This week Dallas got a new addition to its fried food repertoire with the opening of Bonchon, a Korean chain specializing in fried chicken and beer. Bonchon opened in Korea nearly 12 years ago and has since spread to 70 restaurants in Southeast Asia and 30 in the United States,…
The sign has been taunting from the shopping center on Live Oak for some time. My Family Pizza, the small restaurant chain formerly known as Pizza By Marco, has been working on a new location in East Dallas. They opened for business yesterday. This location is more of a take-out…
I’ve been driving past El Come Taco’s plastic banner for months now, wondering when they were going to open. The last time I peeked in the window, in mid-October, the place was still full of loose wires and construction dust. It looked like the had a long way to go…
Your poor liver. If the slew of holiday parties you’ve been guilted into attending have you desperately needing a night off, you should avert your eyes, close this window or otherwise prevent yourself from reading one more line in this post. This Sunday, bartenders from Dallas and Fort Worth bars…
The end of 2013 inches closer, bringing with it the beginning of the new year, thoughts of life and death, openings and closings. Earlier we celebrated the most noteworthy restaurant openings of 2013. Now let us take a moment of silence to reflect on those we lost. The biggest closings…
Confession time: I haven’t been the biggest fan of tripe. Before moving to Texas, I’d only eaten stomach a handful of times. The only instance I cleaned my plate was at Restaurant Eve, a four-star restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, with a chef who could turn a shower shoe into a…
Before the salt and sugar brine permeated and seasoned the flesh, before the impossibly crisp skin emerged from the convection oven, before the vibrant red and green salsas joined it on a massive wooden board turned serving dish, the pig’s head was already special. Berkshire pork is prized for its…
Since it opened seven years ago, the Libertine Bar on Greenville Avenue has drawn deal-seekers every Tuesday night by offering a 50 percent discount on its entire food menu. Last night via Facebook they announced that after December 17, half-priced Tuesdays would be a thing of the past, like Hannah…
This was certainly an exciting year for craft beer in North Texas. With a few more brewery openings, new laws and shiny awards, there was a lot to crow about in the local craft beer scene, and it’s not all hangover related (although we have that too). As we complete…
The Dallas dining scene famously is chaotic and hydra-like. Every week sees news of restaurants failing, but for every one that closes it seems two more spring up to take its place. In honor of new beginnings, we’ve put together a list of the 10 most noteworthy restaurants that opened…
For a long time, the zeppole at Cane Rosso were the only versions of the Italian doughnuts I’d tried here in Dallas. Jay Jerrier’s version has a lot of fans — it’s fried dough and sugar; how could it not? — but I’ve always wondered how they’d stand up against…
With so many burger bars, it’s hard to come up with something that really differentiates a new joint from all the others. House-ground meat is an angle many places are taking these days. Some burger restaurants offer house-baked buns to raise the bar higher. Awesome personal service is a big…
Back in July our erudite food critic Scott Reitz put out the call that there was prime coffee shop real estate waiting on Ross Avenue for someone to move in and make a decent cafe out of it. At least one person was paying attention. The intriguingly named Method: Caffeination…
Today Masala Wok opens its fourth restaurant in the DFW area and the only one in Dallas proper, at 6106 Luther Lane. So if for some reason you’re craving Chinese and/or Indian food but would rather deal with the factory-run set up of a fast food chain than go to…
Even the greediest corporations love to put their name on charitable causes, and one of corporate America’s favorite acts of charity is the holiday canned food drive. But the Community Food Pantry Bank of McKinney Director Carol Bodwell has a polite suggestion to the corporations organizing those drives: Consult with…
Last Thursday evening the empty grocery store shelves told the story of our fear of being stuck at home without copious amounts of food. The basics went first — bread, milk, meat — but rest assured bags of chocolate chips, brown sugar and heavy cream were also slim pickings. Barricaded…
Update, 5:10 p.m.: A spokesperson for Barter has informed us the restaurant’s opening has been delayed. A new opening date was not given. Original post: Barter will open today in the old Private|Social location on McKinney Avenue, after holding a soft opening over the weekend. The owners claim Barter will…
The time has come. After months of anticipation — an early announcement in May, banners spotted last month — the people of Bonchon have announced they will open this Wednesday. The newest chapter in Dallas’ Korean fried saga starts at 11 a.m. and the opening might come close to the…
Update, 11:50 a.m., December 7: A manager for the Joule Hotel confirms that CBD Provisions will open at 5 p.m., today. Original post: By now you’ve likely heard news of the electrical fire that occurred last night in front of the Joule Hotel. If you haven’t, check out our live…
Icepocalypse 2013 has put Dallas under a light layer of permafrost and, worse, complicated everybody’s weekend plans. A lot of us were optimistic enough to think that our outdoor activities wouldn’t be frozen out and some of us were clearly foolish for doing so. So we checked up on the…
If you wandered into a grocery store last night, chances are you encountered a larger than normal number of cracked-out shoppers stuffing their carts as if they’d never see another grocery store again. Common convention says that milk and toilet paper are core staples for faux-apocalyptic preparedness, but when I…
This Sunday a hoard of runners will take off from downtown in the skin-hardening cold to compete in the Dallas Marathon. The weather may have turned antagonistic but they will run on undeterred, swaddled in Under Armour and bodyglide. Some people run marathons for the sense of accomplishment, some as…
