Jack Keller, the man who brought Dallas the iconic Keller’s Drive In, died Tuesday morning. He was 88. Keller had been battling illness recently and passed away just one day after receiving he was diagnosed with liver cancer, the Dallas Morning News reports. The classic burger joint he created 50…
Taco Libre is a fun festival — and obviously Dallas agrees, since this year’s fest, held Saturday at Main Street Garden Park, sold out before taco VIPs even got in the gate. For the 5,000 people who got in, the weather was great and the tacos were even better. Aside…
Nilton “Junior” Borges, who’s been running the kitchen at Design District hot spot FT33 since January, is headed to The Joule, according to a statement from FT33’s PR team: We’ve truly enjoyed having Chef Junior Borges as part of our team at FT33 for the past couple of months and…
Self-serve doughnut bars, aged Gouda mac ‘n’ cheese in Richardson, Nosh closes and more in this week’s round-up of DFW food news: Iron Fork was Wednesday night, and it was awesome. Blind Butcher’s Oliver Sitrin bested Julia Pearl’s Jermaine Brown in the chef throwdown, and Buku Modernist Cuisine won best…
Last night, Iron Fork took over Centennial Hall at Fair Park, with 2,093 hungry Dallasites scurrying from booth to booth, filling up on food and booze. There were definitely some memorable bites. Flavors Indian Restaurant in Addison served up a phenomenal spread with veggie samosas and other flavorful Indian dishes…
Apheleia Restaurant Group (El Bolero, Oak, Pakpao Thai, Quill) has announced that Oak, the upscale Design District restaurant that has had notoriously high chef turnover over the years, has named an executive chef: Joel Harrington, who became chef de cuisine at Oak in 2015. Before moving to Oak last year, Harrington was…
On a recent Friday evening in Oak Cliff, people gathered on the Turner House lawn for a screening of Casablanca. As the sun tucked itself behind the trees, blankets were spread, wine bottles popped, picnic baskets inventoried. Charcuterie boards rose up like tiny meat mountains and when the breeze shifted,…
The tasting of all tastings goes down Wednesday night at Centennial Hall at Fair Park, with dozens of North Texas restaurants cooking up bite-sized goodies, drink-slingers serving plenty of booze and local chefs throwing down in an epic cooking competition. On the center stage, a food-lover’s throwdown: Oliver Sitrin of…
Have you seen the weather forecast for this weekend? This is some code red, high alert, category five brunch weather: How can we North Texans best take advantage of this glorious pre-summer-meltdown weather? You could go exercise in a park, we guess, or maybe wander around smelling flowers, but let’s…
As Dallas heads toward a future where absolutely everything on Earth can be delivered to your door, Austin company Sourced Craft Cocktails launched in Dallas today with a curious concept — delivering everything you need to make a specific cocktail, right down to the recipe and glassware. Here’s how it…
At the end of dinner service on April 30, chef Stephan Pyles’ eponymous’ “New Millennium Southwestern Cuisine” restaurant will close its doors for good. Worry not, Pyles has plans for that Ross Avenue space: Flora Street Café, a reportedly upscale, more formal restaurant that will serve “elevated Texas cuisine.” He’s certainly…
This week in Dallas dining news: chef change-ups, new restaurants, drink specials and fried chicken. Here’s a rundown: Lower Greenville favorite Truck Yard has launched a new summer cocktail menu that features a dang ol’ bucket of mimosas. For $22.11, you get an ice-filled bucket with a bottle of sparkling…
The Rustic unveiled a new menu this week, and we checked out several of the dishes, which you can see in this slideshow. New items replace under-performers like the beer can chicken and crab quesadillas, says chef Daniel Menchaca. “There were some menu items that the guests weren’t happy with…
In the next few weeks, we’ll be hitting prime produce season, when Texas’ agricultural bounty becomes even more abundant. But if you’re shopping at grocery stores each week and only hitting farmers markets sporadically, it’s hard to know what’s in season and what’s not — and is there anything worse…
Unless some generous Dallasite steps in to save it, this past weekend was the final few days of regular service for Deep Ellum “small plate dining” spot Twenty Seven. Chef/owner David Anthony Temple, previously known for his underground dinners, announced the restaurant’s closure this weekend on social media: Dear Friends…
The internet horde can’t go more than a few days without going apeshit over a food “trend” (OMG RAINDROP CAKE). These clickbait monsters are usually just an existing food that, when “discovered” by Eater or Tasty, becomes the Next Hot Thing™ — even if it’s existed quietly for decades. This week’s food…
What’s going on in Dallas dining this week? Ice cream, chutney, booze delivery and LeBron James pizza, that’s what. Here’s a rundown of this week’s food news, including a look at new brunches, closed eateries and chef change-ups: In ice cream news, CultureMap reports that Chill 360 is bringing “ice…
Susan Sarich says she fell in love with Dallas immediately. She loves it so much, in fact, that the owner of California bakery chain SusieCakes is house-hunting here while she opens the bakery’s first location outside of Cali, on a bustling corner of Preston Center. “The neighborhood here has a…
On Monday, Cultivar Coffee opened the doors to its first stand-alone coffee shop on an Oak Cliff block that seems to be attracting a lot of talent. At 313 Jefferson Blvd., in the same building that houses innovators like Small Brewpub and Carnival Barker’s Ice Creams, Cultivar brings a wide…
This week, go nuts on fish cake patties, Sriracha noodles and papaya salad during the first DFW Thai Restaurant Week, which happens April 13-20. Get hungry, because 17 restaurants are participating in the event. Starting Wednesday, each restaurant “will introduce one unique Thai item to their menu and/or specials for…
This weekend in Dallas, MasterChef is hosting an open casting call — which, as the long-running cooking contest show makes very clear, is your best chance at landing a spot on season eight of the show. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, home cooks from around DFW will converge…
Lots happening right now in local food, drink and even grocery shopping — here’s a quick rundown: It’s confirmed: Cody Sharp, a local rising star chef who left the Standard Pour last fall to hop on board with Filament and FT33’s Matt McCallister, is out as executive chef of Filament…
