Misti Norris has a full-time restaurant, various pop-ups and an extended residency at Attalie, yet still finds time to guest chef. Most recently she created, prepared and served half the tasting menu at Nonesuch, a restaurant in Oklahoma City that was named America’s Best New Restaurant by Bon Appetit in 2018.
Shopping for a new wok can build up a mighty hunger. After we finally found the perfect carbon steel pan, we consulted Yelp to see if there was anything good to eat in the commercial strip that housed the restaurant supply house where we had shopped. TX BBQ & Burgers…
In the never-ending quest for good hand-pulled noodles, we make a visit to Taste of Peking in Plano, where Mr. Charlie is living his best noodle-pulling life.
We discovered a really good tapas restaurant in Plano during this year’s Restaurant Week and will definitely be back to sample their regular menu.
Tomyumkung Thai Café offers up Thai food, including Isan cuisine from northeast Thailand that has a Lao influence. They also have a decent amount of duck on the menu.
Pho Midway is a Vietnamese restaurant in Far North Dallas serving up a pretty good bowl of pho and other dishes.
Carbone, not to be confused with Carbone’s (read more about this here), opened at the end of March in the Design District. It was a much-anticipated Dallas debut from Major Food Group run by Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick. The original location in New York City has received…
A trip to Yardbird during Restaurant week for some upscale southern cooking.
TeaGu is a pop-up, currently in Carrollton at Moge Tee, that serves up freshly made, hand-pulled noodles.
El Portal Cafe in Farthest North Dallas is a Colombian bakery and restaurant that serves some delicious and authentic food for those willing to travel to Dallas’ farthest reaches.
Hirsch’s Meats offers an old-school butcher experience without the sawdust on the floors, selling prime, wagyu and dry-aged beef as well as several varieties of home-made sausages as well as hot dogs… including Vienna Beef!
Highland Noodles opened in December ’21 in Frisco and offers some great hand-pulled noodle dishes, along with soups and stir-fried dishes as well.
Äông Hải is a Chinese restaurant with a bit of Vietnamese flair that brings the best of both to the table.
Restaurant Week is a trifecta of wins, or a boxed daily double, for your handicappers. We get to eat mostly high-end meals at what feels like a matinee pricing.
In the continuing search for a good Chicago-style thin-crust tavern pizza in North Texas, we visit the Lewisville location of Rosati’s.
Fat Ni, the nickname of founder Guigiao Chen, started off as a food truck in New York City before eventually becoming two physical restaurants in NYC and then expanding to three Texas locations, two in DFW and one in Houston …
Baonecci Ristorante, a restaurant with Lucca, Italy roots by way of San Francisco, recently opened up in Frisco offering a variety of traditinal Lucchesi dishes.
Ssong Hotdog is a new Korean hot dog joint in Dallas that also is an R&B Tea location as well,
FX series The Bear inspires author to try his hand at braciole.
Hong Dumpling House is a new spot that offers fresh, made-to-order Korean dumplings that are both colorful and flavorful.
The Cluckin offers up Zabiha Halal chicken wings and tenders, beef hamburgers and sandwiches, along with teas, smoothies and fruit ades in farthest North Dallas.
As reported in the Observer last week, Portillo’s is sending out its Beef Bus food truck to North Texas over the next few days in anticipation of opening its first location in Texas this fall in The Colony. The first stop was Monday, July 11 …
