Food & Drink

Mirador launches a posh downtown Dallas brunch.

While traditional Thanksgiving food is of course centered around turkey and all the meaty fixins, this year you’ll find more vegan and vegetarian Thanksgiving menus around Dallas than ever. Whether you want to enjoy a buffet or order dishes to bring to your own Thanksgiving table, there are some great…

The old Beck’s Prime burger joint has been sitting empty for a year at the corner of Oak Lawn and Avondale avenues. It’s a premium location, with a huge wraparound patio and lower rent than the Highland Park businesses just blocks to the north. Chef Matt McCallister, formerly of the…

Saloons just aren’t what they used to be. In his recent, wildly entertaining book A Short History of Drunkenness, Mark Forsyth traced the history of the saloon beyond the Hollywood myth, to a time when the word denoted a tent with a couple of barrels of whiskey inside. Saloons of…

After a year and a half in business, Deep Ellum bar and restaurant IdleRye has closed, according to a sign on the front door. IdleRye opened in May 2017 and billed itself as a “modern American” restaurant with a twist — owners Ray Skradzinski’s Polish heritage and brothers Bruce and Daniel…

The bologna sandwich grows up (and glows up) at Lakewood Smokehouse.

As of this week, there’s a new restaurant in the West Dallas development Sylvan Thirty, and it’s a cafe with a cause: Shayna’s Place Cafe, a family-owned eatery “dedicated to providing employment opportunities for people with special needs,” according to a press release. The restaurant is in soft-open this week…

Street’s Fine Chicken has started serving brunch at its Forest Lane location, giving North Dallas an excuse to have excellent fried chicken in the morning. If you frequent the original location on Cedar Springs, you’ll feel an immediate difference in the northern location: It’s fast casual. For some, the fact…

What have we learned after two years of Nick Rallo’s All-American column? That there is no one way to create an indelible American restaurant.

Chalk depictions of Johnny Cash and Anthony Bourdain giving the finger hang on the walls of a new restaurant at The Shops at Willow Bend, where John Tesar recently opened a new location of his award-winning steakhouse, Knife. It would not be complete without the remnants of individuals who encapsulate…

Tulum, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, is a hot vacation destination right now for Texans. It’s also a new restaurant that opened last week in Highland Park. “The first of its kind, Tulum is inspired by Dallas restaurateur Mike Karns and his wife, Valerie’s, favorite vacation spot,” according to a press…