There have been whispers — David Haynes has heard the gossip from friends — that he’s restaurant cheating. It’s been about five years since he and wife and business partner Catherine Jacobus opened the doors of a thin-crust pizza joint on the corner of Elm and Good Latimer, and they’re embracing…
You can get a lot of international cuisines in Frisco. And thanks to the new Aussie Grind, you can add Australian fare to the list.
A Chicago-based concept called Foxtrot is opening a “contemporary evolution of the corner store on McKinney Avenue in Uptown on June 25.” The all-day concept — a popular idea in Dallas right now, as evidenced by all-day destinations like The Henry and Tribal All Day Cafe, which serve everything from…
If you have a mediocre meal with fantastic service, there’s a good chance you’ll walk away feeling generally well about the experience. But when you have a subpar meal with service that seemed to have a goal of making you wait, and you’ll walk out wanting your money back. At…
Matt Pittman wasn’t born in Texas, but he barbecues like a native. After his first exposure to true Central Texas barbecue, Pittman’s passion for smoking meats grew quickly, and soon he was a regular on the competition barbecue circuit. In 2014, he landed a spot on Season 5 of the…
By and large, the standard fare at most Texas barbecue spots doesn’t stray too far from center. Brisket, sausage and ribs define true north, with beans, coleslaw, and mac and cheese the likely side choices. That said, we love to see shops flex their creative muscles, and there may be…
Few culinary changes would bring the Dallas area as big a quality-of-life improvement as putting a falafel joint in every neighborhood. We’re working on it, slowly. In the northeastern corner of Plano, Board Bites is setting an example for the kafta revolution.
Char’d wants to be the Chipotle of fast-casual South Asian food.
Dino and Megan Santonicola are opening Partenope Ristorante, an Italian restaurant dedicated to the cuisine of Naples, in the Titche-Goettinger building this fall.
Situated right across the street from Wild Acre Brewing, the new Joe Riscky’s Barbecue has Fort Worth barbecue legacy and shockingly inexpensive eats.
Pure Milk & Honey in Mockingbird Station serves real, freshly made soft-serve made using honey as a sweetener rather than refined sugar.
Tender Smokehouse was a huge hit when the barbecue joint opened in Celina in 2018. Now, it’s taken over the massive Frisco space that formerly belonged to 3 Stacks.
How one Dallas family made an empire out of a family pad Thai recipe.
It was all a dream. Those legendary Biggie Smalls lyrics sit above a mural of the Brooklyn-born rapper in Brickhouse Burgers and Shakes. But it’s far from fan art. It poses as a precursor to what New York natives and cousins James Richardson and Jeff Dort created. When they decided…
Punch Bowl Social does not describe itself as a bar or restaurant — no, no. This, according to a press release, is “a nationally recognized lifestyle brand known for its industry-changing approach to experiential food and beverage.” We’re not so sure that pingpong and punch is exactly a game-changer in…
We can’t say we ever expected to eat doughnuts at Flora Street Cafe on a Sunday morning.
This little sno-ball stand in East Dallas makes flavors from scratch with natural ingredients, and their New Orleans-style sno-balls are so good, they’ve appeared in the pages of Bon Appetit.
Hurtado Barbecue has been drawing long lines to their food truck at Division Brewing in Arlington with their Tex-Mex barbecue.
Two regional icons stare at each other from across a parking lot in Richardson. To the east, Afrah Mediterranean Restaurant resides in its palatial new quarters, constructed just a few years ago to handle the buffet’s big reputation and equally big crowds of hungry Dallasites. Just a few feet away,…
Fat Straws is like many other boba tea shops: It’s colorful and bright and fun. Yet the boba world is strangely cutthroat. With so many bubble tea shops saturating the Dallas market, staying afloat requires more than just high-quality tapioca pearls and a good logo. Establishing rapport, keeping up with…
It’s standing room only at Burger House. Lunch is a blur of baskets: Burger drops to paper. Paper is smushed into a ball. Trash is crushed down. For the staff, bunching into the tiny, seven-decades-old kitchen is an Olympic performance. They’ve synchronized burger-flipping, steam-hopping and order-calling. “It’s going to move…
K’s House, a new Korean barbecue restaurant from Sammantha Kang, opens today at Cypress at Trinity Groves.
