Shark jaws hang over the front door, which means you’re somewhere else right now. Oyster brine and lemons — the bartender slices neat zest strips — create the cologne in the air. This is Dallas’ Preston Center, but once inside Montlake Cut, there is a retreat disguised as a…
For Shoals Sound and Service, having a Deep Ellum establishment with a stellar bar program and a ridiculously good bologna sandwich isn’t enough. It has to have brunch. What’s different about brunch at Shoals, though, is that you can get a different menu and different style of food almost every…
About a year after Trinity Groves lost its brewery — Four Corners, which moved to the Cedars and was recently acquired by the maker of Modelo and Corona — another brewery is opening up in the West Dallas restaurant incubator. Steam Theory Brewing Co., a restaurant and brewery, begins soft…
Dallas brewery Four Corners has been acquired by Constellation Brands, the beer behemoth that owns brands such as Corona Modelo Especial, Modelo, Pacifico and, more recently, craft breweries Ballast Point and Funky Buddha. Four Corners opened in West Dallas — adjacent to Trinity Groves — in 2012 but later moved…
It’s summer, which means that grocery store shelves are brimming with peaches. Sweet, juicy peaches with tender skins and firm flesh that gushes like a river with the first bite. Well, not really. Most peaches you pick up in the grocery store fall short of the stone fruit of our…
Goat carcasses unfurl over the grill like flags in the breeze. It’s a massive grill, at least 3 feet across and as long as a small car, not quite an earthen pit in a backyard but as close as you can get indoors without offending the health inspector. Part of…
Stephen Smith and James Jeffers served the United States through two tours in the Middle East. Today, they’re serving in a different way — and you can tell what they do just by looking at the name of the nonprofit they formed to help other veterans. The two founded Farmers…
September will be here before you know it, and that means one thing: BrewFest. The Dallas Observer’s annual beer festival — which packs more than 500 local, national and international craft beers into the Dallas Farmers Market every year — is going down Sept. 8. If you don’t have tickets…
Most people associate Egypt with pharaohs, the Great Pyramids, mummies and other staples of pop culture’s version of the country. Few often think of the people, the wealthy and the peasants. “I wanted to show the other side of Egypt,” says Bosayna Elhouni, chef, partner and food services director of…
When a friend told me he’d heard good things about a gas station ceviche counter, I naturally thought it was a step too far. We food people are always on the hunt for great food in unexpected places, and gas stations have, thanks to taco-devouring hipsters, become an oddly trendy…
From branded burgers to resurrected patty melts, there are a few stellar burgers on our radar right now — and what better time to go whole ham on some burgers than summertime? Cowboy up to one of our favorites. BurgerFi’s branded burgers This new burger franchise location on Mockingbird has…
This week’s roundup of DFW food news is all about health food in a bowl, from Flower Child’s Thai cashew quinoa bowl to Rush’s smoothie bowls to chef Tim Byres’ take on the health-bowl trend. Fox Restaurant Concepts, the company behind fast-casual health food spot Flower Child on Lovers Lane and…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. The flat-top crackles. Four beef patties go down, snapping and hissing like records, and a powder coat…
Balance is important—in yoga, Jenga, and in cocktails. That’s why the Por Signore cocktail at the Bishop Arts District’s newest restaurant, Macellaio, is so perfect. With sweetness from the two different brandies and the Dubonnet (a sweet wine-based aperitif) is offset by the bitterness of an amaro and Angostura.
If you’re looking for superior French toast, you’re in LUCK. Literally. You’ll find LUCK, which stands for Local Urban Craft Kitchen, among the long strip of restaurants in Trinity Groves. It offers 40 beers on tap and a full menu — along with a brunch menu that makes it worth…
There was once a time when Cheetos and Doritos were enough to sustain our most peckish Netflix binges. Now that we’re a little older and wiser, we know that there’s endless snackage to be had when one finds the moral courage to abandon radioactive cheese product. Adventurous eats await ardent…
You may have flirted with the Dallas Farmers Market — eyeing the fresh honeycomb, giving the Texas tomatoes a gentle squeeze — but have you ever gotten to really know the Dallas Farmers Market? For instance, did you know that every Saturday this month, you can rub elbows with local…
There’s a coffee shop in downtown Dallas that has a nice vibe and serves good coffee. It even has decent-enough tacos until 11 a.m. each day. Various seating arrangements welcome people to eat there instead of rushing back to work or elsewhere. Little flower arrangements sit on each table, and…
The Statler’s multimillion-dollar renovations have already netted us a few new concepts: Scout, a bar and “social space” with shareable snacks, bowling lanes and pingpong; Bourbon and Banter, a faux speakeasy cocktail bar under the lobby; Overeasy, a modern lobby diner serving farm-to-table breakfast and lunch; and Waterproof, a rooftop…
It’s never been just a bologna sandwich. Bologna is pork’s inexpensive canvas upon which you pour your memory. You know the aroma of it — tangy and sharp and so uniquely bologna. Maybe a memory emerges, for some of us, when squishy white bread fuses with a lot of mayo…
Five miles from Plano’s Legacy Hall, a new structure sits in the Colony off Highway 121. Inside, the sounds of pounding and power drills can be heard reverberating off the walls as it nears completion. It is the site of a new free-standing food court called Urban8, part of the…
In the ever-expanding city of Frisco, it’s not hard to find a spot to grab a bite and a cocktail. But there’s only one that allows patrons to take a step back in time with its Prohibition-era atmosphere and cocktails. While it is a relatively new spot, Bottled in Bond…
