In this week’s roundup of DFW restaurant news, Deep Ellum loses a coffee shop, Plano gets a new one and Arlington just keeps on enticing us (yes, really). Deep Ellum coffee shop, booze-slinger and music venue Drugstore Cowboy has closed, as originally reported by Central Track: “Shortly after the Fourth…
Northern-dwelling fans of Velvet Taco’s rotisserie chicken taco will no longer have to drive too far south to catch a fix: Velvet Taco opened its fourth location Monday at 11700 Preston Road in Preston Forest Village. “Velvet Taco virgins who venture into the newest location will discover an all-day menu…
It’s been a rough summer for Lower Greenville Avenue restaurants. In June, we lost two: Pints & Quarts, which closed to focus on its new Oak Lawn location, and the Blind Butcher, a neighborhood mainstay. Now, another restaurant has thrown in the towel: Bbbop. As CultureMap reports, the Lower Greenville…
Walking into Sushi Kadan, a new sushi and Japanese restaurant in Carrollton, customers are met with a cool, dark, dimly lit interior. They can sit at the bar and watch as sushi is made or sit at a table underneath three faux cherry blossom trees. Eating at Sushi Kadan is…
The final restaurant space has been filled at The Statler, and in its first week, Fine China made a grand entrance. With a large dining room with modern design, a few rooms for private dining parties, a partially exposed kitchen in the back and some of the prettiest bathrooms, Fine…
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 the good or bad — over the years. The Cheez Whiz is drizzled on as a finale. The “pizza slayers,” each wearing a leather holster…
Shark jaws hang over the front door, which means you’re somewhere else right now. Oyster brine and lemons — the bartender slices neat zest strips — create the cologne in the air. This is Dallas’ Preston Center, but once inside Montlake Cut, there is a retreat disguised as a…
For Shoals Sound and Service, having a Deep Ellum establishment with a stellar bar program and a ridiculously good bologna sandwich isn’t enough. It has to have brunch. What’s different about brunch at Shoals, though, is that you can get a different menu and different style of food almost every…
About a year after Trinity Groves lost its brewery — Four Corners, which moved to the Cedars and was recently acquired by the maker of Modelo and Corona — another brewery is opening up in the West Dallas restaurant incubator. Steam Theory Brewing Co., a restaurant and brewery, begins soft…
Goat carcasses unfurl over the grill like flags in the breeze. It’s a massive grill, at least 3 feet across and as long as a small car, not quite an earthen pit in a backyard but as close as you can get indoors without offending the health inspector. Part of…
Most people associate Egypt with pharaohs, the Great Pyramids, mummies and other staples of pop culture’s version of the country. Few often think of the people, the wealthy and the peasants. “I wanted to show the other side of Egypt,” says Bosayna Elhouni, chef, partner and food services director of…
When a friend told me he’d heard good things about a gas station ceviche counter, I naturally thought it was a step too far. We food people are always on the hunt for great food in unexpected places, and gas stations have, thanks to taco-devouring hipsters, become an oddly trendy…
From branded burgers to resurrected patty melts, there are a few stellar burgers on our radar right now — and what better time to go whole ham on some burgers than summertime? Cowboy up to one of our favorites. BurgerFi’s branded burgers This new burger franchise location on Mockingbird has…
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 the good or bad — over the years. The flat-top crackles. Four beef patties go down, snapping and hissing like records, and a powder coat…
If you’re looking for superior French toast, you’re in LUCK. Literally. You’ll find LUCK, which stands for Local Urban Craft Kitchen, among the long strip of restaurants in Trinity Groves. It offers 40 beers on tap and a full menu — along with a brunch menu that makes it worth…
The Statler’s multimillion-dollar renovations have already netted us a few new concepts: Scout, a bar and “social space” with shareable snacks, bowling lanes and pingpong; Bourbon and Banter, a faux speakeasy cocktail bar under the lobby; Overeasy, a modern lobby diner serving farm-to-table breakfast and lunch; and Waterproof, a rooftop…
It’s never been just a bologna sandwich. Bologna is pork’s inexpensive canvas upon which you pour your memory. You know the aroma of it — tangy and sharp and so uniquely bologna. Maybe a memory emerges, for some of us, when squishy white bread fuses with a lot of mayo…
Five miles from Plano’s Legacy Hall, a new structure sits in the Colony off Highway 121. Inside, the sounds of pounding and power drills can be heard reverberating off the walls as it nears completion. It is the site of a new free-standing food court called Urban8, part of the…
We’re driving on a hot June afternoon through a modest neighborhood in west Fort Worth that looks much like any other, except parking seems to be something of an issue. Almost every foot of curb within the span of a half dozen houses has a car or truck parked in…
There’s already a lot to like at Bet the House BBQ in Denton. Co-owners Shawn Eagle and Cody Smithers just celebrated the four-year anniversary of their barbecue restaurant, and in our humble eyes, it’s a staple of north DFW barbecue. While the standards continue to impress, the owners’ willingness to…
Inside the picked-clean husk of a Burger King, a new fast food joint has made its home. Unlike the ancient King, this clone from BurgerFi, a chain from Florida, has adapted to many of the advancements of modern human technologies. There are aluminum and clean lines and naked wood panels…
Suite 166 at the Park Pavilion Center in Plano (off Coit Road and Park Boulevard) has weathered several reincarnations over the past couple of years. Since the commercial plaza grew into the bustling micro-Asiatown it is today, the small storefront went from being a Snowflake Cafe — where the freezer-burned…
