When it comes to designer burgers, a good one is a high-wire act. Add too many overwrought ingredients – and a high price – and you’ll end up with a pretentious sandwich that sends you running to the nearest In-N-Out. Too few ingredients and you’ll wonder why you’re dropping twenties…
Pho is served at La Me, but not too many people seem to order it. This restaurant, on the far northeastern edge of Dallas adjoining Richardson and Garland, is one of the most popular gathering places among Dallas County’s population of more than 26,000 Vietnamese-Americans. At mealtimes, La Me buzzes…
If you’ve ever worked a job that you hate, you know how unfulfilling it can be spending hour after hour trying to stop day-dreaming scenarios in which your life hadn’t led you to this point. A couple years ago, Ben Owen and Brolen Jourdan found themselves in just this situation…
Lucia sous chef Justin Holt’s pop-ups are damn-near famous in the Dallas food scene. Whether he’s serving up late-night ramen bowls from an Oak Cliff bar or yakitori from a Bishop Arts sidewalk, his pop-ups draw long lines of enthusiastic diners. And rightly so – Holt’s pop-ups don’t happen often,…
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. Even before you take your first bite of Bilad Bakery & Restaurant’s amazing desserts, there’s a lot to…
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. At Town Hearth, big and bold is the name of the game. A $79 bone-in ribeye cooked over…
Steel Restaurant has been a staple of Oak Lawn dining for over 17 years. In that time, a number of upscale Asian concepts have popped up in Dallas, and even more have come and gone, but Steel still carries on, although not without some changes of their own. The most…
For 13 miserable years, the United States experimented with Prohibition. It shuttered saloons but gave rise to speakeasies, hidden bars that met the demand of those who still wanted an occasional drink. A new restaurant in Lewisville is paying homage to America’s semi-booze-free era: Prohibition Chicken. Part chicken shack, part…
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…
The first bao to land in front of me is the Angry Bird. The chicken has been brined in soy sauce, peppercorns, salt, sugar, vinegar, tossed in follow-up marinade, then given a coat of panko and flash0fried. Dill pickles, the ones that like to sit in your fridge for months,…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed – for the good or bad – over the years. You don’t walk into Milo Butterfingers hoping for change. You come for the kind of sensation that…
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 arrives in the table, it already feels like a treat: a steamy bowl of color and…
Some of the best possible sandwiches happen in the morning. When a gently-flipped egg, yolk just intact enough to hold on through the first bite, spills onto the bread horizon beneath butter-simmered ham, you can rest easy knowing that you’ve got it all figured out. Nothing matches the happiness of…
savory cocktail, midnight rambler, downtown, beef stock, umami
Every Tom, Dick and Enrique seems to have a Cinco de Mayo special, but only Taqueria la Ventana is holding cocktail tastings by el Jimador Tequila and Chambord, cerveza tastings by Corona and Modelo, and Mexican Soda tasting by Jarritos. That’s right, Jarritos tastings. Once you’re all liquored and soda-ed…
It is Sunday morning, but it could be 2 a.m. inside Nikkei. The Uptown Japanese-Peruvian restaurant is moody and dimly lit save for splashes of neon light. This dramatic space, with ukiyo-e-style prints lining the walls, sets the tone for the manner in which people take their place at the…
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. Hunky’s is a straightforward kinda place: Order your burger and a shake at the counter, grab a seat…
It’s the biggest North Texas barbecue news since Pecan Lodge opened its Deep Ellum brick-and-mortar: The Salt Lick, the 50-year-old Hill Country barbecue joint, is opening a location in Grapevine. The 10,000-square foot indoor and outdoor dining space will be nestled in 10 wooded acres and is slated to open…
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…
There’s no question about it: Dallas in the midst of a golden age of the cheeseburger. Dallas burgers have become so great that it wouldn’t be out of line to suggest the city build a walk of fame and place marble and brass stars on it to honor the burgers…
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. In the era of low-carb and gluten-free, junk food can be an emotionally loaded thing. But sometimes, cheat…
For years, Tillman’s Roadhouse felt like it was playing second fiddle. As crowds swarmed other Bishop Arts restaurants on Friday nights and Sunday brunchtimes, Tillman’s often seemed a little neglected. A brutal no-star Dallas Morning News review in 2012 didn’t help. Among my friends, the restaurant was known, at best,…
