Bars & Breweries

Henry’s Majestic is about to celebrate its birthday … and it’s doing it with creative tiki cocktails featuring hazelnut orgeat for just $7.

Oak Cliff’s self-proclaimed cat lady may soon lose that title. Meri Dahlke, co-owner of Ten Bells Tavern, has a colony of cats on the property, registered through local organization Feral Friends Community Cat Alliance, but the numbers have been dwindling. “I think when we registered, the colony was 13, and we’re…

This cocktail from Harlowe MXM’s cocktail bar, Trick Pony, that only has three ingredients whose flavor is anything but simple thanks to its mushroom demerera.

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. You cannot build a dive bar. Dive bars are formed slowly,…

Worn out by IPAs and tired of the same-old stout? A new roster of locally brewed beers is bringing something interesting to the table: inspiration from a wide range of curious, generally hop-free foods. Between a ramen noodle-infused sour and Girl Scout cookie-inspired stout, these craft brews stand out as…

Midnight Rambler, never one to back down from a unique ingredient, uses the makrut leaf and lemongrass to infuse gin for its Savory Hunter cocktail.

Nickel & Rye’s Calamity Child brings together unusual elements that you’d think would clash, but it’s a beautiful calamity.

Tired of the same old watering hole? Switch things up this weekend by visiting one of the city’s new bars, which run the gamut from fancy rooftop bars to vintage motorcycle shops with cheap granddad beer. Bar StellarStellar on Henderson Avenue was a disaster, so it was no surprise when…

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.