For people who live and work in downtown Dallas, City Tavern was the ideal neighborhood bar. After City Tavern opened in 2004, its cheap drinks, no-frills bar food and cozy dive bar ambiance made it the neighborhood’s favorite hang spot, a real-life Cheers where bartenders set your usual on the…
It’s no secret Las Colinas has become the most entertaining part of Irving, reinforced by last year’s opening of entertainment complex Toyota Music Factory. Despite the failure of Big Beat Dallas, and the restaurants associated with it, a ton of other food and drink options remain. One such business is…
Pappas Bros.’s Irish Coffee uses dark sugars and Amaro Montenegro to set their Irish Coffee apart from other traditional ICs.
District 9 Draught House brings German pub food and draft craft beer, including growler fills, to Lake Highlands.
Through the end of February, Kenny’s Burger Joint offers two Girl Scout Cookie cocktail options: Thin Mint and Samoa milkshakes with optional booze, just in case your Scout wants a taste.
We’ve always been fans of grocery stores where you can sip beer and wine while you shop — buying vegetables just feels less humdrum while nursing a glass of rosé. Now, a Plano mall is letting visitors sip booze while shopping, which is about to make that bathing suit-buying experience…
Veronica and Craig Bradley mortgaged their future to open the brewpub Vector Brewing in Lake Highlands. In December, they signed a lease for the 10,000-square foot brewery. Just 14 days later, the federal government shutdown started, and now, the Bradleys’ future — and Vector Brewing — is in terrifying (and expensive) limbo.
It’s National Mocktail Week, so we thought we’d embrace a booze-free option and we were DELIGHTED that Blue Sushi Sake Grill offers not just one, but FOUR creative, zero-proof cocktails to keep our hands occupied and our self-awareness in check.
Beer cocktails are a pretty common sight on many of the menus and chalkboards of North Texas’ favorite craft beer destinations. And any Mexican joint worth its Tajin has some form of michelada available come brunch time. By flipping the script, Peticolas Brewing just introduced something far more rare to…
Jalisco Norte offers us four Ranch Water slants. Our favorite is the Early Riser; it’s just the thing to get us through these weird 60-degrees-in-January days and not ruin our resolutions … just yet.
If you frequent the Whippersnapper — that smaller establishment next to High Fives off North Henderson Avenue — the place might look a little different than usual. The bar closed after a massive New Year’s Eve party, but something new has already opened in its place — something new, something…
The Guadalajaran, a large format cocktail from Vidorra, is here to help us ruin our resolutions and pour on the fun.
It’s time to go green, and Overeasy is giving you the chance to do just that with their Proud Mary, and just in time for National Bloody Mary Day on January 1.
Our favorite cocktail cave, Midnight Rambler, puts Cassia Cinnamon to use in one of the cocktails in its holiday lineup of 12 merry mixes to get you into the spirit(s), the Nutcracker Flail.
The Grape’s cocktail, the Grape 72, is a light remix of the classic, subbing brandy for gin.
Some local bars have us feeling festive thanks to their holiday pop-ups and seasonal menus.
Silver Fox Steakhouses will offer a small holiday cocktail menu including the Figgy Sidecar, a festive take on the classic.
They say that hindsight is 20/20, but looking back at the bars that 2018 brought to DFW, we’re just seeing double. 2018 brought us a few tiki options and plenty of hipster hot spots, some of which quickly became staples of the local bar scene. With some end-of-year openings, we’re hopeful for what some new bars will bring in the new year — but for now, it’s too soon to call.
Every year, Miracle throws Christmas-themed pop-up bars in cities all around the world. It started as a pop-up bar in New York City in 2014 but quickly grew into an international annual tradition in the cocktail world, with more than 80 major cities hosting Miracle pop-ups. This year, you’ll find…
To help alleviate your post-Thanksgiving tryptophan come down, Water Grill’s November cocktail can be your “hair of the dog”.
Jettison’s new menu turned out some comforting (read: boozy) tipples, including the Sleepy Coyote.
The Miller Tavern and Beer Garden offers a Peanut Butter Old Fashioned. And we didn’t hate it.
