100 Favorite Dishes, No. 1: Garden “Charcuterie” at Wayward Sons

As part of our Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’ve been sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Best of Dallas is available online and in newsstands now, and here’s out last 100 fave of the year. If…

The Hottest New Restaurants in Dallas Right Now

If you like Asian food, you’re in luck — the DFW dining scene is seeing an influx of restaurants specializing in all manner of Asian fare. But it’s not all soup dumplings and egg tarts. Here are a few of the hottest new restaurants in DFW right now: Charlie Zhang’s…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 2: Banh Mi at Quoc Bao Bakery

Leading up to the Best of Dallas® 2016 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. You could spend months on an obsessive quest across Dallas and its suburbs, searching for all the best…

Post-Expansion, Monkey King is Still a Noodle Stand at Heart

Monkey King Noodle Co. is fast becoming a Deep Ellum institution. After two and a half successful years as a small takeout window, during which time Dallas city regulations shut down its informal collection of tables on the sidewalk, the restaurant has moved around the corner into a permanent home…

Hibiscus Will Close After Dinner Service on Saturday

Sad news out of Henderson Avenue today: After 11 years, Hibiscus, the beloved New American restaurant specializing in perfectly cooked steak and an infamous ice box pie, will close after dinner service on Saturday night. Via a press release: “Though purely a business decision based on the lease expiring in…

Now Open in Deep Ellum: Emporium Pies

Word got out back in March that Emporium Pies would be adding a third location in Deep Ellum, occupying a space next door to Pecan Lodge. Since then, details have been somewhat sparse as to when the spot would open. Last weekend, we detected a great disturbance in the pie…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 3: Fried Wild Mushrooms at Small Brewpub

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Small Brewpub may have pared down their menu recently, but one of our favorite Small dishes made the…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 4: Trompo Tacos at Trompo

Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Trompo’s beginnings were rocky. Owner Luis Olvera started by selling his spit-roasted northern Mexican street tacos at shows…

TJ’s Seafood Swings for the Fences with a $17 Yacht Club Burger

There’s a new entry to the list of Dallas’ most expensive burgers. Over at TJ’s Seafood Market, the location on Preston Royal, they’re really going for it with a new menu: the Yacht Club Burger, a $17 burger (add grilled shrimp for an extra $5) topped with bacon glazed with whiskey.  Just…

The Most Beloved Sandwich in Dallas

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. On a quiet weekday afternoon — quiet for Jimmy’s Food Store, anyway — owners Mike and Paul…