The grocery landscape in Dallas is changing. As big-box stores expand, major grocery brands increasingly offer services like delivery and curbside pick-up, eliminating the need for some to visit grocery stores altogether. Cities north of Dallas are expanding, bringing in the major national brands needed to sustain a growing population, but…
Chef Taylor McCreary never made it to Deep Ellum to devour one of the city’s best sandwiches, and, technically, he never will. He’s been piloting the kitchen at the Braindead Brewing for a month since the departure of former chef David Pena to Goodfriend, around the same time Commerce Street…
It’s the 32nd annual Taste of Dallas, and while the venue has changed (it’s now at Gas Monkey Live), not much else has. It’s still three full days of food and drink sampling from more than 50 restaurants and food trucks, and live music to boot. General admission tickets can…
Opening a new themed bar and pizza restaurant can be quite an adventure. Uncovering a secret Easter egg can upgrade it to the Atari 2600 video game classic Adventure. The crew working on the new Regeneration Arcade Bar and Pizzeria on Dallas Parkway just north of Addison uncovered a floor…
The attempted reinvention of Victory Park continues. A week after the opening of Tracy and Kent Rathbun’s Imoto come details of a new restaurant opening in the neighborhood June 28: Billy Can Can. “The 4,800-square foot, 145-seat restaurant — a vibrant interpretation of a high-end late-19th-century Dallas dining saloon —…
It begins — as it should at your local bar — with cold beer. About seven years ago, the idea of what food would be served out of the White Rock kitchen was a question mark on a whiteboard. Whiskey and cheeseburgers, and the runners who would hustle the burgers…
You’re only three steps out of the car when the smell of barbecue smoke hits your nose at Panther City BBQ — possibly fewer, depending on where you park. It’s the olfactory signal that lets you know you’re in the right place. Barbecue fans familiar with this side of DFW…
One might not expect a speech-language pathologist and an architectural engineer to be the kind of people placating the Southern sweet tooth, but Scott and Meredith Layton did just that when they opened Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop. Knoxville, Tennessee, is home to the couple’s first shop, but you’ll find their…
So much can change in a year, especially in Dallas. And since Dallas loves a good rooftop patio, we thought we’d breathe some new life to last year’s article about the new rooftop patios for boozing, schmoozing, and viewing that popped up in the last year. And since we never second guess ourselves, we’re doubling down with the full list of badass rooftops from last year’s article. Happy patio season, y’all.
Let’s face it: It’s summertime, it’s hot as hell and we’re not really all that invested in this so-called work thing right now — but we are invested in finding sweet new spots to while away the long summer days. Do just that at one of these new Dallas restaurants…
In this week’s round-up of DFW food news, one of the area’s biggest breweries sells to an Austin company, another brewery shutters, new restaurants are coming to West Dallas and more. Deep Ellum Brewing Co. had big news this week: The brewery has been sold to Austin’s Canarchy Craft Brewery…
There are a handful of great ways to sample the radiant food — an array of new and old mainstays that glow brighter than any fill-in-the-blanks fried food — throughout the suburbs of North Texas. One road to finding the best food in the suburbs of North Texas is to…
It’s only been open a year, but the number of culinary arts students at Dan Dipert Career and Technical Center in Arlington has tripled. The program kicked off with 61 students, says Culinary Arts teacher Alyce Monroe, but that number has swelled to 151 for next school year, plus the…
Enjoy this whiskey and beer cocktail at Brooklyn Brewry’s Beer Mansion this weekend.
There are only a few occasions when drinking at the bar in the morning is considered an appropriate thing to do: at brunch, at an airport, tailgating and watching soccer. Lucky for you, the 2018 World Cup kicks off Thursday in faraway Russia, and the viewing times aren’t too absurd…
In one of Uptown’s shiny, newer buildings, you’ll find another shiny, even newer restaurant offering brunch. Doc B’s Fresh Kitchen, a national chain, has clean lines in design, plenty of natural light filling the small dining room and abstract art adorning the high walls near the ceiling. It also features…
Leave behind your beer shack (i.e., your home) for a few hours and live like a beer king at Beer Mansion. This two-day event encompasses local music, pop-up vendors, arcade games and, as the name implies, lots and lots of beer sampling. Participating breweries include Brooklyn Brewing, Braindead Brewing, Lakewood…
It’s been 18 months since it opened, and we’re still thrown for a loop when it comes to Smoky Rose, the chef-driven barbecue spot across from the Dallas Arboretum. If it’s the barbecue basics you crave, we found the ‘cue at Smoky Rose to be spot-on during our first visit…
Zaytinya, the new Turkish kitchen in Frisco from celebrity chef José Andrés, is the kind of restaurant where two tables can order completely different things and come away with vastly different opinions. A table that gets lucky will love their meal and tell all their friends; a table that guesses…
Consider the power of the Popsicle. For many, touching one to their lips sends the pitter-patter of childhood nostalgia racing straight to the heart. Its icy coolness instantly refreshes and shields the heat-weary Texan from the unrelenting summer swelter. To boot, it’s one of the most democratizing desserts there is…
Wanna spend an evening at Dallas Farmers Market sampling from a selection of more than 500 local, national and international craft beers? Of course you do, which is why it’s time to start planning for the eighth annual Dallas Observer BrewFest, taking over the market on Sept. 8. General admission…
Dallas health inspections are broken. The system suffers from arcane city rules that prioritize routine inspections over revisits to failing establishments, leading to rampant grade inflation, manipulation of data in the public-access database, and budgets that fail to cover new technology or keep up with the booming local restaurant industry…
