Calling All Basic Bitches: Cedar Grove Has the Perfect Cocktail For You
Rosé + prosecco + berries + Jello = Cedar Groves’ new Basic Bitch cocktail.
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This Weekend’s Best Food Events: Coffee Cupping, National Absinthe Day and a Chili Cook-Off
If you’re going to drink — and we know you are — you might as well do it for a good cause. Join the Young Friends of Ronald McDonald House of Dallas at Community Beer Co. for an evening that tempers philanthropy with just the right amount of bacchanalia. Enjoy plenty…
D Magazine Loses Senior Travel, Food Editor Nancy Nichols
Nancy Nichols, D Magazine’s food and travel editor, is no longer a full-time senior editor at the publication, she announced today in a post on Facebook. She will continue to contribute to the magazine on a contract basis, she says, but is leaving her gig as the magazine’s food and…
One of the Best Dishes at Knife Isn’t John Tesar’s; It Comes From Prep Cook Leticia Alcaraz Cabuto
There’s only one item on the menu at Knife that’s not from Knife, per se, and it’s easily one of the best soups in Dallas. It’s also one of the most comforting, creamy tomato soups you’ll find in this lifetime. Take your crusty grilled cheese by the hand, swipe it…
An Oak Cliff Restaurant Owned by Mexican Immigrants Makes Some of the City’s Best Cheesesteaks
In spring of 2014, in a small, unassuming retail strip on West Davis Street in Oak Cliff, Cheesesteak House opened with little ado. After hearing tales of its birth, I cruised west down Jefferson, my eyes peeled, not knowing exactly where it was. As I passed Mary Cliff Road, I…
How to Skip the Green Beer and Eat Authentic Irish Fare This Weekend in Dallas
Before people deck out in green and color their beers for St. Patrick’s Day, visitors to Fair Park will get a taste of Celtic tradition at the North Texas Irish Festival this weekend. “It’s pretty amazing; no matter what gate you come in, there’s something that can engage you immediately,”…
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Open Sesame Grill is the Friendly Lebanese Spot Oak Lawn Needs
When Samson’s Gourmet Hot Dogs closed last year, a lot of Oak Lawn residents mourned the loss of a favorite neighborhood hangout. But its replacement might be even better. Open Sesame Lebanese Grill opened this weekend without much publicity or heavy marketing. They want to ease into things, rather than…
Franklin Barbecue’s Aaron Franklin Invaded Top Knot for One Night With 400 Bowls of Brisket
To get a piece of parchment paper piled with meat from Franklin Barbecue, you’ll normally sit in a folding chair on a sidewalk in Austin for at least five hours in the Texas heat. Monday night, just a one-hour wait got you slices of that famously perfect brisket, but it…
Good Neighbor Brews Brings a Family-Friendly Brewery to Wylie
When Darin Peterson and Jill Bresnan returned from Europe a few years ago, the two homebrewers, who met through their shared love of beer, decided that they wanted to start a brewery. Shortly after, the idea for Good Neighbor Brews was born. After doing some research, the two decided to open their…
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Lucia Is Doing Away With Its Once-a-Month, Call-In Reservation System
Lucia is famous for a lot of things — its tiny, intimate dining room, its foie gras-stuffed prunes — but the Bishop Arts Italian restaurant is perhaps most known for how difficult it is to get a reservation. With only 14 tables, Lucia’s system required calling starting at 9 a.m. on…
XO Coffee Company Brings Flashy Technology and Neighborly Love To Downtown Plano
In 2013, Plano was introduced to specialty coffee when the doors opened at 1418 Coffeehouse, a homey hangout on K Avenue, and for years the cafe remained unchallenged in that market. Two weeks ago, that changed when XO Coffee Company opened nearby — 371 feet away, to be exact —…
Using 2,000 Gallons of Milk a Week, Mozzarella Company Creates Some of the City’s Best Cheese
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. It’s 9 a.m., and through the vinyl slats of the Mozzarella Company, Elm Street’s long-standing cheese company, you can…
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Go Normcore: Five Straightforward, Gimmick-Free DFW Bars and Restaurants
Some days, in this city, it feels like there’s no such thing as a restaurant without a hook — or, for that matter, a restaurant that doesn’t have an open kitchen, white subway tile and edison bulbs hanging from the ceiling. Sometimes, you just want to go somewhere … normal,…
Bittersweet Farewell: Carnival Barker’s Ice Creams Is Closed
Inside Carnival Barker’s Ice Creams in Oak Cliff, freezers and ice cream equipment still line the walls, with Simpsons memorabilia scattered around the room. Aaron Barker, the bearded, heavily tattooed creator of Carnival Barker’s, is also still inside, shuffling back and forth through the small room as he dismantles his…
Food News: Sixty Vines Is Coming to Dallas, Another Greenville Avenue Casualty and More
In this week’s food news round-up, more mixed-use developments appear on the horizon, local concepts expand and Greenville Avenue loses yet another business: Howdy Homemade, the Dallas ice cream spot that works with special needs organizations to employ people with Down syndrome and autism, has announced a new collaboration with…
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A New Pizza Spot in The Colony Doesn’t Just Deliver Pizza; They’ll Deliver Growlers of Beer, Too
Craft beers and quality pizza give us plenty of reasons to visit Heritage Pizza And Taproom in The Colony.
Korean Elotes? Sure, Why Not — At Chicken Moto, South Korea Meets Texas Flavor
Richardson boasts a decent list of restaurants in virtually all types of Asian cuisine, but its latest addition takes the taste of South Korea and pairs it with our own Lone Star State: Chicken Moto, a new eatery from the team behind Bbbop Seoul Kitchen. Luckily, we’re not talking cream…
The Tipsy Alchemist’s Down the Rabbit Hole Is a Bizarre Yet Perfect Cocktail for Spring
We downed a couple of The Tipsy Alchemist’s new Spring cocktails, the Down the Rabbit Hole, and it took out night in a different totally f**king crazy direction.
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This Weekend’s Best Food Events: A Gumbo Competition, a Creole Buffet and More Mardi Gras
The Grape’s latest iteration of their monthly wine dinner features special guest host John Keeton from Virtuoso Selections. We’re pretty sure the dinner, titled Come as You Are, doesn’t have anything to do with Kurt Cobain. Unless, that is, the grunge rocker was a fan of olive oil, legumes and…
Poor Richard’s Breakfast Is a Welcome Reprieve From the Trendy Brunches of Dallas
It is 11 a.m. on a Saturday, and Poor Richard’s Cafe is in full gear. Waitresses, armed with a tablet in one hand (they abandoned the pen-and-paper order taking method some time ago) and a coffee pot in the other, dash between tables with precision. Judging by the fact that…
Sugarfina, NorthPark’s New ‘Luxury Candy Store For Adults’ Is Light on Booze, High on Prices
We were promised gummy bears infused with champagne, martini chocolates, and rum balls … but we just got candy.
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Bonton Farms’ Next Weapon in the War Against South Dallas Food Deserts: A Market and Cafe
When Daron Babcock prepared to jump into the farming business, he noticed one thing about his new neighborhood. “When I moved down here, everybody around me was sick, like really sick,” he says. “Willy, who was one of the first guys I started working with, he was almost blind from…