This spring’s election for all 14 Dallas City Council spots and a new mayor could have a transformative effect on our city. That extends to the ways in which we eat and drink. Food industry matters might not be the first or most contentious issues that come to mind when…
At a handroll bar, diners tuck in to their sushi the moment it’s made. Two casual new handroll spots just opened in Dallas, and they even have similar names. Which will come out on top?
It’s not a very common menu item, but it is certainly a memorable one: “Buy a round of beers for the kitchen.” But what are the rules? Which beer does the kitchen choose to drink? How drunk are the cooks while they work?
Peak Restaurant, which opened on Belt Line Road in Irving last July, is a sports bar in a suburb with precious few places to drink. It’s also a proudly Nepali-Tibetan kitchen with stellar traditional food.
This week, John Adams conducts the Dallas Symphony in a weekend of concerts. Next month, Adams turns 72. For decades, he’s been practicing — and excelling at — one of the world’s most endangered professions: composer of classical music. And, against the public perception of a field led by dead…
It all started, in part, because of a chicken burger. Dipesh Acharya’s home country, Nepal, is in love with burgers. But Nepal is also 80 percent Hindu, so restaurants there can’t make patties out of beef. Local chefs responded with a logical new fusion food: a ground chicken burger graced…
District 9 Draught House brings German pub food and draft craft beer, including growler fills, to Lake Highlands.
A group of prominent Dallas restaurants is beset by legal troubles, including at least five ongoing lawsuits and unpaid tax bills from Dallas County, the state of Texas and the Internal Revenue Service. Bolsa, Chicken Scratch and The Foundry, owned by Christopher Jeffers and Christopher Zielke with various partners and…
When I visit a restaurant, I sometimes imagine the conversations its creators had. What were they thinking? Why did they invest money in this concept? How did they miss the flashing neon orange warning signs that their business plan was doomed? My newest morbid fascination is Circo TX, a 25,000-square-foot…
“A farm-to-table Spanish tapas bar led by big-time culinary talents opens its doors inside a style-conscious youth hostel.” The summary sounds like a joke about those crazy foodies down in Austin finding yet another way to out-weird the rest of Texas. But it’s not a news alert from Austin. Deep…
Every year is a good year to be a food writer, but 2018 was an especially interesting year to eat in Dallas. The city’s diversity really came to the foreground: I visited restaurants as remote as McKinney and the far side of Arlington, and investigated the cuisines of Laos, Egypt…
2018 was a banner year for new restaurants in Dallas. In particular, chefs put renewed effort into making their creativity accessible for wider audiences, at more reasonable price points. And Dallas’ diversity was on full display, too. Our list of the year’s best new restaurants includes French, Italian, Spanish, Sichuanese,…
At Morefan in Plano, a Xi’anese food stall is cooking up stellar biang biang noodles.
Few are the foods with such power over the imagination that just hearing their names can stop your stream of thoughts and send you off to the internet to look at restaurant menus. They tend to be celebration dishes — whether eaten at a celebration or cause for one. When…
Last week I published my list of the Top 100 Dallas Restaurants. That list was based on my meals at over 400 eateries in Dallas and its suburbs, but it was also based on my own judgment. This new ranking is an alternative. Not content with building my own list,…
There are some very famous Dallas-area restaurants missing from our Top 100 Dallas Restaurants list. Our ranking is radically different from those by critics at other publications, or from the ratings on websites like TripAdvisor and Yelp. Why? There are two main reasons. One is that metro Dallas has over…
We researched our Top 100 Dallas Restaurants the old-fashioned way: by eating. I dined at over 400 Dallas-area restaurants for this ranking, ranging from a $150-per-person tab at Flora Street Cafe to a Tibetan dumpling counter located inside a gas station. Deciding the top 10 required even greater scrutiny; I…
For most diners these days, City Hall Bistro is a likable neighborhood restaurant. For many of the bistro’s employees, it’s a redemption story. City Hall Bistro opened in summer 2017 to little fanfare — or at least, to less fanfare than the other restaurant in the Adolphus Hotel’s front lobby,…
The old Beck’s Prime burger joint has been sitting empty for a year at the corner of Oak Lawn and Avondale avenues. It’s a premium location, with a huge wraparound patio and lower rent than the Highland Park businesses just blocks to the north. Chef Matt McCallister, formerly of the…
Saloons just aren’t what they used to be. In his recent, wildly entertaining book A Short History of Drunkenness, Mark Forsyth traced the history of the saloon beyond the Hollywood myth, to a time when the word denoted a tent with a couple of barrels of whiskey inside. Saloons of…
Ludwig van Beethoven’s music has a reputation as the Mount Everest of the classical repertoire — lofty, heroic, unknowable. Musicians lob the word “great” around so much when talking about Beethoven that even his name can be intimidating. But there’s a mellower, wittier, less ambitious side of the iconic composer,…
Greenville Avenue is a scary place to operate a restaurant these days. With competition fierce, beloved restaurants like the Blind Butcher, Pints & Quarts and Bbbop have shuttered in the past year alone. But, as GuideLive reported today, one of Dallas’ most celebrated taco restaurants is ready to step in…
