Amsterdam Bar fans were allowed barely a week to mourn the loss of one of Expo Park’s more iconic bars. Developer Madison Partners LLC announced this week that it’s landed new tenants in Ten Bells owners Meri Dahlke and Michael Hickey, who will open Eight Bells. This is a huge…
No, not the molten-hot processed cheese-food-liquid queso. Quesa is the new restaurant that opened last month on Cedar Springs Road in the Oak Lawn neighborhood. It offers tacos served on freshly made corn tortillas — the flour tortillas are purchased pre-made — and lesser-known quesas. It’s the quesas that got…
If this corner on Henderson Avenue is known for anything, it’s raucous nightlife. Beauty Bar, Gin Mill, Barcadia and others slather young drinkers with alcohol while playing loud music, night after night. But while the young and drunk bump and grind, and giant Jenga towers tumble under the influence, two…
The first time I called Mike Goldfuss at his Collective Brewing Project Brewery, he was busy setting up one of his tanks. The second time I called, he spoke to me while handling Fed Ex deliveries and wrestling with a computer to check on beer deliveries. Novice brewers take note:…
Rex’s Seafood is spreading its fins, filling the streets of DFW with the smell of freshly steamed seafood and placing Dallas under siege by lobster roll. The Dallas Farmers Market will be the site for one location. Rex’s will plate up sandwiches and other casual fare amongst the tamales, roasted…
If you think this recent spate of cold weather is inconvenient as you bolt from your front door to your car, be glad you’re not a peach farmer. The recent unseasonably warm weather followed by snow and freezing rain has area farmers scrambling to protect their coming harvest. Stone fruits…
Talk about public-service journalism: Bloomberg is shining a spotlight the lobbying efforts of big pizza makers, some of which are based in DFW. Pizza Hut, for instance, spent nearly $700,000 supporting campaign efforts during the last two elections, 99 percent of which went to republicans. The mega chain joins other…
I didn’t leave for Marfa with the highest expectations when it came to dining. Recommendations for art exhibits and hot springs and other attractions fell out of every face I told I was headed to the tiny West Texas town for vacation. When I asked where to eat, they mostly…
Time has been unkind to purveyors and fans of freshly mixed sodas and malts. Most soda shops have closed, beaten to death by decades of increased rents and changing tastes. What’s left always seems to come up flat — a collection of short cuts and cheap ingredients dumped together into…
The Buzzbrews planned for the old Mecca space on the corner of Skillman Street and Live Oak is expected to open around the end of March. If The Mecca’s performance was any indication, the folks at Buzzbrews will have their work cut out for them. The Mecca came to East…
“I just want basic security doing what I love and want to share. Peace-out — Spice” That was the last line of the final message I’ll ever receive from Tom Spicer. Looking at it now, it seems as fitting as it does eerie…
The creators of Company Cafe and Dallas’ beloved gluten-free chicken-fried steak have decided to take on smoked meats. They opened Back Home Barbecue on Ross Avenue earlier this month in the old Yin’s Wok space, and I checked it out this week. The building has been spruced up but spared…
The list of food things that could potentially be harmed by increased carbon emissions is growing, and the latest addition really hits where it hurts. A new report in Nature Climate Change suggests oysters, mussels and other delicious bivalves could be threatened by the carbon we keep pumping into the…
I haven’t seen this face in a while. I tell my waitress I want the “loud puppies,” an almost-funny take on hush puppies that uses jalapeño to turn up the volume. She grimaces, subtly. Without saying a word her message is obvious: Don’t order the loud puppies. I get the…
New York state’s wage board wants the state to hike the base wage for tipped employees to $7.50 an hour by the end of the year, part of an almost nationwide push to help servers, bartenders and other employees who count on tips for a significant portion of their income…
Pop Diner opened to significant fanfare a little more than two years ago. The space was filled with Lichtenstein-esque prints and head shots of pop stars. The walls were bright red, the music was loud and the place was open 24 hours. It was just the sort of diner Uptown…
I still remember my first trip to Pera Turkish Kitchen in Far North Dallas. Four of us were piled in the car, headed up Preston Road, and I was salivating already, based only on food-blog scraps. I’d read that Habip Kargin and Serdar Sensel, the half brothers who own the…
After 25 years, the popular Highland Park Village location is closing
On the corner of Meadows and the Central Expressway, in the same plaza as Tom Thumb, a neat and tidy Tex-Mex restaurant opened at the end of last year. You might think the last thing Dallas needs is yet another Tex Mex restaurant, but open the door and you’ll find…
Dish has been serving as a Jack-of-all-trades restaurant on Cedar Springs Road in Oak Lawn since it opened in 2011. After work, the cocktail set comes in to throw back high octane drinks and obliterate bad memories from the workday. Some of them stay for dinner, one of the better…
John Tesar’s new publisher, Flatiron Books out of New York, just announced they’ve purchased the publishing rights to his upcoming book. Knife: Modern Steak and All American Meats is due out in the spring of 2017. Josh Ozersky has been tapped to help Tesar with the writing. You may recognize…
Earlier this week, I visited Houndstooth for a cup of their carefully prepared coffee. A barista walked me through various beans and their flavor profiles, and then I watched as he made my coffee, using a scale and an espresso machine that cost as much as some cars. The resulting…
