Heavy gray storm clouds lingered over downtown Dallas on Friday night as Alyssa Kinsey crossed South Lamar with a bouquet of flowers in hand. Her eyes welling up with tears, she stopped in front of a makeshift memorial in front of Dallas Police headquarters. She paused, tears now streaming down…
A reader asks: Has Revolver Brewing’s popular ale Blood & Honey changed since the Granbury brewery’s 2016 acquisition by Miller-Coors?
Summer in Texas ain’t easy — especially at restaurants, which often see a dip in the summer months as people head out of town, presumably to flee somewhere a person can comfortably exist in August. The last few weeks have seen a characteristic run of restaurant closures. As we transition…
The restaurant group behind Deep Ellum restaurant and rooftop patio bar Stirr — along with Uptown nightclub Citizen — has opened a new Mexican restaurant in Deep Ellum. “Meaning ‘the good life,’ Vidorra offers bold and exciting Mexican flavors, along with a large tequila selection, unique cocktail program, and lively…
There’s more to celebrate this Labor Day than just the long weekend: All day Saturday, Oak Cliff’s first major craft brewery, Oak Cliff Brewing Co., celebrates its grand opening with tours, food trucks and OCBC’s flagship brews, the Oak Cliff Black Lager, Oak Cliff IPA, Oak Cliff Export Lager and…
Dallas taco festival Tacolandia is in its eighth year, and this year promises to be better than ever. Fest-goers will get access to unlimited tacos from a growing list of Dallas restaurants, including beloved taquerias like Resident and Trompo. General admission tickets are currently $25 — giving you unlimited taco…
Starting at 6:30 a.m. this morning with a chorizo breakfast taco at El Jordan, Dallas man Jon Daniel started off on his journey to eat at 48 Dallas taquerias in 24 hours — that’s one taqueria every 30 minutes for a full 24 hours straight. Why so many tacos in such…
This year’s Dallas Observer BrewFest, in its eighth year, takes over the Dallas Farmers Market from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 with more than 70 breweries each sampling several of their beers. Some beers are brewed just a few blocks away, but you’ll spot national and international breweries,…
If you haven’t been to the Bishop Arts District in the last few months, you’ll likely be shocked at the changes — not just new restaurants but entirely new buildings sporting new-to-you businesses. Whether you see all the changes in Bishop Arts as good or bad probably depends on whether…
In this week’s round-up of Dallas food news, Deep Ellum gets a new vegan grab-and-go spot that also serves local coffee, two high-profile Dallas chefs team up for a new pop-up and catering business, and travelers at DFW Airport may finally get the Whataburger they’ve been asking for: Oliver Peck,…
Now that we’ve successfully slogged through the first half of 2018 — a year filled with more Lime Bikes and Tide Pods than common sense, it seems — it’s time to look back and assess. OK, so maybe Dallas still hasn’t solved the affordable housing crisis or homelessness or that…
Poke Bop. Pok the Raw Bar. Malibu Poke. Poke O. Go Fish Poke. Bowls and Tacos. Poke Sushi Roll. Cbowls Poke. Mola Mola Poke. Hoki Poki. These are just a few of the poke restaurants that have opened in Dallas in the last two years, and we’re not even mentioning…
This morning, the State Fair of Texas announced the semifinalists for this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards, a competition pitting vendors against each other to see who has the craziest (and tastiest) new dish for this year’s fair, kicking off Sept. 28 at Fair Park.
Through years of rehab, relapses and second, third and 40th chances, there is one life raft that parents of addicts cling to: hope. Hope that this counselor, this medication, this stint in rehab sticks. Hope that this rock bottom will be their offsprings’ last, that they’ll miraculously wake up one…
Asian cuisine is having a moment right now in DFW. From the rapid expansion of Carrollton Korea Town to new locations of massive Asian grocery chains like 99 Ranch and H Mart and the micro-Asiatowns quickly gaining a foothold in suburban cities like Plano, we’re swimming in xiao long bao,…
In this week’s roundup of Dallas food news, The Theodore throws in the towel, Bishop Arts gets overloaded with ice cream, and there’s even more Asian and Asian-inspired cuisine on the way. NorthPark’s quirkiest restaurant, the Wes Anderson-inspired The Theodore, closed yesterday, GuideLive reports. The restaurant opened in 2015 with…
The Statler’s been going hard with the openings this year: the diner Overeasy, cocktail bar Bourbon & Banter, adult playspace Scout, rooftop bar Waterproof and, most recently, Fine China, chef Angela Hernandez’s take on new American Chinese cuisine. Now, it’s tossed another concept into the mix: R&B, a new fast-casual…
In a former auto garage tucked away off Northwest Highway, two longtime friends and veterans of the Dallas coffee industry have created the city’s most forward-thinking coffee shop yet — not in Dallas itself, but in a quiet corner of Richardson. Gorgeous handcrafted wood accents fill the industrial but homey…
In this week’s roundup of DFW restaurant news, Deep Ellum loses a coffee shop, Plano gets a new one and Arlington just keeps on enticing us (yes, really). Deep Ellum coffee shop, booze-slinger and music venue Drugstore Cowboy has closed, as originally reported by Central Track: “Shortly after the Fourth…
For us, October means two things: a (potential) break from the unrelenting summer heat and an annual taco festival that brings together dozens of taquerias and the Dallasites who love them. Tacolandia returns to Dallas Farmers Market at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, with unlimited tacos from more than 30…
Northern-dwelling fans of Velvet Taco’s rotisserie chicken taco will no longer have to drive too far south to catch a fix: Velvet Taco opened its fourth location Monday at 11700 Preston Road in Preston Forest Village. “Velvet Taco virgins who venture into the newest location will discover an all-day menu…
It’s been a rough summer for Lower Greenville Avenue restaurants. In June, we lost two: Pints & Quarts, which closed to focus on its new Oak Lawn location, and the Blind Butcher, a neighborhood mainstay. Now, another restaurant has thrown in the towel: Bbbop. As CultureMap reports, the Lower Greenville…
