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. At Jonathon’s Oak Cliff, brunch is serious business. By 9:30 a.m. last Sunday, there was already a wait…
Few foods scare Americans as much as blood sausage. A number of misconceptions aren’t helping. No, blood sausage does not taste like blood; there aren’t metallic or salty notes. No, the blood of a dead animal is not more inherently gross than the flesh of a dead animal. And, for…
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. Choosing one Pecan Lodge meal to put on our 100 Favorite Dishes list is like choosing a favorite…
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. Cattleack Barbeque has serious fun with their rotating feature items — particularly when they involve pastrami. We fell…
What would the world do without novelty burgers? They pop up all the time in Dallas. Earlier in the year, the Dallas Mavericks introduced the “Just-in Time” burger in honor of Justin Anderson, and it featured Old Bay-doused Texas Toast and a burger patty that’s easily the worst I’ve had…
Last Saturday, USC and Alabama fans transformed Deep Ellum — if only for a few hours — into a sea of crimson and red. The streets were closed for a car show and with that came more people — women in pin-up outfits and rockabilly chic, men in biker gear…
As far back as I can remember, I’ve always loved meatballs. They are a perfect orb of food and a staple in my house growing up. Load them them in a pot with some onion and garlic, remove them, let fresh tomato sauce simmer and drop them back in. To…
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. Sous vide is nothing new by now, but hearing those words come from a server’s mouth still makes…
With its — ahem — unique shape, the jipangi ice cream at Carrollton’s Bubble Jipangi attracts a lot of attention. Though some have compared the puffed corn cone to a cane, “J” shape or a “pipe,” the snickers overhead in line confirm we’re not the only ones who noticed a…
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. The Free Man has all the makings of a memorable Friday night: A dark, cozy room, live music,…
Noodle master Charlie Zhang, famous for his noodle-crafting showmanship during his time at Royal China, has branched out on his own. Imperial Noodle opened last week in Richardson, delivering entertainment along with a delicious meal. After entering the glitzy, auspiciously red restaurant, you catch sight of Zhang at work, crafting…
Follow the bright red tractor outside Hash House A Go Go, and you’ll soon tuck into heaping platefuls of “twisted farm food.” Everything here is as big as Texas itself. Happy hour munchies — chicken, pork and “taters” — are offered literally by the bucketful. Their version of a bloody…
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. If the ingredients are good, the simplest breakfast can be memorable. Nowhere is that more true than at…
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. We don’t often think about how foods sound, rather than smell or taste; maybe there aren’t too many…
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. When Pie Tap opened last month on Oak Lawn Avenue, it brought two much-needed things to the Design…
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. For those looking to downright injure themselves with food for $20.99, it’s hard to go wrong with Omi…
A centrifuge, lasers and roto-vaporizors are typical instruments found in a chemistry lab, not in a cocktail bar — unless the bar is Hide, set to open on Elm Street in Deep Ellum by the end of 2016. Hide’s website promises to serve “cocktails clarified,” and it’s not just a…
Pier 247’s brunch menu uses the words “creamy” and “grits” on six separate occasions, while “bacon” appears seven times. One dish, in fact, manages to capture all three: the chicken-fried chicken biscuit sandwich, which comes smothered in bacon Creole sauce, served with a side of creamy cheese grits. Using the…
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. The spicy tuna roll at Maki Boy isn’t fancy date night sushi — it’s workday sushi. Ordered at…
Monkey King Noodle Co. is no fly-by-night Chinese food spot — this beloved Deep Ellum street food joint makes noodles and dumplings by hand, and the resulting food is some of the best in the neighborhood. After moving the restaurant from their food stand at 3014 Main St. to a brick-and-mortar with…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, long-standing North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. On a late afternoon, after crawling through traffic past Bob’s Steakhouse and The Great American Hero, I…
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. Company Cafe has catered to resource-conscious, health-minded day-drinkers since it opened in 2011, and you’ll do well to…
