Josh Healy has only been chef de cuisine at Filament for a few months, but he’s already crafted one of Dallas’ most memorable burgers. It’s a double cheeseburger that tastes like the fast food burgers you wolfed in the car — the ones that never made it home from the…
Imagine something with me for a moment: A 300-pound lobster, grown by some mad scientist, standing upright and wreaking havoc through downtown Dallas, snipping light poles and knocking down street signs with its massive claws. That’s the image that popped in my head when I ate the Grand Mac. Why?…
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. Before you walk through the doors, you have to admire the tenacious spirit of Tupinamba Cafe. On…
It doesn’t seem likely when you walk in the door, but one of the Dallas’ great new burgers is at a White Rock cocktail bar that takes its design cues from the Marfa desert. Once you find parking in the small strip mall lot, there’s the unassuming door to Lounge…
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. Pietro Eustachio smiles as he looks at my plate of fresh fettuccine, tossed in a red tomato…
It’s time to let the grill go. This, dear friends, is the wondrous era of the griddle. The flat-top, or the griddle as you may like to call it, is a volcanic prairie of beautiful, long-seasoned metal, and it’s the best place to find hamburger that will change you. Many…
Inside Smoky Rose, walking past the woody patio, it becomes clear in a hurry: Smoky Rose knows how to put a spell on you. They’ve found a way to be instantly enchanting with the halo of Edison bulbs, neat and polished bar and clean white brick. It’s a “chic farmhouse,” apparently. After…
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. Things are easy-going at Dairy-Ette. On a wintery weekday, I’m sitting on one of their old stools…
There should be a real bell that chimes in the sky whenever there is exciting burger news in Dallas. The people should know. These days, before the restaurant bubble bursts, we might find the bell ringing out consistently and each day. For this news, there should be bells and doves…
The grill was gone. In 2012, Jeff Brightwell, who’d nursed many hangovers at Club Schmitz with a double cheeseburger, peeked through the window of the restaurant. Club Scmitz was gutted. Brightwell saw owners Bob Schmitz and his cousin Larry eating a box of chicken inside the plundered restaurant. A week…
It starts with a good roll. Every morning, Top Knot makes fresh Parker House-style buns. The result is a butter-sheened cloud with a delicately thin shell. With a few flakes of Kosher salt on top, you have one of the best damn bread bites in Dallas. You’ll find the roll…
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 feels like it changes every day, right before our eyes. The construction cranes whirl around in…
Let’s celebrate some hamburgers. It’s easy to feel pangs of despair: Dallas has lost some new classics, in a blunt way, right before the end of this year. Like something from Tolkien, Remedy’s super yet simple burger is sailing off into the Grey Havens. On the Lamb had a nearly…
For Lower Greenville’s understated little bar Dallas Beer Kitchen, it’s been a state fair-ride of a year. Early into 2016, the bar shut down after construction laced its way across Greenville Avenue. Five days after shutting down forever, it reopened with different owners but still plagued by the torn-up streets directly…
Let’s get this out of the way first: Spiral Diner does not have a vegan burger that mimics the taste of a beef and bacon burger. A good cheeseburger, topped with undulating, crispy bacon, lives in a different place along the spectrum of joy. You’re not going to take a…
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. For chef Brian Luscher, taking ownership of The Grape was like coming home. He’d been chef for…
Just under the radar, there’s been a whole lot of burgering going on at Armoury D.E. Every Friday for several weeks now, Elm Street’s Hungarian-inspired bar has released a new cheeseburger into the wild. They’re out there, roaming. There’s been a pulverized shrimp burger. Ham resting under the shade of…
In the corner booth behind me, an elderly man sits by himself and talks to a younger woman at the table across from him. He’s got his iPad out, propped up, and plays a video for her. They’re talking politics. “There was a time when different beliefs could get together,”…
One look at the menu and the awe-inspiring space, including a copper pizza oven that looks like it gave birth to C3PO and the stylishly illustrated wall of wine on tap, and you might think there’s little restraint at Sixty Vines. The menu promises a “cabernet-smothered local Akaushi patty,” caramelized…
Before any patty hits the griddle at Kitchen LTO, there’s plenty of work to be done. Cream, butter and vegetable stock bubble up in a pan before receiving shards of smoked cheddar, white cheddar and cream cheese. It’s kept at a very low temperature so it doesn’t burn on the…
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. Except for the hiss of the flat-top, it’s peaceful at Adair’s Saloon on a weekday. The jukebox…
Comfort is a buzz word right now. All over social media, brands are telling us what we need to survive right now: Exploding burgers or pizza pot pie or movies that don’t suck. But when the winter comes, if it does, one thing you need to do for yourself is…
