Next month, a Dallas bus tour will be rebranding in time for Black History Month. The Soul of Dallas Food and Black History Bus Tour will now be the Soul of DFW Food and Black History Bus Tour, expanding to include Fort Worth within the tour. The bus tour was…
With the new year comes some big news for El Centro College, as its Food and Hospitality Institute is becoming the Culinary, Pastry and Hospitality program. We’ll soon have more to report on the program that occupies the spaces of the former Le Cordon Bleu facility in Northwest Dallas, but…
Before Sandwich Hag was overtaken by severe popularity thanks to Bon Appétit, I went to this stand in the Cedars and got the same thing: a lemongrass pork banh mi. If I had a friend with me, add an order of the tofu spring rolls (with extra peanut sauce, because…
On Jan. 2, Stephan Pyles made a headline-grabbing, double-barreled announcement: He was retiring from the restaurant business, and his current ventures, Flora Street Cafe and Fauna, were closed effective immediately. Within mere hours, Fauna had found a new home and was back from the dead. Chef Peter Barlow, who oversaw…
I think we can all agree on a few things: The holidays can be stressful. Jobs are stressful. Not having a job is extremely stressful. Losing a job can be devastating. So, imagine the employees of Manny’s Uptown, who woke up on Christmas Eve to see that their place of…
After months of waiting and years of brewing beer in rented spaces, Manhattan Project Beer Company has a home, and it’s open to the public. Karl and Misty Sanford and Jeremy Brodt hoped to open their new brewery in October, but issues with city health inspections and permits caused weeks…
Queso Beso sounds like a funny restaurant name, like one you wouldn’t want to say out loud, but when entering this spot in the heart of the downtown, your focus can go elsewhere. The remodel of this space was executed well, bringing in an extreme amount of welcomed light compared…
Flora Street Cafe and its restaurant-within-a-restaurant, Fauna, are closed. The two restaurants, both owned by Dallas chef Stephan Pyles, are shutting down as Pyles retires from the restaurant business and moves into hospitality consulting, the company announced in a release Thursday afternoon. “It’s a bittersweet moment to be exiting the…
Let’s start with a game. Ready? OK: So, what would go in a drink called Dez Caught It? We’ll get back to that in a minute. First, a new pizza spot has opened in Uptown across from Christies Sports Bar & Grill, at 2916 McKinney Ave., in what was most…
For our most recent brunch, we stopped into La Reunion — that not-a-bar, not-a-coffee-shop, not-a-sit-down-restaurant place we recently wrote about. One immediate issue is by design, it seems: When one walks in, they don’t know where to go. You encounter a coffee bar, then you’re asked if you want to…
Celebrate the new year at the Farmers Market, where you can stop at 11 participating businesses to toast again and again. Ten of them will have alcohol, one will offer a non-alcoholic beverage. Ticket includes 11 drink fills and a souvenir glass. What: Dallas Farmers Market Drink Dash When: 6-8…
Dallas Proper opened on New Year’s Eve and is offering a spicy set of signature cocktails.
2019 was a triumphant year for the Dallas food business: We got national recognition, a bit of swagger, ambitious-yet-casual new restaurants and a whole new style of spicy dumplings. But 2020 can be even better. Here are five immodest suggestions for how various food-industry leaders can build on Dallas’ culinary…
We all know southern Dallas could use more restaurants, and it could absolutely use grocery stores selling fast food. I like to think we have people working on it (and I’ll just keep passive aggressively mentioning it in stories until they do). But there are some places serving good food,…
As we get ready for New Year’s Day, some people will make black-eyed peas, maybe some greens, possibly some ozoni soup. I, however, will be thinking of soup joumou. Two years ago, I was in Haiti for my second time, that time over the New Year, where I first had…
If there were a theme to Dallas restaurant openings in 2019, it was this: Good food comes in small dining rooms.
There are marshmallows you get in a bag at the grocery store — the kind you can smell through the plastic as you approach that section in the aisle. Then there are real marshmallows — the ones that make you realize there can be a real freshness to these creations,…
By the seventh day Popeyes completed their work, and they rested. The work had been done; the good news of a single sandwich’s return rolled through the air like thunder. The people clamored into the streets. Postmates drivers wept as dove-white smoke emitted from the Popeyes Basilica. The air filled…
Midnight Rambler’s holiday menu offers many festive cocktails to put a bow on 2019.
As we look back on 2019, from the food trends to the best burgers and the best new bars, we also consider what people read the most. While we may not be stoked about it, Popeyes is on this list (twice!). I’m thankful I met TC Fleming for a number…
Need an excuse to eat Tex-Mex? Nope, didn’t think so. But, let’s pretend you do. Late on Christmas Eve, employees closing up at Manny’s in Uptown smelled smoke and called 911. According to a report filed by WFAA, an exhaust fan in the lady’s restroom had sparked a fire that…
Beet salads, meat-and-cheese boards and grilled shishito peppers popped up on a lot of Dallas menus in 2019. But some bigger, broader trends also affected the way that we ate this year. Several were good, several were bad and others could go either way. Let’s break them down. Good: The…
