Leading up to September’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 dark Deep Ellum bar seems like a strange place to find hearty Hungarian fare, but that’s just…
We’re all familiar with the metal tray of barbecue or a greasy burger served in a little red basket at our favorite dive, but in all styles of Dallas cuisine, the plate seems to be increasingly pasé. Lately, creativity is spilling out onto the plate — or non-plate, as it were…
Leading up to September’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. Tots: so hot right now. From classic tater tots at Maple & Motor to gourmet tots at Town…
Mellow Mushroom, the national stoner-themed pizza franchise, has closed the Henderson Avenue location that opened in 2016. According to reports on social media from former employees, the restaurant closed abruptly Sunday. The pizza franchise had a hard time gaining a foothold on a street with solid pizza options like Louie’s, Fireside Pies…
Outside the front door was no noticeable signage, just a small green lightbulb. When it was lit — so long as you came invited and with a bottle of mezcal in hand — you could enter a small, candlelit room that felt more like a small Mexican church than a…
Sylvan Thirty, the mixed-use development straddling the boundary between West Dallas and Oak Cliff, is about to get a new tenant: Cooper’s Meat Market, a longtime San Antonio-based butcher shop and meat market. The market, which will along with meat will sell “appetizers, sides, casseroles, wine and beer, as well as…
It’s been a big year in Dallas dining, and it’s only half over. Local concepts are expanding, big-name chefs are betting big on the Dallas market, hot neighborhoods like Deep Ellum are seeing greatly expanded dining options and the city’s international food offerings are growing to include food from countries…
Leading up to September’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. When it comes to picking a favorite on the menu at Revolver Taco Lounge in Deep Ellum, it’s…
Leading up to September’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. Fusion is rampant these days — Latin-Asian, Cajun-Italian, Japanese-Peruvian — but we recently stumbled upon a dish that…
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. For a long time, tiki cocktails felt like a Dallas bartender secret, an off-menu playground where bar talent quietly…
During early evening hours, Café Salsera looks like any other Deep Ellum restaurant, save for a smaller crowd than many of the dining hotspots nearby. But on weekend nights around midnight, the mild-mannered restaurant transforms into a packed nightclub, with patrons filling the dance floor until 2 a.m. On social media,…
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. If ever there was a time to skip out of work early and post up at a bar, sipping…
Leading up to September’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. By every conceivable measure, it was the perfect Saturday morning: a breezy, cool pre-summer day, a colorful table…
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. In a city that gets as hot as Dallas, it’s cruel that our region is so short on easily…
Leading up to September’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. On June 1, Emporium Pies released their new summer pie menu, and in it, we found nirvana: the…
One of the city’s best cocktail teams, The & and &, is taking over Atwater Alley on Sunday night to serve a menu of cocktails based on Dallas neighborhoods. The bar takeover, in conjunction with the ongoing Negroni Week, will raise money for Trigger’s Toys, a nonprofit that helps North…
Leading up to September’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. IdleRye may be a Deep Ellum newcomer, but it’s already putting out some solid plates. Case in point:…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dish es, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It’s one of those dishes that, if you’ve been to Gemma more than once, is kind of…
Leading up to September’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 you’re woefully under-prepared enough to show up to Tei Tei Robata on a Saturday night with no…
Waiting in line for barbecue is a Texas rite of passage. Only in these lines do we, especially the non-native Texans, fully grasp the Lone Star State’s appreciation of a worthy cut of smoked meat. And when you consider the blood, sweat and time it takes to smoke the perfect…
For Tim McEneny, principal at Dallas restaurant group NL Group, the closing of Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot Cedar Grove wasn’t as abrupt as it seemed. “Cedar Grove was just exhausting, and it was just bleeding cash,” McEneny said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with the Dallas Observer. After…
Two days ago — Sunday of Memorial Day weekend — Cedar Grove, the Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot that opened in June 2016, hosted its regular monthly drag brunch. By 11 a.m. Tuesday, Cedar Grove’s Facebook page had been deleted, and the restaurant had been gutted, with workers outside…
