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. Town Hearth and its chef, Nick Badovinus, have a cheeky sense of humor about food and a…
In what likely came as a surprise to meat-loving Texans, PETA recently named Globe Life Park in Arlington the most vegan-friendly Major League Baseball stadium in the country. It earned that designation thanks to the Ballpark Vegan cart in Section 16, which serves a surprisingly large array of plant-based ballpark…
Tired of all your old haunts? Whether you’re looking for a locally brewed beer, a glass of bubbly or a reasonably priced bottle of riesling, here are three places to check out. Bar & Garden3314 Ross Ave. At this new Ross Avenue retailer, you’ll find additive-free liquor and natural wines…
Dallas residents have more haunting them than exes. A new company, Nightly Spirits, has started tours Downtown.
In the past few years, Deep Ellum restaurants have opened and changed as fast as a windstorm. We’ve recently been meat-knighted with Easy Slider, the brick and mortar of Dallas’ best burger truck, and the Damn Burger at Armoury D.E. is well worth the mild profanity in its name. Filament has 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. If you’re woefully under-prepared enough to show up to Tei Tei Robata on a Saturday night with no…
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. At Bilad Bakery and Restaurant, there’s regular pita bread, of course, and it’s good. But the samoon, or…
With its bright flavors, lengthy history and rising-star status in the health-food world, it’s no wonder kimchi is popping up all over DFW. The bright red side dish, or banchan, as it’s known in Korean cuisine, is working its way into Dallas menus in creative ways. A building block of…
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. Just after 9 a.m., Oralia Olguin presses her palms into a football-shaped wad of dough. She leans…
Waiting in line for barbecue is a Texas rite of passage. Only in these lines do we, especially the non-native Texans, fully grasp the Lone Star State’s appreciation of a worthy cut of smoked meat. And when you consider the blood, sweat and time it takes to smoke the perfect…
Multiple-choice quiz: What is cupping? A. What Gwyneth Paltrow does when she’s not finding her bliss and/or attempting to become immortal. B. Like planking, but instead you have to contort your body so as to effectively contain 8 ounces of foreign liquid. C. A free coffee tasting event at Noble…
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. Okay, this might be heretical. At a restaurant that serves glorious Texas Monthly-lauded meats like pastrami-spiced burnt ends,…
For Tim McEneny, principal at Dallas restaurant group NL Group, the closing of Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot Cedar Grove wasn’t as abrupt as it seemed. “Cedar Grove was just exhausting, and it was just bleeding cash,” McEneny said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with the Dallas Observer. After…
Two days ago — Sunday of Memorial Day weekend — Cedar Grove, the Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot that opened in June 2016, hosted its regular monthly drag brunch. By 11 a.m. Tuesday, Cedar Grove’s Facebook page had been deleted, and the restaurant had been gutted, with workers outside…
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. Flora Street Cafe, the Arts District’s bold venture into a modern Texas cuisine, has spent 2017 dialing into…
The parking lot is getting barren at Collin Creek Mall. Anchor stores like Macy’s are fleeing, and although there are stores remaining — including Sears, Victoria’s Secret, an indoor mini-golf course and something called Amazing Jake’s Food & Fun — the mall’s southern end is growing forlorn. This is not…
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. Just about every Korean restaurant in metro Dallas — and there are more than 50 — serves kimchi,…
There are so many restaurants opening across North Texas right now that it’s nearly impossible to keep up — and it’s even harder to suss out the spots that are worth the hype. If you’re looking to try something new this week, here are six new Dallas restaurants that are…
In this week’s round-up of DFW food news, healthy fast-casual continues to dominate the market while, on the other side of the spectrum, a national blog has decided that Dallas is one of the best burger cities in the U.S. and gave top honors to a popular local burger: Thrillist…
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. You lose all sense of time inside Cosmo’s. Without any sense of urgency, three good-old boys sit…
Summer is quickly approaching, and for most Texans, that means a lot of iced teas and cold beers – because duh. But in Frisco, another cold treat is the star of the summer: snow cones. Not just any snow cones either, but snow cones from the Frisco Snow Cone Lady,…
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. In October, when we wrote about the opening of V-Eats Modern Vegan, the vegan restaurant in Trinity Groves,…
