It was just about a year ago when Twin Peaks first made the announcement: The Dallas-based breastaurant group was getting into the beer-brewing business, riding on the heels of the craft beer movement that was inundating the nation in small-batch suds. The chain released two beers with the promise of…
Dallas is dotted with a number of exemplary taquerias — the ones that are worth a drive if you don’t live or work within walking distance, or even worth a trip on DART. A life-changing taco will only set you back a dollar and change, which is an investment worth…
Just like Oak and Pakpao, the two Aphelia Restaurant group restaurants that preceded it, El Bolero makes an exceedingly good first impression. There’s stone and tile work everywhere in the new Design District space, with each installation lending color and texture. The front patio is wrapped in cinderblock walls, with…
After a stint at Uchi in Austin, among other posts, Jeramie Robison took over as Shinsei’s executive chef in February, and like most new chefs he was careful not to make waves. The Pan-Asian restaurant has been courting a loyal customer base for close to a decade now, and to…
It’s the weirdest food story involving Dallas I’ve seen in a long time. Just a few hours after news broke that Revolver Taco would be closing, the owner Regino Rojas said that one of the most popular restaurants in Fort Worth would be resurrected soon afer. What’s better is –…
If Dallas were to get a most improvement award, it would definitely be awarded in the late-night eats category. Just a few years ago, your only options after midnight were sketchy tacos. Now your options are sketchy tacos that taste better than your previous sketchy taco options, plus a whole…
Like a brawny, gay version of breastaurants, Tallywackers will open in Dallas’ Oak Lawn neighborhood soon, flaunting scantily clad dudes who have obviously been spending more time at Crossfit than you have. There’s been some effort to brand this class of restaurants. Eater went with Dickstaurant, but I’m having a…
This Blue Bell recall has local ice cream fans skulking around the freezer aisle. Shelves have been cleaned of the company’s product as a voluntary recall counters a mysterious listeria contamination. You can’t get Blue Bell anywhere right now. I’ll admit, though, I’m having a hard time figuring out why…
Strip mall restaurants rarely make great first impressions, but the recently resurrected Mr. Max in Irving seems to go out of its way to ward off all but the most determined diners. The tiny restaurant is tucked behind a doughnut shop and a computer repair store in an under-lit and…
Earlier this week, Leslier Brenner, the food critic at The Dallas Morning News, took an indirect shot at her own food section when it paid tribute to Bisous Bisous’ muffin/croissant mashup. “How about a little originality?” Brenner grumbled. I get the grumble. When I visited Bisous Bisous last year, I…
A recent story in The New York Times tackles the the state of Mexican dining in New York. Authentic Mexican restaurants are overtaking the city, which would be great if they didn’t all suck. The Times points out that the chefs running these kitchens know little about Mexican cooking and…
When we first announced that Omar Flores was going to take on Matt McCallister at this year’s Dallas Observer Iron Fork event, the event was already shaping up to be a great one. El Come Taco had signed on as a participant for the first time, and some of my…
I spent nearly the entire month of January with the face-plague, and subsequently found myself in the line pictured above, outside Deep Ellum’s Monkey King Noodle Company, waiting for my chicken noodle soup. For some reason it was always raining, or at least cloudy, which somehow made receiving that steaming…
After what has seemed like a Texan-sized drought of restaurant openings, it seems like things are starting to pick up in Dallas again. Maybe it’s all of those blue bonnets that sprouted a few weeks back, or the honeysuckle that just began to perfume the streets recently, but Dallas seems…
I was having dinner recently with a couple who was planning to move in together for the first time. While sipping sake and nibbling on bits of fried things with chopsticks, we talked about the pleasures of boxing up belongings, dealing with rental trucks and movers, and because things always…
Welcome to Dallas, Yucatan Taco Stand (2023 Greenville Ave), though you’re not really a stand at all. You’re a full blown restaurant complete with a copper-clad bar, a spacious patio and enough tequila to erase any memory that you or any other taco stand ever existed, ever. See also: BBBop…
Yet another Trinity Groves restaurant opened this week. The culinary hatchery filled out the final space on the front of the main building, just past Resto Gastro Bistro, with a new taqueria called Sugar Skull Cafe. It’s the first restaurant in Trinity Groves to specialize in breakfast food alongside lunch…
The anti-tipping movement got a little more steam this week as an article in The Washington Post outlined the efforts of restaurateurs to abandon customer tips as a way to compensate restaurant staff. The recent coverage is significant in that the restaurants in question are moderately priced ones. Most of…
The PR machine behind Austin-based Uchi began beating the drums a little more loudly this week, even though the restaurant, which was first announced in May of 2013, still has no official opening date. A series of pop-up dining events were held Sunday and Monday in anticipation of a menu…
To the untrained eye, it might look like some sort of culinary concession. The Styrofoam container holds two tamales swimming in meat sauce that suspiciously resembles the chili ladled over enchiladas throughout Texas by the ton. There’s even cheese melted on the surface, and the whole thing would look right…
No, I didn’t stutter. It’s pronounced “bee bee bop,” and the restaurant will open its second location on Greenville Avenue next Monday. The first location has been chugging away further up Greenville Avenue, just past Lovers Lane. I stopped in for an evening snack in anticipation of next week’s opening…
The new face of Coke?Legislators in California and New York are currently considering warning labels for sugary drinks. If it sounds like overbearing nanny-state legislation — and if you live in Texas, it very well might — recall how warning labels have contributed in part to a massive reduction in…
