One of Dallas’ biggest beer festivals returns to Dallas Farmers Market from 7 to 10 p.m. Sept. 7, bringing with it more than 500 beers from local, national and international breweries. Presale starts today for Dallas Observer BrewFest, which means you can snag tickets early and at the cheapest rate possible…
Dallas’s wine scene is growing more elevated thanks to our local wine experts, and it’s showing.
The Whip is at it again with its second kitschy pop-up, and this time they’ve gone full-tilt into the wizarding world. The facade will have you saying “alohomora” thanks to the refreshed paint job that took it from the Drunken Clam to the rickety doors of The Leaky Cauldron, a…
A Dallasite who helped launch Deep Ellum Distillery is leaving our city, state and region — and he’s taking his skills with him. Reade Huddleston, 27, is leaving this weekend to be the head of production at Headframe Spirits in Butte, Montana. A graduate of St. Mark’s School of Texas,…
The French Room Bar offers a bright gin cocktail, the C&C, and a respite from the heat.
Music fans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have spent a good bit of time in recent years debating the merits and follies of the always-eventful music festival landscape around town. Some start small and grow bigger each year with enormous support, some seem to bust out of the gate with…
Eddie Campbell, the popular bartender known as “Lucky” to many, is bringing Uptown the Clover Club, a “supper club experience” with big-band music setting the atmosphere at the Cedar Springs Road location. Brad Woy, Campbell’s business partner, is helping bring the Clover Club to life. The two own Standard Pour…
La Viuda Negra brings a neighborhood mezcal bar with authentic and creative cocktails.
It wasn’t that long ago that Dallas-Fort Worth was without a selection of craft breweries, with only mass-produced brews distributed while the availability of craft beers was little to none. Now we have an array of quality craft brews spread throughout the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the number drastically…
In case you aren’t aware, this is a tremendous week to celebrate our favorite beverage. On Wednesday, Peticolas Brewing in the Design District hinted on social media that they will begin canning some of their award-winning beer on Sept. 1, the first day Texas craft breweries can legally sell beer…
When picking a place to watch the big game, it’s hard to find a sports bar in Dallas that has quality food and isn’t insufferably crowded. Plano’s newest addition, Shark Club, is seeking to break that stereotype with an elevated sports bar in an upscale atmosphere. Connected to the Sandman…
Street’s Fine Chicken’s Ford’s Last Word is a quite traditional Last Word is made with Fords Gin.
Visit the wine retail shop inside Frank Kent Cadillac and walk out with a cava to go with your Caddy.
One of downtown Dallas’ oldest buildings is getting a local craft brewery and beer garden. The 19-story Dallas Power and Light Building will soon be home to a second branch of Pegasus City, the 2-year-old Design District brewery that specializes in hugely drinkable styles and won the Observer’s Best Brewery…
HIDE will offer a by-request-only cocktail featuring spicy notes from the bog myrtle.
Join The People’s Last Stand on July 18 for Art for Autism where you can sip on the Honey Blue and peruse art with proceeds benefiting the Autism Treatment Center.
Sure, you could wait until October to celebrate the heaven-sent goodness that we call beer. Ocktoberfest is a grand thing … if you’re German. Here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., or more specifically, Dallas, we prefer to get a jump on our beer-celebrating, because we’re Americans, a driving,…
Stop into Elm Street Cask & Kitchen, sidle up to the bar and order up one of their featured cocktails, the Lady Onassis or the John F. Kennedy.
Wah Wah Room brings 70s kitsch to Lowest Greenville.
One of the new cocktails available at HIDE works with pineapple to bring it higher acidity for a more balanced cocktail.
Sweet Tooth Hotel’s pop-up Prince-inspired bar is a little more exciting than we’d have expected.
Funky Picnic Brewery and Cafe gives Fort Worth a slick new brewpub.
