A burrito never felt so heavy. Heavy hearted kind of heavy. Your last three-pound foil encased carnitas with guacamole might have made you want to make you take a nap, but Chipotle’s new online commercial will make you want to cry in a corner. With more than 4.5 million hits…
One-time barista Liz Goulding drinks coffee around Dallas so her head doesn’t hurt and so she can help keep yours from hurting, too. Got a place to suggest? Leave it in the comments. Weekend Coffee is tucked inside The Joule Hotel in downtown Dallas. Having never stayed there, I imagined…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…
Craft beer, sustainable seafood, trompo tacos, artistic cocktails and slices of grandma: Dallas dining is either emerging from or headed into a culinary construction zone. But many Dallas restaurants refuse to reject the notion of comfort food and its vital role in a city where not an eyelash bats at…
Late last week, Michael Martensen announced a new weekly concept at Smyth, his Uptown ode to crafty cocktails. The bar will offer what he describes as “coursed cocktails,” a selection of drinks dreamed up by his team of bartenders to be enjoyed in concert for a fixed price. His first…
The Truck Yard (5624 Sears) at 5624 Sears Street, Dallas’ third permanent food truck park, opened over the weekend, tucked behind Lower Greenville near the new Trader Joe’s. This big backyard-esque spot is the brainchild of Jason Boso, a guy who’s pretty good at big backyard-esque projects (see Twisted Root)…
Hey, sleepyhead, don’t have Monday sad face. Head over the Klyde Warren Park this morning from 7 a.m. to noon for some free coffee, donuts, bagels and more. According to Ruthie’s Food Truck Facebook page, there’s a bright yellow food truck wrapped in a promotion for the new comedy featuring…
The god father of Tex-Mex in Dallas, El Fenix, is celebrating its 95th anniversary this Monday. To commemorate the event, for the rest of September El Fenix will give every guest a scratch-and-win card, which together total one million dollars in prizes that range from iPads and gift cards to…
Moment of truth: I started this post thinking Central Market was going to host some marginal events over the next week for their Brewniversity event and, mostly, I was excited that they’re offering 20 percent off beer purchases of $25 of more. But as I dug through the store calendars,…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…
(Pictured above: Gluten and dairy free chocolate molten cake with almond milk ice cream at HG Sply Co.) Today is International Chocolate Day, and in honor of this tasty “holiday,” my camera and I set out in search of some of the most decadent chocolate dishes in Dallas. Here are…
This is something you’re most certainly going to want to clear your schedule for. Garrison Brothers Distillery founder Dan Garrison is holding a bourbon seminar at Sigel’s Elite at 3209 Fitzhugh next Wednesday, September 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. Garrison Brothers is a small distillery on a ranch in…
OK, this “time flies” thing is really starting to flip me out. When I was five, an additional 15 minutes in the car on the way to grandma’s house was the most agonizing period time I could imagine anyone enduring. Now multiple hours evaporate every time I blink my eyes…
Just two weeks ago, a news release issued by a spokesperson who works for Kent Rathbun’s Abacus restaurant announced that Eddie Campbell, one of the city’s best known and best traveled bartenders, had been hired to tend mix drinks there. See Also: Eddie Campbell, Dallas’ Wandering Mixologist, Has Landed at…
According to AllRecipes.com and 10,000 Facebook likes, The World’s Best Lasagna hails from Frisco, Texas. Earlier this week The Washington Post featured John Chandler’s recipe for the layered pasta dish, AllRecipe’s single most popular recipe on the entire English-language site. The Post took the dish’s name as more of a…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…
Lobster rolls are inexplicably all over this town, even if we have to pay a claw and a leg to get one. Shrimp rolls make more sense. The Gulf of Mexico has plenty of shrimp, and not only are the shipping costs lower, the shellfish are more affordable. See also:…
Sad news, kids. The Mattito’s Tex-Mex restaurant that’s occupied the cozy spot on Routh Street for the past 14 years is moving, to much less cozy Centrum Building at the corner of Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road. We’ve talked about this particular parcel of land before, most recently…
Compared to tacos, pasta and other imported foods, sushi is still a relatively new phenomenon in the States. It wasn’t until the mid-1960s that the first sushi bars started cropping up in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, to cater to homesick Japanese businessmen. Those first shops did little to rouse desire…
After opening 50 stores in 11 states, Mooyah, the Dallas-based burger chain, has gone overseas, and not where you might expect: It opened its first restaurant in Dubai earlier this month, and is expanding its culinary reach to Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar all by the end of 2013 Mooyah has…
“Dallas Beer Week” is returning this year as North Texas Beer Week, an eight-day event from November 9 to 16 that will highlight the people, places and brews that make up the region’s craft-beer scene. North Texas Beer Week is now a locally owned and operated event. Chad Montgomery of…
You knew all along that Grape owner Brian Luscher would go nuts if he just handed his kitchen over to his new executive chef Danyele McPherson and sat on his hands. Chefs work relentless hours, and you can’t go from ridiculously busy to idle without insanity leaking in. See also:…
