Bars & Breweries

Pie Tap is attempting to replace the standard with a leveled-up Irish Coffee that they’re calling the Irish Nitro.

Beer drinkers of DFW, get ready: Presale starts today for Dallas Observer BrewFest, our seventh annual outdoor beer tasting event that, this year, will bring more than 500 beers from around the world (and North Texas in particular) to the Dallas Farmers Market on Saturday, Sept. 9. A $35 general…

The common children’s sandwich that graced many a lunch room table with affixed stools is now showing its face at Dallas’s Downtown Southern eatery, Grayson Social, but in cocktail form in their PB&J Manhattan.

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. If you are not a subscriber to the Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop…

Outside the front door was no noticeable signage, just a small green lightbulb. When it was lit — so long as you came invited and with a bottle of mezcal in hand — you could enter a small, candlelit room that felt more like a small Mexican church than a…

Dallas Tiki Week inspired The Standard Pour to create The Love Boat which features not just one, not two, but three banana elements—two of which were made in-house just for this cocktail.

Yesterday we shared our picks for the best new Dallas restaurants of 2017 to date, but it’s also been a banner year in the city’s drink scene. From cocktail laboratories to affordable wine bars to liquor stores with a healthy twist, it’s been a busy time for booze in Dallas…

Although summer is more of a formality than an actual seasonal shift for North Texans, the end of school and a national holiday or two offer some unique opportunities for themed beer consumption. While your options might seem simple — lagers, limes, drink, repeat — we like to think that…

Sunday kicks off the first Dallas Tiki Week, a celebration of tiki cocktails and the bartenders who do them right. In honor of the five-day event and its many bar crawls and cocktail contests — and in honor of our 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, on newsstands now — here…

We’ve got your back this summer with our favorite Dallas area patios that make it possible to log some alfresco time.

Slake your summer thirst with Fat Rabbit’s summery cocktail, The Buster Baxter

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. For a long time, tiki cocktails felt like a Dallas bartender secret, an off-menu playground where bar talent quietly…

Havana claims the mojito. San Juan, the piña colada. And Dallas? Dallas is the birthplace of the frozen margarita machine. Hometown hero Mariano Martinez came up with the frozen margarita machine in 1971, the year he opened Mariano’s Mexican Cuisine y Cantina on Greenville Avenue. The restaurant was the first…

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. In Dallas, margaritas have never been trendy. They are part of our drinking culture and our heritage, and they…

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. If ever there was a time to skip out of work early and post up at a bar, sipping…

Get boozy and cool down with one of Dallas’s cocktails featuring boozy popsicles.

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. In a city that gets as hot as Dallas, it’s cruel that our region is so short on easily…

One of the city’s best cocktail teams, The & and &, is taking over Atwater Alley on Sunday night to serve a menu of cocktails based on Dallas neighborhoods. The bar takeover, in conjunction with the ongoing Negroni Week, will raise money for Trigger’s Toys, a nonprofit that helps North…

Our favorite bar ladies at Bolsa are, per usual, bucking the trend with their own take on it—a cocktail using rosé and adding a different frozen element, a popsicle.

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. When we talk about holding Dallas cocktail bars to a certain…

Tired of all your old haunts? Whether you’re looking for a locally brewed beer, a glass of bubbly or a reasonably priced bottle of riesling, here are three places to check out. Bar & Garden3314 Ross Ave. At this new Ross Avenue retailer, you’ll find additive-free liquor and natural wines…

Dallas residents have more haunting them than exes. A new company, Nightly Spirits, has started tours Downtown.