In perhaps the most scrumptious sign that things will, in fact, get back to normal soon(ish), The State Fair of Texas recently put out the all-call for our craziest fried food concoctions. From now through March 31 they’re accepting applications from anyone interested in becoming a food or beverage vendor. The…
(Note: We’re revisiting some of Brian Reinhart’s picks for our annual list of Top 100 Dallas Restaurants to see how they’re faring in what we hope are the final months of the pandemic.) When the February snowstorm cut power at Joe Zavala’s house, he packed the kids in the car…
Very few positive things have come out of the past 12 months. Some hard lessons have been learned. Perhaps a few new hygiene habits could help us all stay healthier in the long run, which is certainly not a bad thing. However, there was one sparkly item highlight on the…
Winter months can be quite slow for restaurants, and with pandemic-related challenges continuing, we’re more likely to see closures than openings. Diners in Irving are mourning the loss of beloved Captain Nemo’s Steak Submarines, a presence in the city for nearly 50 years. Terra Mediterranean, home of a popular lunch…
It’s been 50 years since the home-cooking restaurant Celebration opened on Lover’s Lane, and while some things have changed with the times, others haven’t. After leading Dallas toward farm-to-table dining long before it was trendy, the restaurant continues to offer a rotating menu of fresh, local and sustainable food. Meals…
National Chili Day is today, and even if fake holidays are silly and winter’s bite left us almost as quickly as it arrived, it’s still a good time to eat a bowl of chili in Dallas. (In Texas, any day is a good day for chili.) I myself like to…
Last year when we met Brandon Howley at Happy Hollow Ranch in Willis Point, the birds were chirping, a red fox burrowed in the pasture and cattle hid from the sun under trees lush with leaves. Howley inherited this land from his tough-as-nails grandfather, former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley…
In a bit of good news, COVID-related hospitalizations are down. That means fewer people are critically ill. It also means that our frontline medical workers can perhaps catch a breather. Last October, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA-32 mandating that any Trauma Service Area (TSA) that had seven…
What’s comforting to you? Getting an aging parent a second dose of vaccine is pretty damn comforting these days, so I suppose it can change with the times. But generally, comfort food is tied to what you grew up with or a dish that reminds you of a feeling of…
CocoAndre, the family-owned chocolate shop in the Bishop Arts District, has been open for business only eight days this month. COVID forced them to close the last week of January, so they set their sights on every chocolatier’s busiest day, Feb. 14, to help pull them through the winter. “Then…
Despite a great crop of mudbugs last year, COVID-19 restrictions crippled the industry as a whole; restaurants were slapped with COVID mandates, and packaging the crustaceans to-go was difficult. Last March, crawfish producer Gerard Frey of Acadia Parish told the LSU AgCenter they were only able to sell 10 to…
To say it’s been a tough year for restaurants is putting it hysterically lightly. After a year of transitioning to COVID-19 mandates and all that entailed, to finally seeing a glimmer of hope with the vaccine rollout, only to being walloped by a weather event of historical proportions, which included…
During the worst winter storm Dallas has seen in decades, Facebook users found a way to use their love of food to help their neighbors. Since last year, Facebook groups created to promote local restaurants have been doing so with great success. When power outages made food and heat hard…
Just before Valentine’s Day, many Texans were giddier about the prospects of snow than flowers or chocolates. We checked weather apps hourly for reassurances that we would, in fact, this time see some serious powder. Oh, the bliss of our naivety. As the snow rolled in, the power grid failed,…
Just in time for National Margarita Day on Monday, Trinity Groves restaurant Beto & Son is launching a new liquid nitrogen margarita with some very special ingredients. “The Flora Liquid Nitrogen Margarita is a butterfly pea flower cocktail where Socorro tequila is steeped with herbs and berries that create layers…
One of the biggest differences between eating in Dallas and, say, Austin is Dallas’ relative lack of food trucks and trailers. Yes, our city has a few food truck parks, most notably at Klyde Warren Park. But if you’ve ever traveled to another city and enjoyed food trailers behind breweries,…
With many restaurants closed, lines at drive-thru joints stretched into the street and people huddled in the few open places with heat.
B. doughnut suggests, per their website, their pastries are, “Doughnuts for those who don’t really like doughnuts.” But I love doughnuts, on a molecular level, and I also love their malasadas, so it might just be a matter of expectations. Titi Phommachanh is originally from Laos. His parents immigrated to…
“Behind-the-scenes” isn’t a phrase you’d usually associate with flamboyant Food Network star Guy Fieri. But Fieri and his restaurants are literally behind the scenes as Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen rolls out ghost kitchens across the country with one already open in Southlake. The delivery-only restaurant operates out of Brio Italian…
For most of us, the idea that we could be turned away from a restaurant as soon as we stepped inside is inconceivable. Imagine taking a road trip knowing you were barred from most dining spots along the way and the consequences of trying to eat in public might be…
(Note: We’re revisiting some of Brian Reinhart’s picks for our annual list of Top 100 Dallas Restaurants to see how they’re faring in what we hope are the final months of the pandemic.) Falafel. Crab cakes. Buffalo wings. Paneer. Escargot. They’re the foods of half the world, and they have…
There’s no denying the appeal of Costco. The warehouse store has legions of loyal customers who gladly hand over $60 a year (or more) for access to the retailer’s wide variety of merchandise. We get it. Where else can you buy a month’s worth of toilet paper, tires for your…
