I’ll never forget the exact moment I was trying to find 2-inch wood screws at the Ace Hardware along Park Row in Arlington and smelled something.

Peter Tarantino refers to his new spot just across from Fair Park south of Deep Ellum as “in the Twilight Zone, deep deep….

There’s a certain stereotype for Texas pitmasters; a look, a stature and a smell. Burly, a little greasy.

Lots of “Ah man!” in the Observer’s downtown offices this week. The café on the bottom floor of the building posted a sign on their door that they’re done.

Hot news out of Houston. Shipley Do-Nuts has big expansion plans for North Texas. Next year they plan on adding 25 stores across North Texas through a new franchise agreement with HPL Capital LLC.

A few weeks ago we wrote about the new app-based deal called Off The Menu. For $20 a month, registered users get seven “off the menu” freebies at restaurants, cafés and juice shops. Every Sunday a new list of items is released;

Loro, which just officially opened their first local spot this summer in Old East Dallas, has plans to open a second restaurant in North Texas early next year in Addison on Montfort Drive.

Parterre is a new cafe now open in downtown Dallas at 1601 Elm Street, in Santander Tower which has the big  WeWork logo on this side.

Sugar Factory opened in Uptown this past Friday with a kaleidoscope of theatrics in a made-for-Instagram space serving over-the-top food and drinks.

Heim BBQ near Love Field is closed for the time being after suffering a fire. The following message was posted to their Facebook page late Sunday evening.