Everybody wants their place to be the next “hot spot.” At a certain point, it all starts to feel a little manufactured. Welcome to downtown Dallas’ Tortaco, which opened last week on Ross Avenue in what used to be Stephen Pyles’ San Salvaje. Tortaco, brought to you by the same…
Dallas has too much fried chicken. 2016’s Southern comfort food bubble has brought our city an ever-bigger bucket of fried chicken restaurants. Omar Flores, of the highbrow Casa Rubia, opened Whistle Britches to mixed reviews. The family behind Black-Eyed Pea opened Street’s Fine Chicken, which is, indeed, pretty damn fine. Rapscallion’s…
In recent years, the suburbs of North Texas have been stepping up their culinary game with high-profile concepts that bring city-center creativity to those living outside of Dallas proper. There’s such killer food in the ‘burbs — particularly when it comes to international fare — that it’s well worth the…
Life is getting even sweeter at Glazed Donut Works in Deep Ellum.
It’s been several days since I first had the patty melt at Jonathon’s, but I can’t stop thinking about it. This statue of meat, cheese and buttery mushrooms and onions has been following me around all week. It pops in my head during meetings. It’s like witnessing an original work…
One of the byproducts of a beloved restaurant, odd in a city that’s constantly paving itself over, is the blissful fallacy that it will be there forever. As quickly as we can get pimento cheese to-go, we can easily take our oldest restaurants for granted. The Highland Park Soda Fountain…
Sixty Vines is an interior designer’s dream restaurant. This new Plano hot spot has everything: breathtakingly high ceilings with exposed wooden beams like a gleaming white barn; an open kitchen with fresh pasta hanging from pipes and a dazzling copper-domed pizza oven; long communal tables set with beautiful English plateware…
Deep Ellum has a reputation for rock ‘n’ roll, but now it’s also host to a cool food trend: Thai rolled ice cream. With late hours tailored to night owls, Chills 360 has lines spilling out the door, packed with curious crowds eager to experience the unique presentation of a…
Little known fact: We eat turkey on Thanksgiving because, at the time the fall celebration came into its own, turkeys were cheap, fresh, widely available and easily fed a crowd. Sure, they had cows back then, but beef was off the table, so to speak, as cows were more useful…
With the proliferation of media outlets that cover food — and the social media users who are quietly being paid to shill food and drink — the Dallas food scene becomes, at times, an echo chamber. Did we really need to be reminded countless times in a week that Shake…
Dallas is awash in good Mexican food, from El Tocallo’s lengua tacos served on house-made tortillas to Seafood Shack’s citrus crazy ceviche tostadas. Entire blogs are dedicated to the pursuit of the very best Mexican food Big D has to offer, and devotees disregard mileage when it comes to hunting…
There may be other crucial moments for the rapid-fire consumption of comfort food, but this week is high on the list. The sky in Dallas is graying, and we may be headed toward this thing called “winter.” Cold beer or saucy dumplings or hot and cheesy burgers all taste better…
There seems to be no end to the explosion of barbecue restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and we’re beyond the point of offering guesses as to when the trend will peak. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; when the craving for barbecue strikes, there’s a preponderance of choices no…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. There’s so much to take in at the dumpling bar at Royal China. Dough, dusty with flour,…
Back in May, we shared the big news: that Dallas would soon have its very own “artisanal toast” restaurant, Toasted Coffee + Kitchen. Feedback was swift — and harsh. “Fucking hipsters,” seemed to be a common refrain. Despite the, uh, feedback, Toasted co-founder Joel Roldan insisted that his toast-centric concept was…
Shoppers at the Galleria have a new dining option: Kabuki Japanese Restaurant, a California franchise specializing in “Japanese cuisine and mixology,” according to a press release. The new restaurant opened Monday at 13270 Dallas Parkway. Set in the Galleria Dallas shopping center, Kabuki Japanese Restaurant provides a casual setting that includes…
The Rube, named for Kansas City Negro league baseball player Rube Foster, is a hoagie-shaped vessel for a mountain of burnt ends style rib meat crumbles. Its simplicity is its beauty and it tastes better than it looks, adorned with house-made pickles and two stripes of sauce.
Behind the patio and open garage door of Social Pie is a dark dining room lit only by a single chandelier. The low lighting and the outside air make this an intimate place to have dinner, and the pizza and cause behind it make it worth returning. There’s a simple…
If there’s one thing Dallas knows, it’s burgers — you’ll find one on almost every menu in the city. With so many options, it can be hard to find the right one. Whether you’re looking for a Wagyu burger, veggie burger, turkey burger or even a burger taco, these are…
Grayson Social, Dallas’s newest Southern eatery, serves up haute Southern cuisine, cocktails with some decidedly bizarre twists, and a private members-only “social club” in the heart of Downtown.
My first experience at the Flying Fish was an accident. I had taken my family to Fort Worth for the day and we wound up desperately seeking out a casual (read: affordable) lunch spot open on a Sunday afternoon somewhere near the museum district. The Flying Fish beckoned like a memory of…
At first glance, barbecue and brunch might seem incompatible. Truly, who wants burnt ends at 10:30 a.m.? Texans. Texans want barbecue for brunch. Because to a Texan, the smell of smoked meat can be worn like Chanel No. 18, and the ways of the grill are law. So when 18th…
