Slater’s 50/50 has a spicy burger — surrounded by bacon, salsa, guacamole and cheddar cheese — that’s stuffed inside a flour tortilla and deep fried, doused in a Budweiser-infused cheese sauce, and hit with a scoop of sour cream, a few jalapeños and fried tortilla strips. It’s got the heft…
Dallas Tiki Week inspired The Standard Pour to create The Love Boat which features not just one, not two, but three banana elements—two of which were made in-house just for this cocktail.
Sylvan Thirty, the mixed-use development straddling the boundary between West Dallas and Oak Cliff, is about to get a new tenant: Cooper’s Meat Market, a longtime San Antonio-based butcher shop and meat market. The market, which will along with meat will sell “appetizers, sides, casseroles, wine and beer, as well as…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. SpicyZest might be the most interesting restaurant in metro Dallas right now. It’s our only Sri Lankan restaurant,…
Yesterday we shared our picks for the best new Dallas restaurants of 2017 to date, but it’s also been a banner year in the city’s drink scene. From cocktail laboratories to affordable wine bars to liquor stores with a healthy twist, it’s been a busy time for booze in Dallas…
It’s been a big year in Dallas dining, and it’s only half over. Local concepts are expanding, big-name chefs are betting big on the Dallas market, hot neighborhoods like Deep Ellum are seeing greatly expanded dining options and the city’s international food offerings are growing to include food from countries…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Sushi Yokohama, a little-heralded and publicity-phobic Japanese restaurant in far north Dallas, prides itself on sheer craftsmanship and…
The culinary offerings at the Dallas Farmers Market keep getting more diverse. Afifa Nayeb, the Kabul native who first opened the outstanding “Silk Road fare” shop Laili in the Farmers Market food hall in early 2016 with Turkish pastry chef Nevin Kaya, has now moved on to one of her…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. When it comes to picking a favorite on the menu at Revolver Taco Lounge in Deep Ellum, it’s…
Like the rest of 2017 America, we like to pretend we’re working while we’re secretly looking at Facebook in the other browser window. Sometimes, we end up wasting two hours looking at pictures of huskies wearing glasses. But mostly, we’re looking at food. Our latest edible social media discovery pointed…
Although summer is more of a formality than an actual seasonal shift for North Texans, the end of school and a national holiday or two offer some unique opportunities for themed beer consumption. While your options might seem simple — lagers, limes, drink, repeat — we like to think that…
Sunday kicks off the first Dallas Tiki Week, a celebration of tiki cocktails and the bartenders who do them right. In honor of the five-day event and its many bar crawls and cocktail contests — and in honor of our 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, on newsstands now — here…
We’ve got your back this summer with our favorite Dallas area patios that make it possible to log some alfresco time.
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. They kept the lights low. The fake reindeer mounted above the bar, with Tabasco-red lights wrapped around…
Slake your summer thirst with Fat Rabbit’s summery cocktail, The Buster Baxter
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. For a long time, tiki cocktails felt like a Dallas bartender secret, an off-menu playground where bar talent quietly…
This weekend, it’s all about British baked goods, sushi burrito pop-ups at Oak Cliff dive bars and a food truck so cute, it traveled here from another dimension inhabited by a cartoon cat. ***** The upcoming British pop-up at the Craft Beer Cellar is guaranteed to be bang-on. It will…
After a recent attempt to dine at a trendy Uptown brunch spot was derailed by a clearly posted, racism-tinged dress code, we high-tailed it to Deep Ellum, where general douchebaggery is stamped out by the firm foot of Wednesday night heavy metal shows and shops that peddle succulents because they’re nice,…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Fusion is rampant these days — Latin-Asian, Cajun-Italian, Japanese-Peruvian — but we recently stumbled upon a dish that…
During early evening hours, Café Salsera looks like any other Deep Ellum restaurant, save for a smaller crowd than many of the dining hotspots nearby. But on weekend nights around midnight, the mild-mannered restaurant transforms into a packed nightclub, with patrons filling the dance floor until 2 a.m. On social media,…
Havana claims the mojito. San Juan, the piña colada. And Dallas? Dallas is the birthplace of the frozen margarita machine. Hometown hero Mariano Martinez came up with the frozen margarita machine in 1971, the year he opened Mariano’s Mexican Cuisine y Cantina on Greenville Avenue. The restaurant was the first…
Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. In Dallas, margaritas have never been trendy. They are part of our drinking culture and our heritage, and they…
