Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. There’s something about the new location of Smoke that makes me wonder if…
Like most other cities that are not Philadelphia, Dallas’ cheesesteak scene is seriously lacking. There are a few chain restaurants that make a passable version, and everyone loves the delicious gut-bomb cheesesteaks served up at the Truckyard on Lower Greenville. Now, though, there’s a North Dallas restaurant that is absolutely…
Toasts are kind of a big deal these days, if you haven’t heard. Perhaps it’s their visual appeal compared with traditional sandwiches — those colorful and vivid ingredients exposed to light. Or maybe it’s that toasts have half the carbohydrate load of their fully breaded counterparts. For whatever reason, toasts…
When you first step into Rapscallion, it feels a bit like chaos. This newly opened restaurant is still finding its footing in terms of managing service and logistics, but it operates like a finely tuned machine if you look beneath the frenzied-looking servers. Once you’ve bellied up to the bar,…
Open for about two months now, Uchi is a hot ticket. To secure a seat at this Austin-bred sushi spot, you’re going to need to book reservations about a week in advance. Without them, you’re not getting in without a long wait — unless you know how to outsmart the…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. El Ranchito remains one of my favorite Dallas restaurants. It’s loud, brash and…
For extremely picky Dallasites looking for an exclusive dining experience with rare and seasonal ingredients on an adventurous menu in an intimate setting, there’s a place you might not know about. Yet. It doesn’t happen every night, and some wait over a year to score a reservation. The chefs involved…
Just two years ago I lamented the late-night dining scene here in Dallas. It was awful, and if you wanted to grab a bite after 10 p.m. your options were anything but delicious. And if the hunger pangs struck after, your choices were abysmal. That’s changed greatly in the past…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Any list that gives me an excuse to revisit the papusas at La…
Before we get into any of this I thought I should point out that Old Navy is having a sale on elastic pants right now. Maybe you should bookmark it. Bikini season isn’t going to last forever, you know, and I can personally attest to the comfort and appeal of elastic,…
Deep Ellum venues located on Main Street open their doors every third Thursday evening for Wine Walk. This event is perfect for the art-lover whose resveratrol levels could use a little pick-me-up. For $10 you get a specially designed wine glass that will be topped off as you meander through…
Over the years, Shannon Wynne’s beer-driven gastropub Meddlesome Moth has seen some ups and downs. When it first opened, the Moth had a dedicated following and continually cranked out some of the best swanky bar food in the city. But as is always true in fickle Dallas, somewhere along the…
Everything is hot. The steering wheel, the bridge, those metal birds in Deep Ellum, the hose nozzle out back, Jim Schutze and the mailbox are all like smoking nuclear rods. Yesterday I grabbed a metal chair that had been sitting outside on a bright patio, and now I can shoot powerful…
Just in case you were hoping someone would combine the unbridled glamour of a pawnshop with an upscale bar and restaurant, your wish is granted because this is Dallas, and anything is possible. District Entertainment Group has announced it will soon open Uptown Pawn, a hybrid pawnshop, bar and restaurant…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. At the intersection of quaint coffee shop and lovable bakery lies Boulangerie, a…
Tucked into a nondescript strip mall in Plano, Taipei Station Cafe is the kind of place people who love food want to know about but have yet to discover. Not that it isn’t popular — on weekends around lunchtime, Taipei is packed to the gills and the line stretches past…
The farm-to-table movement in Dallas is still going strong, at least that seems to be the case with the proliferation of restaurants that promise this style of locally focused cuisine. On the home kitchen front, though, it looks as if Dallasites might be losing interest in purchasing locally made meat…
It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Deep Ellum. Groups of friends are gathered at the Anvil Pub, where brunch cocktails with ridiculous garnishes are considered prerequisite weekend libations. A line of hungry looking diners stretches out the door at Pecan Lodge. And then there is Café Salsera. It’s the new…
The red “A” hanging over Elm Street was first illuminated about a month ago, alerting pedestrians that their next late-night dining option was ready for business. Armoury Deep Ellum (or Armoury D.E.) brings a familiar mix of cocktails, beer and food in a dimly lit space reminiscent of the steampunk…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. In a city where fine dining can get a little stuffy, FT33 brings…
Last night, nearly 350 of Dallas’ biggest foodies helped Chefs for Farmers kick off their 2015 season by drinking a lot of summer punch and gorging on street food. The Mix Off, held in downtown event center, DEC on Dragon, was a competition including five of Dallas’ best sous chefs…
Dallas has two cat cafes in the works. Lewisville’s Charming Cat Café forged a relationship with local shelter Kitty Save, and has their eyes on a location with a safely walled-in patio. They even launched a Kickstarter to raise cash. Meanwhile, Muffinmeow Café and Cat Lounge is drafting a business…
