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.
Make your friends green with envy; let them try a sip of your “Green With Agave” at Victor Tangos. Because, really, there’s no worse feeling than order envy.
There’s an old Irish proverb that reads, “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” The same could be said of business partners, and luckily for Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling — co-owners of Goodfriend Beer Garden & Burger Bar, Goodfriend Package and…
Bowen House jumped on the matcha trend with their Matcha Do About Nothing that pairs the brightly-hued tea powder with smoky mezcal.
The red tape of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission can be peeled back but slowly, so when the agency’s soon-to-be-ex-executive director Sherry Cook lifted the ban on the retail sale of crowlers in March, makers and partakers of Texas craft beer rejoiced. Two months in, you can now secure an…
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. There is a time and place for everything. If it’s 2…
Dallas, it’s time to let go of the Moscow Mule. We get it; it’s light and refreshing with a gingery bite, and it’s on damn near every cocktail menu in the city. But as the Dallas drink scene evolves, it’s time our palates did, too. Here are five cocktails you…
For patrons of the Bishop Arts neighborhood’s short-lived wine shop, WinePoste, spring has been a time of dramatic change. The bacchanalian murals stretching across the walls came down, replaced by stark white. The record player that spun classic rock and soul music disappeared. And the name changed to Neighborhood Cellar…
Nollowa is a hidden dive. The lights are low, the Cowboys game is always on, none of the beers are on draft, bottles of Johnnie Walker appear in front of you and seemingly every customer is looking for some action. Also, the bar’s kitchen serves spicy octopus and chicken feet…
The dive bar is becoming an endangered species in Dallas. As mixed-use developments and luxury apartment complexes spread around the city, they bring with them trendy new bars and restaurants that serve up $15 cocktails and $20 burgers. But sometimes, you don’t need a mixologist – you need a strong…
savory cocktail, midnight rambler, downtown, beef stock, umami
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. Picture yourself sitting under the thatched straw roof of a tiki…
Dallas’s rooftop patio scene is on fire, so make sure you enjoy these spots before the weather is, too!
