What would the world do without novelty burgers? They pop up all the time in Dallas. Earlier in the year, the Dallas Mavericks introduced the “Just-in Time” burger in honor of Justin Anderson, and it featured Old Bay-doused Texas Toast and a burger patty that’s easily the worst I’ve had…

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always loved meatballs. They are a perfect orb of food and a staple in my house growing up. Load them them in a pot with some onion and garlic, remove them, let fresh tomato sauce simmer and drop them back in. To…

Have you felt it? There has been an awakening. On Thursday at 11 a.m., just outside the Crescent in Uptown, there will be a disturbance in the burger force. Dallas will officially become home to the holy polygon of fast food: Whataburger, In-N-Out, Five Guys and Shake Shack. Among Shake…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, long-standing North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. On a late afternoon, after crawling through traffic past Bob’s Steakhouse and The Great American Hero, I…

I love being the first person in a restaurant when it opens in the morning. It’s especially satisfying to be the first to walk into a diner-style spot that’s got an open kitchen. A few reasons why: The music’s a little louder than it will be. Every seat’s open, your…

The only place you’ll find the burger listed at Lakewood Smokehouse, at least for now, is the chalkboard quietly propped up outside. I spotted it in the wild, like a camouflaged hunter, as I drove by on Abrams: Lakewood Smokehouse, sister restaurant to Frisco’s 3 Stacks Smoke & Tap House…

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 could be the worn-in wood, the potato salad or the unending coffee, but there’s an undeniable…

A couple of days ago, Deep Ellum Brewing Company posted on their Facebook page that they’re serving lunch now — a full menu that includes elote-covered tater tots, pizza, tacos and beer. After my car’s tires squeal in anticipation, I plop into the cool steel taproom. Little bar games are on…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, long-standing North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. It’s around noon at Barbec’s, and I’m overcome with a strange, uncomfortable feeling. I’m clutching the spiral…

There must be only a handful of diners left in America where you can smoke cigarettes right next to the open kitchen and read a newspaper. 2016 has made visiting timeless diners a very real need: It’s a year that makes hyperbole seem tame. How do you let off steam…

This burger was different a couple of years ago. In 2014, I stopped into Clark Food and Wine, then a recent addition to the ever-changing Greenville restaurant bustle, and had an interesting burger. A single grilled patty, topped with a disc of stained-glass crispy speck and house jardinera. It’s probably…

Texas Monthly is right: There has been a burger revolution since 2009. The humble American sandwich has grown superpowers. We’re living in the great burger age of 2016, where high-end cheeseburgers, some flecked with capers and blended with bone marrow, exist harmoniously with the roadhouse American cheeseburger. There are many…

I hadn’t felt it before, not truly, until last night. I’m twisting in the counter chairs in anticipation, ice-blasted mug full of root beer, old central air unit rattling above and it really struck me: Dairy-Ette is a Dallas treasure. I’ve been to the burger joint before. I’ve sat at…

Most of the burgers I eat in Dallas, and many of the ones I love, are cooked on the flat top. The hard sear, the fantastic crust that adorns a patty from a griddle is an attribute that transforms a perfectly good burger to a Ratatouille-level emotional bond. As George Motz…

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Ten Bells Tavern is a place to lick your wounds. We don’t know what the science is, but…

There are noticeable stages to burger disappointment. The first consists of the childlike giddiness that occurs in the moments before ordering a double cheeseburger. Like those of a kid putting a quarter into an old arcade game, hands preemptively tighten into a burger-holding grip (to simulate, form the letter “C”…

There are a few things to know about the burgers at Dallas Beer Kitchen before walking through the door. There are two. One burger has a nearly-raw jalapeño, sliced into a canoe and chopped into big pieces, that delivers a punch across the face like Indiana Jones with heat. That…

A great burger has returned. A few weeks ago, in the final hours before Midway Point closed down, the feeling inside the unpretentious sports bar just off LBJ Freeway was intensely bittersweet. Next door, In-N-Out Burger’s line swelled with cars. Midway’s menu, a sheet of Xeroxed paper, had items blacked…

I’m not one to argue over the necessity of having a burger on a menu on any restaurant, but here I am at Cafe Salsera, loaded up with a bunch of arguments. There are enough burgers in Deep Ellum to fill a Yeti cooler; do we need two more housed…