A few weeks ago, Scott Jones packed up his things and walked away from Jack’s Southern Comfort Food, blaming a kerfuffle over parking with the landlord and other tenants. Now an ambitious neighbor, Naina Srirathakul, who is busy opening her second Royal Cuisine by Naina next door, thought the space…
You need to get your art hat out tonight and head over to Deep Ellum Brewing Co. for craft beer and Crazy Pig, cuisine all in the name of sprucing up Dallas with unconditional love. The goal of the Dallas Love Project is to create 20,000 pieces of art that…
In the fall of 2012, we created a guide to North Texas craft beers. Less than one year later, it’s time for an update. Following is an at-this-moment current-yet-still-ever-evolving guide to North Texas craft breweries. Breweries are listed based on the dates they were established, which is based on when…
No one ever said running a business for more than 50 years means you get to keep the name. Longtime Dallas pizzeria Pizza by Marco has to change the name of all of its restaurants to My Family’s Pizza due to a little trademark issue. Frank Nuccio, son of the…
As we wind up summer, let’s work a few dinner parties into our busy days. Following are three upcoming events from several of Dallas’ favorite chefs and brewers to consider. Party at Fearing’s Place Dean Fearing loves a good party, and he’s throwing a little bash at his namesake restaurant,…
There are at least 98 reasons why we’re excited about Glazed Donuts Works in Deep Ellum (2644 Elm St.) opening this Friday, but each one of these reasons is worth 27 Weight Watchers points, and since we drink a lot of our points, rationing for doughnuts puts us off-grid. So…
Since everything needs its own day, week and month — today alone it’s national rice pudding day, apple week, and catch fish, peach and brownies-at-brunch month — this week we’ve all been asked to celebrate farmers markets. That’s a noble cause, so we’re all in. Aren’t we? Yes. We are…
Fields in Hatch, New Mexico, are bright green and prime for picking. The small farming town tucked in the southwestern corner of the state (population 1,648) has become famous for its green chiles, which are a variant of the Anaheim pepper. For decades the town has hosted a Hatch Chile…
Bon Appétit has released its list of America’s 50 best new restaurants, and for the second year in a row two local restaurants are on the list. Last year, Oak and Time Love’s Woodshed got the nod. This year, Matt McCallister’s FT33 and John Tesar’s Spoon both received accolades. Andrew…
Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare are the proprietors of the little hot spot in East Dallas, Mot Hai Ba, as wells as Good 2 Go Taco. Their culinary trail winds far and wide through the Dallas landscape. Collectively, the pins on their map include Ciudad, Daddy Jack’s, The Standard in…
The shopping, dining and entertainment development Mockingbrid Station is hosting fundraiser for the late Kidd Kraddick’s Kidd’s Kids Foundation, which raises money to send chronically or terminally ill children and their families to Disney World. The development is selling tickets to a three-restaurant tour that will include a special menu…
Surely Shimond Bradley, chef and operator of The Crazy Pig food truck, didn’t invest his time and money into Johnson and Wales University for a culinary degree to work in 120-plus degree heat in a virtual hot box for slim wages and a never-ending workload. Or maybe he did. Bradley…
I picked up a tip from the Barefoot Contessa once about allowing ice cream to melt just a bit — or a lot if you want a really easy dessert sauce — prior to indulging in a scoop. Yes, cold is the essence of ice cream, but ice cream that’s…
In late July, a swarm of bees attacked Kristen Beauregard and her two prize miniature ponies in Pantego, a small township near Arlington. Some 300,000 bees had built a hive inside of a shed on Beauregard’s property. Pantego city officials have confirmed that the bees in the attack were of…
Last week the Brewers Association reported that during the first half of 2013, Americans purchased some 7.3 million barrels of craft beer, up from 6.4 million over the first half of 2012. Overall dollar sales and volume were up 15 and 13 percent, respectively. All of this despite decreased overall…
Been to Louie’s lately? You know the place: bad parking, cash and AmEx only, expensive cans of beer, potentially surly waitresses and all that other fine stuff. Customers just either get the hole-in-the wall spot or they don’t. Whether or not you like cracker-like pizza crust and flavors (both culinary…
The road to pancakes isn’t as flat as you think it might be. Mark Davis Bailey, owner of the six area Original Pancake Houses (OPH), has had an enlightening journey to the restaurant business involving gymnastics, architecture, Epcott Center, Jakarta, a grass roots investment club and being confronted about sub-par…
Keep your eyes peeled for the McKinney-based beer Franconia on retail shelves this weekend. Bottles of their Kolsch, Dunkel and Wheat have already been delivered to some 350 locations throughout North Texas, including Lonestar Beverages, Central Markets, Spec’s, Total Wine, Sigel’s and Whole Foods. Franconia is one of the veterans…
Earlier in the week, Scott shared news about Lakewood Brewing Co.’s birthday party this weekend. Founder Wim Bens has been planning this for a while now and has a few special barrels set aside for the event, just in case everyone gets thirsty out there at Goodfriends on Sunday. Bens…
It was just last fall that we met Scott Jones of Jack’s Southern Comfort Food on Lower Greenville. After a decade-plus in the Dallas restaurant scene, Jones put his soul into opening this restaurant, pulling from dishes that he grew up with and adding to it his vast experience in…
Oak Cliff is about to get another craft brewery. Noble Rey Brewing Company recently signed a lease at 1400 E Jefferson Blvd near I-35. Chris Rigoulot is the founder and head brewer. He’s been around home brewing all his life — his father was a big fan of the craft…
James Jeffers stands in front of a house in Oak Cliff spraying jets of water onto a large garden carved out of what was once a solid mix of St. Augustine grass and weeds. Along a quiet residential street otherwise lined with thick green lawns, the brown plot of upturned…
