Restaurants

Getting the vibe of brunch right is half the battle to draw the crowds. Having the best waffles and bloody mary drinks is all for naught if guests don’t feel as if all the brunch stereotypes aren’t met. Diners want to feel like they’re having brunch — a cutesy, relaxed…

There isn’t a better place to sit in the city when you’re there. You’re sitting better than anyone around: The lights behind the bar twinkle, refracting through bottles. The blue-and-white checkered tile is smooth and perfectly accepting of a solo diner. The counter of the Grape Restaurant can only hold…

This past weekend, the Dallas Chocolate Festival returned for its 10th year, giving attendees access to chocolatiers, workshops and this favorite sweet. New to the festival this year was CBD in some chocolates, but this event mostly involved seeing and tasting a whole bunch of beautiful chocolate. Expert chocolates came from…

The Dallas area has an abundance of Korean barbecue restaurants. What sets K’s House apart is its location, 10 miles southeast of any of the others, just across a bridge from downtown. Located in a prime new corner of the Trinity Groves development, K’s House gives residents of the city…

Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth — because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out in a city like Dallas. By now, it’s likely you’re aware of SkinnyFats, the Las Vegas-born restaurant that made…

For a while now, District 6 in Dallas has been home to some of the best tacos. Specifically, that’s right down to West Dallas. Part of that adoration goes to Trompo, a taqueria sitting on Singleton Boulevard that Bon Appetit named a best new restaurant in 2016. Today, Trompo owner…

This past week on the edge of the West End, Dallas got a new restaurant specializing 100 percent in Cambodian food. While we see different places incorporating Cambodian flavors or dishes into their menus while they focus on other Asian cuisines, Kamp Fire is a welcome addition to the scene…

We know where we can get different types of Asian foods in the Dallas area. There’s the Asian Trade District off Interstate 35 and Royal Lane, the area many of us know as the land of King Spa, Koryo Kalbi and 9 Rabbits Bakery. DFW China Town is the strip…

Irish brunch is criminally underrepresented in Dallas. Most people might not even think of Ireland when it comes to mowing down a hangover meal and a few mimosas, despite the origins of brunch having their roots founded in the Catholic practice of fasting before mass. Fortunately, the Playwright Irish Pub…

It’s been six short months since Ernesto and Alfredo Pena opened their family’s burger hut. In restaurant years, five months and change is primordial. It’s still at the cellular level, a tender and fragile age when the slightest predator could gobble it up. The baby-blue joint is huddled against Gus Thomasson…

Eating healthy looks like it might get more fun with Coolgreens slated to open five new stores in Dallas. Husband and wife duo Benny and Leily Farzad formed Farzad Food Group and signed a deal to bring the Oklahoma City-based, fast-casual health eatery to Dallas-Fort Worth. Both Leily and Benny…

Being the time of year that it is, I recently got some black bean-Hatch chile tamales from La Popular Tamale House. Full disclosure, I know Jesse Moreno, who helps run the business with his father, who started it about 30 years ago. I met Moreno when I did a story…

A new breakfast spot has opened on Greenville Avenue. Three Egg Muffins is a coffee shop and cafe specializing in — you guessed it — muffins. Across from Snuffer’s Restaurant and Bar, this small eatery is open daily, serving both sweet and savory muffins. Owner DongWhun Lee has been in…

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…