Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 25: Cafe Urbano

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Pakpao’s Punch

The cuisine of Thailand is forceful and diverse. It’s deeply rooted in the same hot and sweet, sour and salty combination that forms the basis of most Asian cooking, but it’s influenced heavily by India, which lent spices, cooking techniques and a splash of Buddhism. South America offered the chiles…

Cane Rosso Coming to Cowtown

Strategic social media stalking has led to perhaps the most celebratory news for all pizza purists west of Interstate 35E: Il Cane Rosso is coming to Fort Worth. Dallas’ own Pizza Heisenberg, Jay Jerrier, dropped the not-so-subtle hint via the Cane Rosso Facebook page earlier today, setting off a torrent…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 26: El Ranchito

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Mesero Miguel To Open September 16

Back in June we had a brief conversation with Mico Rodriguez about his soon to open Mesero Miguel, the Mexican restaurant that will replace the Lemon Bar after its failed attempt to take over the space this spring. Before that, Alma brought fluffy tortillas and Mexican food to the same…

Vanity Fair Pokes Fun At Tomato Lust

If you like anything passionately, Vanity Fair may have its sights set on you. The magazine has released a series of short videos bashing film and music snobs, and now they’re taking aim at food nerds. Heirloom tomatoes are under attack, and the results are unfortunately hilarious and accurate. If…

Wine Poste to Host Cafe Momentum for an Autumn Moon Harvest Feast

Chef Chad Houser runs a little outfit you’ve hopefully heard of called Café Momentum, which is a restaurant training platform that provides culinary experience to post-release juvenile offenders from the Dallas County Youth Village. Since 2011 Cafe Momentum has hosted more than 20 dinners that have paired great chefs with…

Dallas’ Best Brunch Gut Bombs

As Americans, our love of brunch has been well documented. The combination of carbohydrates, fats, meats, sweets and eggs is completely intoxicating to us, even before you add in the liquor component. There’s nothing better, really. Brunch is what makes Sunday awesome for a lot of us. In fact, you…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 27: Ten Bells Tavern

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

First Look at Campuzano Mexican Food

On Wednesday evening, a new “Mexican” restaurant quietly opened within walking distance from Dallas Observer HQ. We’d watched with curiosity as the building at 2618 Oak Lawn Ave. made the transition from the former brick, beige and bland law offices of Robert S. Gregg to the new, stylized wooden façade…

Greek Food Festival Is Back: Now With Real Lamb!

I have a little running joke with Mary Carter, who handles press relations for the Greek Food Festival every year. When I first got to Dallas I called her and asked if they’d be roasting whole lambs at the event, because, you know, it’s a Greek food festival. Most Greek…

The Scoop on Sprinkles Ice Cream (Photos)

When a brand spanking new doughnut shop and ice cream parlor both open on the same day, it makes for interesting times here in Big D. Last Friday while Glazed Donut Works in Deep Ellum posted a sign that they were already sold out just two hours after opening, another…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 28: La Pasadita

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…