The Charles is something special, in both the traditional and slang senses of the word, with stellar people-watching and dainty but well-crafted small plates in a dining room that defies description.
Every September, Fair Park businesses prepare for the most challenging weeks of the year: the State Fair of Texas. For three weeks, the State Fair vacuums up every parking spot, funnelling crowds away from local businesses and towards the concession aisles where hawkers convert money into paper tickets. Regular visitors…
Some comfort foods translate across all cultures and languages. Nearly everyone likes a hot bowl of noodle soup. Almost every cuisine has its sausage link. South Korea and southern America agree on the glories of fried chicken. It’s about time that koshari, the pride of Egypt, achieved that level of…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra just launched its 2018-19 season with a black-tie gala event and visits from Grammy-winning guest stars. Across the street, at the smaller, more casual Moody Performance Hall, the other symphony orchestra in Dallas is preparing for its seventh season with slightly less fanfare. The Dallas Chamber…
We had to make a lot of difficult choices for our annual Best Of Dallas issue — but few were harder than determining the winner of the title Best Bar Food. We are living in the golden age of Dallas bar food, and a half-dozen watering holes all deserve the…
As Dallas has rightly evolved past “Pan-Asian” cuisine, new restaurants Imoto and Musume double-down on the tired food trend.
A new run of Laotian restaurants in Dallas, Plano and Rowlett bolster DFW’s already exploding lao food scene.
If the average Dallas diner listed ways to get drunk at mealtime, wine might come in third. Any restaurant with any ambition at all has a list of house specialty cocktails, and the Texas craft beer revolution is still going strong — the region is opening at least 13 new…
Whoever says Dallas doesn’t have great Italian food hasn’t been paying attention – especially to Jennifer and David Uygur’s new Macellaio, a sister restaurant to Lucia in Bishop Arts.
In one of the least likely places for a high-end restaurant, Foxyco surprises with its summery cocktails and defiantly big-flavored menu.
Let’s discuss Dallas restaurant inspection scores. In the past we’ve talked about the inflation that plagues scores, and the workload that can set inspectors weeks behind schedule. But today we’ll stick to one very simple question, which doesn’t require any investigative digging. What does a restaurant’s inspection score even mean?…
Doobies & Foodies, a tongue-in-cheek Instagram page with the tagline “Let’s get blazed and eat!” has documented a couple’s journey through Dallas dining, with a special emphasis on Asian food and, of course, on marijuana.
Opening day has been a long time coming for Oak Cliff Brewing Co. Back in late 2015, the fledgling brewery found a property across from the Dallas Zoo and commissioned a design from an architectural firm, the first step to building a production brewery and taproom capable of bottling and…
This list, we hope, dispels the notion that these establishments are dirty, greasy and cheap, yet instead shows how much hard work and even creativity can go into a corner store food counter.
The Dallas City Council has made small changes meant to address the city’s poor restaurant inspection system.
Fachini feels fancy, but the food doesn’t live up to the tuxedos.
In early June, a new Japanese bar landed just off Oak Lawn Avenue. It debuted quietly — the restaurant is still in a lengthy soft opening phase — but when the crowds find Izakaya RoMan, they might be thrilled. Our first impression is of a winning bar with an especially…
Sexist service is bad service. I hope that we can all agree on this. A server who treats a woman with condescension is doing his job badly. More broadly, a server who treats customers differently based on sex, sexual orientation or race is failing the basic standard of hospitality. I’m…
There are many good things to eat at Saigon Block, but only one of them is certain to turn every head in the restaurant. No matter how many times it moves past, tucked loosely in the confident arms of a waiter, it can’t help attracting attention. The enormous white platter,…
Goat carcasses unfurl over the grill like flags in the breeze. It’s a massive grill, at least 3 feet across and as long as a small car, not quite an earthen pit in a backyard but as close as you can get indoors without offending the health inspector. Part of…
When a friend told me he’d heard good things about a gas station ceviche counter, I naturally thought it was a step too far. We food people are always on the hunt for great food in unexpected places, and gas stations have, thanks to taco-devouring hipsters, become an oddly trendy…
It’s getting to be beer weather in Texas. OK, yes, it’s always beer weather, but the summer heat calls for something refreshing, light and well made, a beer that will make me tolerate the outdoors, a beer that’s cool consolation for the face-melting misery of the Dallas sun. Luckily, a…
