A few minutes before dinner service fires up at Rapscallion (on the dot at 5:30 p.m.), I’m sitting a preciously-designed two-person table in the bar area, hands folded in my lap, watching the kitchen come together. Somewhere in between the Greenville traffic, the swarming heat, and an article about the…
We sort of already knew that Ida Claire, Addison’s newest non-chain restaurant, was probably going to be topnotch. The team behind Mexican Sugar, Whiskey Cake and other faves hasn’t exactly produced too many duds, but one had to wonder whether or not Ida Claire would dumb down their food to…
When it’s this damn hot outside, the thought of eating food that has actually been cooked doesn’t really sound appetizing. Fresh, light dishes dominate summer menus, and that’s probably the only reason we’ve survived here for so long. At Proof + Pantry, the menu offerings are generally pretty substantial, packed…
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. Calling the Buddhist Center of Dallas a restaurant is a stretch, since seating…
We’re two friends who are hunting down Dallas’s best bowls of ramen. Michelle learned to love ramen as a teenager, growing up in Singapore and traveling around Asia with her family. Brian is newer to the scene: He didn’t even try instant ramen in college. We’re not experts, but we…
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. Visiting La Nueva Fresh and Hot is interesting even if you don’t buy…
Over the nearly 20 years Seoul Garden has been open in Korea town, the waiters and waitresses have seen their share of customers pushing unfamiliar dishes around with chopsticks. Non-Korean customers who order a dish with raw seafood or a funky, fermented ingredient will likely be met by an awkward…
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. If you’re headed to DFW International from Dallas and you’ve got the time,…
I saw the state trooper out of the corner of my eye as he pulled into gas station / parking lot of BBQ on the Brazos in Cresson, but I kept shooting pictures anyway. I fired off a few more frames, and was putting my camera back in the car…
If you stalk the upscale barbecue restaurant Smoke on Facebook (not that I do), you noticed they recently posted a come-hither pie photo, along with this post: “Three words: Pie for dinner. Even better when it’s our mescal key lime pie with meringue as high as an East Texas hairdo!”…
Sometimes I have a hard time getting excited for restaurant imports from California. Even if they work out the financial side of things they often don’t seem to get the Texas vibe. The latest spot I ribbed on was Eureka! the burger bar. It just seemed crazy that a bunch…
To a self-confessed white flour addict with no dietary restrictions like me, Snap Kitchen’s health-conscious approach is a little scary. Studying the phrases printed on my take-away bag (“No butter ever” and “You’ll never find a speck of white flour in our house”), I braced myself for an epic lunch…
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. For two years now, 20 Feet has been serving up some of the…
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 been a year since ¡C Señor! took over the former El Padrino taco…
Since 1998, according to a report earlier this year, there have 4,359 UFO sightings in Texas. According to recent report of Me Reading Food Websites, 4,359 is also roughly the same number of places in which you can get a cheeseburger in Dallas-Fort Worth. And like UFO sightings, the accounts…
Trees fall in forests without a sound, and barbecue restaurants can close in Deep Ellum in nearly the same silence. That’s the case this week as Crave DFW reports that Mama Faye’s BBQ on Commerce Street has closed its doors and is relocating out of the city. Except for those…
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. While a few Spanish restaurants call Dallas home, finding a Spanish meal worth…
A basket of nuts does little to stir the pulse as it slides across the bar. The snack is older than pull-tabs and seldom very interesting. Bar nuts are almost always poured directly from the package they’re shipped in, and if they’re mixed, you have to worry about cherry pickers…
Each week, I set out to dig into at least one of Dallas’ best desserts. This quest has landed me everywhere from dumpy little dives to some of the city’s most elegant restaurants. Whether I’m gulping down a milkshake or savoring dessert/art that’s almost too beautiful to eat, I love…
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. San Salvaje is a restaurant that defies every stereotype of the downtown Dallas…
It used to be a discount tire shop. On a peninsula on the corner of Ross and Greenville, Ross Discount Tire was a place you could swerve into and get your nail-bludgeoned tire swapped as fast as Marvel’s Quicksilver and hilariously cheap. Now it’s Pints and Quarts, a Bob’s Big…
Whiskey Cake is many things. It is a Green Certified business of Plano. It is a farm-to-fork restaurant. It is very, very popular. And it is passive aggressive. This is quite an accusation to bandy about, I know. Call it cavalier, but Whiskey Cake had it coming when they served…
