Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Burrata, much like tartare, is one of those items that’s on just about every menu in Dallas right…
This burger was different a couple of years ago. In 2014, I stopped into Clark Food and Wine, then a recent addition to the ever-changing Greenville restaurant bustle, and had an interesting burger. A single grilled patty, topped with a disc of stained-glass crispy speck and house jardinera. It’s probably…
Grapevine Craft Brewery’s Tropical Double IPA, released earlier this month, is one of the latest signals of an interesting dichotomy that has popped up in the DFW beer scene. It certainly has some things going for it: a combination of interesting flavors, a healthy ABV and can branding that makes…
Heim Barbecue, whose trailer-borne smoked delicacies quickly became the stuff of Funkytown legend after owner Travis Heim materialized on a Southside bar lawn for Saturday cooks last year, will flood the Fort Worth market with its trademark bacon burnt ends from a new brick-and-mortar location, starting August 6. The grand…
Brian Reinhart is an understated presence. With a quiet voice, a slight build and an amiable demeanor, he’s the last guy in the room to draw attention to himself — which works in his favor now that Reinhart is the Observer’s food critic, a role he’s quietly filled for the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. This is one of those ephemeral Dallas dishes that existed for one night only, enjoyed once and never…
The food at Hon Sushi tastes as good as it looks, and it looks spectacular. Chef Charlie Yun, the impresario behind the counter of this intimate new Carrollton spot, thinks just as carefully about presentation as he does about preparation. Even his salads are festivals of color and texture. Nowadays…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 a city of burger joints and blue-collar sandwich shops, Maple & Motor stands out as a winner…
Did someone at Pecan Lodge break a mirror or open an umbrella inside recently? Because the restaurant has had a weird couple weeks. There was a teeny tiny fire in the smokehouse on July 13, then last week, a promotional partnership with UberEats turned into a mini nightmare for the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Forty-five years is a long time in the restaurant business. For every Tex-Mex institution that’s been beloved for…
Just off a stretch of Main Street near historical downtown Frisco, Double Dip Frozen Custard is a merciful oasis. Travelers seeking a reprieve from the Texas heat gather at its doors, where the ambiance is all Big Bopper and next-door self-service car wash. Unbuckled kids bounce by pickup truck beds…
Texas Monthly is right: There has been a burger revolution since 2009. The humble American sandwich has grown superpowers. We’re living in the great burger age of 2016, where high-end cheeseburgers, some flecked with capers and blended with bone marrow, exist harmoniously with the roadhouse American cheeseburger. There are many…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Not many foods are named after shoes. The huarache was originally a type of sandal used among the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. It’s rare to find a form of sizzling meat that Texans haven’t embraced. But through some shameful oversight,…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 Robata is a mainstay of North Dallas dining, a rock-solid Japanese restaurant where just about everything on…
In this week’s Dallas food news, Lake Highlands gets a new Alamo Drafthouse (and a Vetted Well along with it), a breakfast chain comes to DFW and a local ad agency doesn’t get mor chikin after all. The Dallas agency behind Chick-fil-A’s “eat mor chikin” campaign got the boot, Advertising…
I hadn’t felt it before, not truly, until last night. I’m twisting in the counter chairs in anticipation, ice-blasted mug full of root beer, old central air unit rattling above and it really struck me: Dairy-Ette is a Dallas treasure. I’ve been to the burger joint before. I’ve sat at…
It’s Belgian Beer Week at Meddlesome Moth, which means it’s time to get in touch with your Flemmish side. Beer director Caitlin Mohon has hand-selected more than a dozen Belgian beers for the occasion, which are scheduled to be tapped on the daily. Thursday will see New Belgium’s Fat Tire…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. CrushCraft Thai Street Eats doesn’t have to be this good. It has a premium location in the heart…
Great minds do think alike – like mine and the bar manager’s at Meddlesome Moth. We both decided that during the Moth’s Belgian Beer Week there should be a cocktail featuring a Belgian beer. This beertail features one of their features for Belgian Beer Week in a simple, yet delicious cocktail,…
Batten down the hatches, Dallas: This Saturday, July 23, New York City street food vendor-turned worldwide fast casual restaurant, The Halal Guys, will open its doors on Lemmon Avenue. Blame social media or food journalism or just a propensity for anything labeled “street food,” but this has become one of…
Stepping into Cook Hall, the gastropub located downtown at the W Hotel, one cannot help but be impressed. A multitude of incandescent light-bulbs hang from the vaulted ceiling, bathing an interior that looks as if it were plucked from the pages of a Restoration Hardware catalog in warm, soothing light…
