2019 was a triumphant year for the Dallas food business: We got national recognition, a bit of swagger, ambitious-yet-casual new restaurants and a whole new style of spicy dumplings. But 2020 can be even better. Here are five immodest suggestions for how various food-industry leaders can build on Dallas’ culinary…
If there were a theme to Dallas restaurant openings in 2019, it was this: Good food comes in small dining rooms.
Beet salads, meat-and-cheese boards and grilled shishito peppers popped up on a lot of Dallas menus in 2019. But some bigger, broader trends also affected the way that we ate this year. Several were good, several were bad and others could go either way. Let’s break them down. Good: The…
2019 was a banner year for the Dallas restaurant industry. Bars set records for sales. Restaurants raised the standard in our city by reaching new levels of, and varieties of, excellence. Unpretentious but delicious neighborhood restaurants, in particular, are on the rise. Even as Dallas saw an uptick in new…
As of the moment when I’m submitting this article for publication, I’ve eaten 201 meals at Dallas-area restaurants in 2019. That is, well, plenty by anybody’s standard. And that diet, along with the ever-increasing stock of great Dallas restaurants, made narrowing down a selection of my top 10 favorite plates…
Lima Taverna, Plano’s well-liked Peruvian restaurant, is expanding to a location slightly farther away from Dallas: Washington, D.C. Owner Eliseo Figueroa says he’s partnered with a D.C.-based restaurateur and hopes to open the new location in the spring. It’ll be in the Georgetown neighborhood, but things are still in planning…
For the past two years, Oak Cliff resident Jon Daniel has partnered with nonprofit Foundation 45 to raise funds via 24 Hours of Tacos, an extravaganza of taco eating and awareness raising for the charity’s goal of helping creative artists receive quality mental health care. Now, Daniel is changing things…
2019 was a banner year for Dallas restaurants. A wave of new openings made splashes in the food scene, and our restaurants and chefs as a whole made a splash nationally, too. Between recognition in the pages of Bon Appétit magazine and rejuvenated neighborhood dining, the picture of this city’s…
According to one indicator, the restaurant bubble in Dallas is going to burst soon. The warning sign is the rise of what I call “servant restaurants.” Servant restaurants exist primarily to cater to the whims and caprices of extremely rich customers. Chefs in charge of such kitchens aren’t really given…
Wa Kubota serves traditional Japanese fare with graciousness in an elegant space.
If you’re near Richardson and have $10, you have access to one of the Dallas area’s best new lunch specials. One Hummus, a Mediterranean restaurant that opened at Belt Line Road and U.S. 75 this past spring, has a menu with a distinctive Jordanian flavor. It also has a bounty…
The timpani are among a symphony orchestra’s most exciting instruments. There’s nothing quite like a musician pounding away on wide kettledrums made from copper. But aside from the occasional dramatic drumroll, timpani don’t really get big solo moments. That changes this weekend, when the Dallas Symphony premieres a new concerto…
Dallas food lovers got to know Yong Murphy because of her soup dumplings. As the founder of Irving restaurant Fortune House, Murphy gave the region its finest, plumpest, most flavorful dumplings, filled with so much broth they seemed like magic tricks. But Murphy — who also goes by the names…
This is urgent, taco lovers. Start getting hungry now for Oak Cliff’s new destination for great tacos and mulitas
Dallas is enjoying a wave of national recognition for its blossoming food scene, highlighted by a feature in Bon Appétit magazine naming us the restaurant city of the year. The local reaction to all that attention is starting to reveal an interesting divide. In my experience, most diners and younger…
Cooper’s Meat Market, the tiny butcher shop in Sylvan Thirty, wants to redefine the steakhouse experience.
On Friday, the Trump administration will officially enact a massive tariff on food and wines imported from Europe. Leaders of the Dallas food industry aren’t quite sure what will happen yet, but they’re watching carefully. The 25% tariff will be slapped on all Scotch whisky; non-sparkling French, Spanish and German…
The diner on West Davis Street has been a bustling favorite of Oak Cliff residents since 2010.
It’s been a tumultuous couple of months at the Deep Ellum Hostel. First, its bar, Izkina, was visited by a writer from the national magazine Bon Appétit, and the publication’s photographers came by to shoot Izkina’s food. Then the bar suddenly closed and announced that it would be remodeled and…
One of the complaints I’ve heard most frequently from Dallas chefs and food industry members is that we’re not supportive enough of each other. Hospitality workers rarely get quality time to hang out together and express their love for each other — because at all the normal times when people…
Barbecue fans grumble about the long lines they have to suffer to chow down on fatty slabs of brisket. But have they ever been to Kirin Court on a Sunday morning? The Richardson dim sum institution, perched imposingly on the entire second floor of a strip mall, fills up so…
You probably saw last week that Bon Appétit named Dallas its 2019 Restaurant City of the Year. You probably didn’t see that day a smart Facebook comment by Richard Vana, owner of The Heritage Table in Frisco. “It’s pretty cool to be reading stories about what Dallas restaurants are, rather…
