Texas Ale Project re-released 100 Million Angels Singing recently, an early present to DFW beer lovers ahead of the brewery’s first birthday party on April 30. It’s a double IPA with Texas-sized specs: 100 IBUs, 9 percent ABV, an old-growth forest of hop varieties that promise the taste of pine, resin and citrus. Some…
Those who can’t do, teach … right? Well, those who don’t have a head for wine can try it on top of their cocktails. Remedy, the remixed, refined soda bar on Lower Greenville has, with veteran barman Máté Hartai at the helm, released a new cocktail menu. One concoction caught…
In 2013, Dallas Observer first reported about Shannon Brewing Co. in Keller, one of the few breweries out in the Mid-Cities. Owner Shannon Carter uses his great grandfather’s recipes from Ireland, which include an old-school fire-brewing process. While that sounds like fancy jargon brewers throw around to impress beer snobs, the result…
Deep Ellum Brewing has resurrected several recipes in the past two months, and two of them — the Rye Pils and the Barrel Aged Cherry Chocolate Double Brown Stout — couldn’t be more different. It’s the sort of paradox beer writers love, and DFW should thank its lucky stars for such divergent outpourings…
Something about drinking from a pineapple-shaped chalice feels like sipping vodka from the winner’s trophy. Why is that, exactly? Who knows? Might be the booze inside. In any case, the new Eastwood’s Bar will make anyone feel like a conquering hero. The Fuji About It — a splendid mix of caramelized…
Opening in a spot once occupied by the Dallas outpost of the New Orleans institution Brennan’s, NOLA Brasserie brings the taste of the Crescent City back to downtown in a 1968 skyscraper re-purposed as a Westin Hotel. From a kitchen anchored on the southwest corner of the property, chef Robert…
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in true Irish style with copious amounts of rickets corned beef. Enjoy Capitol Pub’s extended hours, food specials and live music all weekend long. Noteworthy menu items include corned beef and cabbage, fish and chips, shepherd’s pie and Guinness beef stew. The Saturday morning brunch menu will also…
A visit to the Dallas Arboretum can instill a deep and abiding appreciation for mother nature. It can also leave one feeling very full of good food and drink, and like one needs to have a lie-down. A selection of food, wine and spirits will be available for tasting as guests…
Finely tuned craft cocktails have skyrocketed bartenders to a level where their skill set is just as imperative to an establishment’s success as a cook’s. No longer is it about who can make the best Dark and Stormy or Vieux Carre, but who is inventive enough to dissect the classics…
The Denton location of Taps & Caps, a growler shop featuring a rotating selection of 50 taps, will host BrainDead’s latest food and beer dinner and bottle release. The four course dinner features tequila shrimp, roasted Brussels sprouts with cactus fruit syrup, rye battered chicken and stout beer chocolate cupcakes…
Jeff Gregory quickly stoops down, shielded by his friend from the watchful eyes of the vineyard workers. He surreptitiously bags a bit of soil for his collection. Collecting and comparing soil is one of the many ways he educates himself about wine; later this trip he’ll buy a hard-to-find book…
It could be said that 2015 was the year of the brewery for Dallas-Fort Worth, with more than a dozen breweries opening their doors and filling kegs for all to enjoy. Currently, it seems as though each city in the metroplex is on track to have its own brewery, with…
If you want to launch golf balls for fun within the city limits of Dallas, you can use one finger on one hand to count the applicable places. If you want to hit golf balls at busted and broken down automobiles at a rustic beer garden with various billiards, you’re…
When Goodfriend Beer Garden owners Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling opened the Blind Butcher with Chef Oliver Sitrin, they created a meat-lover’s paradise inside a simple but classic old school Greenville Avenue barroom. The space has the feel of a prohibition-era saloon but also offers neighborhood warmth. Inside the Blind Butcher,…
When the Slip Inn off Henderson Avenue closed, it definitely came as a surprise to the masses. The fact that this neighborhood dive would be missed was no surprise. For 15 years, the Slip Inn’s dance floor bested any other club in town. But when the turntables went silent, there was…
Mardi Gras: It’s happening. And as we slowly emerge from what little winter this has been, we’ve already noticed an early onslaught of crawfish boil announcements. Can it possible be true? Oh, but it is, and it’s a cause for crustacean celebration. Typically the hearty harvests come later in the…
This time of year we see plenty of holiday seasonal releases — Mardi Gras bocks, lovey dovey white chocolate porters and I’m sure there’s an MLK Day beer out there somewhere. Maybe. But Granbury’s Revolver Brewing has a new limited draft release celebrating a holiday that seems to be getting…
Girl Scout cookies and craft beer: a pairing so indulgent, it’s sure to make even the most lenient dietitian cringe. This year, LUCK will pair Thin Mints with Shannon Brewing Company’s Chocolate Stout; Samoas with Rahr’s Angry Goat Weizen Dopplebock; Do-si-dos with Texas Ale Project’s Somethin Shady Porter; and Lemonades…
Often I get asked, “Where’s some Louisiana-style food?” My go-to answer has become very simple; there seems to be Cajun-themed restaurants hording every corner of Greenville Avenue. Starting from Shuck n’ Jive on upper Greenville Avenue to the Big Shucks off Mockingbird and its little sister, Aw Shucks across from…
Oak Cliff’s favorite brewpub/place to eat curious bar snacks has announced today that they’re closing on Sundays and Mondays to ramp up beer production. This isn’t too big of a change-up considering that Small Brewpub stopped opening on Sundays about six months ago, Head Brewer Aaron Garcia said, but they decided to close…
Like a phoenix, Dallas Beer Kitchen has quickly and dramatically risen out of the ashes. It closed forever on January 24, citing an inability to make money while construction tore up its stretch of Greenville Avenue. And, having closed forever, the bar reopened on Friday, January 29. In the intervening…
Ah, Valentine’s Day: The holiday nobody asked for, invented by poet Geoffrey Chaucer in honor of a priest who was beheaded in Rome, not some chubby flying child brandishing a deadly weapon. Not only is St. Valentine known to carry the afterlife duty of watching over loved ones, he is…
