Canned Mackerel and Pub Ale Served Soon at Eight Bells Alehouse

Ten Bells co-owner Meri Dahlke just released new details about her upcoming pub and things just got weird in the most delicious way. Dahlke dished on the upcoming menu, which is unlike any other offering in Dallas. Her kitchen will intimately embrace European dining sensibilities. Before we talk plates, though,…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 29: La Banqueta

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.  From the street, La Banqueta does little to differentiate itself from the other…

Six Awesome Food Events This Weekend August 14-17: Circus Freaks, Automobiles and Farm Food

Here’s one the kids will love/be terrified of. Salmagundi! is one part circus performance, one part dinner. The big-shoed, bendy and musical folks behind Circus Freaks, a local troupe of entertainers, is taking their circus dinner theater to Carrollton’s Plaza Arts Center. Here’s hoping they’ll do the ol’ pull-the-lapin-a-la-bourguignonne-out-of-the-hat-trick. Tickets…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 30: Remedy

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.  This Greenville Avenue newcomer has so many cures it’s clear the restaurant takes…

The New Uptown Whole Foods Is Open

The Uptown location of Whole Foods opened this week, ready to embrace the millennial swarms and stymie traffic along McKinney Avenue. In addition to providing neighborhood locals with both organic and a growing selection of conventional foods, the latest Whole Foods location also provides a window into the direction the…

Jambo’s New Arlington BBQ Shack is Where Barbecue Excess Lives

Arlington was a city begging for its signature barbecue place. Sure, David’s and Eddie Deen Crossroads offer barbecue well above the average standard, but they’re not quite destination locations. Now husband and wife duo Paul and Ashton Lovato believe they’ve answered that call by bringing Jambo’s Barbeque Shack’s second location…

Welcome to Tacolandia 2015: A Taco Lover’s Paradise

I’ve heard rumblings of a coming uprising — that taco consumption is increasing with such enthusiasm that it might eclipse the burger as our primary subject of affection. Can you imagine that? A world where the taco reigns supreme as our go-to source of protein and sustenance? You could join…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 31: Blind Butcher

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 is no greater tribute to meat in Dallas than Blind Butcher, where…

Every Day is a Party at Cake Bar

Cake Bar sold out of cake on their opening weekend. Many a cake-seeker knocked at their door only to be met with a sign that meant they were S-O-L. That was almost a year ago. Surely by now, the enthusiasm has died down, right? Wrong. Even on a Wednesday night,…

Checking Out Oak Highlands Brewery in Lake Highlands

As we’ve said before, the Dallas-Fort Worth area gets a new brewery about every 10 minutes, as the craft beer industry grows locally and nationally, some worry about an economic bubble.  Until that bubble pops, if you live out in one of the suburbs that still lacks a brewery, just…

5 Delicious Locally Made Finds On Your Grocery Store’s Shelves

You might have heard this: Eating local is a thing now, especially in the city’s restaurants. As Dallas diners flock to farmers markets and learn more about the bounty of local food around them, they expect to see ingredients made in their city. Oddly enough, that mentality doesn’t always translate…

Eat This: Tempura Bacon Sushi During Happy Hour at Lounge 31

Inconspicuously located above Bistro 31 in Highland Park Village, Lounge 31 welcomes people looking for a classy, comfortable afternoon hangout. Seating is a mix of couches, ottomans, bar stools and regular tables, letting you choose to dine comfortably or kick back and relax with a drink. Air-conditioned rooms provide refuge…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 32: Mr. Max

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.  Mr. Max doesn’t reveal itself until you’ve walked through the door. The parking…

Sevan G&G Cafe Serves Up the Perfect Hangover Brunch

It’s Sunday morning, and the only reason I’m awake is because someone turned the damn sun on. My so-called blackout curtains failing to black out anything, I groan out of bed and shuffle to the kitchen in search of water and caffeine. At least a half bottle of wine is…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 33: Carbone’s

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.  Dallas has plenty of Italian American restaurants. What it needs is more good…

Lake Highland Creamery To Open First Storefront

It wasn’t too long ago that Lake Highlands Creamery was one of Dallas’ tiniest ice cream shops, operating out of a rented kitchen space and selling over-the-top ice cream bars to Luscher’s Red Hots. Owner Sean Brockette also took orders through his website and hit up the occasional farmers market,…

The Burger at Rapscallion Is Transcendent

A few minutes before dinner service fires up at Rapscallion (on the dot at 5:30 p.m.), I’m sitting a preciously-designed two-person table in the bar area, hands folded in my lap, watching the kitchen come together. Somewhere in between the Greenville traffic, the swarming heat, and an article about the…