100 Favorite Dishes, No. 67: Gorditas from Cocina de Mama

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 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. Tucked into an anonymous little strip mall at the corner of Inwood and Maple, behind the little La…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 69: El Pueblo’s Enchiladas Verdes

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 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. The enchiladas at El Pueblo are so good, you can order a platter of six of them with…

The Standard Pour Goes Bananas

Dallas Tiki Week inspired The Standard Pour to create The Love Boat which features not just one, not two, but three banana elements—two of which were made in-house just for this cocktail.

West Dallas/Oak Cliff Is About to Get a Meat Market

Sylvan Thirty, the mixed-use development straddling the boundary between West Dallas and Oak Cliff, is about to get a new tenant: Cooper’s Meat Market, a longtime San Antonio-based butcher shop and meat market. The market, which will along with meat will sell “appetizers, sides, casseroles, wine and beer, as well as…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 70: Mutton Kottu at SpicyZest

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 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. SpicyZest might be the most interesting restaurant in metro Dallas right now. It’s our only Sri Lankan restaurant,…

The Best New Dallas Booze-Slingers of 2017 (So Far)

Yesterday we shared our picks for the best new Dallas restaurants of 2017 to date, but it’s also been a banner year in the city’s drink scene. From cocktail laboratories to affordable wine bars to liquor stores with a healthy twist, it’s been a busy time for booze in Dallas…

The Best New Dallas Restaurants of 2017 (So Far)

It’s been a big year in Dallas dining, and it’s only half over. Local concepts are expanding, big-name chefs are betting big on the Dallas market, hot neighborhoods like Deep Ellum are seeing greatly expanded dining options and the city’s international food offerings are growing to include food from countries…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 71: Sushi Yokohama’s No-Rice Sushi Rolls

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 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. Sushi Yokohama, a little-heralded and publicity-phobic Japanese restaurant in far north Dallas, prides itself on sheer craftsmanship and…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 72: The Pulpo Taco at Revolver Taco Lounge

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 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. When it comes to picking a favorite on the menu at Revolver Taco Lounge in Deep Ellum, it’s…

Five Dallas Beers to Cool You Down This Summer

Although summer is more of a formality than an actual seasonal shift for North Texans, the end of school and a national holiday or two offer some unique opportunities for themed beer consumption. While your options might seem simple — lagers, limes, drink, repeat — we like to think that…

Four Tiki Cocktails to Sip This Week in Dallas

Sunday kicks off the first Dallas Tiki Week, a celebration of tiki cocktails and the bartenders who do them right. In honor of the five-day event and its many bar crawls and cocktail contests — and in honor of our 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, on newsstands now — here…