Henk’s European Deli is the kind of place where you’ll find a story behind everything you eat. The crackling-skinned brats and sausages served by Adrian Winnubst, Henk’s son, are the handmade tradition of family friend Siegi Sumaruk, a sausage-maker from Austria. Sumaruk runs a little shop Tulsa and drives the…
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. If ever there was a time to skip out of work early and post up at a bar, sipping…
Get boozy and cool down with one of Dallas’s cocktails featuring boozy popsicles.
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. In a city that gets as hot as Dallas, it’s cruel that our region is so short on easily…
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. By every conceivable measure, it was the perfect Saturday morning: a breezy, cool pre-summer day, a colorful table…
Two of the best banh mi shops in the Dallas region — indeed, arguably two of the best banh mi shops in the United States — make their homes in Garland.
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. On June 1, Emporium Pies released their new summer pie menu, and in it, we found nirvana: the…
Are we living in the golden age of the Dallas burger? Observer burger expert Nick Rallo thinks so. If you need some convincing, here are five Dallas burgers that should be on your radar right now. The Standard Burger at Wheelhouse If you’re searching for a modern take on the…
One of the city’s best cocktail teams, The & and &, is taking over Atwater Alley on Sunday night to serve a menu of cocktails based on Dallas neighborhoods. The bar takeover, in conjunction with the ongoing Negroni Week, will raise money for Trigger’s Toys, a nonprofit that helps North…
Our favorite bar ladies at Bolsa are, per usual, bucking the trend with their own take on it—a cocktail using rosé and adding a different frozen element, a popsicle.
Food in coffee shops is not a new thing. While muffins, croissants and the like have been café staples for decades, more often than not, new cafes are opening with kitchens and full food menus. Typically, these menus don’t stray too far from the standard coffee-shop archetype of breakfast sandwiches…
An 18-foot-tall art installation? Check. Cornhole? Check. Avocado toast? Check, of course. Wheelhouse is one of three Design District eateries recently opened by Headington Concepts, the restaurant group behind CBD Provisions, The Rustic, Midnight Rambler and The Porch, to name a few. It shares a courtyard with one of its…
If you haven’t already, it’s time to pay attention to the burger situation in Dallas. Every week, it seems a new burger, whether built using farm-fresh Texas goods or good old-fashioned American cheese and shredded lettuce, arrives on our doorstep. Small Brewpub, for example, simmers the caramelized onions for its burger…
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 no point in arguing: The best chicken-fried steak in Dallas is at AllGood Cafe. Piping hot and…
Bottled Blonde, a new pizzeria/beer garden/nightclub that’s slated to open in Deep Ellum this summer, is already facing local backlash because of the chain restaurant’s troubles in Chicago, one of two markets in which the restaurant is already operating. The bar/restaurant is at risk of losing its liquor license after…
This weekend, it’s all about birds, beer, burlesque and barbecue. Also rosé. And … other things. Here’s a rundown of this weekend’s best Dallas food and drink events. ***** Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx is: A. the name of a vintage cocktail B. the name of a renowned burlesque performer C. a…
A certain ’90s hip hop group comes to mind as Josh Farrell explains Nameless Chefs, a fluid, ambiguous collective of local chefs and cooks that, while underground, feels more like a super group. In keeping with their fluid mission, these chefs cook what they want, when they want, via a…
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. IdleRye may be a Deep Ellum newcomer, but it’s already putting out some solid plates. Case in point:…
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. When we talk about holding Dallas cocktail bars to a certain…
Let’s talk chaat. It’s the unofficial favorite fast food of India, a quick cuisine of street bites, snacks, fritters and other savory treats to eat on the go. Chaat isn’t meant to be fancy. It’s almost all vegetarian, and it often repurposes other foods in surprising ways, but it’s the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dish es, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It’s one of those dishes that, if you’ve been to Gemma more than once, is kind of…
For 33 years, The Palm has fed West End diners 24-ounce prime bone-in rib-eye steaks and seven-layer dark chocolate cake. The restaurant on 701 Ross Ave. has hosted decades of birthday parties, first dates, business lunches, anniversary dinners. But on Thursday, June 1, owners Wally Ganzi and Bruce Bozzi Jr…
