On the surface, Chelsea Corner is a bar that you know well: mini Uptown parking lot, lustrous design, pizzas, a patio that straddles outside and in, flat-screens above the bar. There’s a brilliant innovation in the men’s restroom: a metal grate below the urinal that leads to a steel drain…

The under-$10 burger is a dying breed in Dallas. Every week, a new sandwich emerges from the wild shouldering farm beef and craft whatnot that’s poised to topple the lists of cheap, simple burgers. The drop-dead-simple dive burger and the diner burger, the ones that you used to be able…

First, and this is important, the people at Hopdoddy did everything they could to make it good. They seared the Impossible Foods patty on the griddle, enough that it had a dark, crunchy crust. They cooked it to an exact “medium rare,” a blackened char gradient leading to rosy red…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. The beer mug emerges caked with frost. It lands on a coaster, breath coming off the glass…

Slater’s 50/50 has a spicy burger — surrounded by bacon, salsa, guacamole and cheddar cheese — that’s stuffed inside a flour tortilla and deep fried, doused in a Budweiser-infused cheese sauce, and hit with a scoop of sour cream, a few jalapeños and fried tortilla strips. It’s got the heft…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. They kept the lights low. The fake reindeer mounted above the bar, with Tabasco-red lights wrapped around…

Henk’s European Deli is the kind of place where you’ll find a story behind everything you eat. The crackling-skinned brats and sausages served by Adrian Winnubst, Henk’s son, are the handmade tradition of family friend Siegi Sumaruk, a sausage-maker from Austria. Sumaruk runs a little shop Tulsa and drives the…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. There’s no point in arguing: The best chicken-fried steak in Dallas is at AllGood Cafe. Piping hot and…

If you haven’t already, it’s time to pay attention to the burger situation in Dallas. Every week, it seems a new burger, whether built using farm-fresh Texas goods or good old-fashioned American cheese and shredded lettuce, arrives on our doorstep. Small Brewpub, for example, simmers the caramelized onions for its burger…

In the past few years, Deep Ellum restaurants have opened and changed as fast as a windstorm. We’ve recently been meat-knighted with Easy Slider, the brick and mortar of Dallas’ best burger truck, and the Damn Burger at Armoury D.E. is well worth the mild profanity in its name. Filament has a…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed – for the good or bad – over the years. Just after 9 a.m., Oralia Olguin presses her palms into a football-shaped wad of dough. She leans…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. You lose all sense of time inside Cosmo’s. Without any sense of urgency, three good-old boys sit…

Every week, it feels more official: Dallas has expertly somersaulted into the golden age of cheeseburgers. We’ve reached such a high point that enjoyable burgers can be found at restaurants that focus solely on fried chicken. Street’s Fine Chicken, a poultry-themed restaurant wherein a mural of American Gothic with chickens…

You may have a few questions as the Santana, one of Blues Burgers’ new burgers, arrives on its metal tray. Those questions likely include: “Why are they doing this to me?” or “What have you done?” or “Am I going to be OK?” Why so many questions? Because you’ve ordered…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. Everything you need to know about Angry Dog is in the nachos. The dish is a scatter…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed – for the good or bad – over the years. It may not be a well known instrument, but you can, in fact, measure time using provolone…

When it comes to designer burgers, a good one is a high-wire act. Add too many overwrought ingredients – and a high price – and you’ll end up with a pretentious sandwich that sends you running to the nearest In-N-Out. Too few ingredients and you’ll wonder why you’re dropping twenties…

The first bao to land in front of me is the Angry Bird. The chicken has been brined in soy sauce, peppercorns, salt, sugar, vinegar, tossed in follow-up marinade, then given a coat of panko and flash0fried. Dill pickles, the ones that like to sit in your fridge for months,…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed – for the good or bad – over the years. You don’t walk into Milo Butterfingers hoping for change. You come for the kind of sensation that…

There’s no question about it: Dallas in the midst of a golden age of the cheeseburger. Dallas burgers have become so great that it wouldn’t be out of line to suggest the city build a walk of fame and place marble and brass stars on it to honor the burgers…

One of the most upsetting things I’ve eaten in Dallas was a cheeseburger with Eggo waffles as buns. Like the Doritos Loaded, which was less food and more a melted, cheese-flavored crayon rolled in bird seed, it was clearly stunt eating. It’s not meant to be taken seriously or given…