Lakewood has a new neighborhood haunt: Hillside Tavern, where you’ll find a perfect patty melt.

Susie Guy rests on a worn-out stool at the counter, the barred windows obstructing traffic on Columbia Avenue, with a grilled cheese in one hand. It’s middle of the afternoon, and her kitchen hisses and hums in between service. The fry master drops a basket down of spiral-cut taters, and…

Our favorite bites – and heartwarming slider moments – from Between the Buns 2019.

Sliced pork hisses on the flat top. Mario Moya emerges from the kitchen in his own restaurant’s uniform: a firetruck-red cap, the letter “M” surrounded by a white circle on the crown and a red-collared shirt with the same logo. Moya’s got a classic mustache, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the…

About eight years ago, it was the gravitational pull of nostalgia that nabbed Dallas resident Eric Largent. He remembers the doughnuts and the chocolate milk on the walk home from soccer practice. Sometimes, his parents picked him up a bag of doughnuts. Food memories, the ones that surface most often,…

Everyone loves Half Price Books, but the Black Forest coffee shop — slinging German sandwiches and espresso inside the bookstore — is a gem, too.

The new Maple Landing near Love Field is a sports bar that wants to make you a burger, but you may be better off flying off to Maple & Motor nearby.

Deep Ellum’s best new happy hour burger lives at Shoals and will cost you a whopping $7.

You may have a question or two that needs answering. The first question, “Which one is the Bison Bar and Grill?” is easy: It’s the one with the life-size bison statue standing on the gate. The entrance is around back, facing away from the rush of Ross Avenue. The Scorpions’ “No…

Marco Vazquez smiles. He’s just finished plating a steaming double cheeseburger inside a plastic basket, sent it out to the quiet dining room, and he mentions that Flaming Burger is family-owned. It took a question or two later to determine that Vazquez, who calls himself the cook, is part of…

The mood is getting sticky at Mike’s Chicken. Just before high noon, the entryway swells with hungry customers. We are eyeing each other, twitching with anticipation in between orders. With each name that’s called out, the people who have been waiting, patiently or otherwise, blast lasers from their eyes in…

At Beef House, you know exactly what you’re getting.

Tracy Miller walks through her restaurant. It’s 9 a.m., hours before staff will arrive, which means the only other sound is our footsteps causing the 100-year-old wooden floors to groan. She wants to make it clear that she didn’t grow up wanting to run something like this. Running a quiet,…

For whatever the reason, it’s a quiet afternoon at Terilli’s. The first floor is missing diners entirely, each table dressed up with white tablecloths and a yellow rose in the center. The bartender is cutting limes and leans over the counter to tell a story: He’s having a strange day…

Like the origin of the moon and widespread reports across the country of a persistent low-frequency humming, one of Earth’s greatest mysteries is the calzone. How do we classify this Naples-born classic? Unless there’s been some botched science, it’s not sandwich. Is a calzone a taco? No. Maybe a calzone…

It’s a good day when you don’t have to quickly inhale a Starbucks breakfast. Maybe you’re on the road or trapped between rainstorms at the airport, but there’s always a dispassionate sigh that boils up when that Starbucks oven tower “dings” and a scalding, bland English muffin drops into a…

You’re familiar with this origin story: It starts when two people build something from the bottom up in their garage. They start by reverse engineering the concept, deconstructing the way it’s been done before, analyzing the method, then soldering and searing new parts together. There are wisps of smoke and misfires. In…

Five months after they opened, business went off the face of a cliff. The decline was a gut-punch surprise for owners Braden and Yasmin Wages. Malai Kitchen was their first restaurant, and good feedback met them right out of the gate. They’d traveled the world, enriched bowls of lip-smacking curries…

The bells on the front door jangle awake. The griddle crackles from hot beef fat, a sound that bests any jukebox on earth. It should be early. That’s when it’s best at Hunky’s: Be there right after the doors unlock for lunch. The sputter of rendered fat on a flat…

The challenge was elegantly simple: How do you toast the divot left in the crown of a hollowed-out bun? They asked themselves: Do we jet a flame right into the buttered dent? A top bun glazed in butter, the white bread’s sugars charred from grill heat, toasting until a blackened…

It’s hours of crafting, and you mustn’t use machines. For Sandwich Hag owner and chef Reyna Duong, meatballs are nostalgia shaped by hand into tiny planet shapes. As a kid, she orbited around her aunts and sisters, gathering the troops for a breakfast of torn shards of baguette, cilantro sprigs,…

It was around two years ago when David Haynes strode into work with UberEats on his mind. The business of kind strangers delivering food to our doorsteps was surging, much like it continues to do now, and the Stonedeck Pizza Pub owner had a need for speed. Pizza, it turns…