In spring of 2014, in a small, unassuming retail strip on West Davis Street in Oak Cliff, Cheesesteak House opened with little ado. After hearing tales of its birth, I cruised west down Jefferson, my eyes peeled, not knowing exactly where it was. As I passed Mary Cliff Road, I…
Before people deck out in green and color their beers for St. Patrick’s Day, visitors to Fair Park will get a taste of Celtic tradition at the North Texas Irish Festival this weekend. “It’s pretty amazing; no matter what gate you come in, there’s something that can engage you immediately,”…
When Samson’s Gourmet Hot Dogs closed last year, a lot of Oak Lawn residents mourned the loss of a favorite neighborhood hangout. But its replacement might be even better. Open Sesame Lebanese Grill opened this weekend without much publicity or heavy marketing. They want to ease into things, rather than…
To get a piece of parchment paper piled with meat from Franklin Barbecue, you’ll normally sit in a folding chair on a sidewalk in Austin for at least five hours in the Texas heat. Monday night, just a one-hour wait got you slices of that famously perfect brisket, but it…
When Darin Peterson and Jill Bresnan returned from Europe a few years ago, the two homebrewers, who met through their shared love of beer, decided that they wanted to start a brewery. Shortly after, the idea for Good Neighbor Brews was born. After doing some research, the two decided to open their…
Lucia is famous for a lot of things — its tiny, intimate dining room, its foie gras-stuffed prunes — but the Bishop Arts Italian restaurant is perhaps most known for how difficult it is to get a reservation. With only 14 tables, Lucia’s system required calling starting at 9 a.m. on…
In 2013, Plano was introduced to specialty coffee when the doors opened at 1418 Coffeehouse, a homey hangout on K Avenue, and for years the cafe remained unchallenged in that market. Two weeks ago, that changed when XO Coffee Company opened nearby — 371 feet away, to be exact —…
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. It’s 9 a.m., and through the vinyl slats of the Mozzarella Company, Elm Street’s long-standing cheese company, you can…
Some days, in this city, it feels like there’s no such thing as a restaurant without a hook — or, for that matter, a restaurant that doesn’t have an open kitchen, white subway tile and edison bulbs hanging from the ceiling. Sometimes, you just want to go somewhere … normal,…
Inside Carnival Barker’s Ice Creams in Oak Cliff, freezers and ice cream equipment still line the walls, with Simpsons memorabilia scattered around the room. Aaron Barker, the bearded, heavily tattooed creator of Carnival Barker’s, is also still inside, shuffling back and forth through the small room as he dismantles his…
In this week’s food news round-up, more mixed-use developments appear on the horizon, local concepts expand and Greenville Avenue loses yet another business: Howdy Homemade, the Dallas ice cream spot that works with special needs organizations to employ people with Down syndrome and autism, has announced a new collaboration with…
Craft beers and quality pizza give us plenty of reasons to visit Heritage Pizza And Taproom in The Colony.
Richardson boasts a decent list of restaurants in virtually all types of Asian cuisine, but its latest addition takes the taste of South Korea and pairs it with our own Lone Star State: Chicken Moto, a new eatery from the team behind Bbbop Seoul Kitchen. Luckily, we’re not talking cream…
We downed a couple of The Tipsy Alchemist’s new Spring cocktails, the Down the Rabbit Hole, and it took out night in a different totally f**king crazy direction.
The Grape’s latest iteration of their monthly wine dinner features special guest host John Keeton from Virtuoso Selections. We’re pretty sure the dinner, titled Come as You Are, doesn’t have anything to do with Kurt Cobain. Unless, that is, the grunge rocker was a fan of olive oil, legumes and…
It is 11 a.m. on a Saturday, and Poor Richard’s Cafe is in full gear. Waitresses, armed with a tablet in one hand (they abandoned the pen-and-paper order taking method some time ago) and a coffee pot in the other, dash between tables with precision. Judging by the fact that…
We were promised gummy bears infused with champagne, martini chocolates, and rum balls … but we just got candy.
When Daron Babcock prepared to jump into the farming business, he noticed one thing about his new neighborhood. “When I moved down here, everybody around me was sick, like really sick,” he says. “Willy, who was one of the first guys I started working with, he was almost blind from…
The food hall on Cedar Springs would probably be insufferably trendy if it weren’t actually pretty great. There are preciously wrapped cookies at La Duni and neatly encased to-go pastas and kale chips and “pronto” FireSide pizzas. There’s even a quiet vertical garden, bright and evenly distributed with herbs. Before your…
What happens when ice cream masquerades as shaved ice? Lumi Snow Co. happens. Co-founders Cody and Lia Carta had a dream to bring their spin on Taiwanese “shaved snow” to Fort Worth, and the result is indeed dreamy. You’d probably never guess what kind of magic is going on here, given…
Richardson is a real melting pot, one of the most diverse places in North Texas to live and eat. Not too far from the Bollywood theater and Vietnamese pho houses, only a few blocks south of Richardson’s Chinatown, is a small cluster of Iraqi-owned businesses serving up affordable specialties from…
The pink Himalayan salt lamps might be the first clue that Burgundy Local isn’t a typical Texas rancher-run meat market. On Ross Avenue, sandwiched between a craft beer-heavy sports bar and a specialty booze store selling high-end bitters, a small storefront serves as an extension of Jon Taggart’s rolling, grassy…
