Restaurants

The Belmont Hotel has provided stunning views of the Dallas skyline since 1946. This West Dallas spot has stood on Fort Worth Avenue while the area around it develops, bringing in newer businesses that draw visitors but also gradually block those picturesque views. And come the start of 2020, it…

Coney Island Hot Weiners has expanded into the DFW area with a new location in central Arlington. The history of this place goes all the way back to 1919 when its founder, Greek immigrant Christ Economou, arrived at Ellis Island. Economou started his wiener empire in the Northeast and made…

77 Degrees opened on North Henderson Avenue this week, giving the area a rooftop bar for lounging while drinking and admiring the Dallas skyline. This is the business’ third location, after Austin and Houston. It’s equipped with four decks and two bars, with a water wall, suspended swings and cabanas…

No matter how refined your palate, sometimes the body craves convenience above all else. You think about a kitchen full of fresh produce and scratch ingredients with a sense of dread rather than culinary anticipation. Work ran late, you skipped lunch, and hunger is overriding good sensibility.

There’s nothing quite like the excitement of setting foot in a new restaurant for the first time. No matter the cuisine, hope shines most brightly in those first steps in the door, when the possibility of finding a new favorite is at its zenith. Alas, more often than not, there’s…

It seems Las Palmas is keeping its brunch a pretty well-kept secret. Located in Uptown, it’s hiding in plain sight. It might have something to do with the front sign only stating “Lunch & Dinner 11-11.” Maybe it’s because they opened a few months ago. The only acknowledgment of brunch…

A friend sent me two texts last week: “Del Sur tacos” “On Jefferson” I didn’t ask questions about the cryptic messages. I just held down on the taco text for the thumb’s-up response and decided to make a quick stop in over the next couple of days. What I assumed…

A new fancy doughnut place is on its way, and it comes to us from Miami: The Salty Donut. The family-owned shop is headed to Bishop Arts, close to Lockhart Smokehouse BBQ. The goal is an opening date around “winter,” more details are to come, but for now, let’s dive…

For centuries, the Chinese city of Chang’an acted as a capital and royal residence. Just to the east, across the Bahe River, are the famous terra cotta warriors; in town, a recently-opened park showcases the remains of a nearly 1,400-year-old royal palace. Here, for centuries, traders from across China gathered…

A new pastry chef is stepping in full time at Bisous Bisous Pâtisserie in Uptown. No, owner and executive pastry chef Andrea Meyer isn’t going anywhere, but she’s adding another full-time expert to her staff, Sarah Green. “She’s an absolute professional but remains approachable and open to innovation,” Meyer says…

Paradise is a freestanding pickle bar. The Texas flag is pinned up behind the nursed-for troughs of diced and round onions, dill pickles both chopped and crinkle-cut, jalapeños both whole and sliced and an evenly troweled, cold container of butter. A really good pickles, onions and peppers bar can save…

Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in DFW. Because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out in a city like Dallas. Class may be in session across Dallas, but it’s still summer at Public School. Some of…

The 10th annual Dallas Chocolate Festival returns in September, offering our city three days to experience the work of more than 60 chocolate makers and chocolatiers from our area and around the world. While the past nine years have offered us plenty to indulge in, this year some new products…

Former Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston knows food, likes the Observer and has been known to voice strong opinions on rare occasions. So when he offered to write about food for us, we said hell yeah. In his seminal interview with me known as “Hot Dish,” my colleague Brian…

Wedged in the Adolphus Hotel, City Hall Bistro fills a distinct modern style that pairs against the historic design of the surrounding space. Windows allow light to pour in against white subway tile and warm caramel, leather seats. It is an excellent place to be for a summer brunch —…

The Clover Club offers Dallas’s more mature bar guests a place to grab a classic cocktail and enjoy classic music.

For Amanda and Jeremy Scott, the owners behind Tutta’s Pizza, having a place known for house-smoked meat worthy of being on TV isn’t enough. As more places in town offer vegan options that are cravable for diet followers and meat lovers, they decided it was time the West End pizza spot…

Science presents us with many paradoxes. Its ability to improve our lives almost exactly matches its ability to show us the ways we’re ruining our lives. The world is overheating, and a huge cause of that destruction is global agriculture, in particular the raising of livestock for meat. Meat production…

Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in DFW. Because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out in a city like Dallas. By the time the weekend hits, the one thing on so many people’s minds is brunch…

New to the Old East Dallas neighborhood is California-based Top Round, serving sandwiches good enough for Texas and California to put their beefs aside. At Top Round’s first Dallas location, guests can enjoy a variety of roast beef, burgers and chicken sandwiches in a diner-style setting. At Top Round, the…

The Melios brothers are too busy to chat right now. Toast is halved and buttered as fast as hands can move them. The dishes, heaped with crusty hash browns and over-easy eggs, clatter as they drop on the counter. Mike Melios is facing the griddle, skinny in a white shirt…