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. While a few Spanish restaurants call Dallas home, finding a Spanish meal worth…
Honeybees have it tough these days. Despite increased attention from science, colony collapse and the deaths of bees by the millions continue to worry beekeepers and farmers who depend on bees to pollinate their crops worldwide. While many blame systemic pesticide use, the practice continues to dominate modern agriculture, leading…
A basket of nuts does little to stir the pulse as it slides across the bar. The snack is older than pull-tabs and seldom very interesting. Bar nuts are almost always poured directly from the package they’re shipped in, and if they’re mixed, you have to worry about cherry pickers…
At a place like CBD Provisions, it’s easy for the myth to overtake the reality. As soon as this swanky-casual spot in the Joule Hotel served up the first pig’s head (complete with eye) with tortillas and salsa, it quickly became the most talked-about dish of the last year. What…
Each week, I set out to dig into at least one of Dallas’ best desserts. This quest has landed me everywhere from dumpy little dives to some of the city’s most elegant restaurants. Whether I’m gulping down a milkshake or savoring dessert/art that’s almost too beautiful to eat, I love…
Dallas has offered many bars and restaurants to her suburbs, but it’s rare to hear about the outliers pushing their way in. Dot’s Hop House & Cocktail Courtyard will accomplish just that when the bar and restaurant created by Denton residents opens in Deep Ellum next year. The mouthful of…
Last week news came that Shannon Wynne had hired a new chef for his restaurant Meddlesome Moth. The Design District gastropub has been known for its sprawling beer selection, special events devoted to craft beer and the food that ties it all together. Richard Graff will take over as executive…
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. San Salvaje is a restaurant that defies every stereotype of the downtown Dallas…
It used to be a discount tire shop. On a peninsula on the corner of Ross and Greenville, Ross Discount Tire was a place you could swerve into and get your nail-bludgeoned tire swapped as fast as Marvel’s Quicksilver and hilariously cheap. Now it’s Pints and Quarts, a Bob’s Big…
Whiskey Cake is many things. It is a Green Certified business of Plano. It is a farm-to-fork restaurant. It is very, very popular. And it is passive aggressive. This is quite an accusation to bandy about, I know. Call it cavalier, but Whiskey Cake had it coming when they served…
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. Most Italian beef sandwiches sold in Dallas are exactly the same. Chicago-based Vienna…
It’s high summer, and the weather is perfect for light beers and our favorite fruity cocktails. But it’s also the right time to pop a crisp, refreshing bottle of wine. We got tired of reading online “Top Summer Wine” lists of bottles you can only get in New York or…
Martin House Brewery, located in downtown Fort Worth, started brewing beer in 2013. Since then, it has grown into one of the better breweries in the area. With the success of various fruit-infused session beers and IPAs, it seems like every brewery is putting one out and Martin House is…
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. I can think of many more reasons to come to Palapas than I…
Jeffrey Yarbrough and Chad Boyle have taken over the popular Dallas drinking den Cedars Social and plan a number of changes in the weeks ahead. The announcement comes after previous owners Brian Williams and Michael Martensen stole headlines with their disagreements about the business. Yarbrough says landlord Jack Matthews approached…
Luscher’s Luscher’s is still my go-to place for rounding out my square edges in Deep Ellum. Loosen your belt? It’s best you leave your belt at the door. Start with hot dogs, two at a time, and then make your way through an Italian beef while slugging local beer. …
Lauren Samuel Meyn, a former associate editor at Bon Appetit, current Fort Worth resident and longtime vegetarian, will speak at the Modern this Thursday in order to promote her book, Meatless in Cowtown: A Vegetarian Guide to Food and Wine, Texas-Style. Kim McPherson, owner and wine-maker of McPherson Cellars, will…
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. A crispy vietnamese pancake filled with seafood may be one of life’s very…
When we talk about “Dallas” food, we’re often leaving out a crucial half of the culinary landscape — Fort Worth. Our sister city may be a good haul away from Dallas, but its restaurant scene, while independent and unique, is viewed as a sort of extension of our own culinary…
DFW’s favorite limey Brit Gavin Cleaver recently regaled us with an account of Texas barbecue in London, which put my mind at ease to a certain extent. Even if the product wasn’t any good, at least I knew that someone somewhere had meat on a smoker, should my blood’s oak…
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. Ethiopian has become one of my go-to meals in Dallas when I’m looking…
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a spork is a spoon-shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip, but that’s not how the term is most often used. The Oxford English Corpus, a multibillion-word database of written and spoken English, reports “spork” is employed most often as a verb…
