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…
Little known fact: We eat turkey on Thanksgiving because, at the time the fall celebration came into its own, turkeys were cheap, fresh, widely available and easily fed a crowd. Sure, they had cows back then, but beef was off the table, so to speak, as cows were more useful…
If you’re one of the people perennially pissed off about the Christmas creep, the St. Philip’s Fast might offer you a cure. Beginning 40 days before the Feast of the Nativity (i.e. Christmas), it is a time of prayer, almsgiving and fasting for Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians around the world. It…
Twenty-five years ago, the stiffest libation sold at the Dallas Farmers Market was iced lemonade. Now, market-goers can wet their whistles at half a dozen stalls — including, as of Saturday, a cozy micro-taproom from Noble Rey. The genesis of the brewpub (Noble Rey’s second, after receiving a brewpub license…
Good beer isn’t relegated to Dallas proper, which people living in the suburbs have long known. Some of Dallas’ most interesting new beer is coming from beyond 635. In honor of North Texas Beer Week, we headed to one of these suburbs to find the town’s best-kept beer secrets: Division…
It arrives in two heavy, nondescript brown boxes: Everything I would need to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from scratch. Neatly packed inside is a cadre of ingredients that would have likely required at least two trips to Tom Thumb: four lbs. of potatoes, a loaf of organic white bread,…
With the proliferation of media outlets that cover food — and the social media users who are quietly being paid to shill food and drink — the Dallas food scene becomes, at times, an echo chamber. Did we really need to be reminded countless times in a week that Shake…
Christian Koelling is white. He’s also a DFW native, graduating from Plano High School and working at restaurants like Tei-An and Ten Ramen before taking a sous chef position at Braindead Brewing. Despite his “super Caucasian” background, he says, yesterday, a Donald Trump supporter verbally attacked Koelling at in the…
Now that the election is over, it’s finally time Dallas to unite again over our favorite thing: beer. The annual North Texas Beer Week kicks off Friday with events taking place across the DFW area. But rather than digging fruitlessly through hundreds of events, here’s a rundown of events that…
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Canary by Gorji will move to a no-tipping service model — the first major full-service restaurant in Dallas to do so. “It has not been an easy decision,” chef-owner Mansour Gorji told the Observer. “I have been thinking about it for over a year now.” The no-tipping…
What makes the perfect enchilada? Is it the sauce? The filling? The tortillas? We can’t tell you, but Sylvia Casares, the official Enchilada Queen herself, certainly can. Casares owns Houston’s famed Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen and was dubbed Queen of Tex-Mex Cuisine after competing against Bobby Flay. Casares will showcase her…
Dallas is awash in good Mexican food, from El Tocallo’s lengua tacos served on house-made tortillas to Seafood Shack’s citrus crazy ceviche tostadas. Entire blogs are dedicated to the pursuit of the very best Mexican food Big D has to offer, and devotees disregard mileage when it comes to hunting…
There may be other crucial moments for the rapid-fire consumption of comfort food, but this week is high on the list. The sky in Dallas is graying, and we may be headed toward this thing called “winter.” Cold beer or saucy dumplings or hot and cheesy burgers all taste better…
Stop into Ida Claire and try out their Garden Punch, or make the fruity, herbaceous punch for your next party.
There seems to be no end to the explosion of barbecue restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and we’re beyond the point of offering guesses as to when the trend will peak. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; when the craving for barbecue strikes, there’s a preponderance of choices no…
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. There’s so much to take in at the dumpling bar at Royal China. Dough, dusty with flour,…
Back in May, we shared the big news: that Dallas would soon have its very own “artisanal toast” restaurant, Toasted Coffee + Kitchen. Feedback was swift — and harsh. “Fucking hipsters,” seemed to be a common refrain. Despite the, uh, feedback, Toasted co-founder Joel Roldan insisted that his toast-centric concept was…
Once upon a time, downtown Dallas was a ghost town come 6 p.m. Office workers poured out of their skyscrapers and went straight home. The only watering holes were dives, and the only places to eat were fancy hotel kitchens like the French Room. That’s all changed dramatically in the…
