After Thursday, the floodgates have opened: It is officially the holiday season, which means an endless supply of sweets, treats and hiding from your family in the bathroom so you can check Facebook in peace. It’s easy to say you’ll be good, calorie-wise, but it’s far easier to give in…
Here at the Observer, brunch is de rigueur. Every week, we bring you tales from the à la carte front line of Dallas’ bustling brunch scene. Brunch buffets, on the other hand, might as well be located on Mars, for we have spent the same amount of time exploring the…
It’s a good thing Tom Ford, Dior and Brunello Cucinelli have retail locations within walking distance of the newly opened Honor Bar in Highland Park Village — that way, if you find yourself out of the Honorable’s proper attire requirements, you can go pick something up real quick. You know,…
Unleash your inner Dowager Countess of Grantham at the Dallas Arboretum. The arboretum is hosting a special three-course holiday tea every day from now through Jan. 3. Guests will enjoy a first course of roasted chestnut soup with cheese wafer, a second course of assorted tea sandwiches and a dessert…
Moxie’s signature cocktail for the Dallas location, the Avocado Gimlet, is one that you think would be … well, disgusting. Luckily, it works.
Everybody wants their place to be the next “hot spot.” At a certain point, it all starts to feel a little manufactured. Welcome to downtown Dallas’ Tortaco, which opened last week on Ross Avenue in what used to be Stephen Pyles’ San Salvaje. Tortaco, brought to you by the same…
Dallas has too much fried chicken. 2016’s Southern comfort food bubble has brought our city an ever-bigger bucket of fried chicken restaurants. Omar Flores, of the highbrow Casa Rubia, opened Whistle Britches to mixed reviews. The family behind Black-Eyed Pea opened Street’s Fine Chicken, which is, indeed, pretty damn fine. Rapscallion’s…
In a world where the specialty segment of the coffee industry is growing at an unprecedented pace and there’s more access than ever to great coffee, instant coffee isn’t exactly a buzzword, and for good reason. Consider your experiences with instant coffee and associated memories, connotations and flavors. Most instant…
Jettison’s offerings are not to be missed by craft cocktail lovers. However, even without a deep appreciation for the art of what has been done at this bar, one can appreciate the sumptuous, sexy decor.
Comfort is a buzz word right now. All over social media, brands are telling us what we need to survive right now: Exploding burgers or pizza pot pie or movies that don’t suck. But when the winter comes, if it does, one thing you need to do for yourself is…
There’s something wonderful about the sound of wine being poured into a clean glass from just the right height. It could be just before it’s perfectly paired with your dinner. It might be as soon as you get home, after a long workday, before you even take time to let…
In recent years, the suburbs of North Texas have been stepping up their culinary game with high-profile concepts that bring city-center creativity to those living outside of Dallas proper. There’s such killer food in the ‘burbs — particularly when it comes to international fare — that it’s well worth the…
In 2010, Karl and Misty Sanford were looking to brew a special beer for their upcoming wedding. They needed something that met certain specifications, so they got together with their friend Jeremy Brodt. Together, the trio finally made a cross between an American brown ale and a Belgian beer over…
When 35-year-old Marina Pomaro purchased The Russian Banya in Carrollton, she and her husband were looking to save a bit of the Russian culture that stands in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “Me and my husband, we were upset it might close down and nobody [was] going to step in to…
Life is getting even sweeter at Glazed Donut Works in Deep Ellum.
Check out Stonedeck’s wildly sour yet spicy beertail, the Habanero Razzberry Sour, to celebrate North Texas Beer Week in a whole new way.
It’s North Texas Beer Week, which means it’s time to dust off the ol’ beer hat and hide the passport. Not really, though. Beer week is about appreciating what a little yeast and some wheat can do, not about reincarnating a scene from Animal House. And what better way to appreciate…
It’s been several days since I first had the patty melt at Jonathon’s, but I can’t stop thinking about it. This statue of meat, cheese and buttery mushrooms and onions has been following me around all week. It pops in my head during meetings. It’s like witnessing an original work…
One of the byproducts of a beloved restaurant, odd in a city that’s constantly paving itself over, is the blissful fallacy that it will be there forever. As quickly as we can get pimento cheese to-go, we can easily take our oldest restaurants for granted. The Highland Park Soda Fountain…
This week, the internet has been focusing its rage on a DFW Chili’s where a U.S. army veteran had his free Veteran’s Day meal taken away after a man in a Donald Trump T-shirt questioned his military service. As The Dallas Morning News reports, 47-year-old Ernest Walker brought his service dog…
Sixty Vines is an interior designer’s dream restaurant. This new Plano hot spot has everything: breathtakingly high ceilings with exposed wooden beams like a gleaming white barn; an open kitchen with fresh pasta hanging from pipes and a dazzling copper-domed pizza oven; long communal tables set with beautiful English plateware…
Deep Ellum has a reputation for rock ‘n’ roll, but now it’s also host to a cool food trend: Thai rolled ice cream. With late hours tailored to night owls, Chills 360 has lines spilling out the door, packed with curious crowds eager to experience the unique presentation of a…
