Leading up to September’s 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. Forty-five years is a long time in the restaurant business. For every Tex-Mex institution that’s been beloved for…
Leading up to September’s 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. Not many foods are named after shoes. The huarache was originally a type of sandal used among the…
Leading up to September’s 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. It’s rare to find a form of sizzling meat that Texans haven’t embraced. But through some shameful oversight,…
Leading up to September’s 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. Sushi Robata is a mainstay of North Dallas dining, a rock-solid Japanese restaurant where just about everything on…
Leading up to September’s 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. CrushCraft Thai Street Eats doesn’t have to be this good. It has a premium location in the heart…
Leading up to September’s 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. “Huh?” That’s the first thing some people say when they first visit St. Martin’s Wine Bistro on Greenville…
When I moved to London in 2010, everybody warned me about the awfulness of traditional English food. Friends declared pub life would be a drudgery of boiled beef and spotted dick. “The best thing that ever happened to English food,” my father advised, “was McDonald’s.” Alarmed, I spent the first…
Let us now sing the praises of lamb. Maybe the most underrated of meats, it’s richly flavorful, great on the grill and easy to serve a number of different ways. Few things look and taste as luxurious as a rack of lamb chops, but lamb is also an inspired addition…
Leading up to September’s 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. Brisket is a Dallas hallmark, and it seems like every restaurant tries to serve brisket in something whether…
Leading up to September’s 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. The Observer recently published a list of some of Dallas’ best Reuben sandwiches. Few sandwiches, after all, can…
In a strip mall at the corner of Illinois Avenue and Cockrell Hill Road, near Mountain View College, is a Thai and Laotian market with two names. The big yellow sign on the façade says Somphou Market, but the door advertises Ly Food Market. It’s maybe not the most auspicious…
Leading up to September’s 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. This year, a friend of mine bought the pig’s head carnitas from CBD Provisions for his Super Bowl…
The culinary spirit of the 1950s lives on in downtown Irving, where an old-fashioned soda fountain still chugs along serving patty melts and chocolate malts. Big State Fountain Grill has been around for nearly seventy years, opening as a drug store in 1948. The lunch counter from those early days…
Leading up to September’s 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. If we can convince you of one thing, we’d like it to be that everyone should eat more…
Thin-crust pizza is taking Dallas by storm. In addition to old favorites Cane Rosso and Olivella’s, newcomers like Matchbox and Sprezza are hopping on the trend, each with their own interpretation of just how thin a crust should be. Up in Addison, Taste of Chicago isn’t changing a thing about…
Sprezzatura is a fun Italian word that means “studied nonchalance,” the art of preparing methodically but acting as if no preparation was necessary. A fashion-conscious friend says the word describes “a man who spends two hours doing his hair up so it looks like he just rolled out of bed.”…
Leading up to September’s 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. Some dishes we love because they combine differing primary tastes. Sweet and sour sauce, for instance, or sweet-spicy…
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is a DJ, drummer for The Roots, late-night talk-show fixture and one of the most thoughtful leaders of modern hip-hop. He’s also an adventurous eater, as documented by his Tumblr Quest Loves Food and his Twitter account, cook4quest. Now he’s written a genre-busting, fascinating book, Something to…
Leading up to September’s 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. There are certain foods that might, at first, seem like magic. How are they made? Think about the…
Leading up to September’s 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. Down at Pecan Lodge, putting cheese on top of brisket is heresy. But put them together in a…
The Dallas Museum of Art’s north entrance has a new outdoor pavilion with a crepe café. Socca is named after the style of crepe it serves, a chickpea-based savory pancake popular in the far south of France. Pronounced “SOAK-uh,” rather than the way Bostonians say “soccer,” the socca originates in…
Simple, yet fancy. Cheap, yet luxurious. Tiny, yet hugely flavorful. Sweet, tart, fatty, puckery. Lucia’s most famous appetizer costs only $1, but it contains multitudes, and we recommend ordering multitudes of it. It’s the foie gras-stuffed prune, a treat that sounds like the territory of one-percenters but costs less than…
