I once took my mom to a traditional ramen restaurant and watched as she nervously prodded the steaming bowl of noodles and broth with her chopsticks for 30 minutes. Like many people, her experience with ramen has been limited to the little plastic packages or dinky Styrofoam cups of instant…
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 list of ingredients is so ridiculous, there’s no way any mere human can say no to 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. Few things are as soul-restoring as a good bowl of chicken soup. On the last Sunday of every…
Walking through the double red doors of Mad Batter Baker is a pleasant trip down the rabbit hole. The Alice in Wonderland-inspired bakery manages a whimsical charm without needlessly beating you over the head with it. The walls at the back are a patchwork of artwork, some of it for sale…
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. I’m a big fan of the rice-less sushi roll. It cuts out the middle man and yields a…
Seafood may not immediately come to mind when we think of brunch menus, but more and more local menus are incorporating seafood beyond a bagel with lox. There are oysters at Boulevardier and catfish po’boys at Ida Claire, for instance. And no place embraces this more than TJ’s Seafood. The original…
The saga of Pie Tap has been unfolding slowly for nearly two years. When Rich Hicks, the restaurateur behind Mooyah Burgers and Tin Star Taco Bar, which he later sold, announced plans for the restaurant’s first location to open on Henderson Avenue, some people in the neighborhood fought his plans 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. Some dishes are so warm and comforting that the chef might as well wander out of the kitchen,…
There must be only a handful of diners left in America where you can smoke cigarettes right next to the open kitchen and read a newspaper. 2016 has made visiting timeless diners a very real need: It’s a year that makes hyperbole seem tame. How do you let off steam…
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. Meddlesome Moth excels at two things: selecting craft beers and makin’ snacks. Even the most obsessively on-the-hunt beer…
Garden Cafe manager and chef Mark Wootton may spend his time perfecting the consistency of the grits at his restaurant, but now he has another focus: exotic mushrooms, kombucha, books and potato chips. Wootton has taken his love for good quality local product next door, opening up a grocery store…
In an interview with the musician Questlove, Chicago chef Dave Beran talks about the perils of creating a signature “hit” dish. “That can put a halt to your progress,” he explains. “When you have that hit, you don’t want to stop doing it.” Earlier this year, chef and Dallas icon…
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 AllGood Cafe has been a staple of Deep Ellum diners (and musicians) for more than 15 years…
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. Any dessert at Remedy could make this list of favorite dishes. Those massive pies, served in wedges the…
With limited room for new development, keeping track of downtown Denton’s near-constant restaurant hustle can be challenging. The beach-shanty inspired building on the corner of Bell and Mulberry had been synonymous with Hoochie’s Oyster House and their dollar train beers until it relocated in 2014. Captain Nemo’s quickly took its place…
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 FT33, Matt McCallister’s intimate and playful Design District fine dining spot, you’re not always sure what you’re…
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. Let’s address the big news first: El Come Taco has a bar now. They just finished adding 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. In May 2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed in a dramatic raid in Pakistan, President Barack Obama…
Dallas is no stranger to adopting passing food trends. We’ve seen the macaron appear in a great pastel whoosh while restaurants churn out brunch menus as if hollandaise is a rarefied commodity. So too, the Southern food trend has seen an outcropping of restaurants hawking fried chicken and deviled eggs:…
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. Burrata, much like tartare, is one of those items that’s on just about every menu in Dallas right…
This burger was different a couple of years ago. In 2014, I stopped into Clark Food and Wine, then a recent addition to the ever-changing Greenville restaurant bustle, and had an interesting burger. A single grilled patty, topped with a disc of stained-glass crispy speck and house jardinera. It’s probably…
Heim Barbecue, whose trailer-borne smoked delicacies quickly became the stuff of Funkytown legend after owner Travis Heim materialized on a Southside bar lawn for Saturday cooks last year, will flood the Fort Worth market with its trademark bacon burnt ends from a new brick-and-mortar location, starting August 6. The grand…
