Q Tacos at Macho’s Cantina opened on a busy corner of Cedar Springs in April. By midsummer, the restaurant had closed. Now a pizzeria is planning to open in its place. Q Tacos was meant to be a late-night taco window with a separate bar serving Cedar Springs-friendly cocktails like…
Why I stopped eating food at the State Fair of Texas? Because it’s expensive, that’s why.
During Hidden Gems Week, the Observer food and drink writers are celebrating an abundance of diverse, delicious restaurants and bars around Dallas, places that don’t often (or ever) get mentioned by big-name food media, trendsetters, bloggers or chefs. We’re taking you outside of the ordinary, away from the starry new…
It’s impossible to describe Hello Dumpling without using the word “happy.” A sunny white room peppered with bright pops of color, Hello Dumpling took over the space that formerly belonged to Good 2 Go Taco. It’s tucked into the East Dallas intersection that has become famous for local food concepts:…
In this week’s round-up of food news, Tacodeli continues its DFW taco takeover, and it’s not the only independent restaurant that’s expanding in DFW in the coming year: A few months after announcing its second Dallas location was opening this fall at The Hill shopping center, a new mixed-use development…
The Centrum in Oak Lawn has been in the midst of a massive, multi-million dollar renovation, and part of that renovation will include several new restaurants. Steel Restaurant and Mattitio’s are already open at The Centrum, and they’ll soon be joined by new locations of Pints and Quarts and Mudsmith,…
Oni Ramen is not the first ramen shop in Deep Ellum, but it is by far the best. The Fort Worth import opened on Elm Street a few weeks ago between Hide and IdleRye in a block that’s come to epitomize new Deep Ellum — exposed brickwork, $14 cocktails and…
The Dallas Observer’s food writing team is a jocular misfit crew of freelance writers who love food — like, really, really love food, enough that they enjoy using their spare time to find interesting new dishes, explore hidden dining gems and learn the history of Dallas restaurants. On our crew…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. There’s no denying that Dallas loves steak. Without a longstanding regional dish of our own, the city has…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. North Texas has a robust international food scene, from Japanese dishes to Thai street food to regional Chinese…
On Saturday afternoon, 3,500 people filled Dallas Farmers Market for this year’s sold-out Dallas Observer Tacolandia festival, an all-you-can-eat taco bonanza that brought together many of the city’s biggest taco heavy hitters. A panel of judges nobly sampled every taco at this year’s fest, and from the dozens available, they chose…
In this week’s roundup of local food news, an old downtown establishment shows off its new digs, the Design District gets carbier and Uptown gets more sushi: After closing last year for major renovations, The French Room at the Adolphus is back. The restaurant reopened Oct. 4 under chef Michael…
This week, an ornate box landed on my desk. Inside was an even more ornate box, a box with heft and gold accents and rich blue velvet lining. Inside that box: a gold enamel stationery set with an enamel invitation to a party at the forthcoming Bullion restaurant. Bullion, led…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It arrives on the table on a large silver platter. At first, it’s hard to…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Are we really recommending that you eat mushroom toast at a motorcycle repair shop? We…
Meat Fight started as a backyard dinner to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Five years later, it’s one of the city’s best barbecue events, and it raised more than $175,000 last year. Money collected at the event is also used to buy specially outfitted bicycles for people…
In this week’s roundup of Dallas food news, we get a peek at a new high-dollar Mexican restaurant, a new coffee shop from the owner of Ascension and a new brewery opening in Plano’s Legacy Hall. We seemed to have moved through so many recent Dallas restaurant trends — poke,…
Dallas’s City Plan Commission on Thursday voted against creating a late-hours overlay, a so-called “midnight curfew” for late-night businesses. If enacted, the overlay could have required businesses in certain neighborhoods to acquire additional permits in order to operate between midnight and 6 a.m. The code amendment faced fervent opposition from…
Leading up to this week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. If there’s one thing Top Knot excels at, it’s snacks. Its menu revolves around small and large…
Leading up to this week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year.Ever since Betty Ringer Ice Cream opened late this summer in Sylvan Thirty, Dallas has been enamored of…
Leading up to this week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. A bologna sandwich has no earthly reason to be this good. But at Shoals, thoughtful execution of…
The recent Big Tex Choice Awards gave us a peek at some of the new dishes at this year’s State Fair of Texas, but those 10 dishes are by no means the only newcomers you’ll find scattered around the fair. Yesterday, the fair released a list of other new dishes,…
