Dallas is swimming in above-average tacos right now. Skip the subpar nonsense and grab a front-row seat for the city’s burgeoning taco renaissance. Here’s where to start: The pato taco at Revolver Taco LoungeSeared duck breast, caramelized onion, roasted poblano pepper — Revolver’s pato taco is a juicy bite of…
Deep Ellum is Dallas’ fastest-growing food and drink neighborhood. There’s so much opening up over there that it’s hard to keep up — but we can help. Here are four things you need to eat and drink in the city’s foodiest neighborhood of the moment. The pulpo taco at Revolver…
Restaurants are opening faster in Dallas than any mere human can keep up with. If you’re looking to get out of a dining rut, here are four new eateries that deserve your attention. 8 ClovesKabul native Afifa Nayeb, whose “Silk Road fare” stand, Laili, has proven to be one of the…
Looking for a new breakfast spot? If you haven’t tried any of these spots yet, you’re missing out, and you need to alleviate that ASAP. Whisk Crêpes This West Dallas crêperie, owned by Frenchman Julien Eelsen, is the real deal. Whether you’re looking for a sweet crêpe or a savory breakfast filled…
Just like life, summer may feel long at times, but it actually goes by quite fast. Don’t wake up in January with regrets about the outdoor yoga classes untaken, the popsicles uneaten and the patios un-sat on. Instead, scratch off all the items on our Dallas summer bucket list and…
American flag emojis at the ready, Dallas. If you’re not lake-adjacent this weekend, chances are you’ll be looking for a brunch to sop up last night’s long-weekend tomfoolery. Here are a few places to hit up if you’re looking to try something new this Fourth of July weekend. IdleRyeThis new…
Now that it’s full-on summer in Dallas, we could recommend a steady diet of poke bowls and paleo et cetera, but where’s the fun in that? Sometimes you just gotta stuff your face with something oh-so-bad and oh-so-good. Here are four ways to do that. Slater’s 50/50’s Nacho Burger This…
Yesterday we shared our picks for the best new Dallas restaurants of 2017 to date, but it’s also been a banner year in the city’s drink scene. From cocktail laboratories to affordable wine bars to liquor stores with a healthy twist, it’s been a busy time for booze in Dallas…
Sunday kicks off the first Dallas Tiki Week, a celebration of tiki cocktails and the bartenders who do them right. In honor of the five-day event and its many bar crawls and cocktail contests — and in honor of our 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, on newsstands now — here…
Looking for a new place to grab a cup of coffee? The DFW craft coffee scene is expanding rapidly, which means you have more new options than ever — and a lot of those options are easily accessible to those outside of Dallas proper. XO Coffee Co. 1023 E. 15th…
Dallas, it’s time to let go of the Moscow Mule. We get it; it’s light and refreshing with a gingery bite, and it’s on damn near every cocktail menu in the city. But as the Dallas drink scene evolves, it’s time our palates did, too. Here are five cocktails you…
This weekend, you could wait in line at El Si hay for the 20th time, or you could try something new. Here are a few Dallas tacos to try if you haven’t yet had the pleasure. Barbacoa Estilo HidalgoFrom the outside, it looks like an automotive shop, but if you…
Those with long memories of Dallas’ music scene rejoiced when news broke this week that the owners of The Bomb Factory planned to reopen the space formerly known as Deep Ellum Live. Those who don’t know the venue may be a little confused. We dug into the Observer archives (OK,…
The Observer has an opening for a part-time social media editor. This twenty-hour/week position combines journalism with social-media skills to increase the Dallas Observer’s audience and serve as its online public face. The social media editor manages the Observer’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others, with the expectation of continued…
In case you missed the memo sent in the form of a sauna-like climate, summer is here. But we only get to complain about the heat for so long before it’s time to change tack and complain about even more heat instead, so let’s all agree to buck up and…
Two movies, same scenario: Moments before a scheduled execution, just as the blade or gas pellet is set to deliver its fatal blow, the hero bursts into the room and carries the victim to safety. Banter is exchanged: “What took you so long?” “Traffic was a bitch.” “What took you…
In the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of those sports — bobsledding and luging are others — where Joe and Jane Satellite Dish cannot tell the difference between a great performance and a terrible one unless the athlete is carried away on a stretcher. No doubt there are crucial…
There is precisely one attempted coup de cinema in the Jesse Owens biopic Race, which otherwise defaults to the backlot handsomeness of other Great Men tributes from Hollywood. In 1935, Owens (Stephan James), a freshman sensation on the Ohio State University track team, returns to the locker room after practice…
Concussion isn’t much of a movie, but it’s a fascinating bellwether for where the National Football League currently stands on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease associated with many of its former players. As it happens, the brain isn’t supposed to whip against the skull like humans are…
The success of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s handsome lupine adventure Wolf Totem relies in large part on the ratio between wolf and totem. There are wolves — those howling, majestic hunters of the Mongolian grasslands — and then there are the many things they stand for: freedom, teamwork, the delicate harmony of…
Last year we lost two. First went The Loon, the bar Uptown forgot, an against-all-odds dive that finally succumbed to the weight of reality and was plowed in favor of a CVS. Next went Club Schmitz, the working-class bar on Old Denton Road, replaced by a RaceTrac. It’s impossible to…
Thanksgiving is almost here, Dallas. What are you thankful for? 1. Despite years of dedicated efforts by the city, we’ve yet to screw up the Trinity River so badly that it can’t eventually become something really cool. 2. Craft coffee, urban farming, urban parks, cycling — it’s like living in…
