Henry’s Majestic Gets in the Tiki Spirit With This $7 Cocktail
Henry’s Majestic is about to celebrate its birthday … and it’s doing it with creative tiki cocktails featuring hazelnut orgeat for just $7.
Henry’s Majestic is about to celebrate its birthday … and it’s doing it with creative tiki cocktails featuring hazelnut orgeat for just $7.
To those who frequent Lower Greenville, The Libertine Bar is no stranger. With its curated draught list and a menu that balances bar food (e.g., grilled cheese) with something a bit more gourmand (e.g., cheese boards), The Libertine has established itself as a constant in a neighborhood that seems to…
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 little more than 22 years ago, Praveen Sachden sat and sipped chai with friend Kumar Pallana…
The Centrum in Oak Lawn has been in the midst of a massive, multi-million dollar renovation, and part of that renovation will include several new restaurants. Steel Restaurant and Mattitio’s are already open at The Centrum, and they’ll soon be joined by new locations of Pints and Quarts and Mudsmith,…
This weekend, you can eat and drink for a good cause or get to know other cultures through food, all without leaving North Texas: ***** Literacy and alcohol have enjoyed a longstanding fellowship. Just ask Hunter Thompson or O. Henry or pretty much any writer, ever. The tradition continues with…
Oni Ramen is not the first ramen shop in Deep Ellum, but it is by far the best. The Fort Worth import opened on Elm Street a few weeks ago between Hide and IdleRye in a block that’s come to epitomize new Deep Ellum — exposed brickwork, $14 cocktails and…
She was her mom’s sous chef. Reyna Duong was born in a small fishing village on the southern tip of Vietnam — a tattoo on her forearm bears the city’s name — and grew up in California’s Orange County. Sharing food using the right ingredients from home was a non-negotiable…
Oak Cliff’s self-proclaimed cat lady may soon lose that title. Meri Dahlke, co-owner of Ten Bells Tavern, has a colony of cats on the property, registered through local organization Feral Friends Community Cat Alliance, but the numbers have been dwindling. “I think when we registered, the colony was 13, and we’re…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. There’s no denying that Dallas loves steak. Without a longstanding regional dish of our own, the city has…
The Dallas Observer’s food writing team is a jocular misfit crew of freelance writers who love food — like, really, really love food, enough that they enjoy using their spare time to find interesting new dishes, explore hidden dining gems and learn the history of Dallas restaurants. On our crew…
For 35 years, despite the ever-changing neighborhood around it, Mozzarella Company has been making incredible queso Oaxaca, burrata con crema and, of course, fresh mozzarella in Deep Ellum. Owner Paula Lambert started the company after a trip to Italy, where she experienced truly fresh mozzarella for the first time. Knowing…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. North Texas has a robust international food scene, from Japanese dishes to Thai street food to regional Chinese…
On Saturday afternoon, 3,500 people filled Dallas Farmers Market for this year’s sold-out Dallas Observer Tacolandia festival, an all-you-can-eat taco bonanza that brought together many of the city’s biggest taco heavy hitters. A panel of judges nobly sampled every taco at this year’s fest, and from the dozens available, they chose…
We consume them in cascading mountains. The stats from the National Chicken Council read like satire: The NCC’s 2017 Wing Report (Americans are so batshit about chicken wings that the National Chicken Council does a Wing Report annually) projected 1.33 billion wings would be eaten on Super Bowl Sunday earlier…
In this week’s roundup of local food news, an old downtown establishment shows off its new digs, the Design District gets carbier and Uptown gets more sushi: After closing last year for major renovations, The French Room at the Adolphus is back. The restaurant reopened Oct. 4 under chef Michael…
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. Lunch begins with Joe Pumphaung’s dumplings. We’re sitting in the sun room, an enclosed patio space that…
These are times that try chefs’ souls. Abacus, a Dallas landmark for 18 years, is facing its most difficult test yet. Challenges are coming from every quarter. Its former celebrity chef is suing the restaurant’s owners; its neutral-beige interior feels like a time capsule from 1999; its menu, an abrupt…
This cocktail from Harlowe MXM’s cocktail bar, Trick Pony, that only has three ingredients whose flavor is anything but simple thanks to its mushroom demerera.
No matter what time you walk through the jangling doors, the season is always Texas fall at One90 Smoked Meats. It means that there’s warming, cheesy and smoky comfort food, the kind you eat near a crackling fire while wearing loose pajamas. The sound of “Wish You Were Here,” forever…
Dallas and brunch are the types of friends born not out of interest or affection, but out of convenience. Every weekend, tables are filled, Benedicts are eaten and salt-rimmed tumblers are dredged to their bottoms. It’s not a bad relationship, really. But did you ever think that maybe if brunch…
Whether your thing is tacos, wine or endless amounts of Lebanese food, there’s an event this weekend in Dallas where you can get your fill: ***** Head over to the Bishop Arts District on Thursday for the Shop, Eat, Drink, Pink Wine Walk. The walk supports local breast cancer early-detection…
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. You cannot build a dive bar. Dive bars are formed slowly,…