We have a lot of chain restaurants in Dallas. This is the city that launched Chili’s, On the Border and La Madeleine; places like Babe’s Chicken Dinner House and Il Cane Rosso have earned legions of devoted fans. Rise, Il Cane Rosso, Gloria’s and Knife are executing or planning expansions…
Leading up to next week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Revolver Taco Lounge has brought a rebellious and improvisational spirit to the Dallas taco scene, coupled with…
Leading up to this month’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Dallas has a lot of good beef ribs. Cattleack BBQ does a pastrami beef rib every so…
It feels like a classic hidden gem of the Dallas suburbs. The door is tucked away on the back of a two-story strip mall and office center, the strip mall itself hidden from the main road by yet another shopping center and a behemoth Walmart. It also feels like an…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Taquero has won over the hearts and stomachs of taco lovers from across Dallas, and it’s added a…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Look at that picture. Now doesn’t that look like a perfect balanced meal? Because the vermicelli bowls at…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Everybody knows that when you go to Trompo, you order trompo. It’s what the restaurant is known for;…
The legal battle over the rights to Dallas celebrity chef Kent Rathbun’s name has consumed an estimated $1 million in attorneys’ fees, and with a trial date newly set for December, tensions are escalating. A court document filed by Rathbun’s attorneys Sept. 5 reveals accusations of a “confrontational situation” between…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. This summer, the Nameless Chefs — a collective of chefs who work in some of Dallas’ finest kitchens…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. OK, this is not the most photogenic of our 100 Favorite Dishes. In all likelihood, you won’t be…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. We have pretty strongly mixed feelings about Mirador. The atmosphere is elegant, the restaurant has a breathtaking perch…
The old-school butcher shop revival has arrived in the Park Cities. After Deep Cuts opened in North Dallas last year and Burgundy Pasture Beef debuted its retail outlet, Burgundy’s Local, on Ross Avenue early this year, high-quality neighborhood butcher shops are looking like a very welcome Dallas trend. Now comes…
It feels like date night keeps getting more and more expensive. The prices at hot new restaurant openings are trending ever upward. As diners look for innovative, interesting concepts that don’t thin out our wallets, industry investors seem more excited to invest in high-concept eateries that cater to the comfortably…
It was one menu description in particular that persuaded me to drive to Rowlett and try Fritzl’s Euro Grill. “Kick Ass Schnitzel,” it reads. “Ja! Ja! Ja! Hey, Bubba. Still feel Macho, Try me. I am a lonely Pork Loin covered in a Fresh Habanero Garlic Sauce and can’t move…
Dallas has no other restaurant quite like Too Thai Street Eats. Although we have more than a few good Thai restaurants, none of them shares much in common with Too Thai, a new Carrollton establishment that focuses on the foods of Bangkok’s street vendors, night markets and hawker stalls. Like…
Sassetta is surprisingly affordable and fun.
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. In Korean restaurants, banchan are the tiny veggie dishes that come free with the meal. They might include…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. There aren’t many veggie burgers in Dallas like this one. Rajwadi, a fast-food counter hidden inside an Indian…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Let’s raise a glass, one more time, to Pietro’s, the Italian institution that served spaghetti, veal parmesan and…
We’ve picked the fish clean. Its spinal column yawns in a thin arc across the platter; my friend’s fork probes the vertebrae, checking for tiny, lingering morsels of meat. Most of the skin is long gone. The head has been pulled apart and searched for cheek meat — there isn’t…
Suddenly, Jaws feels a little less scary, because now I’ve eaten a shark sandwich. Armoury D.E., the intrepid bar in Deep Ellum with a deserved reputation for ingenious bar snacks, is now serving a sandwich called the Jabber Jaw ($11.50), featuring, yes, battered and fried slices of mako shark. Eagle-eyed…
Dining at Mirador is like taking a brief, immersive vacation to the land of the wealthiest 1 percent and finding out that the rich aren’t any better off than we are. They just spend more money. Its front entrance is at 1608 Elm St., where a parking circle of pavers,…
