Back in March, we learned that The Grape’s Danyele McPherson had been tapped to open a new restaurant on Greenville Avenue. We knew the new spot, dubbed The Remedy, was coming from the same folks that brought HG Sply Co. to Lower Greenville, and we knew it would be modeled…
It’s become an annual tradition, and I’m not sure how. While other food-freaks try to consume deep-fried everything at the State Fair of Texas, I get to know one dish — always the winner of the Big Tex Choice Awards — a little more intimately. So far my experiences haven’t…
Everything is big at the Henderson Tap House. The patio is hugely open and resort-like with a long row of misters guarding the rolled up garage doors. SPORTS and BEER, as a concept, is present like a soccer ball to the mouth. College football helmets, skis, autographed things, Miller Lite…
The Dallas of 20 years ago exists only on the margins of the current culinary climate. There are more restaurants in this city than ever, and the focus of the chefs who run its best restaurants has shifted dramatically in the last five years. No longer is Dallas known for…
After coming from New York City, Proof + Pantry chef Kyle McClelland knew that Dallas had some big shoes to fill when it came to good eats. Fortunately, the city’s restaurants have provided this East Coaster with plenty to love, especially in the form of Asian food. Most people think…
Like any other job, being a server comes with its share of shittiness. Working all day on your feet is exhausting, patrons can be dicks, and you have to work really, really hard to earl that $2.13 an hour plus tips. And on top of all of the usual stresses,…
“Dinner in Trinity Groves?” It’s a question that so often sends my potential dining companions running for the hill country, a trail of withering dust the only evidence they ever existed. This restaurant empire, rising from the clay of West Dallas, isn’t the only destination that has given me trouble,…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. People saying “Ooooooh” at their food: 14 Times I wondered why there was a full-length mirror next to the shitter in the ladies’ restroom, angled…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. It’s opening weekend for Chef Beck Blythe at the “permanent pop-up” restaurant Kitchen LTO, which is reincarnated every four months with a new chef. Upon learning…
Thursday evenings are good for doing life stuff — washing the car, balancing the check book, the sort of activities that lend themselves to the steady drumbeat of functional adulthood. This Thursday, though, why not forgo those things in lieu of eating many foods and drinking much beer? Grace will…
Hey Leslie Brenner! I don’t know you. I’m Alice. I don’t know what you look like, but lots of chefs in town tell me they know what you look like, and that you’re never truly dining secretly in their restaurants. I imagine that you look like the above illustration that…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Many readers submitted suggestions for this year’s 100 Favorite Dishes. Some made…
At the start of October, CBD Provisions announced it would offer the first version of what they say will become a monthly special. Every day from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m., you can slap $12 down on the bar and receive a Lakewood Till and Toil and a chubby weisswurst…
The ascension of Dallas’ culinary scene has been a curious thing to watch from the sidelines. As a diner, Dallasites have more restaurants to choose from than ever, helmed by some of the country’s brightest up-and-coming chefs. At the same time, this progress has been slow-going, and Dallas has been…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I’m not sure why, but I get a disproportionate number of questions…
Like everyone else in town, we’ve told you already about Leslie Brenner’s recent visit to Proof + Pantry. The dining critic at the Dallas Morning News visited the restaurant last Thursday in preparation for a review, and the meal went as most meals do until owner Michael Martensen raised a…
Last summer, Texas laws governing alcohol sales changed slightly — not nearly as much as they should have — allowing a brewer operating under a “brewpub” license to produce more beer and, most importantly, sell it outside of their own establishments. This is why we’re seeing a rash of new…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. When I first read about So&So’s in Uptown, and even first walked…
Leslie Brenner, the Dallas Morning News’ food critic, isn’t the most popular journalist in town. In the past few months, she’s taken fire from chefs and diners alike who say Brenner doesn’t understand Dallas or its cuisine. Most famously, Knife and Spoon chef John Tesar joined the chorus of Brenner…
The change has been a long time coming. The Front Room first opened in 2012 in Hotel Lumen, with Scott Townend serving as executive chef. Back then, the restaurant was branded as a Park Cities diner, with a dressed up but casual menu that seemed well suited to the Park…
In “Shigging,” we ask pitmasters to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they’re allowed to lie once. This week, we’re asking Todd David, pitmaster at Cattleack Barbecue, how he smokes his brisket. What is the name of your…
If it seems like we’re always talking about Kitchen LTO, the Trinity groves “permanent pop-up” restaurant, it’s because it’s hard to ignore a restaurant that completely changes the concept every four months. Some chefs’ short-lived tenures are more exciting than others, but no one’s start have been as exciting as…
