There are so many burger options in Dallas you could spend half a year working your way through them. The problem is, most of them are forgettable, and many are downright bad. Taking that first bite into a perfect burger can be a transcendent experience, but first you have to…
This is getting weird: That was my first thought as the plate came in for a landing. It looked like a pâté rolled inside a boneless tube of chicken and sliced into thick discs. A plump ravioli was perched on top of each round, mimicking a cartoonish mushroom, and fried…
Cucina Neighborhood Italian, the Preston Center red-sauce restaurant that operated in the former Mi Piaci space, has closed. The restaurant opened in early 2014 after the months-long tenure of its predecessor, but was unable to capture the heart of neighborhood locals. Probably because it was bad. The cavernous restaurant, which…
Spice in the City opened in the super-swanky Dallas Power & Light building downtown this week, offering a trim menu of classic Indian dishes. You have to enter through the apartment lobby and walk toward the back of the building — there is no sidewalk storefront — but once you…
La Ventana, the downtown taqueria that’s piggybacked off the popular Mexican restaurant Meso Maya, is growing, with plans to open two additional locations in the Dallas area. The first will be located at the Farmers Market, where La Ventana, along with three other yet-to-be-announced restaurants, will do their best to…
A new report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee says what we’ve been thinking about cholesterol is all wrong. Don’t get too excited — fatty meats and dairy are still no good, but we may be standing at the dawn of the age of the egg…
Catherine DownesLike this, but with pepperoni. If Khanh Nguyen is known for anything at his pho restaurant DaLat, it’s his rampant and sometimes unconventional creativity. This is the person who decided to serve ceviche on Doritos, turn egg rolls inside out and serve mimosas made with Tang. Bowls of soup…
Based on the first news to trickle out about C’viche, I was expecting the bar to play significant role in the place’s vibe. The restaurant was supposed to have plenty of tequila, rum and cachaça for mojito’s margaritas and other cocktails. It was meant to evoke the wonders of Baja…
The latest trend to engross the health-conscious is bone broth, and it’s showing up in health and organic stores and trendy restaurants in cities across the country. New York, Washington D.C. and Portland have been overtaken. Stories about the purported benefits litter the Internet. So much bone broth has been…
I’ve always enjoyed crispy tacos, but I’ve been obsessed since I devoured that trio of perfect specimens out on the patio at Luna Cocina. Since then, I’ve been chipping away at Tex-Mex menus all over Dallas, looking for crispy tacos with flavorful fillings and shells with a satisfying crunch. My…
It seemed like a gutsy play: Eureka!, a California restaurant chain, recently opened a location in Dallas, a land where restaurant owners love the word “scalable.” Even more brazen: The restaurant specializes in burgers, and hopes to out-patty the state that practically invented the cow. Step aside Hopdoddy, Liberty Burger,…
The foreseeable forecast frequently climbs past 70 degrees, with bright and sunny skies. That means it’s time for extended patio drinking, in the middle of February, just the way God and Phil Romano intended. At Romano’s Trinity Groves restaurant utopia, the massive continuous patio that spans the front of the…
You may (or may not!) remember Club Schmitz. Everyone was talking about, blogging about and drinking inside the friendly dive last year as it served its last beers. Now, it’s all but forgotten. See also: Club Schmitz, One of Dallas’ Best True Dive Bars, Could Get Gobbled by RaceTrac I…
Central Standard was one of the several restaurants owned by a company called Restaurants-America to open in Dallas and close not long after. Primebar, Park Tavern, Townhouse Bar + Grill, Boca Chica, Mockingbird Taproom — they all went down. Apparently they’re not doing so well in Chicago, either. Central Standard…
I always feel a little out of place at brunch, if only because it’s a ritual I rarely indulge in. But when our plates hit the table at Meddlesome Moth recently, I felt downright awkward. Heavy, meaty breakfast dishes surrounded me, including a short rib hash just down the table…
During winters in Chicago, Al’s hometown, it’s customary to use foods to stave off depression and to pad out bellies for warmth. The go-to food: the Italian beef sandwich. At Al’s, like at any decent shop, Italian beefs start with beef roasts. They’re suspended over pools of steaming liquid, which…
My one and only experience with salsa was a traumatic one: I was on a date with a woman who wanted to take lessons at a bar in Washington D.C. They got us drunk and guided us through a progressively difficult set of dance maneuvers. I could handle the basic…
I started with the best of intentions. After scanning the Internet for factoids about Fat Rabbit, the new gastrowhatever that opened in the old Sfuzzi place on McKinney Avenue, I walked in prepared to order some falafel sliders and a salad — you know, some real rabbit food. But there…
It’s a little hard to find, but find the new J. Crew on McKinney Avenue and, with any luck, your nose will lead you the rest of the way. Bisous Bisous, a tiny West Village patisserie, opened for business this week, and the exhaust fans are perfuming the streets and…
Some restaurants are so wine focused that they employ someone solely to procure, store and serve hundreds, if not thousands, of bottles of the stuff. Other restaurants place such value on cocktails that they’ll bring in a consulting bartender to design their drink menu, if they don’t hire a full-time…
Last Fall, the Dallas area got its very first Vertskebap. The doner kebap chain, based in Austin and spreading across Texas like a brushfire, opened a location in Addison, alongside the Flying Saucer, Gloria’s and a slew of other restaurants in that maze of a development called Village on the…
Red velvet and coffee macaroons, gold-dusted chocolate pot de crème, miniature vanilla bean cheese cakes: these are just a few of the desserts Gianni Santin and Tida Pichakron have been inadvertently using to tease potential customers at their Trinity Groves bakery. The pair opened Haute Sweets Pattisserie, a catering kitchen…
