Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday night in Deep Ellum and I am drunk — everyone is drunk,…
One of North Texas’ most popular breweries — brewer of Blood & Honey, one of North Texas’ most popular beers — has been acquired by Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft and import division of MillerCoors, according to a press release. MillerCoors, like other big beer producers who’ve seen serious…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 an era of over-the-top food, Carbone’s menu is refreshingly simple. Linguine with shrimp scampi. Spaghetti and meatballs…
On Oct. 15, the Dallas Observer will take over City Hall Plaza with live music, ample booze and dozens of vendors sampling all the tacos you can stuff in your taco-hole. The second annual Tacolandia is an outdoor taco-sampling festival full of Dallas’ best tacos, ranging from contemporary to classic…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 good dumpling is a revelation. A good soup dumpling is life-affirming. At Fortune House, you can’t go…
The wins just keep coming for Trompo. Ever since Bon Appetit named Trompo one of America’s Best New Restaurants of 2016 last week, Trompo has been slammed — so slammed that owner Luis Olvera had to adopt the barbecue joint model by shutting down every day when Trompo inevitably runs out. Today,…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 this list of our 100 favorite dishes of 2016 came in any particular order, this one would…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Right now in Dallas, it seems harder to find a restaurant that doesn’t serve charcuterie — the arrangement…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. The list of ingredients is so ridiculous, there’s no way any mere human can say no to The…
In this week’s DFW food news round-up, Fort Worth’s West 7th takes another hit, two festivals announce their fall line-ups and a Dallas woman launches a meal kit delivery company catering to parents: Steel City Pops is coming to Preston Center, Guide Live reports, and the new location of the gourmet…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. I’m a big fan of the rice-less sushi roll. It cuts out the middle man and yields a…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Some dishes are so warm and comforting that the chef might as well wander out of the kitchen,…
The saga of Pie Tap has been unfolding slowly for nearly two years. When Rich Hicks, the restaurateur behind Mooyah Burgers and Tin Star Taco Bar, which he later sold, announced plans for the restaurant’s first location to open on Henderson Avenue, some people in the neighborhood fought his plans for…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Meddlesome Moth excels at two things: selecting craft beers and makin’ snacks. Even the most obsessively on-the-hunt beer…
It’s best-of season, which means restaurants are either voraciously soliciting votes or endlessly celebrating their new titles. Dallas has a winner on Bon Appetit’s list of America’s Best New Restaurants 2016, and it’s one that might surprise you: Trompo, the no-frills taco spot that opened in April on an unassuming…
The 6th annual Dallas Observer BrewFest is fast approaching, and this year’s fest is bigger than ever. With 135 breweries on the bill — each one serving four different brews — that leaves you with more than 500 different beers to choose from. Time to start putting together your must-drink…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. At FT33, Matt McCallister’s intimate and playful Design District fine dining spot, you’re not always sure what you’re…
In this week’s DFW food news round-up, a Bishop Arts mainstay changes hands, a North Dallas steakhouse heads south and a Design District bistro takes a month off: After 23 years and “70,000 Signature VIP Cocktails, 73,000 Bone-In Ribeyes, 130,000 Crab Cakes and close to half a million 8 oz…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Burrata, much like tartare, is one of those items that’s on just about every menu in Dallas right…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. This is one of those ephemeral Dallas dishes that existed for one night only, enjoyed once and never…
Brian Reinhart is an understated presence. With a quiet voice, a slight build and an amiable demeanor, he’s the last guy in the room to draw attention to himself — which works in his favor now that Reinhart is the Observer’s food critic, a role he’s quietly filled for the…
Did someone at Pecan Lodge break a mirror or open an umbrella inside recently? Because the restaurant has had a weird couple weeks. There was a teeny tiny fire in the smokehouse on July 13, then last week, a promotional partnership with UberEats turned into a mini nightmare for the…
