Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 7: Mughlai

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. My go-to recommendation for Indian dining in Dallas has always been Mughlai. If…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 8: Brick & Bones

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Over the past few years, young entrepreneurial cooks usually settled on food trucks…

Armoury D.E.’s Csavargó Proves Sandwiches Can Still Surprise

The Csavargó is the kind of sandwich that could anchor a restaurant, but unless you’ve ventured into Deep Ellum lately, you’ve probably never heard of it. In fact, if you haven’t been down there since spring, you likely wouldn’t recognize the neighborhood, thanks to all the bars and restaurants that…

Dallas’ Local Beer Scene Blows Up BrewFest

Remember when BrewFest was something called Brew at the Zoo? I know, the memories are somewhat hazy for me too, but if I search the recesses of my brain for recollections I find pink flamingos, dancing women dressed up like zebras and a lot of big box beer. What I…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 9: Mr. Wok

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Peking duck has a pretty bad reputation. Chinese restaurants have done the dish…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 10: Uchi

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Uchi might be offering the most dynamic cooking available in Dallas right now…

BrewFest is Here!

We warned you earlier this summer that this would happen. If you haven’t picked up tickets to BrewFest and you were hoping to score VIP you’re out of luck. They’ve sold out. This is sad news if you’re not holding a premium ticket right now and you’re hankering for some…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 11: Rapscallion

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. When you walk through the door, you’d never think Rapscallion was the sort…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 12: Tei-An

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. While many restaurants have come and gone at One Arts Plaza, Tei-An has…

Uchi Has Your Wallet in Its Sights

Uchi, Dallas’ newest and most aspiring sushi restaurant, offers plenty of ways to enjoy a meal filled with inventive and exciting Japanese food; you just need to decide how much money you’re willing to part with. Not ready to take out a home equity loan? Come during happy hour between…

Magic Cup Has More Than Boba Up Its Sleeve

Bubble tea is in the midst of a beverage takeover. Nearly every strip mall in the suburbs has a shop that specializes in plastic cups overflowing with the stuff. Frozen yogurt companies have jumped into the game, too, adding the sweet beverages to their already saccharine lineups. Magic Cup is…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 13: Bambu

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. The best bites served at Bambu are the ones you have to assemble…

The 10 Most Useless Vegetables

When I was a kid I shared the same distrust of broccoli held by most children. Broccoli smelled a little like flatulence when you steamed it, was squishy and tasted slightly bitter. And while Velveeta did the vegetable a great service with its “melts better than cheddar” commercials, I couldn’t…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 14: Lucia

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. One of my favorite seats in Dallas is one of the four stools…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 15: Knife

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. For the longest time in Dallas (and everywhere, really) steakhouses followed a very…

What it Takes to Sell 50,000 Carrot Cake Rolls

Christi Erpillo’s life has been a bit of a whirlwind since winning this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards at the State Fair of Texas. Her Holy Moly Carrot Cake Roly took top honors, imparting a great deal of responsibility on the fair vender. Winners can be expected to sell nearly…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 16: Joyce and Gigi’s

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. The intersection of Ross Avenue and Hall Street have changed a good deal…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 17: Zaguan

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Zaguan is an interesting restaurant and café for many reasons, but the best…

Rapscallion Takes Southern Food to New Places

If you scored an 800 on the verbal side of your SAT, you might know that “rapscallion” is an archaic term used to define a mischievous character. The rest of us are glad the Oxford English Dictionary is still available for free online. Without some help, we’d be forced to…

Royal Blue Grocery to Open in Highland Park Village

The Highland Park Village’s Tom Thumb location has been long gone, but the replacement grocery remained a mystery until yesterday when  Austin-based Royal Blue Grocery announced they would open in the renovated space. The grocery is expected to open in early October. While Royal Blue Grocery is based in Austin,…