There’s a certain appeal to hearing about people who find hidden treasures right under their proverbial nose. Every time a news story breaks about someone buying an original copy of the Declaration of Independence for a dollar at a garage sale or discovering a stash of money in the midst…
We’ve been ogling the new LSA Burger building for a while, whether it was while we caught a show at Lava Cantina, as we barreled north on Highway 121, or spent an afternoon wandering through the Grandscape development in The Colony …
Robert Davis didn’t intend to bring tasty barbecue to The Colony, but it’s a move that seems to be working. Davis, along with his wife Kimberly, owns
It’s easy to get caught up in everything new going on in Dallas dining; we’re certainly complicit in that addiction to shiny new things. But it’s good to remember that Dallas is full of restaurants serving splendid fare that have, sometimes, slipped from our memories.
Whether you realize it or not, much of what you experience when dining out has its origins in France. Restaurants themselves are a relatively modern creation and, notably,
Most Dallas natives and long-time residents will recognize the Sfuzzi name. The first Sfuzzi restaurant opened in 1987 and quickly gained a rabid following for its blend of great Italian …
Yes, we know it’s been 89 years since Prohibition ended, so there’s no legal reason to make your bar difficult to find. However, Dallas’ bar scene has become inundated with speakeasies …
We were just a few minutes into our chat with Doug Pickering about his new barbecue spot, Douglas Bar and Grill in Snider Plaza,
Let’s start this off by clarifying what Odelay isn’t. Odelay is not an authentic Mexican restaurant. There are no chapulines (might we suggest El Oaxaqueño) or birria (might we suggest Maskara’s) or carnitas (might we suggest Las Almas Rotas). Odelay is also not an attempt
At its core, barbecue is a study in heat and time and the transformative powers of both to turn something raw and unappetizing into something eminently
Of course there’s a motorcycle. With Nick Badovinus’ knack for transforming dining rooms into feasts for the eyes, we were anxious to see what was in store for National Anthem, his newest venture in Dallas’ East Quarter.
For 47 years, The Grape was a Lower Greenville institution in Dallas’ dining scene. Brian and Courtney Luscher helmed The Grape for its final dozen years in its role
As first reported in the Dallas Morning News, Carbone’s Fine Food And Wine has filed a 34-page lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against new restaurant
A handful of Thursdays ago, the Observer’s food editor convinced me to join her and Texas Monthly’s barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn at TMBBQ Club’s “Meat Up” series at Terry Black’s BBQ in Deep Ellum. We consider ourselves pretty plugged in to the goings-on in Dallas-Fort Worth barbecue, but there’s no…
If you’re a fan of upscale Italian, a pair of recent restaurant openings should have captured your attention. You’ve likely read of Carbone, the red-sauce Italian import from New York that might be the hottest seat in town over in the Design District …
It wasn’t that long ago that downtown Dallas was a place for the 9-to-5 crowd to go to work and not much else. Downtown was viewed solely as a commercial district, and when the workers left their jobs in the skyscrapers at the end of the day …
The local food media has found themselves aflutter now that Carbone has opened its doors in Dallas. Eater described the opening as “highly anticipated”,
While Dallas has its share of notable Chinese restaurants, it’s unique among major cities in not having a predominantly-Chinese neighborhood within the city limits …
Beer lovers can rejoice; Community Beer Co.’s new taproom is finally open on Commonwealth Drive. The taproom had quietly been serving suds for the last half of February, and Saturday, March 5, marked the official grand opening party with live music, food, new beers to try and a crowd happy…
For a couple that just opened the storefront to their small bakery and are likely running on very little sleep, one might expect Matt and Jenna Bresnan to look exhausted. However, it’s hard to miss the smiles on the Bresnan’s faces.
When you’re the world’s wealthiest man, people tend to listen to what you have to say. So it goes with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who like thousands of other Californians …
It’s hard to pin down exactly when it happened, but over the past two decades or so, the line between a restaurant and a bar has been significantly blurred …
