Dallas taco festival Tacolandia is in its eighth year, and this year promises to be better than ever. Fest-goers will get access to unlimited tacos from a growing list of Dallas restaurants, including beloved taquerias like Resident and Trompo. General admission tickets are currently $25 — giving you unlimited taco…
You can only find Bingbox in one of two places: their original New York City location and their newest outpost in Dallas’ Trinity Groves. Do we feel that makes us special? Yeah, OK, a little bit. What’s truly special about this Korean shaved ice joint, though, is texture — their…
On a Sunday afternoon, Elm Street is clogged by cars. It’s just after 1 p.m., and the horns blast and the brake lights stutter. Sidewalks are flowing with people. Inside Shoals Sound & Service is an alleviating quiet. The bartender walks to the end of the counter, fiddles with the…
A British chef and his Dallas-native wife have opened an authentic fish and chips restaurant in Richardson: Fish & Fizz.
Few things can allay the malaise of Mondays, but we found a surprising chicken special that does. It may sound a little weird, but Velvet Taco’s backdoor chicken special happens to be the best cheap meal in the city on Mondays. It includes a whole rotisserie chicken fresh off the spit, a…
This list, we hope, dispels the notion that these establishments are dirty, greasy and cheap, yet instead shows how much hard work and even creativity can go into a corner store food counter.
Starting at 6:30 a.m. this morning with a chorizo breakfast taco at El Jordan, Dallas man Jon Daniel started off on his journey to eat at 48 Dallas taquerias in 24 hours — that’s one taqueria every 30 minutes for a full 24 hours straight. Why so many tacos in such…
We were excited to see that Street’s Fine Chicken threw some Limoncello in one of their new cocktails, Sissy’s Julep.
This year’s Dallas Observer BrewFest, in its eighth year, takes over the Dallas Farmers Market from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 with more than 70 breweries each sampling several of their beers. Some beers are brewed just a few blocks away, but you’ll spot national and international breweries,…
The Dallas City Council has made small changes meant to address the city’s poor restaurant inspection system.
A lovely Oak Cliff spot with a lovely menu expanded its sights to brunch last weekend, bringing waffles and Bloody Mary cocktails to Jefferson Boulevard. Small Brewpub was busy enough Sunday, in its first weekend of brunch service, that some of the after-church crowd was forced to brave the 100-degree…
East Hampton Sandwich Company was Dallas’ first foray into the world of “fine-casual” dining. Owner and St. Mary’s School of Law dropout Hunter Pond operates 10 locations of the upscale sandwich shop in Dallas and Houston, with more planned, as the company is growing at four locations a year -…
If you haven’t been to the Bishop Arts District in the last few months, you’ll likely be shocked at the changes — not just new restaurants but entirely new buildings sporting new-to-you businesses. Whether you see all the changes in Bishop Arts as good or bad probably depends on whether…
At 3:15 p.m. on a weekday, R&B is polished-clean and empty. It won’t be long. It’s a brief breath of air before the plunge: over the weekend, the night crew will sear oblong beef patties until 4 a.m. The first late-night service went fine. A surge of Dallasites showed up…
DFW Restaurant Week kicks off this Thursday in Fort Worth.
Fachini feels fancy, but the food doesn’t live up to the tuxedos.
Tapas Castile opened in Trinity Groves at the beginning of 2018, in the former Casa Rubia space. Co-owned by FT33 alumnae Jessica Kate-Martinez and Kendra Valentine, it is a “modernista” take on a traditional Spanish tapas bar, featuring local Texas products and proteins whenever possible. The name is a celebration…
In this week’s round-up of Dallas food news, Deep Ellum gets a new vegan grab-and-go spot that also serves local coffee, two high-profile Dallas chefs team up for a new pop-up and catering business, and travelers at DFW Airport may finally get the Whataburger they’ve been asking for: Oliver Peck,…
Meet Vanessa Sampson, whose company A Cake Maker has blown up, with celebrities like Cardi B commissioning extreme cakes from the Dallas cake-maker.
Now that we’ve successfully slogged through the first half of 2018 — a year filled with more Lime Bikes and Tide Pods than common sense, it seems — it’s time to look back and assess. OK, so maybe Dallas still hasn’t solved the affordable housing crisis or homelessness or that…
Approximately 150 yards north of the historic Rockwall downtown square, home to restaurants like Zanata and the Fatted Calf, is Bin 303, a family-owned tribute to Texas gastronomy. Owned by Mat and Breean Nugent, Bin 303 is the culinary brainchild of the two food industry pros. “I have a bachelor’s…
Midnight Rambler pays homage to the watermelon with their 1000W Thumper.
