Bars & Breweries

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!

Behind the stick at The Theodore, cocktail genius Hugo Osorio challenges himself to create unique cocktails to keep their options fresh, literally and metaphorically. His latest creation brings together a couple peppers in a shrub for a limited offering cocktail.

In 2011, Chris Weiss and Will and Adrian Cotten were home-brewers in The Cedars looking to create and perfect easy-to-drink beers for friends and family. In 2014, the three founded Pegasus City Brewery to bring their home recipes to the masses. After quitting their day jobs last year, the owners…

Bolsa’s Michelada uses mussel broth to give their traditional Mexican cocktail a little extra spice and complexity.

Review of Houndstooth Coffee’s Jettison

At any given time in the city of Dallas, there are dozens of food and drink events capitalizing on the growing “foodie” culture: wine walks, combination yoga-brunch parties, “festivals” where patrons pay hundreds of dollars just to stand in long lines for lukewarm snacks and tiny pours of expensive wine…

Rapscallion’s pink drink, Have You Seen My Keys, is made using a syrup of a traditional Peruvian purple drank.

Victor Tangos’s Andrew Stofko works salty squid ink into one of his new cocktails, the Seppuku Reale.

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. On a recent afternoon at Hide, I was sitting at the…

Grayson Social adds collagen to a cocktail … because, why not?