Mellow Mushroom, the national stoner-themed pizza franchise, has closed the Henderson Avenue location that opened in 2016. According to reports on social media from former employees, the restaurant closed abruptly Sunday. The pizza franchise had a hard time gaining a foothold on a street with solid pizza options like Louie’s, Fireside Pies…
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…
First, and this is important, the people at Hopdoddy did everything they could to make it good. They seared the Impossible Foods patty on the griddle, enough that it had a dark, crunchy crust. They cooked it to an exact “medium rare,” a blackened char gradient leading to rosy red…
Now that it’s full-on summer in Dallas, we could recommend a steady diet of poke bowls and paleo et cetera, but where’s the fun in that? Sometimes you just gotta stuff your face with something oh-so-bad and oh-so-good. Here are four ways to do that. Slater’s 50/50’s Nacho Burger This…
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. There aren’t too many lunches in Dallas that we’re digging as much right now as the humongous lunch…
Outside the front door was no noticeable signage, just a small green lightbulb. When it was lit — so long as you came invited and with a bottle of mezcal in hand — you could enter a small, candlelit room that felt more like a small Mexican church than a…
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 beer mug emerges caked with frost. It lands on a coaster, breath coming off the glass…
“Once the developers are here, it’s too late,” said Monte Anderson, a local developer and principal of Options Real Estate — and a self-identified preservationist. Anderson redeveloped the historic Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, opting to keep its small footprint and historic appeal. “The big developers are like vultures coming in…
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…
This weekend, hit up the tail end of Tiki Week, take a cocktail class or gorge at a brunch festival: Dallas, your prayers are finally being answered. No, the potholes are still there and Jimmy’s Food Store is still closed on Sundays. We’re talking about the other prayer — the…
Slater’s 50/50 has a spicy burger — surrounded by bacon, salsa, guacamole and cheddar cheese — that’s stuffed inside a flour tortilla and deep fried, doused in a Budweiser-infused cheese sauce, and hit with a scoop of sour cream, a few jalapeños and fried tortilla strips. It’s got the heft…
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The culinary offerings at the Dallas Farmers Market keep getting more diverse. Afifa Nayeb, the Kabul native who first opened the outstanding “Silk Road fare” shop Laili in the Farmers Market food hall in early 2016 with Turkish pastry chef Nevin Kaya, has now moved on to one of her…
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…
Like the rest of 2017 America, we like to pretend we’re working while we’re secretly looking at Facebook in the other browser window. Sometimes, we end up wasting two hours looking at pictures of huskies wearing glasses. But mostly, we’re looking at food. Our latest edible social media discovery pointed…
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…
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…
