All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. The wax paper carrying the tater tots is translucent. Grease spatters the bottom of the brown paper…
In a city laden with fried chicken, Mike’s Chicken may strike the most perfect balance of crispy skin and succulent meat. Other chickens are too often spoiled by dryness, but the birds at Mike’s are so moist and juicy, they nearly have the texture of a whitefish but with all…
We’re all guilty of it: revisiting the same neighborhood coffee shop so frequently, the baristas start your almond milk vanilla cappuccino before you’ve even stepped in the front door. There’s nothing wrong with that — gotta support your local caffeine slingers — but if you’re looking to shake things up…
It’s easy enough to miss Top 5 BBQ if you pass through DeSoto. What started as a backyard smoker serving smoked meats to the neighborhood soon grew to a food truck and now occupies a modest storefront in a strip mall adjacent to DeSoto’s City Hall. But driving past Top…
Three men walk into a Whataburger and spend $70 on food. It sounds like a joke, but it happened in Huntsville recently, and the men — professional comedians — were not kidding. That’s the thing about the Doughboys. They take America’s chain restaurants seriously. Doughboys is a podcast that mixes…
Thomas Locke, 35, hopped around to different jobs until finally finding his calling. It’s not a high-paying corporate job or a gig bringing him fame, but he gets to hang around cows. “I went to Austin College up in Sherman,” he says. “I just had no idea I was going…
The charcoal lights around 10 p.m. Just off Main Street, on an open-air patio that borders Monkey King Noodle Co., alongside thumping bars and piles of fallen leaves, a keyboard-sized grill glows lava-orange. Steam dances out, nearly spelling out the words in vapor that you’re imagining when you whiff the…
Eureka! put douglas fir and all the best bar things into one cocktail with their Gingerbread Man Old Fashioned that is once again available at their bar as of yesterday.
If ever a meal were a conveyor of exclusivity, brunch is it. Farha Ternikar, a sociology professor and author of Brunch: A History, speaks to brunch’s earliest incarnations as being draped in the same fine silks of elitism that we see in our modern iteration of this post-breakfast, pre-lunch meal,…
Citizens of this great city, the state of our beef union is strong, but it has been a madcap year for the cow. We’ve lost and we’ve gained. We’ve torn down the new, and, in a breath, boarded up the old. Only the vegan may be blissfully unaware of this…
Victory Park is in the process of building eight new restaurants slated to open in 2018, and the neighborhood just announced two of the latest: Imoto, “an Asian kitchen and bar” from Tracy Rathbun (Shinsei, Lovers Seafood & Market) and a wine bar called Burgundy Swine. Via a press release: Imoto,…
What takes 180 pounds of powdered sugar, 60 pounds of egg whites, 15 pounds of butter and 48 hours? The crafting of the Ritz-Carlton’s 12 Days of Christmas gingerbread castle, of course. The castle will be revealed Thursday to an adoring and well-fed crowd; complimentary cider, mulled wine and desserts…
For chef Jeff Biehler, there was a simple reason for adding a burger to a poultry-themed menu: Customers asked for a dish that wasn’t entirely bird, and the kitchen listened. Oak Cliff/West Dallas food playground Chicken Scratch has been focusing on hulking, patio-style, fried chicken and biscuit sandwiches since January…
Last week, the Dallas coffee scene got a tiny new addition: a solar-powered Houndstooth Coffee shop at Walnut Hill Lane and Central Expressway. The cafe is in what are essentially two tiny houses designed by Lake Flato, an Austin/San Antonio company that specializes in sustainable architecture. In the main tiny house…
Last year, the first Dallas Observer brunch festival the Morning After was a hit — such a hit that the festival sold out weeks before the event. Now it’s back, and Dallas brunch fans who want a taste of the fun can snag tickets early in a presale that begins…
It’s happening beneath your feet. You’re standing in line at The Commissary, eyeing the glossy candy apples painted like they were plucked out of a dark fairy tale. Underneath your feet, there’s a frosty basement. You won’t get to see the basement, but one afternoon, we did. Clean, cold air…
At the busy intersection of Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs, The Centrum building has been in the midst of major renovations. As part of those renovations, the Oak Lawn building will get several new restaurants: new locations of local burger joint Pints & Quarts and local coffee shop Mudsmith are…
It seems local breweries are popping up all over town, but one couple wants to make discovering them a little easier. Chad and Nellie Montgomery are working on Civil Pour, an establishment that will offer 30 taps of craft beer and a rotating offering of five pour-over coffees. “We really…
So you went too hard last night. It’s the holiday season, so we forgive you — but your hangover may not. Assuming you have nothing to do for the first few hours the day, a little hair-of-the-dog with your brunch may be the fastest route to … if not health,…
In a dining rut? Shake the dust off this weekend by checking out one of these new local restaurants. Whether you’re looking for biscuits of baba ghanoush, there’s fresh food out there to try. Overeasy Start your weekend with downtown’s stellar new breakfast spot, Overeasy, tucked into the recently revamped lobby…
The Paqui one-chip challenge sounds easy enough. You stick a large, Dorito-like chip in your mouth. Chew. Swallow. Carry on with life. That’s what it would be like if this were a Cool Ranch Dorito. But this is no such thing, which is probably why YouTube has plenty of opportunities…
In Urnerboden, a Swiss village in a high valley, about 60 families craft cheese the old-fashioned way. When the snow melts, they lead cows up the mountain to dine on the chilly flowers and grass. The munched-on petals and grass enrich cows’ milk with flavors of sunshine and Swiss earth…
