This week, Tales of the Cocktail — one of the country’s biggest festivals for bartenders and the bar industry at large — announced nominations for the Spirited Awards, which highlight the country’s most promising bars, bartenders and industry pros. One nomination will surprise no one who’s familiar with Dallas craft cocktails:…
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. Down at Pecan Lodge, putting cheese on top of brisket is heresy. But put them together in a…
It was raining cats and dogs. I was sitting with Alan Govenar in Mis Cazuelas in East Dallas. We were waiting for Kaleta Doolin, his wife. Govenar is an author, filmmaker and founding director of the upcoming Museum of Street Culture — among other things. Doolin is a brilliant artist,…
Revolver Taco Lounge, the beloved Fort Worth taqueria with a long-awaited Deep Ellum location in the works, announced today that the taco spot is moving its original location at 2822 W. 7th St. to a new space at 2418 Forest Park Blvd., the former home of Sera Dining and Wine. …
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 getting to be that time of year when the idea of eating a full meal before setting…
The Dallas Museum of Art’s north entrance has a new outdoor pavilion with a crepe café. Socca is named after the style of crepe it serves, a chickpea-based savory pancake popular in the far south of France. Pronounced “SOAK-uh,” rather than the way Bostonians say “soccer,” the socca originates in…
Vivo 53’s new, insane, topping-covered, confection-filled sundaes are every Instagrammer’s dream come true, which is probably why the restaurant is encouraging customers to upload and tag photos of their own sundae experiences for a chance to win a sundae a week for the next year. They likely won’t have any…
Simple, yet fancy. Cheap, yet luxurious. Tiny, yet hugely flavorful. Sweet, tart, fatty, puckery. Lucia’s most famous appetizer costs only $1, but it contains multitudes, and we recommend ordering multitudes of it. It’s the foie gras-stuffed prune, a treat that sounds like the territory of one-percenters but costs less than…
I’m passionate about tacos: their history, their culture, their variety, their everything. I’ve explored and written about them from coast to coast, but it’s here in Dallas, where I started Taco Trail at the Observer, that tacos continue to thrill me, be it at old favorites or new operations ranging from fast-casual concepts and family-friendly…
The French Room in Dallas’ historic Adolphus Hotel is special. If your family ever made a reservation there, there was a good chance you were marking a celebration. The grand chandeliers, preserved murals and perfectly set tables — knife rest included — all made you sit up a little straighter…
In a city of shrines to meat — barbecue joints, steakhouses, burger bars, bacon tastings — the Blind Butcher is one of the most holy. Its rotating selection of house-made sausage is justly famous, as are the poutines, pastrami egg rolls and bacon-studded ice cream sandwich. But in 2016, chef…
On my first trip to Luscher’s Red Hots, the Chicago-style hot dog spot in Deep Ellum, I went with a Luscher’s veteran, someone who’s had everything on the menu at least once. Of course, she said, you obviously have to try Luscher’s Post Oak Red Hot, the flagship dish. But…
A Dallas activist is calling for a boycott of two popular Tex-Mex restaurant franchises because of the owner’s ties to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. As reported earlier by NBCDFW and D Magazine, Carlos Quintanilla, head of the organization Accion America, is calling for a boycott of both Mi Cocina and…
In this week’s DFW food news round-up, new bars, a forthcoming food hall and D accuses DMN of not giving credit where credit is due: East Hampton Sandwich Co. is opening its fifth and sixth restaurants in North Texas, according to a press release. The two new fast-casual sandwich spots…
The memories are so vivid, it feels like it’s possible to crawl inside them. Summer sunsets, the quiet cries of cicadas in the background, tiny bursts of light from fireflies making the entire world sparkle. I can feel the grass beneath my jean shorts from evenings spent shucking a grocery…
The Bishop Arts District has no shortage of trendy eateries, lines winding out the door and down the block during peak hours. On weekends, this corner of Oak Cliff is wall to wall people, woo-woo girls teetering in sky-high heels, families wobbling on rented bikes, out-of-towners taking selfies in front…
Last weekend at Taste of Dallas, we popped into the Automobile Building at Fair Park — navigating past snake oil salesmen pestering us to buy cleaning supplies and $7,000 massage chairs — and hit up a “Pestaurant,” where diners could take a break from tacos and boudin to snack on…
Scardello Artisan Cheese is commemorating six months at their new Dallas Farmers Market location like all good cheese vendors should: with a cheese party. They call it a tasting, of course, because adults are boring, but really it’s just a big ol’ cheese party. Enjoy samples of some of Scardello’s…
There are days in the roasting heat of a Texas summer when we crave a cool, refreshing lunch that’s also got a spicy kick. What meal in Dallas combines hot peppers with light summery flavors? Jjol myeon, a Korean cold noodle dish that’s a specialty at Kimbob Deli on Royal…
Having brunch at a restaurant for the first time is a risk. Will the chicken and waffles at X rival the familiar, golden-brown goodness served at Y? Or will it result in remorse and a hasty retreat back to well-tested ground? Diners perform this cost-benefit dance as they pursue something…
It’s Negroni Week, which is a lot like Christmas if Christmas were a week-long celebration of aperitifs. Basically, you drink a lot of them and, for each negroni purchased at participating bars, the bar will donate $1 to their chosen charity. That means every bar from Mesquite to Saginaw will…
I’m not one to argue over the necessity of having a burger on a menu on any restaurant, but here I am at Cafe Salsera, loaded up with a bunch of arguments. There are enough burgers in Deep Ellum to fill a Yeti cooler; do we need two more housed…
