Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. To build an enviable home bar, you need to invest in…
The Black Truffle Martini on the Pappas Bros. current cocktail menu (which changes semi-annually) elegantly puts the high dollar mushroom to good use by infusing Vermouth with just the right bit of it.
Beer festivals, like this weekend’s Dallas Observer Brewfest in Dallas, create a dilemma for devoted drinkers. There are only so many glasses you’re going to fill and so many lines you’ll wait in. For those of us there to catch a buzz … oh, right, beer is supposed to be…
The Stellar space reopened with some crazy cocktails, including this dramatic beauty, the Cloud Nine, served with cotton candy and dry ice.
On Saturday night, the Dallas Farmers Market will transform into a craft beer wonderland for the Dallas Observer’s seventh annual BrewFest, where you can sip from a selection of more than 500 beers. If you haven’t snagged tickets yet, you’re in luck: In honor of National Beer Lovers’ Day, we’re…
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. Even if you’ve never been to a séance before, you know…
Atwater Alley’s Deadly Angel Makes a Devil of Us All
The Eberhard is serving their Henderson Cooler, a riff on a Last Word, with an optional add-on that will make your mouth actually tingle.
Perry’s Steakhouse & Grill’s Highland Highball brings together Glenmorangie’s original 10-year scotch that features notes of toffee and honey with Grand Marnier and the slight sweetness of almond.
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. A few weeks ago, Thrillist published a controversial story declaring the…
We’d make some cutesy comment about how hot it is out there right now, but it’s safe to say we’re all aware — and we’ve got at least another eight weeks of this heat. How will we ever make it through? Refreshing summer cocktails, that’s how. Here’s what to sip…
Clutch’s new Skinny Watermelon Mule brings all the best things together—a refreshing summer flavor (watermelon), Patrón (because, tequila), and an Instagrammable vessel—and does it without piling on the calories.
On Saturday, Sept. 9, the Dallas Farmers Market will be swimming in beer — more than 500 beers, actually — when the seventh annual Dallas Observer BrewFest once again takes over the Shed at DFM. A $35 general admission ticket gets you access to the festival when the gates open…
The writing is on the wall—well, on the drink in this case—garnishes have gotten literal. Cool River’s new summer cocktail, the Strawberry Flip, has a garnish that flipping tells us it’s the right way to cool off this summer.
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. The last time I was in England, I was 20 years…
Blatt Beer & Table is making sure you get your daily serving of fruit (or at least think you are) with their Tennessee Manhattan.
National Tequila Day is July 24, and we’re going to be celebrating with some of DFW’s best tequila cocktails.
Cafe Salsera started as a Latin restaurant in Deep Ellum, but in the last few months, it became known more for its late-night dance club atmosphere that transforms the quiet restaurant into a packed nightclub that has frustrated some of its neighbors. In Dallas, nightclubs are required to have a…
It started with a bloody mary. Dallas bar veterans Michael Martensen and Omar Yeefoon were in Paris at Harry’s New York Bar, the birthplace of the bloody mary, and they were in awe. The pair has opened and consulted on dozens of Dallas cocktail bars, building menu after menu populated…
TEN50 BBQ’s Mango Margarita can soak up all that spirited fun on National Tequila Day with their amazing BBQ.
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. Sometimes a cocktail comes into your life and fills you with…
If you dig beer, get ready to live it up this weekend — several beer events are at the top of our must-party calendar. ***** It’s Belgian Beer Week at Flying Saucer on the Lake, which means it’s time to get in touch with your Flemish side. The weeklong festivities…
