Maple Leaf Diner Is the Canadian Restaurant Dallas Needs, Eh?

Now this is what we’re talkin’ aboat. After a night of watching hockey, you need a hearty brunch, eh? So hop on your snowmobile and ride to the Maple Leaf Diner, Dallas’ new Canadian restaurant. Maple Leaf Diner opened in late September at 12817 Preston Road, and its menu is…

18th & Vine Likes Sauce Just Fine

Matt Dallman, the owner of the soon to open 18th & Vine BBQ, seems like a pretty nice guy. I was trying to get him to badmouth Texas barbecue (Dallman hails from Kansas City) but he wouldn’t have anything to do with it. I couldn’t even get him to talk…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 1: Monkey King Noodle House

For our annual Best of Dallas® issue, online and on the streets right now, we’ve been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. The more I think about the restaurants…

Lazy Dog Opens in Addison With Special Puppy Menu

The Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar, a California-based restaurant chain, is now open in Addison. The massive eatery is located in the Village on the Parkway along with a Whole Foods and Hopdoddy and serves pot roast, chicken poblano and lamb stroganoff along with more predictable plates including pizzas, burgers and…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 2: Eight Bells Alehouse

Our annual Best of Dallas® issue is online and on the streets this week. To celebrate, we’ve been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. It was almost hard to…

An Open Letter to the Yuca Fries at ¡C. Señor!

Dear Yucca Fries, I don’t understand how this happened. I’m not a chef. Will you help me? I’m confused about how you, Yucca, of the kingdom Plantae, became a fried thing. I looked you up on Wikipedia, and it says you have tough, “sword-shaped” leaves originally. How in the Wolfgang…

Unleavened Opens in Lakewood

Customers who park their cars in Lakewood Shopping Center have a new dining option that stands in stark contract to the temptations of Liberty Burger and Yumilicious. Unleavened opened yesterday, offering a selection of wraps and salads for those who are feeling a little over-burgered lately. The concept is the…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 3: Barbacoa Estilo Hidalgo

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’ve been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Getting to Barbacoa Estilo Hidalgo is a challenge for a number of reasons…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 4: Mesa

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. It’s hard to believe that Mesa has been trucking along in Oak Cliff…

Chocolate Lovers: Go to Chocolate Secrets. Now.

Whether your aim is to satisfy a fiendish cacao craving or impress a date, a trip to Chocolate Secrets will do the trick. A stunning array of hand-painted bon bons will dazzle you at the door, but the real secret is that this Oak Lawn chocolatier offers much more than…

Unleavened Intends to Elevate the Lakewood Shopping Center (Photos)

Pop Star popsicles. Noble Coyote coffee. Vim + Vigor juices. Texas beers in the fridge and local wines on tap. That’s just a few of the local choices you’ll encounter once Unleavened opens its family-friendly, whole-food-conscious doors on Tuesday. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, Unleavened Fresh Kitchen hopes to bring…

Garlic + Chocolate for the Win at Central Market’s Garlic Fest

Garlic isn’t the first thing that jumps to mind when you think “dessert,” but it will sneak its way into just about everything at Central Market for the next week or so, including sweets. Contrary to what you might expect, black garlic (which is fermented, making it darker, softer, and…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 5: Seoul Garden

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Kimchi may be the most well known dish turned out by Korean kitchens…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 7: Mughlai

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. My go-to recommendation for Indian dining in Dallas has always been Mughlai. If…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 8: Brick & Bones

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Over the past few years, young entrepreneurial cooks usually settled on food trucks…

Saint Rocco’s New York Italian is Open in Trinity Groves (Photos)

Saint Rocco’s New York Italian, legendary restauranteur Phil Romano’s flagship tribute to classic Italian-American lifestyle, has finally opened at the edge of Trinity Groves. Romano keeps his partners close. Along with the careful selection of co-owner and executive chef Jay Valley to lead the kitchen, Romano chose designer Kate Murphy,…

The Savages at 3 Stacks Are Garnishing Bloody Marys with Meat

3 Stacks Smoke and Tap House in Frisco and its signature bloody mary have a question for you. Just how brutal is that hangover you’re nursing, little buddy? Brutal enough that you want to go for bloody marys the next morning? Or brutal enough that your everyday bloody mary simply will…

Armoury D.E.’s Csavargó Proves Sandwiches Can Still Surprise

The Csavargó is the kind of sandwich that could anchor a restaurant, but unless you’ve ventured into Deep Ellum lately, you’ve probably never heard of it. In fact, if you haven’t been down there since spring, you likely wouldn’t recognize the neighborhood, thanks to all the bars and restaurants that…