Downtown has a new bar and restaurant that officially opened for business this week: Elm Street Cask and Kitchen. Billing itself as a “neighborhood bourbon bar and grill” with an “extensive whiskey collection, Southern-inspired cuisine and a variety of inventive and classic cocktails,” Elm Street Cask and Kitchen is serving “honest…
An ‘Italian-inspired’ restaurant is opening this spring at the Plaza at Preston Center, and its leadership includes a chef with quite the resume. il Bracco, at 8416 Preston Center Plaza, “will offer a fresh take on classic Italian dishes with everything made from scratch including breads, pastas and sauces,” according to…
In June 2018, Lowest Greenville lost one of its best low-key hangouts, the Blind Butcher. Today, a bar and restaurant called Alamo Club takes its place. It’s an “upscale neighborhood restaurant and bar serving American classics in an old-school comfortable setting,” according to a press release. The concept comes from Austin…
Get a double dose of delicious on Friday at Peticolas as the brewery hosts a release party for its Irish red ale, Irish Goodbye, with a party that includes a pop-up from everyone’s favorite Cedars banh mi spot, Sandwich Hag. Chef Reyna Duong will serve her popular xiu mai meatballs and…
The Grape is discontinuing its Sunday brunch so that chef-owner Brian Luscher can reboot the long-running Greenville Avenue bistro.
OK, so it’s just across the I-30 border from Oak Cliff, making it technically West Dallas, but Sylvan Thirty is close enough that Oak Cliff finally gets one thing the neighborhood doesn’t have much of: a place to grab a quick banh mi. Banh Mi Station,a fast-casual restaurant owned by Kevin…
Developers have long been trying to turn the West 7th District in Fort Worth into a dining and retail destination, to mixed results, but now, Dallas concepts are preparing to open locations at the Crockett Row at West 7th development. Several businesses are opening at Crockett Row over the next…
If you’ve somehow managed to make it to the day before Valentine’s Day and have yet to secure plans for the evening — that’s living dangerously, my friend — Luck has made it easy with a Valentine’s cupcake and craft beer pairing. A $25 ticket gets you two flights: one…
Between the Buns, Dallas Observer’s mini food fest celebrating the lovable slider sandwich, returns in March for its second year, and there’s some serious slider talent in this year’s lineup. Everyone knows Dallas steakhouse Knife makes a mean burger, and the same is true for Deep Ellum slider-centric restaurant Easy…
On Saturday morning, nearly 2,500 people converged on Dallas Farmers Market for the third annual brunch fest the Morning After, bringing dozens of Dallas restaurants together to celebrate all things brunch. It was a cold, blustery day — Did we spot a little snow flurry, or had we just had…
Is it weird that I wish every coffee shop had its own built-in dog park, even though I don’t have a dog?
In this week’s roundup of Dallas-area food news, North Oak Cliff is getting an Irish pub, Legacy West gets two new vendors and Deep Ellum gets a shiny new oyster bar: Legacy Hall, the food hall at Legacy West, has two additions: Blush Wine Bar on the first floor and…
If you’ve yet to visit Tyler Station — Oak Cliff’s shining beacon of adaptive re-use, filled with coworking spaces, retail, art studios, small businesses and even a brewery — tonight is the perfect opportunity at the new monthly, building-wide First Thursday. Hit up Oak Cliff Brewing Co. for a beer…
The Topo Chico anthem Texas deserves.
It’s no secret that Dallas loves brunch, which is why Dallas goes equally nuts for the city’s lone food festival dedicated to all things brunch: The Morning After. VIP tickets have already sold out, but a $40 general admission ticket gets you unlimited brunch dish samples from restaurants like Barley…
For people who live and work in downtown Dallas, City Tavern was the ideal neighborhood bar. After City Tavern opened in 2004, its cheap drinks, no-frills bar food and cozy dive bar ambiance made it the neighborhood’s favorite hang spot, a real-life Cheers where bartenders set your usual on the…
It doesn’t take long to realize that Nori Handroll Bar is not the typical Deep Ellum dining experience. Upon entering the restaurant, diners see a small lobby bar and izakaya, a host stand and a doorway that leads to a shotgun room with just 24 seats nestled against a sushi…
In mid-January, Plano got four new food offerings in one with the opening of LC Kitchen, a “food hall-style restaurant” located off Legacy Drive near a glut of Asian restaurants and grocery stores. The sleek, ultra-contemporary new space is home to four food stands, according to LC Kitchen’s Facebook page:…
The restaurant group behind Flower Child and North Italia is opening a new “neighborhood restaurant” in Uptown next month: The Henry, a new American bar and restaurant from Sam Fox Restaurants. The Henry is opening its third location — others are in California and Arizona — at Uptown real estate…
Iron Fork is a Dallas foodie paradise. Thousands of hungry visitors dine on unlimited bites from Dallas restaurants while meeting chefs and sipping wine and cocktails, but the event includes a fun twist: a live cooking competition that pits two Dallas chefs against each other in a real-time cook-off using…
Hotels in downtown Dallas are racing to turn their establishments into hip hangouts by opening multiple bars and restaurants in an effort to entice both locals and out-of-towners. The Statler’s renovation and rebirth included six bars and restaurants: Scout, R&B, diner Overeasy, rooftop bar Waterproof, Fine China and cocktail enclave…
It started with a Texas brisket smuggled into Mexico. Back in October, Shad Kvetko, one of the owners of Expo Park mezcaleria Las Almas Rotas, asked Oak Cliff barbecue outfit Mohon Barbecue to smoke a very special brisket — one that would be taken to Mexico and used to produce…
