On a recent Friday afternoon, CrushCraft gave off the appearance of a restaurant that was firing on all cylinders. Customers from nearby office buildings had trickled down into the Quadrangle storefront, filling at least half of the tables in the dining room and the patio out front — not an…
Community Beer Company started brewing in January 2013 in Dallas’ trendy Design District. Over the course of a little more than a year, they’ve released ten different beers, installed a bottling line, and racked up a half dozen national awards. Every Saturday, they host a Brewery Open House & Tour…
How’s it going, Texas burger taco? Hope all is well on your end. I’m heading out to see you soon — in just a few minutes I’ll be all smoking tires and fishtailing-Honda out of my apartment building. My plan was to order you, with a glacially cold local root…
There are a few new names we all need to get familiar with before the Rangers’ season officially begins on April 1. In addition to Globe Life Park, Shin-Soo Choo, J.P. Arencibia, there’s one more you’re going to want to write on your cheat-sheet: Choomongous. Metroplex Sportservice, which manages the…
If you’re sick of reading about ranch dressing and pizza, you’ll have to get over it or shut off the Internet. In fact, you’ll have to shut off your TV, too, as news programs across the country are picking up and running with the story on Cane Rosso, the small,…
A surprising number of business people have business lunches at Off-Site Kitchen. You might think, being business people, in suits and ties, discussing contracts (all business people ever discuss is contracts) and tapping away on their Blackberries like it’s 2004 might shy away from a place as earthy as Off-Site…
If the tender shoots and budding flowers outside are any indication, growing season is well underway, which means the seasonal farmers markets have started opening around Dallas. The White Rock Local Market started its season earlier this March, and the Coppell Farmers Market starts on March 29, after completing its…
Just a year ago, a drive down Henderson Avenue in East Dallas was a depressing trek through a graveyard littered with the ghosts of restaurants past. Even the most accomplished restaurateurs (including James Beard nominee Nick Badovinus) have tried and failed to sustain a successful business in this seemingly prime…
Don’t all hangover stories start with something yada something, “but it wasn’t my fault”? As hollow as it may sound here, I feel the need to doubly express that my condition on a recent Sunday morning was not my fault. I had innocently bellied up to the bar at Pier…
Earlier this year the Fort Worth brewery Martin House collaborated on a duet with the local band The Toadies. The result was a double red ale called Rubberneck Red that comes from the water. It all started when the band, who is hitting the road this year to promote the…
Welcome to Dallas, Texas. We’re glad to have you. We have explosive live music, exciting local beer, a Calatrava bridge, a crisp downtown park and cheese cheddar fries so good you’ll go ahead and valet park. Holy cheese dome, the Snuffer’s on Greenville has reopened. In case you missed 2013…
Last year was the year of Peticolas Brewing Company. They burst out of the shadows of the Design District to take the beer universe by storm, becoming the first North Texas brewery to win a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012 after only being in business…
It’s time to start thinking about this year’s Iron Fork competition. On May 7, Matt McCallister will have to defend the title he won last year in the sweltering confines of the Dallas Contemporary against Scott Romano. His next challenger is Richard Gras, the chef that recently took charge of…
Are dumplings the world’s most perfect food? They could be. Dumplings are delicious even in their more mediocre incarnations, and when dumplings are perfect they can border on transcendence. A well made dumpling keeps a secret tucked inside a starchy pocket, and tearing into one is not unlike unwrapping a…
Deep Ellum Brewing Company head brewer Jeremy Hunt is a Godsend. He moved to Austria years ago to finish his studies and become a priest. But while there, God introduced Hunt to Belgium craft beer and BAM. He was a convert. He returned home not only a brewer, but married…
Savor, the food and wine event that celebrates everything Dallas, is almost here. Just as with past years, organizers will hold a series of tastings, seminars and events throughout the weekend, but unlike in previous years, the Grand Tasting that anchors the festivities will be held right here in Dallas…
Students at the Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences have found that food picked up just seconds after being dropped on the floor is less likely to contain bacteria than food left for a longer period of time. Everyone with a solid case of the munchies who has…
The dream of the ’90s is alive and well in Addison’s Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse on a Saturday night. Turtlenecked parents toast their daughter for kicking ass in the school play. A grandmother celebrates her 87th birthday with three generations of family and a store-bought ice cream cake. First-daters…
By now you’ve perhaps heard the news: Village Kitchen and Toko V are done at the end of the week. The closure, paired with the recent demise of The Greek and Cafe des Artistes in One Arts Plaza, has local restaurant cognoscenti debating the state of Dallas’ dining scene. Each…
Four Corners Brewing Co. will hit the friendly retail shelves for the first time this weekend. The brewery in Trinity Groves with the proud rooster painted on its not-so-broad-side has been busy canning all three of its All Day Ales, which will be available in 12-ounce six-packs featuring a new…
Smoke and Chicken Scratch chef Tim Byres recently put his culinary soul on paper. And the James Beard Foundation just tipped its hat at the effort. Byres’ book, Smoke: New Firewood Cooking, released last year, was nominated for a book award in the category of general cooking…
Everest Restaurant is a little Nepalese hole in the floor located far enough out in Irving that you will probably only visit when you’re on the way to the airport. It’s BYOB, but that isn’t much of a hassle because there’s a corner store on the same block with plenty…
