What’s better than drinking beer? Drinking free beer after doing something nice for your community. This weekend, Peticolas is hosting a Trinity Strand Trail clean-up. Meet at the plaza on Turtle Creek between Market Center and Irving Boulevard at 11 a.m. to help clean up the trail for a while before…
80/20 Hospitality, the group behind HG Sply Co. and Gung Ho, has opened Hero, a massive sports bar and restaurant with open-air concept and vintage arcade, just steps from the American Airlines Center in Victory Park.
Nearly 2,500 people converged on Centennial Hall at Fair Park last night for the ninth annual Dallas Observer Iron Fork, which showcased 40 of the city’s best restaurants — and a particularly delicious array of Texas-produced spirits. There was incredible food throughout the room. As people ate and mingled the…
Birthright Barbecue Fest 2019, held on Father’s Day at Dallas Heritage Village, returns for another year of whole animals cooked in open pits in a celebration of Texas barbecue history.
Formula Wellness Center in West Village bills itself as a “wellness services provider focused on on-site medical testing and other treatments that refresh and energize the body,” according to a press release. It also has a coffee and “bone broth bar.”
Iron Fork — a Dallas Observer food event bringing together dozens of Dallas’ best restaurants for a night of food-sampling and beer-, cocktail- and wine-enjoying — is returning to Centennial Hall at Fair Park at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1. Along with a night of eating and drinking from more…
Have you ever wished you could time-travel back to being a kid hunting through the yard for plastic eggs filled with candy? On Wednesday night at Truck Yard, you can do just that — kinda. Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is hosting an adult Easter egg hunt on Truck Yard’s…
Heim Barbecue opened its second location, Heim on the River, today in Northeast Fort Worth, and the barbecue joint will have new menu items like brisket and pulled pork tacos served on house-made brisket fat tortillas.
A California fast-casual restaurant offering farm-fresh salads, grain bowls and seasonal plates is coming to Uptown in May. Mixt, which launched in 2006 in San Francisco, has more than a dozen locations in California, and this Uptown location — at McKinney and Olive — will be its first outside the Golden…
Malibu Poke, the cheffy, quick-serve poke spot that opened in November 2017 in Turtle Creek Village, has opened a second Dallas location in Uptown at McKinney and Olive. The poke restaurant comes from restaurateur and seafood slinger Jon Alexis, of TJ’s Seafood Market and Grill. Malibu Poke was able to…
Victory Park has a new restaurant and watering hole: Dibs on Victory, a bar and restaurant with a second-floor patio overlooking Victory Park and the nearby American Airlines Center. The 7,700-square-foot restaurant comes from This and That Concepts, which also owns High Fives, Tiny Victories, Ferris Wheelers and the late…
Fans of “The Office” — which is basically everybody, right? — should head to Industry Alley on Thursday night, where the cocktail bar is hosting an “Office”-themed party, Dundies and all. Sip cocktails from Tullamore Dew and Hendricks Gin and dress up as your favorite character for a chance to win…
Tom Thumb has opened a grocery store at The Union in Uptown Dallas, and you can drink beer (or wine) while you grocery shop.
Candytopia, a “candy-coated experiential adventure,” is now open at The Hill in Dallas, and we sent a photographer to check out all the sweet fun.
The final line-up was released today for this year’s Iron Fork, a Dallas food-lovers’ throwdown where you can sample eats from dozens of Dallas restaurants and watch a live chef cooking competition. This year’s Iron Fork goes down from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 at Centennial Hall at Fair Park, and the…
It’s the perfect weather for a wine walk, and you can both wine and walk on Thursday in Bishop Arts District. Businesses are staying open late Thursday with wine tastings and special deals. To participate in the wine walk, prepurchase a tasting glass online, or pick up one of a…
Inside Beverley’s, a new upscale neighborhood bistro on Fitzhugh, it feels like springtime. The sunlight bounces off white walls and mirrors, and the spring breeze flows freely thanks to a wall of open windows overlooking a courtyard growing verdant from crawling ivy. The restaurant opened a few weeks ago, but…
San Antonio’s Local Coffee has opened Merit Coffee, a new Deep Ellum coffee shop with slick design touches and perfectly pulled espresso.
In November 2018, restaurateur Shannon Wynne (Meddlesome Moth, Rodeo Goat, Mudhen Meats & Greens) announced that he would be closing the Arts District restaurant Lark on the Park to make way for a new, more affordable concept. Four months later, we know what that concept will be: Miriam Cocina Latina, a…
Dallas loves to sit outside, especially this time of year, when our brief but furious winter gives way to a beautifully breezy and even more brief spring. La La Land Kind Cafe, a new Lowest Greenville coffee shop, is capitalizing on this adoration for patio space with its airy new…
The Dallas Zoo is attempting to entice more adult visitors (and not just the ones with kids in tow), so it’s doing something that, for our zoo at least, is pretty new: They’re hosting new “adult-friendly” events, which basically means later hours, cheffy food and alcohol. On Sunday night, the…
A new Uptown restaurant with Las Vegas origins is bringing the best of both worlds to DFW with a menu that serves both healthy fare and vegetable juice along with indulgent dishes like chicken and waffles and deep-fried pickle chips. SkinnyFats, which has opened several locations in and around Las…
