Stretch that stomach out this weekend — those Thanksgiving leftovers aren’t gonna eat themselves — at some of these indulgent food and drink events. ***** What does WWE have in common with beer and wine? They all lend themselves to a good smackdown. Speaking of which, Scardello will referee a…
Hide owner Nick Backlund’s love for fast food flourished while he was an undergraduate student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He played baseball for the school and, after each game, had a Chick-fil-A-themed meal of a fried chicken sandwich, a cookie and some chips. When Chick-fil-A’s spicy chicken sandwiches…
What an expressive name is Hello Dumpling. It’s short, sweet and friendly, and it holds out the promise of delicious dumplings. There’s only one problem with the name: This new restaurant’s noodles are even better. In the space formerly occupied by Good2Go Taco on the east side of White Rock…
Since Aug. 8, 2016, the city of Dallas has been considering a zoning tool called a late-hours overlay. If enacted, it would allow the city to require any business that wants to operate between midnight and 6 a.m. in certain areas — in this case, Uptown — to apply for…
In 2016, the Dallas City Council offered $3 million “to assist in development and/or location of one or more high quality grocery stores … within or adjacent to a southern Dallas food desert.” More than a year later, no major grocery stores have taken the bait, and the problem persists. One Southern…
As we reported in September, Sambuca restaurant has been dealing for several years with infrastructure issues with its building at 2120 McKinney Ave. Major plumbing and foundation issues led the restaurant’s owners, Restaurant Expert Management, to file a lawsuit in 2013 in an attempt to force the building’s owners into compliance with the terms of…
Even amid the chaos of downtown, Commissary is hard to miss. The new cafe, bakery, butcher shop and market at 1217 Main St. resides in a five-story building brightly decorated with 27,857 ceramic mosaic tiles, making the building stick out among the grays and browns of downtown architecture. As the array…
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. There’s a feeling that tugs at your heartstrings not long after finding a booth. You’re sitting with…
The Dallas dining scene takes itself a little too seriously sometimes. Lighten up with a visit to one of these new local bars, restaurants and cafes, places that can take a joke and dish one out, too. Bourbon & Banter The new speakeasy in the basement of the renovated Statler…
The Cedars has been trying for years to become a destination. The neighborhood adjacent to downtown and the convention center hasn’t tried to be the place to be, just a place to be. It’s worked to create a neighborhood identity and foster enough independent businesses to draw people in. In…
In this week’s round up of food news, a historic Oak Cliff home is saved from demolition and things heat up in Victory Park: This week, the Dallas City Council decided that plans for a restaurant in the former Oak Cliff home of late Dallas Mayor George Sergeant can move…
According to a sign posted to the front door, Alligator Cafe in East Dallas has, as of Nov. 8, been seized by the state of Texas for nonpayment of taxes. On Thursday morning, the long-running Cajun eatery in Casa Linda was dark, the sign taped to the door ominously warning,…
When we reviewed SpicyZest earlier this year, the Sri Lankan restaurant had been open for roughly one year. Now, just a few months shy of its two-year anniversary, this Farmers Branch establishment is introducing brunch. SpicyZest has proclaimed its brunch, featuring a bevy of Sri Lankan breakfast favorites, to be…
Downtown Dallas cocktail den, Midnight Rambler, is bringing back some old favorites from menus past and throwing in a soon-to-be fall favorite or two. One of their new tipples is the Hot Buttered Soul, a fall forward cocktail named for a Southern soul album by Isaac Hayes.
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. A sailing ship is in the throes of invisible waves above the beer taps. There are surfboards…
There is a dearth of real street food in the one Dallas neighborhood where it would do best: Deep Ellum. Sure, you can get a burger after midnight and a bowl of ramen around 3 a.m., but in the neighborhood with some of the city’s heaviest foot traffic, it’s surprising…
There are all kinds of theories to explain helping behavior: We do it out of a sense of reciprocity. We do it because it makes us feel like good people. We do it because of cognitive dissonance. But if we are really honest with ourselves, then we can see that…
In the days before Amazon could put a book (or almost anything) on your doorstep mere hours after a few clicks from your smartphone, Barnes & Noble was the place for books and music. Depending on your point of view, B&N was either the perfect place to spend an evening perusing…
Jalisco Norte recently opened on the corner of a Turtle Creek shopping and eating complex, and the new restaurant seeks to remove the stigma of processed yellow cheese and deep-fried burritos popular with Tex-Mex fans. No one is saying Tex-Mex is bad. But Jalisco Norte asserts that if you think Tex-Mex is…
It’s a Monday afternoon at 3015 in Trinity Groves, and about 50 restaurant owners, managers and developers are pretending they just received a text message from an employee. Shooter in the restaurant, the text reads. Can’t call. He put us in the walk-in. Please help. Ed Bollen, a CIA veteran…
We’re walking through the Statler’s recently redesigned lobby when a lost-looking 20-something solicits our help. “Are you guys going to the bar?” he asks, looking flustered. “We can’t find it anywhere.” When you open a speakeasy in a hotel basement, you’re guaranteed to have a few lost souls. Wind your…
Two weeks ago, we published a review of pan-Asian restaurant Hot Joy, which had signed a two-year lease in an old Texas Land & Cattle building in Uptown. In the review, Observer food critic Brian Reinhart questioned the San Antonio-based restaurant’s decor and menu choices. He interviewed people like Andrew Ti,…
