Now in its sixth year, Smoked BBQ Festival has become one of the can't-miss food festivals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The pitmasters in attendance are a veritable who's-who of barbecue, not just from our area, but from all across Texas. If we ...

There’s nothing quite like the excitement of setting foot in a new restaurant for the first time. No matter the cuisine, hope shines most brightly in those first steps in the door, when the possibility of finding a new favorite is at its zenith. A...

Most of us have heard plenty about how great the economy is, but a glance of our bank account balances begs to differ. Sure, the C-suite crowd has probably seen some big gains in their investment portfolios, but for the rest of us not swimming in ...

Don't let our name fool you: Even though we're the Dallas Observer, we love nothing more than sharing great barbecue finds from all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And judging from our latest travels, Fort Worth is absolutely killing it in new ba...

People often assume being a food writer for the Observer comes with a laundry list of secret restaurant perks. High among them is a notion that we can get a reservation at any spot in town on the busiest of nights, followed quickly by the ass...

Every four years or so, Daniel Vaughn and his team of barbecue cohorts at Texas Monthly publish the TMBBQ Top 50, a veritable who's who in Texas barbecue. When the latest list was published in 2017, we were happy to report that DFW laid ...