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. When we go out to dine we expect the food will be good,…
No wooden chairs broke over my back after eating this burger. No bottles shattered cleanly over the peak of my skull and nobody was thrown, like a raging wrestler, through a tabletop. Hickory, neatly tucked under the towering tollway and Texas 121, is dark and quiet. Flat-screens flash at low…
I love my condo in Upper Greenville. It’s in the perfect location — close enough to walk to grocery stores, convenient access to the DART train and located close to bars and restaurants without the noise of being in midst of everything. But one spot in particular really makes the…
Eating until one’s gastrointestinal comfort becomes compromised should not be used as an indicator of the quality of the meal. And yet, as I pushed back from the table at Sugar Skull Cafe, I did so with the knowledge that I had eaten beyond the point of satiation and to…
In a past life, Spork was a Sonic Drive-In. Chef Eric Justice and partners have jazzed it up with an outer space theme, but the ghosts of footlong chili cheese coneys and Route 44 cherry limeades linger. Ketchup-and mustard-colored neon, for example, still adorn the parking lot-turned patio. Better than…
With the restoration of the iconic 1930s-era Pegasus sign outside the hotel taken care of, Omni’s regional vice president Ed Netzhammer can turn his focus to the larger working project adjacent to his luminescent super-hotel. The patch of ground beside the hotel has been excavated for 350 much needed parking spots,…
Fans of Kansas City barbecue will be happy to hear a new option is headed to Maple Avenue in the coming months. Paris of the Plains may not be able to close out a World Series, but it’s known for smoking both pig and cow and a thick, sweet, tomato-based…
The Company Cafe surprised fans of the Katy Trail location by announcing its closure on Facebook this week. The lease on the space is up and the owners have decided not to renew. The Facebook post reminds customers that all isn’t lost, though. The original restaurant is still open Company Cafe’s…
Rapscallion, the much-anticipated Greenville Avenue bistro, debuted to an elbow-to-elbow crowd Tuesday night. The latest project of the Anderson brothers, owners of Veritas Wine Bar and Boulevardier, Rapscallion features an extensive drink menu and a 120-bottle wine list. Led by chef Nathan Tate, the kitchen serves up many traditional Southern…
The moment comes after much build up. If you’re looking down at your own beggar’s chicken, you’ve called Mr. Wok in Plano at least two days in advance and likely spent at least that much time wiping drool from your chin as you replay the coming scenes in your head…
Now that the Dallas Farmers Market is under heavy construction, you might easily think of skipping it this summer and wait until the new market is completed at some point next year. Despite the large (and rather dangerous-looking) construction pit situated in what used to be the walkway between the…
If you’ve been missing Eddy Thretipthuangsin’s cooking since the chef left Pakpao, take heart. A replacement opened this week on Oak Lawn Avenue in the old Cyclone Anaya’s space. Especially loyal fans likely know that the first location of Thretipthuangsin’s Kin Kin Urban Thai opened in Fort Worth in March,…
For most Dallasites, kolaches are a rite of passage during a trip to Austin, and most stop in West, where a number of bakeries turn out the pastries for drivers hurtling up and down Interstate 35. But those same Dallasites don’t love kolaches enough to keep Bohemian Cafe open back…
For 30 years, The Dog Stop has been the go-to location for North Dallasites looking for a taste of Chicago. Hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches and other snacks are sold from the windows on either side of the tiny drive-up cottage built on the edge of the Hillcrest Village parking…
If you don’t keep close tabs on Society Bakery, the business will completely reinvent itself between visits. It was just over a year ago that I stopped in at the bakery’s new location on Greenville Avenue. The walls were painted in a rich red color and I took home cupcakes…
“We getting a Matchbox?” A guy two cubes down heard me chatting on the phone with a spokesperson from D.C. If you’re lived in Washington, or even just visited the place, and muttered the words “where can I get a decent pizza?” you’ve likely heard the name before. Cube Guy…
When it comes to fast food, I’m a traditionalist at heart-stomach. If I’m headed to McDonald’s, usually at the airport because that seems like a safe sanctuary to eat McDonald’s, I’m sticking to the combo No. 2 (two single cheeseburgers, Coke, fries), which I’ve ordered since high school. New items…
The last time I visited my family in Turkey, my grandmother made me hünkar begendi. The name means “Sultan’s delight.” You can tell it will be good because an all-powerful dictator gets exactly what he wants. What is hünkar begendi (pronounced, roughly, HOON-care BAY-and-ih, with a silent g)? First my…
If you are so over the endless parade of doughnuts, cupcakes, cookies, cronuts, macarons, popsicles, juices, fro-yo and every other kind of sweet treat Dallas has to offer, well, too bad because there’s one more you’ve just got to try. That’s right. There’s another sweet in town, and it’s available by…
One shot. Most dishes I encounter during my food explorations get one chance to make an impression before they’re captured in my notebook and churned into words. Dallas is filled with interesting restaurants and has too many menus with too many dishes for me to give mediocre plates a second…
Remember Obzeet, that groovy little restaurant/bar/tchotchke shop on Preston Road in North Dallas? It was a fun place to unwind with friends and enjoy live music on the patio, even if the tiny parking lot was incredibly hard to navigate (I think the translation of “Obzeet” is roughly something like…
After teasing pedestrians on Greenville Avenue with banners and signs for months, Rapscallion will at last open July 7. Brothers Brooks and Bradley Anderson and chef Nathan Tate, who run Boulevardier in Oak Cliff, say they plan to bring a new take on Southern cooking to the neighborhood. Bradley Anderson’s…
