A year after his suicide, three Dallas chefs are channeling their love for Anthony Bourdain into an event meant to bring the service industry together in support of each other. Tuesday night at Franklin’s Tattoo and Supply in East Dallas, chefs Peter Barlow, Joshua Farrell and Justin Holt will throw a Bourdain Bash to honor the man’s memory.
Few culinary changes would bring the Dallas area as big a quality-of-life improvement as putting a falafel joint in every neighborhood. We’re working on it, slowly. In the northeastern corner of Plano, Board Bites is setting an example for the kafta revolution.
Six months after the release of our Top 100 Dallas Restaurants list, we check in with the winners.
The last decade has seen brewers across America breaking new ground and pursuing new paths in beermaking. Brews aged in bourbon, wine and tequila barrels; fruited sours; wild-fermented ales subject to the whims of nature; double IPAs, triple IPAs, hazy IPAs, milkshake IPAs and champagne yeast IPAs; sour beers aged…
Two regional icons stare at each other from across a parking lot in Richardson. To the east, Afrah Mediterranean Restaurant resides in its palatial new quarters, constructed just a few years ago to handle the buffet’s big reputation and equally big crowds of hungry Dallasites. Just a few feet away,…
When you think about Dallas restaurants that have become institutions — beloved, legendary, even historic — which restaurants come to mind? The French Room and The Mansion have been bastions of the fine-dining scene for decades, even if their relevance is now almost entirely diminished. Teppo was the birthplace of…
In the summer of 2018, a Pakistani restaurant named BBQ King moved from downtown Richardson to a new, larger location in Garland. The news didn’t generate any headlines in Dallas food media, but it was a watershed moment in the recent history of our South Asian food scene. To put…
Anthony Dispensa is no longer executive chef of The French Room. Dispensa, a former reality TV host and line cook at two Michelin-starred London restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, arrived at The French Room in August and debuted his redesigned menu in October. The Adolphus Hotel confirmed the departure in…
The only problem with Taco Libre is that my stomach doesn’t have room for all the tacos I want to eat. Dozens of taquerías set up shop at the Dallas Farmers Market on Saturday eager to impress with their best stuff, ranging from Oak Cliff tortilla factories to budding celebrity…
Today, the Texas House will vote on whether Texas will remain the one and only state in the U.S. that doesn’t allow breweries to sell their beer directly to consumers for off-premise consumption.
Taco Libre is bringing two Mexico City taquerias to Dallas to serves tacos in the U.S. for the first time.
Before the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Thursday, April 18, orchestra president Kim Noltemy and executive board chair Sanjiv Yajnik took the stage to introduce the orchestra’s new music director, making his official Dallas debut that night. In the square outside, spectators watched on a big screen. On the ensemble’s…
If you’re craving the spicy stir fries, rich soups and whole fried fish of Hunan, the new Hunan Bistro in Plano is equal to any rival in town.
Maskaras Mexican Grill should be famous for more than its collection of lucha libre memorabilia; the Oak Cliff taqueria serves stellar tacos, tortas, burritos and more.
Shannon Wynne wrote an op/ed in the Texas Tribune citing brewery taprooms as the reason he had to close an Austin location of his Flying Saucer chain, and claimed that letting brewers sell directly to consumers will hurt the bar industry. But we disagree.
A number of policy proposals are up for election in 2019’s Dallas mayor race. One of them could transform how Dallasites dine out and how restaurateurs do business: public signage for health inspection scores. When the Observer surveyed mayoral candidates earlier this spring, four — Albert Black, Scott Griggs, Lynn…
José didn’t have to improve itself. The Park Cities crowd quickly adopted it as a favored Mexican food destination, and once the Park Cities crowd likes a restaurant, it doesn’t need to serve good food to keep their attention. José could have coasted for years by riding the pocketbooks of older Anglos with…
After one meal at Khao Noodle Shop, I could tell that the Dallas restaurant scene had changed forever. Well, that’s not quite true. Thanks to Khao’s terrific bowls of Laotian noodles, the Dallas restaurant scene is slightly better than it was before. The real difference is that, finally, the rest…
Consider the momo. The momo comes in many forms, but in all of them it is Nepal’s iconic snack. In the Himalayas, momos can be eaten on nearly every urban street corner and in nearly every kitchen. To call the momo a kind of dumpling would be accurate, but simplistic;…
Khao Noodle Shop, a casual new Laotian noodle spot in Old East Dallas, is more than just one of the city’s best new restaurants: It’s the new Dallas at its best.
The Alexander String Quartet has been together for 38 years — long enough that the quartet’s four members claim that while performing, they breathe in unison. In that time, the San Francisco-based ensemble has become a California institution, known for its rich-sound, contrast-heavy approach, low turnover and affinity for big-scaled…
There’s a lot more classical music in Dallas than just our world-class symphony and the glamorous opera house next door. But many of the events elsewhere in town are hard to find or downright obscure. Over the years, we’ve missed many exciting concerts because we just didn’t know they existed…
