Much of DFW’s best international fare is located nowhere near the city center. In fact, the greatest immigrant cuisine is often found by traveling out to the suburbs where international enclaves create tiny villages rich
with food, shopping and culture.
Few Dallas restaurants mark their debut appearance on the culinary scene with national coverage on Fox News, but V-Eats Modern Vegan did just that, thanks to their all-vegan brisket. Not all Texans, it seems, are ready to chow down on vegan barbecue. Now that the spotlight has turned elsewhere, V-Eats…
Lucky you! Some rich relative of yours — maybe an uncle, or your little brother who got that job at Google, or long-lost cousins who feel bad about neglecting their family — is visiting Dallas for the holidays, and wants to treat you to a lavish dinner. Where to take…
2016 has been a year of change at Komali. In March, founding chef-owner Abraham Salum sold the Cole Avenue restaurant to John Broady and Emanuel Salinas, relative newcomers to the Dallas restaurant business. Salinas, born in Mexico City and raised in Acapulco, wanted to recalibrate the kitchen to focus on…
Dallas has too much fried chicken. 2016’s Southern comfort food bubble has brought our city an ever-bigger bucket of fried chicken restaurants. Omar Flores, of the highbrow Casa Rubia, opened Whistle Britches to mixed reviews. The family behind Black-Eyed Pea opened Street’s Fine Chicken, which is, indeed, pretty damn fine. Rapscallion’s…
Sixty Vines is an interior designer’s dream restaurant. This new Plano hot spot has everything: breathtakingly high ceilings with exposed wooden beams like a gleaming white barn; an open kitchen with fresh pasta hanging from pipes and a dazzling copper-domed pizza oven; long communal tables set with beautiful English plateware…
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Canary by Gorji will move to a no-tipping service model — the first major full-service restaurant in Dallas to do so. “It has not been an easy decision,” chef-owner Mansour Gorji told the Observer. “I have been thinking about it for over a year now.” The no-tipping…
Once upon a time, downtown Dallas was a ghost town come 6 p.m. Office workers poured out of their skyscrapers and went straight home. The only watering holes were dives, and the only places to eat were fancy hotel kitchens like the French Room. That’s all changed dramatically in the…
Jared Schwartz and Mary Dibbern don’t exactly look or act like international chart-topping musicians. Schwartz, draining excess oil from his salad dressing, cracks jokes about avoiding “the stereotypical opera singer physique.” Dibbern speaks softly of her globe-hopping adventures, uncovering lost music and meeting the descendants of classical and operatic composers…
On Sunday mornings and afternoons, a line snakes out the door at Kirin Court, Richardson’s beloved dim sum institution. On weeknights, the strip mall’s parking lot keeps jam-packed with dinner crowds. Kirin Court may have tradition, an elegant atmosphere and pretty good food, but its dim sum isn’t always worth…
There’s been a lot of negativity about the Dallas restaurant scene in recent months. Between fears of an economic bubble, complaints about “Fickle 500” diners, the growing encroachment of valet parking, reports of mediocrity in fine dining and harsh reviews for such swanky kitchens as Uchi and Flora Street Café, it’s…
Kitchen LTO has come back to life, in triumphant fashion. After its sudden closure at Trinity Groves, when the Shark Tank-style restaurant development declared it unprofitable, Kitchen LTO announced a move to Deep Ellum, financed by a crowdfunding campaign. (Read more about that story in our interview with owner Casie…
My office takes lunch outings seriously. We have a shared document listing nearby restaurants in categories like “Old Favorites,” “New Openings” and “Places That Have Changed and Are Different and Frightening Now.” If your office is similarly intent on lunching well, and is located anywhere near the intersection of Interstate 35…
It was love at first taste. The first time I ate the mazateño taco at Tacos Mariachi, I fell in love. The flour tortilla, from Oak Cliff’s Araiza Tortilla Co., is exquisitely crisp. The shrimp are fabulously sautéed, never overdone, never rubbery. The cabbage is crisp and light, offset by…
It had been a long day at the State Fair of Texas. My friends and I tried the fried jambalaya (meh), fried clam chowder (tasty), fried PB&J (even better than the original!) and fried brownies (decadent). By dinnertime, we were feeling a little queasy and not at all hungry. “What…
Writing about Mi Lindo Oaxaca feels like breaking a vow of silence or unmasking a secret society. It’s a practically unknown restaurant in a practically unknown Oak Cliff strip mall. The front door and sign out front say “Tacos King.” Payments are cash-only and service is rarely in English; only…
Monday, 5:50 p.m. There is no line at Shake Shack. Only eight tables are occupied, six by people dining alone. I snag a parking spot right in front of the door. Is Dallas coming to its senses? We live in, probably, the burger capital of the world. There are dives…
Dallas doesn’t have enough great Chicago-style pizza. Down at the Joule, Americano is looking to change that. This fall, on Sunday and Monday nights, they’re serving Chicago-style pizza by the slice for $10. If you’re ashamed to be seen with a deep dish by the Cool Pizza Kids, an ultra-quiet…
A few years ago, a night out in downtown Dallas meant either a fancy restaurant or a tourist trap. A few good restaurants were downtown, like CBD Provisions and the French Room, but not many of the kind of casual spots that graced Uptown and Deep Ellum. Residents commented on…
Leading up to the Best of Dallas® 2016 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. You could spend months on an obsessive quest across Dallas and its suburbs, searching for all the best…
CiboDivino, the beloved Italian grocery, pizzeria and wine bar at Sylvan Thirty, gives new meaning to the phrase “house wine.” Chef-owner Daniele Puleo sources a trio of wines from Italy for his own Puleo brand, wine bottles available to go from CiboDivino under a label adorned with cartoon bicycles. “I…
Monkey King Noodle Co. is fast becoming a Deep Ellum institution. After two and a half successful years as a small takeout window, during which time Dallas city regulations shut down its informal collection of tables on the sidewalk, the restaurant has moved around the corner into a permanent home…
