival –…
Sometimes when a restaurant is struggling, all it needs is a new face to turn the whole thing around. In the short tenure of Chef Richard Gras, Oak went from earning four stars when Jason Maddy was chef to scoring only three from Dallas Morning News food critic Leslie Brenner…
After the City of Dallas sold the Dallas Farmers Market off to a private entity, market goers were promised big changes. When the market reopened on September 1, it was a little difficult to tell what exactly had changed. Shed 2, the former home of Pecan Lodge, is completely closed…
TJ’s Seafood isn’t exactly new to Dallas. It started in 1989 at Preston and Forest, serving up seafood out of a fish case. A few years ago, they expanded to the Oak Lawn area and added a dine-in restaurant component to their business. Now, they’ve shuttered the original TJ’s Seafood…
As if we needed another reason to thank Jay Jerrier for moving to Texas from Connecticut and bringing some of the city’s best pizza along with him, now he’s branching out to do some real, non-pizza-related good. In the past several months, Jerrier has been working tirelessly to found Cane…
Ask anyone who’s involved in the Dallas food scene what our signature dish is, and they’ll pretty unanimously come up with one answer: steak. Even though Dallas restaurants have been throttling toward lighter, more produce-focused offerings, beef is still king. Or maybe, in the case of Dee Lincoln’s Steak Bar,…
After at least six years of radio silence, Garth Brooks brashly stormed back onto the country music scene with with last week’s announcement that he would be going on a world tour before releasing a new album in 2015. On the heels of that announcement, Brooks also released his first…
Do It for Durrett Benefit Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth Monday, September 8, 2014 Even if you don’t religiously follow the Texas Rangers, it’s impossible to miss the mark that Richard Durrett left on the Dallas media landscape. In the years that he spent cutting his teeth at Texas Christian…
Just when you think Pecan Lodge can’t possibly do something that’s better than its delicious smoked meats, they join forces with Hypnotic Donuts, the lovable Lakewood donut shop known for its stoner-friendly pastry-and-biscuit arsenal. When the two come together, it’s nothing short of magic. Enter the Lurlene, a delicious breakfast…
For music writers, it seems like there has never been a lower-hanging fruit than the ascension of bro-country into the mainstream. Acts like Florida Georgia Line are getting near-equal airtime on pop and country radio while selling millions of records. What’s worse, they’re also influencing a class of up-and-comers that…
The urge to hop in a time machine and head back to our youth is universal. Obviously, science hasn’t resulted in a Back To The Future-style time travel option just yet, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. There are still…
Most of the animals that we see in art these days seem to come in the form of cat photos on the internet, but the McKinney Avenue Contemporary is looking to change that. In Texas Critters, the MAC will play host to Texas art that features the state’s bounty of,…
If you’re looking to see a lot of great art in one place, head to the Mary Tomas Gallery in the Design District for one the neighborhood’s best shows Saturday night. In her own right, Mary Tomas is creating some great art, and now she’s bringing in some of her…
In the world of food, there are few skills more complicated than producing excellent chocolate. The United States may not have the chocolate-making reputation of, say, France or Belgium, but there are plenty of chocolatiers across the country who have been trying to elevate the American palate. Even though most…
Even though he’s spent the last seven years shaking up some of the city’s best craft cocktails, Proof + Pantry’s Michael Martensen is a man of pretty simple tastes. As Martensen mentioned in our interview earlier this week, the most important part of going to a bar is more about…
Bilal 8 p.m. Friday, August 29, at Dada, 2720 Elm St., dadadallas.com, $25-$30 Fun fact about critically acclaimed neo-soul singer Bilal (born Bilal Sayeed Oliver): He was discovered in his teens by none other than the drummer of the Spin Doctors. Did you also know that the band that would…
