Smack in the middle of DFW lies an abundance of meathead smokers and barbecue sandwich stops. From Arlington to Southlake, gas stations, shacks and barns turn around beef plates and classic sides ad nauseam, and it can all start to run together a bit, just like the towns. But some…
Café Salsera quietly opened its doors this week, as employees scrambled to make last-minute adjustments. Plants were freshly mulched out front and new signs were hung. News that the restaurant was on its way came five months ago, as a construction crew set out to transform the dining room. The space…
When Spork, the overtly outer-space themed restaurant opened in March, it felt less like a sonic boom and more like the seal of a Pringles can being broken. Living nearby and being the consummate professional/fledgling alcoholic that I am, I made semi-frequent visits during happy hour wherein I would find…
It’s no secret that co-owner Sandra Bussey and her partners plan to open additional locations of their fast-casual Korean restaurant bbbop. Even though each of her two restaurants are a little different, you can sense the potential for scalability in the dinning rooms. That carefully crafted logo looks the part,…
Addison (probably) has more restaurants per capita than any other suburb on the planet, but they generally tend to be of the chain variety. You can’t throw a chicken finger without hitting a Chili’s, TGI Friday’s or even smaller chains such as Yard House, but that doesn’t seem to dissuade…
Like any fan of tomatoes, I get excited when the weather starts to warm up each year. I have a ritual involving freshly baked bread, an absurd amount of mayo and an even crazier amount of tomato slices that I indulge at least a few times each summer. Sometimes I’ll…
Dallas isn’t a just a burger destination anymore; it’s a wildly-thriving meat ecosystem. It’s why it’s so damn hard to answer the question, “What’s a good burger I should eat right now?”: There are enough burger sizes, classifications and hybrids in Dallas to live on their own, roaming the grassy…
I sat at the bar at DISH, trying to explain to my bartender what the last restaurant in DISH’s new space was like. Customers and servers swarmed around us like angry insects. A martini sloshed, and amber liquid swirled in a mixing glass. “It was called Soleo,” I told her…
I was all excited to tell you about my recent run-in with Darryl Strawberry, but the story is moot. I ordered the sundae pictured above recently at Remedy — it borrowed the famous baseball player’s name. I was going to use the sundae to tell you a story about my…
Grapevine’s HipPop wants you to pop it and lock it (without dropping it, preferably), even if the full onset of summer weather is a bit late this year. The store on Main St. is in its third year of business, but the Rapper’s Delights have been out in these streets…
Liza Garza and her partner Patton Roberts are opening a new restaurant downtown called Shelby Hall. Garza’s announcement contains no menu, no design info and no opening date, but it did contain this photo of Lisa Garza. Actually, there were a number of photos, but I liked this one the…
Dallasites love the outdoors. We mountain bike where no mountains are to be found, we awkwardly paddle board at White Rock lake, we even make attempts to salvage the Trinity River by pretending the water is clean enough for kayaking. Basically, we make the best of what’s around. What our…
I got a tip about a duck recently, and based on the source and the fact that I haven’t had great duck in ages, I heeded the man’s advice within days. If you’ve had great Peking duck, you know that it is a revelation and one of the world’s very…
Sidle up next to the well-heeled crowd at FT33’s long, marble bar, and you’ll quickly discover an array of exciting creations incubating in the bartenders’ laboratory. Whiskey ages in barrels by the window, mascerated lemon peels await Old Fashioneds and wisps of fog from liquid nitrogen-chilled cocktails float in the…
After a week filled with reschedules and delays, Nick Badovinus opened the doors of the new Off-Site Kitchen for the first time last Friday. Customers immediately spilled like running water through the front door and down a ramp to filled the dining room. The relocated Design District restaurant was supposed…
Almost everything about little Texas Tapas is modest. Eleven bottles of liquor sit on a floating shelf behind the bar. Historic Dallas photos hang above. There’s one long granite bar, no beers on tap (a tall fridge has Deep Ellum cans and other bottles), and one big handful of tables…
Today, Pizza Hut will release an edible abomination into our midst. An unnatural beast created by a team of irresponsible do-badders. The Pizza Hut pizza will have a hot-dog-stuffed crust and will cost $12. As Jurassic Park’s Jeff Goldblum would say (imagine his giant Jeff Goldblum ears waving in the…
If you haven’t made the drive up to McKinney in a while, now may be the time to gas up your car. The quaint little town to our north is becoming almost as well known for its travel-worthy restaurants as it is for police assaults. The latest restaurant to open, which…
It’s hard opening a Mexican restaurant in a Tex-Mex town. Customers smell a whiff of cumin in the air and immediately expect frozen margaritas and free chips and salsa. Dallas has been serving up enchilada plates with refried beans for so long it’s taken over an entire culinary identity, which…
Fuel City, the gasoline-selling, taco-slinging, car-washing super station, will open a fourth location in Fort Worth. DFW.com reports owner John Benda says he hopes the location will be ready for next year’s summer driving season. In the meantime another Fuel City is expected to open in McKinney this fall. The…
If you love ramen but you hate eating while you stand at Ten in Sylvan 30, and if you crave chasu but don’t want to drive all the way to Raman Hakata in Addison, the next restaurant to compete for your ramen dollars will open on Greenville Avenue on June…
Dallas is the obvious choice for a burger chain looking to expand its market share. As a city, we consume more burgers than the rest of the planet combined (probably not true), which is evidenced by the sheer number of burger joints spread out across this city. If you did…
