Bars & Breweries

Screw Dry January … we just found some cocktails that are a little better for us.

Street’s Fine Chicken offers a Flu Shot cocktail featuring chicken stock and shochu.

Open since September 2019, Westlake Brewing Company joins Deep Ellum Brewing Company and BrainDead Brewing in making the ever-evolving entertainment district of Deep Ellum as much of a top-tier craft beer destination as it has ever been. Unlike the larger Deep Ellum Brewing and the more food-focused Braindead, Westlake is…

Dallas Proper opened on New Year’s Eve and is offering a spicy set of signature cocktails.

Midnight Rambler’s holiday menu offers many festive cocktails to put a bow on 2019.

Over the last few years, Roanoke has seen a boom in growth as its list of residents expands and more business pops up, adding a variety of restaurants, small pubs and stores to capture the attention of locals and visitors. Although there has been plenty of growth and new buildings…

Wade Wadlington’s big-kid job was in IT. An IT manager for a bank, to be specific. But he always loved cooking and, as an extension of that, brewing beer. He first started experimenting with hops and mash in 1999, which was way before the local craft beer “boom,” before people…

The holiday season has dawned upon us, and that means it’s time for delicious holiday creations — not only in the realm of food, but beer, as well. Each year local breweries are hard at work to come up with new, enticing recipes to captivate the craft beer lover’s palate…

Jalisco Norte uses a traditional Mexican herb to bring us a spicy margarita.

With such a momentous food year in Dallas, some have failed to recognize the stellar bars that we’ve seen crop up across DFW. And there were quite a few. So, in no particular order, we’re ready to crown our own winners of Best New Bars of 2019.

Has holiday shopping got you tense? Well, we’re here to help. We’re here to soothe your frazzled mind. We’re here to kick that special, glittery-variety of anxiety you save for this time a year down a few notches. So, we asked a few tenders of drinks for two gift suggestions:…

The nip in the air and the incessant drone of Christmas music means it’s that time of year when we take Melissa’s mom to tea. High tea in the American interpretation almost universally means standard black teas served in the lobby of a reasonably nice hotel to guests ensconced in…

To warm us up now that it’s finally chilly (again), for the first time they’re offering five of “Mama’s Hot Mixes”.

Monday afternoon, as gray clouds rolled in and chill winds slashed their way through Dallas-Fort Worth, a crowd was huddled in the warm environs of a brewery aside the Trinity River. Not our (Dallas’) Trinity River. The occasion was to imbibe simultaneously in two of Fort Worth’s finest darlings: Martin…

Having a gay ol’ time in Dallas doesn’t need to cost you an arm and a leg. While all of the bars in Oak Lawn and on the Cedar Springs Strip have deals and specials of their own, there is a lesser-known secret shared by all of the Caven-owned bars…

Oh, Adolphus, you can’t let the holidays slip by without decorating your historic hotel to the max and hosting something called a “bubble lounge,” can you? Perrier-Jouet is taking over the French Room Bar there throughout the month, giving us so much festive decoration and a special Champagne and cocktail…

Trick Pony’s From Dusk ’til Dawn is a spicy cocktail featuring our new addiction, a ghost pepper tequila.

Dallas bartenders are getting together next Monday, and not to share a toast with each other. But guests can do that as they try whatever the professionals create for a cause. This event, called Spirits to Lift Spirits, is bringing together eight bartenders in Dallas to compete in a “winner-give-all”…

Just about this time 86 years ago, people had a lot to celebrate: the end of Prohibition. And 86 years later, Dallas bars aren’t stopping. Just imagine if we couldn’t drink alcohol today. No, thanks. From Wednesday to Friday, we’ve found some spots offering fun ways to celebrate, and era-appropriate…

This boozy caffeinated cocktail is a marriage of a carajillo and an espresso martini.

Truluck’s is giving us a great reason to ditch our family next week with their fall cocktail offerings. And happy hour.

Fine China will relaunch the brand with new cocktails and food, including its Bamboo Forest cocktail.