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. Hunky’s is a straightforward kinda place: Order your burger and a shake at the counter, grab a seat…
It’s the biggest North Texas barbecue news since Pecan Lodge opened its Deep Ellum brick-and-mortar: The Salt Lick, the 50-year-old Hill Country barbecue joint, is opening a location in Grapevine. The 10,000-square foot indoor and outdoor dining space will be nestled in 10 wooded acres and is slated to open…
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. In the era of low-carb and gluten-free, junk food can be an emotionally loaded thing. But sometimes, cheat…
In March, Headington Companies – the developer behind The Joule – unveiled Wheelhouse, the first of a three-part, 10,000-square-foot food and drink complex in the Design District. Tonight, Headington opens the second concept for this massive food undertaking: the “Italy-by-way-of-California” restaurant Sassetta. The new restaurant opens for dinner, with breakfast…
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. They don’t look like much, but breakfast tacos rarely do. But if you find yourself in Oak Cliff…
Deep Ellum’s food and drink saturation continues with two new restaurants opening this month: “modern American restaurant” IdleRye and Junction Craft Kitchen, which will turn a temporary restaurant concept into a full-time venture serving a fusion of Asian and Southern fare. Kitchen LTO, Dallas’ “permanent pop-up” restaurant, closed its Trinity…
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. It’s that time again, time for us to share the fruits of our Dallas restaurant exploration as we…
Victory Park lost a key restaurant recently, but they’ve gained an interesting addition: a fourth location of Mesero, the upscale Tex-Mex eatery from embattled Dallas restaurateur Mico Rodriguez. The news comes at a time when Rodriguez seems to have pulled back a bit from day-to-day operations, in part because he’s currently…
Last night’s Dallas Observer Iron Fork at Fair Park was the best one yet — lines were short, food was stellar and 2,500 people ate and drank their fill. With ample supply and short waits, pretty much everyone got to try bites from the dozens of restaurants and booze-slingers in…
A few weeks ago, Oak Cliff got up in arms over the news that beloved Tex-Mex restaurant El Corazon’s owners had filed a demolition permit for the historic building, which was built in the 1940s. A developer that works with CVS wants to raze the building to build retail —…
On Monday night, about 50 people gathered at the Katy Trail Ice House to talk about a hot topic in the Dallas food and drink industries: proposed legislation that would require bars, restaurants and even convenience and grocery stores in certain neighborhoods to apply for a specific use permit to…
In the past year, we’ve seen a rapid proliferation of poke around DFW, particularly in the fast-casual realm. Now, TJ’s Seafood owner Jon Alexis is jumping on the bandwagon with “Shark Tank-featured venture capitalists” Ben and Eric Kusin. Opening in fall 2017 at 3888 Oak Lawn Ave. in Turtle Creek Village, Malibu Poke…
Carrollton’s Koreatown, an ever-growing conglomerate of niche restaurants and Asian grocery stores located just off the President George Bush Turnpike, has added three new restaurants, with two more opening in May, according to a press release. Already open: Kickin Crab, a Cajun seafood franchise with several locations in California (this…
On an overcast Friday afternoon, a tiny bird lost its way and found itself inside what is currently storage space next door to Local Press + Brew in Oak Cliff. “Oh, a little birdy came in,” Ben Johnson says, losing his train of thought. “Looks like a fledgling just learning…
Bouchon 1314 seemed, at first, like the neighborhood French bistro of Oak Cliff’s dreams. The combination bistro and wine bar/retailer was in a great spot near the Kessler on Davis, the wine selection was solid and the menu of French classics looked promising. But it never really seemed to hit…
One of San Antonio’s quirkiest restaurants is opening in Dallas with an equally quirky business plan: Hot Joy, “a wild mash-up of China, Texas, Vietnam, Japan, Louisiana, Thailand, Mexico, Malaysia and anything else that lights up our brain,” will open a “pop-up restaurant” at 3130 Lemmon Ave., in the former Texas Land…
Marijuana is still very much illegal in Texas, even though municipalities like Dallas are moving forward with policies like the city’s new cite-and-release, which means that, starting Oct. 1, “anyone caught with less than four ounces of marijuana in the portion of the city of Dallas that lies within Dallas…
Simplicity is not exactly trendy in Dallas dining right now. Somewhere along the line, specialization was replaced by book-length restaurant menus that wildly run the gamut. At Nick Badovinus’ new hotspot Town Hearth, you can get everything from Blue Point oysters on the half shell to house-made pasta, ahi tuna…
Prohibition Chicken to bring fried chicken and Prohibition-era cocktails — with a speakeasy — to Old Town Lewisville.
Iron Fork, the Dallas Observer’s annual food- and booze-tasting event, is next week, and the foodie extravaganza just added a little dose of celebrity: Top Chef alum and Dallas steakmaster John Tesar. Take a break from gorging yourself on unlimited food samples (and eight booze samples, with the opportunity to…
It’s been a tumultuous few years for local Thai chef Eddy Thretipthuangsin, AKA Chef Eddy. He left his post at Pakpao in 2014 to start his own restaurant, Kin Kin Urban Thai in Fort Worth, eventually opening a second Kin Kin location on Oak Lawn. He eventually closed the Fort Worth location…
Tacodeli opening a second Dallas location in The Hill on Walnut Hill.
