Legal Draft Beer Co. in Arlington has opened its taproom and patio, despite executive order GA-28 from June 26, which required all bars and breweries to close. Earlier this week in a post to their Facebook page, and several times since, they’ve explained their plans, starting with “Let’s hope this…
Good to go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Chef Tiffany Derry opened Roots Chicken Shak in 2017, serving all manner of things (chicken and fries, mostly) deep-fried in duck fat. A recent flurry of chicken sandwiches…
For July and August, we’re bringing Chilled to Go, weekly posts on the best things you can get for takeout to beat the heat. Walking through Legacy Hall in Plano is sort of an assault on the senses. It’s window shopping for the gut. The options are almost overwhelming: lobster…
Wednesday, Yelp released its Economic Average Findings for the second quarter of 2020, which analyzed user interest on their platform and, in part, compared it to COVID-19 cases. Yelp says it has compiled data over time to uncover trends “including a correlation between interest in restaurants, bars and nightlife and…
The sun had just dipped below the horizon. A car did a doughnut in a store parking lot, screaming and sending up clouds of white smoke into the thick air. Other cars headed north on Harry Hines Boulevard, inspired by the display, and suddenly gunned it to the next stoplight…
Cindy Pedraza of CocoAndré Chocolatier in Oak Cliff is used to business slowing down when the temperature rises. “Chocolate isn’t a big seller in the summer, so a while back we added horchata, then we added ice cream. My mom is always coming up with new things,” Pedraza said. Since 2009 she…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Dino’s Subs in Arlington is celebrating its 40th year in business this year. Over that time, many have grown up going to this sandwich shop and are now…
Colossal grasshoppers scattered in every direction, landing in the grass with heavy thuds as we cut through a pasture to take a look at cattle huddled in the shade of a wide oak tree. A fluffy, rust-colored tail flashed ahead of us, and a sly fox was hiding in the…
From Across the Pond has been serving English fare in North Richland Hills for more than a decade. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it hit them hard. “We literally did 99% of our business through dine-in,” owner Lee Herdman says. “Take-out was maybe 1% of our business.” “We used…
For July and August, we’re bringing Chilled to Go, weekly posts on the best things you can get for takeout to beat the heat. I could tell by the way they whipped their car into the parking space that they were on a mission. The driver had pulled in at…
Perry Eakles has worked at Gate 5 at the State Fair of Texas for the past six years, managing the flow of pedestrians, cars and handicapped parking. If you ask him, though, he’ll say it was mostly the flow of joy. Eakles was one of the final conduits between mundane…
Last week, 6th Street Business Partners LLC, a group of bar owners from around the state that includes Michael Klein, president of the Texas Bar and Nightclub Association, filed an application for a temporary restraining order against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. They want to prevent enforcement of his order that…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Blues Burgers wasn’t my first choice. Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que had been selling shoebox lunches, symbolic of oppression during the age of Jim Crow. I had intended to get…
The North Texas Food Bank recently began a collaboration with Amazon to deliver groceries directly to the doorsteps of families facing food insecurity. Two food bank partners, Crossroads Community Service and Sharing Life Community Outreach, provide and prepare shelf-stable groceries and prepackage the foods in boxes. Amazon then donates the…
There’s a segment of local bar owners who feel they are being unfairly restricted by Gov. Greg Abbott’s June 26 executive order that mandated they shut down. While restaurants are allowed 50% indoor capacity, outdoor seating, plus food and mixed-drinks to-go — several restaurants recently reported the latter has sustained their…
Feel like slipping into a pool of calm blue water, slipping your head underwater and muffling out all the noise? We get that. And while we might not be in our primest bikini shape — literally rolling out of the winter of COVID — who cares? Get outside in the fresh air, dive…
As a way to support local business, the Brewers Association has designated July 3 as National Independent Beer Run Day, which should be self-explanatory, but in case it’s not, it means you need to hit a craft beer drive-thru. There are around 70 independent breweries around North Texas, and now…
Yelp updated its Local Economic Impact Report June 25 and reported that from March 1 to late June, 23,981 restaurants across the United States have closed. Locally, it doesn’t seem like we’ve seen the full spate of closings yet. In many cases, it’s hard to determine if a restaurant is…
The Nashville hot chicken sandwich party has officially started in North Texas, and Red Claws Crab Shack is front and center in the mosh pit keeping things stirred up. (Does that concert reference hurt a little bit? It does for us, too.) Red Claws didn’t initially set out to crush…
Well, amazingly we’ve just about made it halfway through 2020. High fives all over the place. As we ease into the downhill side of this (please, can it be the easier downhill side?), when making plans for our Fourth of July parties, let’s focus on locally owned places. This is…
Friday morning, Gov. Greg Abbott snatched up the welcome mat to bars, which were ordered to close at noon that day as more COVID-19 cases surged across the state. Also, restaurants were required to go back to 50% capacity, down from the 75% at which they had been operating. However,…
Strange times, indeed. On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott hit the pause button on reopening the state and there’s also news of a Saharan dust cloud sauntering our way. Sounds like maybe we need to hunker down this weekend. Again. Pictures on Twitter portray hazy days in the Caribbean and layers…
