We’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Our Best of Dallas® 2017 issue premieres today. We could have chosen any of the fabulous foods at Mi Lindo Oaxaca, the Oak Cliff institution that is…
Leading up to this week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. If there’s one thing Top Knot excels at, it’s snacks. Its menu revolves around small and large…
Many press releases for restaurant openings come across our desks, but when one of them promises a patio with a working 50-foot-tall Ferris wheel, we perk up. Such was the case when we heard of Ferris Wheeler’s Backyard BBQ, which opened this week in the Design District. Besides the obvious…
Lunch begins, right at 12 noon, with a few sounds. There’s the metal clang of the spoon in the coffee cup and the crisp shucking of a Dallas Morning News metro section opening up from the diner counter patron the next seat over. The wooden cuckoo clock chirps, and somewhere…
We have a lot of chain restaurants in Dallas. This is the city that launched Chili’s, On the Border and La Madeleine; places like Babe’s Chicken Dinner House and Il Cane Rosso have earned legions of devoted fans. Rise, Il Cane Rosso, Gloria’s and Knife are executing or planning expansions…
Leading up to this week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year.Ever since Betty Ringer Ice Cream opened late this summer in Sylvan Thirty, Dallas has been enamored of…
For the people behind Greenville Avenue Pizza Co., their newest location is a homecoming. The intersection of Peavy and Garland roads is an increasingly popular food destination with the likes of Goodfriend Beer Garden & Burger House and Cultivar Coffee Bar & Roaster, but it’s also where Molly and Sammy…
7-Eleven surely knows that the people eating most of its food offerings are either drunk or recovering from being drunk the night before. Who among us hasn’t scarfed down a hot dog or taquito or two (or three) from a 7-Eleven roller grill after a long night of bar hopping?…
Leading up to this week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. A bologna sandwich has no earthly reason to be this good. But at Shoals, thoughtful execution of…
Leading up to next week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Nestled in a strip mall in Richardson, flanked by a gas station and a bookstore, lies a…
Leading up to next week’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Revolver Taco Lounge has brought a rebellious and improvisational spirit to the Dallas taco scene, coupled with…
Leading up to this month’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Dallas has a lot of good beef ribs. Cattleack BBQ does a pastrami beef rib every so…
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. In late August 2005, Vicky Zamora was sweeping the parking lot in front of her restaurant when…
Leading up to this month’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It was a quiet Sunday night in Deep Ellum. The Cowboys had just lost — or rather,…
It’s one of the negative effects of the burger golden age in Dallas: Farm-to-table beef and high-end ingredients are driving up prices and quality of the average bar cheeseburger. But amidst the pricey burger renaissance, the workhorse cheeseburger — the under-8-buck burger, a charred patty with unremarkable but eternally effective…
It feels like a classic hidden gem of the Dallas suburbs. The door is tucked away on the back of a two-story strip mall and office center, the strip mall itself hidden from the main road by yet another shopping center and a behemoth Walmart. It also feels like an…
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when you couldn’t throw a homemade biscuit without hitting a new restaurant Dallas with a Southern-themed menu. However, this year has seen several of Dallas’ bigger purveyors in Southern fare close up shop. Julia Pearl abruptly closed in the spring, and Matt…
A bowl of cheese that’s meal enough to skip an entree and is craveable enough to merit a weekly visit from a Dallas food writer? I think that earns it a spot in our 100 Favorite Dishes. So, behold the E Bar Queso.
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Taquero has won over the hearts and stomachs of taco lovers from across Dallas, and it’s added a…
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. You’ll find that time slows. You’ll take slower bites, thoughtful and concerted twirls of stir-fried noodles and…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Look at that picture. Now doesn’t that look like a perfect balanced meal? Because the vermicelli bowls at…
Now that summer is largely behind us, things are picking up. There are more food festivals, more events and a batch of new restaurants preparing to open this fall. These are the forthcoming restaurants we’ve got our eyes on: The StatlerThe Statler Hotel downtown is in the midst of a…
