Ever since this gilded cage sprung up in downtown Dallas, the city has been falling all over itself to get a taste of Bullion, a new French brasserie from chef Bruno Davaillon. Now, they can: Bullion opens to the public on Friday. The 96-seat restaurant, boasting ample commissioned art and “contemporary…
In 2016, the Dallas City Council offered $3 million “to assist in development and/or location of one or more high quality grocery stores … within or adjacent to a southern Dallas food desert.” More than a year later, no major grocery stores have taken the bait, and the problem persists. One Southern…
Since Aug. 8, 2016, the city of Dallas has been considering a zoning tool called a late-hours overlay. If enacted, it would allow the city to require any business that wants to operate between midnight and 6 a.m. in certain areas — in this case, Uptown — to apply for…
As we reported in September, Sambuca restaurant has been dealing for several years with infrastructure issues with its building at 2120 McKinney Ave. Major plumbing and foundation issues led the restaurant’s owners, Restaurant Expert Management, to file a lawsuit in 2013 in an attempt to force the building’s owners into compliance with the terms of…
Even amid the chaos of downtown, Commissary is hard to miss. The new cafe, bakery, butcher shop and market at 1217 Main St. resides in a five-story building brightly decorated with 27,857 ceramic mosaic tiles, making the building stick out among the grays and browns of downtown architecture. As the array…
In this week’s round up of food news, a historic Oak Cliff home is saved from demolition and things heat up in Victory Park: This week, the Dallas City Council decided that plans for a restaurant in the former Oak Cliff home of late Dallas Mayor George Sergeant can move…
The Cedars has been trying for years to become a destination. The neighborhood adjacent to downtown and the convention center hasn’t tried to be the place to be, just a place to be. It’s worked to create a neighborhood identity and foster enough independent businesses to draw people in. In…
According to a sign posted to the front door, Alligator Cafe in East Dallas has, as of Nov. 8, been seized by the state of Texas for nonpayment of taxes. On Thursday morning, the long-running Cajun eatery in Casa Linda was dark, the sign taped to the door ominously warning,…
There is a dearth of real street food in the one Dallas neighborhood where it would do best: Deep Ellum. Sure, you can get a burger after midnight and a bowl of ramen around 3 a.m., but in the neighborhood with some of the city’s heaviest foot traffic, it’s surprising…
We’re walking through the Statler’s recently redesigned lobby when a lost-looking 20-something solicits our help. “Are you guys going to the bar?” he asks, looking flustered. “We can’t find it anywhere.” When you open a speakeasy in a hotel basement, you’re guaranteed to have a few lost souls. Wind your…
It’s a Monday afternoon at 3015 in Trinity Groves, and about 50 restaurant owners, managers and developers are pretending they just received a text message from an employee. Shooter in the restaurant, the text reads. Can’t call. He put us in the walk-in. Please help. Ed Bollen, a CIA veteran…
Two weeks ago, we published a review of pan-Asian restaurant Hot Joy, which had signed a two-year lease in an old Texas Land & Cattle building in Uptown. In the review, Observer food critic Brian Reinhart questioned the San Antonio-based restaurant’s decor and menu choices. He interviewed people like Andrew Ti,…
In this week’s roundup of Dallas food news, an Allen restaurant provokes the internet’s ire, a new bakery opens downtown and an “authentic” Mexican restaurant opens in Turtle Creek Village: Dodie’s Place Cajun Bar & Grill in Allen has learned what it’s like to go viral, and it’s not because…
On a chilly Halloween morning, I approached the new Internet Cafe 2 in Oak Cliff to find the spookiest pumpkin ever sitting on the front steps. Decorated simply in splashes of paint and black marker, it sent shivers down my spine with just three words: “BUT HER EMAILS.” If you’re…
Deep Ellum is about to have one less pizza joint. Zini’s Pizzeria on Elm Street is closing this weekend after the pizzeria lost its lease, according to a Facebook post. Zini’s fans who visit between now and Sunday can grab a free hat along with a slice. The late-night pizzeria…
When San Antonio Asian-fusion restaurant Hot Joy announced earlier this year that it was entering the Dallas market, it was big news. Hot Joy partnered with restaurant management group Front Burner to open a two-year pop-up at Cole and Lemmon avenues in Uptown, which it planned to follow with a…
Dallas-Fort Worth has a weeklong celebration of all things beer — and in particular, the locally brewed beer that makes our local brew scene so special. Looking to celebrate? Here are a few of our favorite events this week, but you can see a full list at the North Texas…
In classic Texas fashion, summer’s six-month reign of terror has given way to a week of autumn that, this weekend, will be yanked away by the icy-cold fingers of the Night King — er, a cold front. With temperatures dipping as low as the mid-30s, we’re gonna need a bowl…
There’s good and bad news in this week’s roundup of DFW restaurant events. Let’s start with the bad: Audacity Brew House, Denton’s first brewery, is closing Nov. 11, the Denton Record-Chronicle reports. The brewery opened in 2014. The announcement was made in a note from owner-brewer Doug Smith to investors…
Six months ago, 20-year-old bar and music venue the Crown & Harp closed its doors for good, also effectively closing the book on Lower Greenville’s chapter as a place to go for cheap drinks, laid-back dives and live music. The space has been vacant ever since. Now, a pair of…
More than a few hearts broke when Zoli’s NY Pizza shuttered its Oak Cliff restaurant on Valentine’s Day 2016. But the building needed too many repairs to justify the expense, and a changing Bishop Arts District pushed Zoli’s north — way north, to Midway Road in Addison. At first glance,…
Millennials get left out of all the good stuff: homeownership, decent salaries, ever hoping to pay off student loans. As a result, a lot of this much-maligned demographic group tends to take up residence in rapidly proliferating apartment complexes that have crowded Dallas, which means there’s one thing many millennials…
