Jalisco Norte is making it easy to eat their upscale Mexican food even if you’re in a hurry. Yesterday, the restaurant launched Loncheria, a “walk-up market offering a condensed menu of chef Jose Meza’s authentic and approachable Mexican cuisine perfect for a quick meal on the patio or easy meal…
High-profile Dallas chef Stephan Pyles has closed his Uptown restaurant, Stampede 66, as originally reported by CultureMap. The restaurant closed Saturday, Oct. 13. The restaurant, created in homage to Pyles’ 90s popular restaurant Star Canyon, was an uber-touristy locale with Texas-centric dishes that, by many accounts, seemed to have lost…
Getting wasted is likely something you’ve experienced before. And we all remember the infamous “chocolate wasted” line from the movie Grown Ups. But what about getting ice cream wasted? No? Well, meet the grown up who’s responsible for creating a non-dairy, alcohol-infused ice cream, right here in North Texas. “I…
Maroches on Davis Street is a small Mexican bakery that sits right at the edge of historic Winnetka Heights and is one of the last bastions of an older Dallas in the middle of gentrified North Oak Cliff eateries and bistros. But Maroches is going through some tough times that…
Michael Luttinger is too occupied, at least for now, to coddle his Instagram feed. He’s just, as he puts it, nonstop busy running Dallas food truck Eggstand. His two daughters log in to help him out here and there, but at 59 — he was asked to resign from his…
With its shareable dishes and games like ping-pong and bowling, Scout is a great place to grab a cocktail and dinner, and it just expanded its menu to include brunch. But for now, it remains a great place to grab a cocktail and dinner. Scout is a group-friendly cocktail bar…
The $15,000 pour-over coffee machine whispers awake. A tiny metal arm, situated directly over the coffee grind, whirls and dispenses liquid in a quiet rush that doubles as a good hypnosis act from a robot. Belly up to the counter, made of intimidatingly fancy laundry-white stone, in a daze watching…
Some comfort foods translate across all cultures and languages. Nearly everyone likes a hot bowl of noodle soup. Almost every cuisine has its sausage link. South Korea and southern America agree on the glories of fried chicken. It’s about time that koshari, the pride of Egypt, achieved that level of…
From the family behind Taverna, Toulouse and Bistro 31 comes Alberto Lombardi’s newest concept: Kai, an “original Asian restaurant with French influence” that opened Monday. The most recent addition to Plano’s Legacy West shopping district, Kai is directly above Toulouse, Lombardi’s popular French brasserie. It is a full-service sushi lounge complete…
“If you smell smoke, come on in” — that’s the message from owners of Louie King, a new Texas barbecue restaurant opening soon on Lower Greenville in the space formerly occupied by seafood institution Daddy Jack’s. Louie King’s owners — who also own Lower Greenville establishments Leela’s, ABV and the…
When Betty Ringer Ice Cream opened in Sylvan Thirty in summer of 2017, we quickly fell in love with the ice cream shop’s bold yet understated experimental flavors — Thai tea, goat cheese and cherry jam, blueberry lavender, olive oil. Some of the shop’s flavors were inspired by small-batch, chef-driven…
You don’t have to be a carnivore to eat well at the fair. Here are a few of our favorite meat-free, vegetarian and vegan dishes at the 2018 State Fair of Texas.
Dallas may not be in dire need of another place to get brunch, but Jack’s Kitchen deserves a spot on anyone’s brunch rotation. The East Dallas restaurant opened Aug. 1 and is slowly gaining a following, says Scott Jones, the restaurateur behind the concept. Jones was also the one behind…
As of Oct. 1, Victory Park has yet another new restaurant: Mesero, a new location of the Dallas upscale Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurant that also has locations in Inwood Village, Prestonwood, Legacy West and Clearfork. The newest location is next door to new luxury movie theater Cinépolis. The restaurant, already…
When Sandra Montes prays for her restaurant, she asks for customers to come from the north, south, east and west. It appears someone out there is hearing her prayer. San Pedro’s Restaurante, a storefront off West Northwest Highway and Harry Hines specializing in Honduran food, recently celebrated its second birthday…
Justin Bonard, a Cicerone formerly working at Meddlesome Moth, is opening Ten:One, an intimate cheese shop and beer and wine bar, in Denton.
Late into October 2012, Big Tex lost his jaw. It was a grim warning: Standing tall in the sky, unmoving, the lower half of his face erupted in roaring flames. Black smoke poured from his hat and into the sky over Fair Park. It was an omen. For what? In…
What started as a battle cry has become a running joke: Don’t Uptown my Deep Ellum. Hell, it’s even a Bullzerk T-shirt. But it already feels too late. The commodification of Deep Ellum’s “grit” has already transformed the neighborhood, begetting one flash-in-the-pan trend after the next. Last Saturday night, when…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for good or bad — over the years. Find a counter stool, and you’ll see the signs: Steel guitar croons over the speakers. Across the street,…
This is Texas, which means we all have an image in our head of what a tray of great barbecue looks like. There’s definitely some brisket in our tray, pencil-width slices fanned perfectly with a peppery black bark and a deep pink smoke ring. We’ve got some sausage, too, and…
We had to make a lot of difficult choices for our annual Best Of Dallas issue — but few were harder than determining the winner of the title Best Bar Food. We are living in the golden age of Dallas bar food, and a half-dozen watering holes all deserve the…
“It’s like make believe,” a guest said of the Japanese sweet potatoes. But really, it could have referred to the entire meal. Maison Saint James is an invite-only culinary experience curated by Dallasite Marie St. James. Most recently, James teamed up with Tim Lavender of LAV’s Kitchen Table for a…
