Since opening in the Shops of Highland Park this September, Madrina has confidently elbowed its way onto most every “hot new” restaurant list. Why? Part of the draw has to be chef Julio Peraza’s French-inspired Mexican cuisine, which has been pared down to the catchy term “French-Mex.” It’s an intriguing…
Dallas may not comprise miles of Irish or English-styled pubs like Boston or Chicago, but we do have pleasant handful where we can sit back and chug a pint while chewing fish and chips. Among the handful are three very successful pubs: The Old Monk, Idle Rich and Blackfriar, all…
Let me paint a picture for you. It’s raining, but you don’t care because you’re tucked in at the bar at CiboDivino with a glass of jammy red wine in your hand. The weather’s not quite cold, but it’s cool enough that your favorite flannel shirt — the one that’s…
I haven’t gotten to write about funky beer too much. Sours are widely popular in other beer-soaked cities, but here in Dallas not many breweries have been willing to dabble in the stuff. Michael Peticolas told me he was interested, once, but the wild yeasts used to make these kinds…
Fall is officially here. We’ve had rain, full weeks below 80 degrees and an influx of gourds and pomegranates in our grocery stores. Restaurants all over Dallas are embracing autumn by whipping up seasonal dishes, with winter squash starring in many special menu items. If you love all things pumpkin…
Downtown McKinney hasn’t been known as a place for culinary excellence, but that’s about to change. With the arrival of restaurants such as Sugarbacon and the Dallas dining scene’s ever present moves north, soon we will all start hauling up Central Expressway for an interesting dinner. But why wait? Patina…
Beer people = my people. The beer crowd is fairly predictable: more bearded guys than you can count; a friendly, fun-having attitude that makes standing in lines and crowds easy; hippies and hipsters as far as the eye can see. Nothing against non-beer-drinkers, but I’m pretty sure that kind of…
Downtown Denton is now home to a 24-hour diner. Detroit based Dix Coney Island moved in to the Scripture building and offers a variety of traditional American diner foods. Want chili-cheese fries at 4 a.m.? No problem. (Well, maybe a problem when you wake up.) Blueberry pancakes at midnight? They’ve got you. Pastrami…
“Brisket-stuffed onion rings.” They sound like the State Fair’s idea of an unholy miracle. Or like a mad scientist decided to start randomly mashing together all your favorite unhealthy foods. “Cookie dough pie! Bacon grilled cheese tacos! Sriracha guacamole lasagna!” But brisket-stuffed onion rings are a real thing. They’re a…
Uber Eats hit the streets of Dallas for the first time yesterday, giving office workers in a limited coverage area surrounding downtown access to new lunch options. The service fills cars equipped with hotboxes with meals from a rotating cast of local restaurants and stations them around the city. The…
What better way to celebrate International Stout Day than with a flight of stouts? We could think of a few things, included but not limited to: replacing all of the water in Niagra Falls with stout beer, watching a synchronized swimming team execute their moves in a pool of stout…
OK, we admit it. Shed 2 isn’t looking all that hot this second. But if you can suspend disbelief and find a little inspiration in the smells of fresh sawdust, you can start to glean what the new anchor for the Dallas Farmers Market will look like. Rex’s says they…
Rex’s Seafood and Chop House, the much-anticipated expansion of the original Rex’s, opened in Lakewood last week. If you’ve been to the Lovers/Inwood location, you pretty much know what to expect. The new location features similar chalkboard specials, the same Fridays-only lobster rolls, a small market where you can purchase…
This is really good news for the Dallas food scene. Chef Bruno Davaillon announced that he’s staying in Dallas after his six-year tenure at The Rosewood Mansion. Even better, he’s opening his own restaurant, located downtown at 400 Record St. in a building that’s still under construction. Davaillon accomplished a lot…
Most of the time, we tend to think about the foods that are good for us as things that we “have” to eat. It isn’t often that you get an insatiable craving for a big bundle of kale or some chia seeds, which means that eating healthy sometimes feels like…
It’s official. Starting this week, you can live out your entire day inside three Starbucks locations in the DFW area. In what used to be a place to grab a hyper-roasted coffee and bagel in the morning, and a quick pit stop for an afternoon jolt, Starbucks is now offering…
For the most part, the Design District is not where you go to spend the evening drinking, but with the growth of craft beer in Dallas, four breweries are now open in the neighborhood alone, with a fifth, Four Corners, nearby in Trinity Groves. Noble Rey Brewing Co., which opened…
It’s rarely a problem. In the past, if a customer had forgotten to bring vino with them for dinner at Urbano Cafe, they could just run around the corner to Jimmy’s and pick up a bottle of Sangiovese. The thing is, Jimmy’s closes every day at 7:30 p.m., which can…
Thanksgiving is just weeks away, and restaurants are releasing their annual take home Thanksgiving meal menus. Before we get too far, I feel I should admit I am against this sort of thing. The best way to celebrate the best food holiday of the year is to cook something and…
Surrounding double cheeseburgers, there’s always the jokes about arteries and marathons. Double cheesburgers are “heart-stopping” or “artery clogging” or “demon summoning.” I’m may be wrong about the last one. A double cheeseburger, by some miracle of mathematics, feels 4,000 percent worse on the nutritional shame scale than a single cheeseburger…
The last time I ate a fancied-up chicken-fried steak, I was at Tillman’s Roadhouse, where someone thought battered and fried filet mignon was a good way to command a higher price for a humble plate. The breading came loose the second my knife descended, revealing soft, medium-cooked meat. Red juices…
J. Kenji López-Alt’s blog, The Food Lab, has been a cult favorite for years among the small community of food lovers who are also science geeks. His long-awaited first cookbook, also The Food Lab, is a 958-page, 6.2-pound monument to culinary nerdery. And it could change the way you cook…
