Five months after they opened, business went off the face of a cliff. The decline was a gut-punch surprise for owners Braden and Yasmin Wages. Malai Kitchen was their first restaurant, and good feedback met them right out of the gate. They’d traveled the world, enriched bowls of lip-smacking curries…
Dallas loves brunch. Go anyplace serving a brunch menu on a Saturday or Sunday and it becomes ever-apparent. Mimosas, chicken-fried steak, shrimp and grits, waffles: There’s something about the sweet and savory food paired with a Champagne beverage that so many of us love. As we wrap up 2018, it’s…
At Morefan in Plano, a Xi’anese food stall is cooking up stellar biang biang noodles.
Go to enough brunches in Dallas and the menus start to look the same. There’s a take on a Benedict, a plate of shrimp and grits, eggs cooked your way. The look of the menu alone at the new Merchant House immediately lifts expectations.
Few are the foods with such power over the imagination that just hearing their names can stop your stream of thoughts and send you off to the internet to look at restaurant menus. They tend to be celebration dishes — whether eaten at a celebration or cause for one. When…
Merry Christmas, burger aficionados: Burger chain Shake Shack is opening two more DFW locations at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23. In Southlake, a 3,166-square-foot restaurant is opening at 125 Central Ave., with ample patio seating, the standard Shake Shack menu and “a unique selection of frozen custard concretes in collaboration…
The bells on the front door jangle awake. The griddle crackles from hot beef fat, a sound that bests any jukebox on earth. It should be early. That’s when it’s best at Hunky’s: Be there right after the doors unlock for lunch. The sputter of rendered fat on a flat…
Haute West Dallas barbecue joint Smoke, which we recently named one of the Top 100 Dallas Restaurants, has been sold to the Belmont Hotel. Restaurant founders Chris Jeffers, Chris Zielke and Tim Byres opened the restaurant in 2009 “at the request and partnership of former Belmont Hotel owner, Monte Anderson,”…
At the Shops at Legacy’s newest eatery, Bellagreen, the worlds of fast-casual and environmentally conscious collide and manifest in fun, healthy fare. The new Plano location, which opens Friday, is the store’s eighth. The restaurant also has six locations in Houston and one in Dallas, at 8041 Walnut Hill. Bellagreen employees…
A healthy fast-casual restaurant — from Sam Fox, the restaurateur behind True Food Kitchen — is coming to Rosewood Court in Uptown: Flower Child, which will occupy 4,800 square feet facing Cedar Springs, according to a press release. Opening in late 2019, Rosewood Court will expand a 1,500-square-foot patio in front…
Dallas may have a reputation as a steakhouse city, but in 2018, we saw more new vegan and vegetarian options than ever. Hell, even some of the aforementioned steakhouses are offering vegan menus now. We’ve explored a bevy of vegan and vegetarian Dallas restaurants this year — here are our…
When asked if “eat the fucking cookie” — Cookie Shop’s attention-grabbing slogan — was her idea, owner McKenzie Mitchell giggles a bit before owning up to it. “We have a good time doing our job,” she says. “Nobody’s pissed when you hand them a cookie.” Her theory checks out. The…
The challenge was elegantly simple: How do you toast the divot left in the crown of a hollowed-out bun? They asked themselves: Do we jet a flame right into the buttered dent? A top bun glazed in butter, the white bread’s sugars charred from grill heat, toasting until a blackened…
Grassroots Kitchen, in the Elmwood neighborhood of Oak Cliff, is a humble and homey place. Like the other businesses around it, there are security bars on the doors and windows. Don’t let that dissuade you from going inside, where you’ll find the menu posted by the door, printed in black…
Wondering what to gift the brunch-lover on your Christmas list? We’ve got an idea: Presale starts today for the 2019 edition of the Morning After, a Dallas Observer brunch festival taking over the Dallas Farmers Market from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. A $30 presale ticket gets…
The Star has another new restaurant to entice Cowboys fans to the team’s headquarters: Howard Wang’s China Grill, a North Texas-based Chinese food and dim sum chain with locations in Uptown, Preston Hollow and Southlake. Originally set back because of construction delays, Howard Wang’s Frisco celebrated its grand opening yesterday…
It’s hours of crafting, and you mustn’t use machines. For Sandwich Hag owner and chef Reyna Duong, meatballs are nostalgia shaped by hand into tiny planet shapes. As a kid, she orbited around her aunts and sisters, gathering the troops for a breakfast of torn shards of baguette, cilantro sprigs,…
There’s something special about a French (or even French-inspired) bistro. It frequently has deep colors in decor complemented by natural light flowing through windows, the essence of espresso and pastry in the air and a menu featuring a richness and delicacy unique to French cuisine. Uptown’s Mercat Bistro offers that…
Al Biernat’s, a mainstay Dallas steakhouse for more than 20 years, has expanded into unlikely territory: vegan cuisine. In October, this classic steak and seafood restaurant debuted a four-item vegan menu. Both the Oak Lawn and newer North Dallas locations offer this special side menu. Al Biernat and his wife…
When Bet the House BBQ opened in Denton in 2014, the lines wound out the door immediately, and many a barbecue enthusiast was left meatless as the barbecue joint routinely sold out. Despite the restaurant’s popularity in Little D, four and a half years later, Bet the House has thrown…
It was around two years ago when David Haynes strode into work with UberEats on his mind. The business of kind strangers delivering food to our doorsteps was surging, much like it continues to do now, and the Stonedeck Pizza Pub owner had a need for speed. Pizza, it turns…
Khao is a multifaceted word in the Thai/Laos culture. By definition, it really just means “food” in general. But its cultural use is extremely broad. It can be stretched to “Come eat,” or “Let’s eat!” It can even be used in a general coming together way, as well. This exploration…
