It begins, as some of the best meats do, behind pit doors. A ground beef patty snoozes for a while inside a sauna of smoke. The hand-formed beef discs, dusty from Lakewood Smokehouse’s barbecue seasoning, rest in a gray cloud until they’ve hit a rosy-middle temperature. If you like your…
When I first walked into Express Kabob, the restaurant was empty. Not just empty of customers — empty, period. As the door shut behind me, the sound attracted the attention of no employees. I tried opening and closing the door again. No luck. I picked a chair up and dropped…
To celebrate the frozen margarita, and all thing margarita, for that matter, Visit Dallas set out to make the “ultimate margarita bucket list” for visitors and residents alike, the Margarita Mile, a free app that leads “players” on a veritable margarita scavenger hunt to discover Dallas’s best margaritas.
Food is culture, food is art, food is family. There’s no better representation of this than Maroches Bakery in North Oak Cliff. The bakery started informally more than 18 years ago in the Tellez family home when neighbors started asking about the delicious smells coming from the apartment. The Tellezes…
As Dallasites showered moms with flowers and pricy, packed brunches Sunday, West End restaurant Ellen’s took a different Mother’s Day approach: The restaurant donated $15,000 to Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. It’s been an intense week for Ellen’s. Two weeks ago, as more than 70,000 people swarmed downtown…
Chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits, eggs Benedict — in a city that brunches as hard as Dallas, it’s easy to fall in a brunch rut. This weekend, take your brunch to the next level with one of these completely over-the-top Dallas-area brunch dishes. Zoli’s chicken and waffle cannoli Zoli’s…
If you’ve spent much time in the Dallas cocktail scene, you’ve come across Nico Martini. (Yes, that’s really his name.) This week, the local cocktail personality launched his latest venture, Texas Cocktails, a new book celebrating the cocktails intrinsically tied to Texas culture and cuisine. Martini’s history with Dallas cocktails…
Midnight Rambler’s new menu is inspired by the Pagan Rites of Spring and boasts nine intriguing cocktails, each with painstaking ingredients.
A good brunch offers a hodgepodge of traditional breakfast and lunch options, a boon for the indecisive among us. A hearty brunch is the first step to curing last night’s hangover, and the fact that drinking is encouraged at brunch gives you a chance to take the edge off the…
Lala’s Mexican Café is a fast-casual restaurant that focuses on clean food. Lala’s, owned by Michelle Mireles of One Arts Plaza’s Jorge’s TexMex Café, opened last fall in Preston Center. With Lala’s (named after her grandmother), Mireles is taking her traditional family cuisine and infusing it with a modern, healthy…
So you’ve been to the Deep Ellum Wine Walk and the Bishop Arts District Wine Walk, but have you, my Cabernet-guzzling friend, been to the Plano Wine and Art Walk? Downtown Plano can be quite charming, especially if you’re under the influence of a few sample pours of vino. Purchase…
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman announced Monday that he’s opening his first restaurant and “entertainment concept” at Texas Live in the Arlington Entertainment District. It’s called — wait for it — Troy’s. “Plans for the venue were shared by Aikman as part of an exclusive first look at the…
Talk to any food critic or writer in town and you’ll quickly learn that it’s not hyperbole to call FT33 — Matt McCallister’s forward-thinking ode to the uber-local and uber-seasonal — the best restaurant in Dallas. Over the restaurant’s six years, McCallister and his team have raised the bar for…
New Lowest Greenville spot asked patrons for funding and will finally opens its doors mid-May with prohibition-style cocktails and a laid-back, lounge vibe.
This place is hard to find. It’s not visible from the street but is tucked away in East Dallas across from Home Depot. Getting to Casa Linda Salvadorian Cuisine feels almost like a trek into Central America. “We just got our storefront sign up two weeks ago,” co-owner Blanca García…
A family-owned Rhode Island restaurant that provides employment opportunities for people with developmental disabilities, is coming to Sylvan Thirty. This is the first Texas location for Shayna’s Place, a sandwich and coffee shop inspired by owner Lou Olerio’s cousin Shayna, who has Down syndrome, according to a press release. “Shayna’s Place…
West End hosted its first Dallas Fest on Saturday, welcoming vendors to sell art, setting up bands to set the mood and encouraging Dallasites to discover what West End is all about. Because West End is, indeed, a thing. The 12-hour event aimed to promote “all things Dallas.” While the…
Low ABV cocktails, clear elements, and rotating bar themes are some of the trends coming to our bars this spring and summer.
Mom. Mama. Mother. Neighbor. Sister. Gladys. Whatever she’s called, call her Sunday. Pro tip: That day is Mother’s Day. And take her for a nice meal, for crying out loud. Maybe she gracefully accepted hand-turkeys and tolerated a nearly mute Goth phase back in the day, or she might be…
My mother never encouraged the use of straws — they cause wrinkles, she says. That’s bad enough, but there are also serious consequences to the environment that have caused bars and restaurants to turn away from disposable plastic straws altogether. “There’s already been a conversation going on within our industry,…
It’s heating up in Dallas, and we’re not just talking about the temperature. If you’re looking to check out one of the city’s hottest new bars and restaurants, here’s where to start. You may notice a trend — let’s hope you dig Italian food. Sixty Vines UptownOne of Plano’s best…
So far, the National Rifle Association and the 70,000 estimated attendees at this weekend’s convention have received a warm welcome to Dallas. From the “NRA enables domestic terrorists” projected onto the convention center last night to the protests planned outside the convention all weekend, there are a lot of eyes on…
