All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. See other entries from the series in our coffee archive. A few years back, after years spent behind coffee bars, Gerald LaRue decided it was time to delve deeper into the business of coffee. He ended up in Juno,…
Like craft beer and chef-driven restaurants before it, specialty coffee is having its moment, finally, in Dallas: Davis Street Espresso, in Oak Cliff, has found that a lack of Wi-Fi and to-go cups has not meant a lack of customers. Ascension, in the Design District, hums all day, despite limited…
Earlier this morning, a thief hurled a brick through the glass front door of Method Coffee, the specialty coffee shop in East Dallas. The register was robbed of approximately $300 dollars, according to a barista working the counter. Employees arrived early in the morning to find a gaping hole in…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. See other entries from the series in our coffee archive. Kevin Betts and Ryan Smith are chasing the perfect cup. This never-ending pursuit eventually pulled these two brothers-in-law into forming Novel Coffee. Both have been involved in the coffee…
The number of taquerias in Dallas that serve their taco fillings on handmade tortillas is limited. Most employ the standard working man’s tortilla, an honest round pressed from masa that’s reheated on a hot grill. These tortillas are dependable and get the job done, but their texture is lacking. They’re…
There is no day on your future schedule, none whatsover, in which you will get more work done than the day you sipped a Kyoto Brew from Ascension. You know that level of caffenination when you find yourself saying words at ten times the normal volume, and your laughs burst…
Grapevine Craft Brewery is celebrating one blissfully hoppy year of craft brewing. It’s a civic affair, this celebration, or so the guest list would imply. Grapevine’s mayor is expected to be in attendance, as are lots of other people who can’t be identified in a crowd. Ten beers — including…
“How do you get a hot dog to stand up?” I’d just walked into sərj, the new coffee shop downtown, and co-owner John Walsh had asked me if I’d like to hear the joke of the day. It’s not exactly the sort of question you can comfortably say no to…
It’s no secret that people living in parts of Dallas that lie south of the Trinity River struggle for access to fresh, healthy food. Whole Foods and Central Markets and farmers markets are abundant in wealthier parts of Dallas, but people in poorer neighborhoods often rely, necessarily, on convenience stores…
The Design District is on its way to becoming known for its beer culture as much as it is high end furniture and art galleries. The folks behind Noble Ray Brewery have announced they’ll be setting up shop as the fourth beer maker in the neighborhood. Meddlesome Moth’s seemingly endless…
It used to be that you could only find “good food,” the fancy kind made with quality ingredients, in restaurants that required both a jacket and half the average person’s weekly salary for dinner. Now, though, times are different. Fine dining restaurants are struggling to adapt to diners who are…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. Monday we introduced you to the guy behind Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters, and yesterday the guys behind Tweed. Jonathan Meadows was 18 when he started working at White Rock Coffee and fell in love with coffee culture. “A big…
There are many steakhouses in Dallas — places where you can order a thick cut of beef with potatoes gratin and spinach as a side, and places that serve plenty of overpriced bottles of red wine. You can treat yourself to a cold shrimp cocktail or freshly shucked oysters to…
Shows what I know. Of all of the Mico Rodriguez restaurants, Mesero Miguel, on Henderson Avenue, was my favorite. But apparently the restaurant is in trouble. See also: Mico Rodriguez and His Growing Tex-Mex Empire Are Putting Mi Cocina to Shame The sign has been taken down for a rebranding…
If you haven’t made it to Deep Ellum in the last year, you may not realize that it’s currently undergoing a massive facelift. Segments of the streets and sidewalks are missing, all in the name of renovating the old neighborhood with a uniquely grungy reputation. Now, it looks as if…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. Yesterday, we introduced you to the guy behind Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters. When it was announced, almost a year ago, that the original Pearl Cup coffee shop on Henderson Avenue would close, highly caffeinated tears were shed: It was…
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up shop, goop, is open in Highland Park Village, with some bougie linen napkins and other nicknacks filling in admirably for Paltrow herself. Picture a lifestyle store that’s a bit like Martha Stewart’s line of home furnishings that took over half of Kmart, only the quality and character…
Imagine this: Saturday night, while you and your fuzzy-ass slippers shiffled to the thermostat to crank your heater to 11, four teams of fancy chefs were huddled around smokers in a muddy West Dallas parking lot, drinking beer and cooking meat overnight in freezing temperatures, all in the name of…
Shannon Neffendorf’s entry into coffee roasting came out of selfish necessity. His job with Blockbuster (remember that) required work trips to Milan several times a year, and he soon found himself meeting with friends for cappuccino in the morning and taking a break for an espresso in the afternoon. “I…
It’s time to look on the bright side of all this gloomy, frigid weather. You can sit and pout as that blustering wind paints your cheeks pink and turns your nose into a faucet, or you can take comfort in the fact that oysters all over the country are coming…
I’m sure you’ve had that experience: You’re looking at someone’s face and thinking, “I know I’ve seen this guy before,” but his name eludes you. I just had the same thing happen to me while I was looking at the logo for a restaurant. An Old Chicago is moving into…
When the former owners of Knox Street Pub sold their business last summer to eventually open Glass Boot Biergarten, not much attention was paid to the business they left behind. The Boguses renovated a liquor store to open a restaurant and bar with a massive patio, only to have the…
