Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare are the proprietors of the little hot spot in East Dallas, Mot Hai Ba, as wells as Good 2 Go Taco. Their culinary trail winds far and wide through the Dallas landscape. Collectively, the pins on their map include Ciudad, Daddy Jack’s, The Standard in…
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…
Lowest Greenville Avenue hasn’t been an easy place to run a bar or restaurant. The strip’s tainted past, punctuated by a violent July Fourth incident that ended in citations, arrests and more than a dash of pepper spray, has drawn the watchful eye of the Dallas City Council. The resulting…
I read about the new whiskeys from Herman Marshall back in July, and I’ve been on the hunt ever since. Maybe I should have been more diligent — it is whiskey after all — but every bar I checked didn’t have it. When I called bars that were listed in…
The shopping, dining and entertainment development Mockingbrid Station is hosting fundraiser for the late Kidd Kraddick’s Kidd’s Kids Foundation, which raises money to send chronically or terminally ill children and their families to Disney World. The development is selling tickets to a three-restaurant tour that will include a special menu…
Surely Shimond Bradley, chef and operator of The Crazy Pig food truck, didn’t invest his time and money into Johnson and Wales University for a culinary degree to work in 120-plus degree heat in a virtual hot box for slim wages and a never-ending workload. Or maybe he did. Bradley…
Last week the Uptown location of the Londoner was shuttered. Owner Barry Tate couldn’t successfully negotiate a lease with his landlord, and after five years of serving Uptown residents pints of beer and fish and chips, he was permanently locked out of the building. Charlotte Tate, Barry’s daughter, who manages…
There is no doubt Jay Jerrier is deft with social media. Certainly the quality of his food helps explain the success of both locations of his Cane Rosso pizza restaurants, but his skilled use of Facebook and Twitter doesn’t hurt. The Deep Ellum location of his Neapolitan pizza restaurant has…
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…
I picked up a tip from the Barefoot Contessa once about allowing ice cream to melt just a bit — or a lot if you want a really easy dessert sauce — prior to indulging in a scoop. Yes, cold is the essence of ice cream, but ice cream that’s…
Everybody has that Dallas friend who seems to know everything about every restaurant in this fine city. But have things gone a little too far? Are we on a first-name basis with way too many sommeliers in town? Is it easier for people to find you sitting at a table…
In late July, a swarm of bees attacked Kristen Beauregard and her two prize miniature ponies in Pantego, a small township near Arlington. Some 300,000 bees had built a hive inside of a shed on Beauregard’s property. Pantego city officials have confirmed that the bees in the attack were of…
Summer is almost out, which in many locales means the end is nigh for both camp and barbecue. But this is Texas, when meat-torching season never ends and camping is year-round, presuming meat and fire are available. So it’s no surprise that even in January, you can go to meat…
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…
Last week the Brewers Association reported that during the first half of 2013, Americans purchased some 7.3 million barrels of craft beer, up from 6.4 million over the first half of 2012. Overall dollar sales and volume were up 15 and 13 percent, respectively. All of this despite decreased overall…
Been to Louie’s lately? You know the place: bad parking, cash and AmEx only, expensive cans of beer, potentially surly waitresses and all that other fine stuff. Customers just either get the hole-in-the wall spot or they don’t. Whether or not you like cracker-like pizza crust and flavors (both culinary…
If you have $20 burning a hole in your pocket and you want to eat a doughnut that could burn a hole in your stomach, you’ll be interested in Hypnotic Donut’s upcoming contest. See Also: I Ate the Hellfire at Hypnotic Donuts and Lived to Tell About It The event…
Lakewood Brewing Company’s first anniversary party started just after noon, but at 7 p.m., when the sun had given up punishing everything beneath it, owner Wim Bens’ event felt like it was just getting started. Cars filed behind the building where auxiliary parking had been set up for the day,…
The road to pancakes isn’t as flat as you think it might be. Mark Davis Bailey, owner of the six area Original Pancake Houses (OPH), has had an enlightening journey to the restaurant business involving gymnastics, architecture, Epcott Center, Jakarta, a grass roots investment club and being confronted about sub-par…
Urban Vineyard is not finished yet. The new downtown liquor store opened Friday with shelves sparsely filled and refrigerators not yet cold enough to chill the beer. But: It’s open. See also: This Week in Downtown Dallas, Urban Vineyard Begins its Quest to Keep You Fed and Buzzed Located at…
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…
With Lakewood’s anniversary party coming up Sunday, you’ve got plenty of reasons to drink a lot of beer, and you should. But not before we wrap up this week’s food news. This week I visited the Russian Banya in Carrollton. Check out the review, and if it sounds like the…
