In Happy Endings, food critic Scott Reitz travels part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. This is the second in an occasional series. If you’re dining on Greenville Avenue and you’ve got a discerning palate for sweets, there’s a…
Fancy a Moscow Mule? The drink that may leave you with a headache in the morning has been the source of far more discomfort for bar owners everywhere. The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier this week about the rampant disappearance of the copper mugs commonly used to serve…
Dallas has been slow to embrace the food truck the way other cities have. Newer venues in the city like Klyde Warren Park and Truck Yard have helped, and steadily Dallas is becoming a more hospitable environment. By January, if all goes well, the city will also get its first…
1. An ice storm wiped out the shelves at local grocery stores…
Good news if you have a craft beer lover on your good list: there’s a lot of options. Bad news: there are just so many options! Dallas has done well in embracing the craft beer wave. From breweries, to retail spots, home brewing outlets and chef-driven beer bars, there’s plenty…
Service goes a long way in the restaurant business. A waiter’s friendly demeanor can convince a small party to order two desserts instead of one, or stay for one last drink instead of slipping out the door for a nightcap. Service is what makes a customer come back to a…
We all knew this day would come. At the end of January, Kitchen LTO chef Norman Grimm will have braised his last shank, seared his last scallop and theatrically melted his last chocolate OMG. Grimm’s name will be striped from the marquee, and a new menu and dining concept will…
Have you been to Trinity Groves lately? It’s pretty amazing how many restaurants have opened in just a short period of time. Most of the newest restaurants are all lined up in the building north of Singleton Avenue, and each has a neon sign glowing above the front door. It’s…
It’s been a food-heavy year for Dallas, what with all the restaurant openings and closings, chef changes, foodie events and more. As the photographer assigned to shooting most of the plates we photograph, I was asked to pick out some of my favorite food shots from the year. Here are…
As 2013 comes to a close, we could focus on all of the peace and goodwill toward men that we wish for in the coming year. We could put aside our differences, invite some vegans to a barbecue and toast a gluten-free beer with our friends. Or we could look…
Back in November we let you know that Mattito’s, the Tex-Mex restaurant on Routh Street in Uptown, was on the move. Hopefully you’ve quit driving around in circles wondering where they went. The new location opened at the beginning of December, and if business earlier this week was any indication,…
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. is launching what founder John Reardon says may be their best beer yet tonight at Goodfriend Beer Garden. After enjoying a sample bottle, I am inclined to agree. Also featured in the 6 p.m. tap takeover are 2011 and 2012 Darkest Hour (my other candidate in…
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year food-borne disease causes nearly 50 million people to become sick, 128,000 to be hospitalized and 3,000 to die. More than half of these outbreaks originate in restaurants and delis, so the CDC sent health inspectors to local and chain…
If you haven’t made it yet to Bonchon, the Korean sports bar with the unbelievably sticky-sweet-spicy fried chicken, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. The restaurant has only been open for a week, but today, via its Facebook page, management announced that they’ll be shutting down temporarily…
Santa may have a little tango with a Temptress while in Dallas. The elves at Lakewood Brewing Co. have been busy hand-stamping labels for a limited bottling of their Bourbon Barrel Temptress, an imperial milk stout. See also: – Six New Local Winter Beers To Keep You Warm – The…
At this point, nobody’s surprised. It’s an uncomplicated idea in the year of 2013 d.t. (doritus tacous): every month, or bi-weekly in some quick food places, a fast food restaurant will release an arm-bracingly intense challenge food, an Inceptiony food inside a food, or a Frankenstenian other food jacked into…
Remember this choriqueso from El Tizoncito? The picture, taken in 2011, was so bad it gave me the idea to look at all of my photos from that year in a hunt for the worst, and it turned out that the heap of cheese and sausage one commenter likened to…
The Dallas late-night eating scene is about to get a little bigger. Formerly of Napa Valley, husband-and-wife team Allison Yoder and Stephen Rogers (who, preliminary research reveals, is not Captain America) have announced that they will open their new restaurant, Gemma, at 2323 Henderson Avenue, the day after Christmas. Gemma,…
OpenTable just released a list of the best restaurants in the United States for 2013, as voted by their users. As CultureMap points out, two Dallas restaurants made the list, representing half of all the entries from Texas: the French Room in the Adolphus Hotel and the Capital Grille in…
I think the change sneaked up on me a bit, the same way a Saint Bernard puppy puts on five pounds every time you take your eyes off it. Think about how much the local beer scene has changed over just the last two years in Dallas. The amount of…
Good news for fans of America’s national pastime. A new study finds that even heavy drinkers have a lower mortality rate than people who are complete teetotalers. The University of Texas at Austin study, headed by psychologist and national hero Charles Holahan, just released the results under the title Late-Life…
If you spent some time at any of a few area barbecue restaurants this weekend, you might have bumped into Texas Barbecue Guru Daniel Vaughn and TV Person Andrew Zimmern as they palled around eating Texas barbecue. Zimmern was in town filming for an episode of Bizzare Foods America, which…
