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Lauren Drewes Daniels is the food editor of the Dallas Observer. She started working as a freelance writer in 2013 and became editor in 2021. She covers Dallas’ evolving dining scene, the many openings and closings as well as trends and breaking news. She oversees annual lists including Top 100 Bars and Top 100 Restaurants and contributes to the Best of Dallas. If you have a tip about an amazing pastry, pie or taco, let her know.

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Antoine’s Foods on Harry Hines Has Closed after 60 Years in Business

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 18, 2022

Longtime Dallas sandwich shop Antoine’s has closed. The sandwich shop was a fixture along Harry Hines Boulevard serving the Medical District and downtown …

Best Things to Eat and Drink in Dallas This Week, Aug. 18 – 22

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 18, 2022

Each week we like to dig around and find unique, boozy and indulgent things to get into around Dallas. It might be a festival, a social gathering of like-minded imbibers, an exclusive dinner or a special that we’re fond of (like this week, it’s The Slow Bone’s beef rib Saturday).

First Look: Atipico Serves Up an Uncommon Bit of Everything

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 17, 2022

Atipico is a new restaurant just north of downtown near downtown where Harry Hines Boulevard changes into North Akard Street. It along with The Henry,

Late Summer Round-Up: Opening and Closings in the Dallas Restaurant Scene

By Danielle Zachariah and OthersAugust 17, 2022

Restaurants in Dallas have opened and closed for the month of August.

H-E-B to Open First Store in Tarrant County, Still Absent in Dallas County

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 16, 2022

Whoever in Dallas County pissed off H-E-B, please go handle this. Send flowers. Apologize. On Aug. 11, the best lil’ grocery store in Texas announced its first Tarrant County store.

It’s Restaurant Week-Month: Here’s a Scouting Report

By Lauren Drewes Daniels and OthersAugust 15, 2022

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.

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Autonomous Society Brewpub Opens This Saturday in The Cedars

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 12, 2022

There’s always room for another brewery at the table. Craft beer in North Texas continues to grow and this weekend it will get a little bigger.

Top Foodie Finds This Week: Clubs, Julia Child, Bob’s Burgers and Margs

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 11, 2022

Well, it feels like this summer just will … not … end. And while the kids might beg for it not to, us adults are ready to wrap up this season of hot sweat. Here are some fun distractions to get you through the next week.

Cell Phone and Jacket Policy at Tim Love’s New Restaurant Has People Big Mad

Cell Phone and Jacket Policy at Tim Love’s New Restaurant Has People Big Mad

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 9, 2022

Chef and TV personality Tim Love loves a good angle. His concepts never shoot straight down the middle. His upscale restaurant Lonesome Dove, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in the Fort Worth Stockyards, serves exotic wild game dishes

Steaks, Chocolate, Hatch Chiles and Onion Rings Lead Foodie Finds this Weekend

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 4, 2022

Someone recently called August the weekend of summer. So, we’re taking that approach for the next several weeks. Treat yourself for plowing through

Tito’s Vodka Just Flipped Off Your Cooler Full of Seltzer

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 3, 2022

Tito’s Vodka is not having it with all these canned seltzers. For a bit of a back story: seltzers are trending. Bigly. And you don’t need to go to a 10U baseball tournament in Waco or any driveway neighborhood gathering to see that.

The Starbucks at Mockingbird Station is the First in Dallas to Unionize

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 3, 2022

Some of the most synchronized and caffeinated workers in America are starting to form an alliance. On July 29, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tallied the votes from the Starbucks store at Mockingbird Station in Dallas

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First Look: Hugo’s Invitados in the West Village is an Almost-Guiltless Escape

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 2, 2022

Hugo’s Invitado has infused a bit of fresh color and energy into Uptown’s West Village. The new, large outdoor dining area is full of green chairs, tables …

Pioneer of Bishop Arts Restaurant Scene, Sara Tillman, Has Died

By Lauren Drewes DanielsAugust 1, 2022

A pioneering figure in the Bishop Arts District restaurant scene passed away on July 23 at age 68. Sara Tillman was raised in Oak Cliff and lived and worked there …

The Great American Hero is Closing, Again. But It Will Reopen, Again.

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 28, 2022

There’s a scene in the 1994 film Forrest Gump where Tom Hank’s character is sitting on a bench talking about how he was invited to visit the White House, and explains with an eye roll, “Again.” And then he, ” … met the President of the United States. Again.”

The Lost Cajun, Which Sued to Halt Minority Preference for COVID Funds, Has Closed

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 27, 2022

A restaurant in Keller didn’t agree with how the Small Business Association (SBA) was distributing more than $28 billion from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund…

Landmark Bar and Kitchen to Open with Free Happy Hour Nacho Bar

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 22, 2022

The space on SMU Boulevard that was once a Twisted Root and most recently Texas Republic, which opened in October 2021, will soon transform into Landmark Bar and Kitchen …

First Look: Brentwood is Channeling its Predecessor Houston’s

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 19, 2022

Brentwood is now open in Houston’s old location in Addison. The look and feel – and even the smell – seem familiar.

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Grant Wood of Blood and Honey Fame on His New Gig and Swinging for the Fences

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 18, 2022

Grant Wood’s brewing portfolio spans many decades and miles. After graduating from Texas A&M he started his brewing career at Pearl Brewing Company in …

Potential Rolling Blackouts Have Local Restaurateurs Sweating

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 13, 2022

If you tapped your A/C up a few degrees yesterday or paused your Bitcoin mining operation from 2 to 8 p.m., local restaurants are grateful.

Texas Monthly and Panther City BBQ to Break Guinness Barbecuing Record this Week

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 12, 2022

Because Texas isn’t engulfed in enough of an inferno right now, Panther City BBQ in Fort Worth will attempt to break the world record for barbecuing this week.

First Look: Knox Bistro and “The French” Burger Diplomacy

By Lauren Drewes DanielsJuly 11, 2022

Earlier this year, this space formerly known as Up on Knox got a reboot by French chef Bruno Davaillon, who is one of two Dallas chefs whose resume includes a Michelin star …

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