Longtime Dallas Morning News food critic Leslie Brenner announced her departure to developer Rebees nearly a year ago, and since then, Mark Vamos has been filling in as interim critic. Now, the DMN has a new critic: Michalene Busico, a longtime friend and former colleague of Brenner. “I’ve been a journalist for…
About a year after Trinity Groves lost its brewery — Four Corners, which moved to the Cedars and was recently acquired by the maker of Modelo and Corona — another brewery is opening up in the West Dallas restaurant incubator. Steam Theory Brewing Co., a restaurant and brewery, begins soft…
Dallas brewery Four Corners has been acquired by Constellation Brands, the beer behemoth that owns brands such as Corona Modelo Especial, Modelo, Pacifico and, more recently, craft breweries Ballast Point and Funky Buddha. Four Corners opened in West Dallas — adjacent to Trinity Groves — in 2012 but later moved…
September will be here before you know it, and that means one thing: BrewFest. The Dallas Observer’s annual beer festival — which packs more than 500 local, national and international craft beers into the Dallas Farmers Market every year — is going down Sept. 8. If you don’t have tickets…
From branded burgers to resurrected patty melts, there are a few stellar burgers on our radar right now — and what better time to go whole ham on some burgers than summertime? Cowboy up to one of our favorites. BurgerFi’s branded burgers This new burger franchise location on Mockingbird has…
This week’s roundup of DFW food news is all about health food in a bowl, from Flower Child’s Thai cashew quinoa bowl to Rush’s smoothie bowls to chef Tim Byres’ take on the health-bowl trend. Fox Restaurant Concepts, the company behind fast-casual health food spot Flower Child on Lovers Lane and…
The Statler’s multimillion-dollar renovations have already netted us a few new concepts: Scout, a bar and “social space” with shareable snacks, bowling lanes and pingpong; Bourbon and Banter, a faux speakeasy cocktail bar under the lobby; Overeasy, a modern lobby diner serving farm-to-table breakfast and lunch; and Waterproof, a rooftop…
Summer in Texas can get expensive. Between the $300 electric bills and the cost of posting up at the FOE pool every weekend, heat-related expenses start to add up. One of our biggest summer expenditures: Topo Chico. Sure, every Texan sips this popular Mexican sparkling mineral water year-round. But when the…
Just after Valentine’s Day, the Cedars Social, the Cedars’ struggling neighborhood cocktail bar, became the Cedars Socíal, a modern Mexican restaurant helmed by a powerhouse trio: restaurateur Monica Greene, chef Anastacia Quinones and bar manager Leann Berry. The restaurant has been gaining a serious foothold in Dallas’ growing modern Mexican food scene,…
In April, Wild About Harry’s announced that, after 22 years, the laid-back hot dog and ice cream shop was forced to vacate its Knox Street location because of a landlord dispute in the ever-gentrifying neighborhood. Now, it’s back: Wild About Harry’s new store at 4527 Travis St., a few blocks from…
In February, Amazon launched two-hour grocery delivery service in Dallas, giving us one less reason to drive across town for eggs and grass-fed beef. The grocery delivery included alcohol, but now the online retail behemoth is upping the ante with “superfast” beer and wine delivery in DFW. “Prime members can…
The attempted reinvention of Victory Park continues. A week after the opening of Tracy and Kent Rathbun’s Imoto come details of a new restaurant opening in the neighborhood June 28: Billy Can Can. “The 4,800-square foot, 145-seat restaurant — a vibrant interpretation of a high-end late-19th-century Dallas dining saloon —…
Let’s face it: It’s summertime, it’s hot as hell and we’re not really all that invested in this so-called work thing right now — but we are invested in finding sweet new spots to while away the long summer days. Do just that at one of these new Dallas restaurants…
In this week’s round-up of DFW food news, one of the area’s biggest breweries sells to an Austin company, another brewery shutters, new restaurants are coming to West Dallas and more. Deep Ellum Brewing Co. had big news this week: The brewery has been sold to Austin’s Canarchy Craft Brewery…
Wanna spend an evening at Dallas Farmers Market sampling from a selection of more than 500 local, national and international craft beers? Of course you do, which is why it’s time to start planning for the eighth annual Dallas Observer BrewFest, taking over the market on Sept. 8. General admission…
Summer’s not all snow cones and pool bars. It’s also a notoriously dead season in the restaurant industry, which inevitably leads to some closures. These recent Dallas restaurant closures have us drowning our sorrows in frosé. Monkey King Noodle Co. CarrolltonMonkey King Noodle Co. is one of our favorite Dallas…
It would feel almost eerie if it wasn’t just so damn sad. This week, the suicides of two prominent American personalities — one in fashion, the other in food — once again force us to face a health crisis we’ve been ignoring and stigmatizing for so long, it’s reached epidemic…
Standing in line for brunch is a beloved pastime in DFW, and a new breakfast spot in Addison will give diners the chance to do just that. Trust us: There will be lines. Snooze, an A.M. Eatery was launched in Denver in 2006 by brothers Jon and Adam Schlegel. Their ethos:…
Five months ago, the Blind Butcher on Lower Greenville threw a Hail Mary pass and shared on Facebook that as neighborhood eateries were struggling, they were, too. “Truth be told, the last 18 months have not been kind to us, either,” the Blind Butcher’s owners posted. “Construction on Lower Greenville and more…
The Parlor on Commerce, a low-key Deep Ellum bar known for its laid-back atmosphere and incredible patty melt, has closed, owner Seth Byars confirms. “We closed up shop, and it was kinda a sweet release for me, personally, cause I was working 17 hours a day, seven days a week,”…
Dallas artist Shelby David Meier is fascinated by food. “I think about food a lot,” Meier says. “It ties to culture and experience. I also think about ideas of consumption. I also like the play around with the idea of taste.” Food has appeared in her work before. Her 2016 video “In…
Memorial Day weekend is pretty hectic for most bars, but this weekend was particularly so for Old East Dallas craft beer bar Strangeways. “They couldn’t wait for us to open,” Strangeways owners joked on Facebook when posting a photo of the Oldsmobile Bravada that crashed through the wall and into…
