There are only a few days left to get your Patrizio fix at the popular Highland Park Village location. After 25 years of meatball plates on an impressive patio, its last day of business will be February 28. The landlord declined to renew the lease, opting instead to rent to…
If you find yourself in a long line for barbecue at a central Texas joint, try this for entertainment. Tell the two guys in front of you that you overheard someone in back saying they were going to douse their brisket in sauce, and causally point behind you. Aspersions will…
On the corner of Meadows and the Central Expressway, in the same plaza as Tom Thumb, a neat and tidy Tex-Mex restaurant opened at the end of last year. You might think the last thing Dallas needs is yet another Tex Mex restaurant, but open the door and you’ll find…
Dish has been serving as a Jack-of-all-trades restaurant on Cedar Springs Road in Oak Lawn since it opened in 2011. After work, the cocktail set comes in to throw back high octane drinks and obliterate bad memories from the workday. Some of them stay for dinner, one of the better…
Mark your meat calendar: March 2 at 11 a.m., Luscher’s on 2653 Commerce St. will have its grand opening. I know you’re all very excited for this restaurant to open, and there are a lot of rumors flying around about what it looks like inside, where exactly the sausage champagne…
This is getting weird: That was my first thought as the plate came in for a landing. It looked like a pâté rolled inside a boneless tube of chicken and sliced into thick discs. A plump ravioli was perched on top of each round, mimicking a cartoonish mushroom, and fried…
Cucina Neighborhood Italian, the Preston Center red-sauce restaurant that operated in the former Mi Piaci space, has closed. The restaurant opened in early 2014 after the months-long tenure of its predecessor, but was unable to capture the heart of neighborhood locals. Probably because it was bad. The cavernous restaurant, which…
Spice in the City opened in the super-swanky Dallas Power & Light building downtown this week, offering a trim menu of classic Indian dishes. You have to enter through the apartment lobby and walk toward the back of the building — there is no sidewalk storefront — but once you…
La Ventana, the downtown taqueria that’s piggybacked off the popular Mexican restaurant Meso Maya, is growing, with plans to open two additional locations in the Dallas area. The first will be located at the Farmers Market, where La Ventana, along with three other yet-to-be-announced restaurants, will do their best to…
A behemoth has been erected in Wylie, Texas. A shining neon barn, affixed with flames and guitars, holds court over the Country Club and FM 544 intersection. It looks like the perverted restaurant love child of Bret Michaels and Guy Fieri…
It takes a lot to make the best version of a Southern dish. Everyone is willing to fight to the death to preserve the honor of their grandmama’s hot water cornbread or collard greens, which means that saying that something like fried okra is better than something your Granny would…
Catherine DownesLike this, but with pepperoni. If Khanh Nguyen is known for anything at his pho restaurant DaLat, it’s his rampant and sometimes unconventional creativity. This is the person who decided to serve ceviche on Doritos, turn egg rolls inside out and serve mimosas made with Tang. Bowls of soup…
Based on the first news to trickle out about C’viche, I was expecting the bar to play significant role in the place’s vibe. The restaurant was supposed to have plenty of tequila, rum and cachaça for mojito’s margaritas and other cocktails. It was meant to evoke the wonders of Baja…
If there’s a Valhalla-like hall for great sandwiches, the patty melt should have a seat. When it’s done right, it’s a perfect thing: A burger inside a melted cheese sandwich, balanced with onions as soft as butter, built, at its best, on thick, earthy rye. Back in college, one of…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. Dollars you pay for a parking meter right out front on a weekday in Deep Ellum: 0 People freaking out as they realize the patio…
It seemed like a gutsy play: Eureka!, a California restaurant chain, recently opened a location in Dallas, a land where restaurant owners love the word “scalable.” Even more brazen: The restaurant specializes in burgers, and hopes to out-patty the state that practically invented the cow. Step aside Hopdoddy, Liberty Burger,…
Back in May, Top Pot Doughnuts, a popular doughnut chain out of Seattle, planted its frosted-and-fried flag in Texas, opening a shop on Hillcrest Road, just north of Northwest Highway. It’s a funky location, apparently designed to entrap freeway-averse commuters, Preston Hollow families and, well, me. The shop sits directly…
Do you speak Trinity Groves? If you do, then you’re well versed in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, southern American dialects, sweet nothings and … beer. Well, as of last night you can add Japanese to that list, because Sushi Bayashi is officially open between Kitchen LTO and Resto Gastro Bistro…
The foreseeable forecast frequently climbs past 70 degrees, with bright and sunny skies. That means it’s time for extended patio drinking, in the middle of February, just the way God and Phil Romano intended. At Romano’s Trinity Groves restaurant utopia, the massive continuous patio that spans the front of the…
Central Standard was one of the several restaurants owned by a company called Restaurants-America to open in Dallas and close not long after. Primebar, Park Tavern, Townhouse Bar + Grill, Boca Chica, Mockingbird Taproom — they all went down. Apparently they’re not doing so well in Chicago, either. Central Standard…
The Observer needs freelance writers to cover beer, barbecue and maybe other areas of culinary interest. Think you might be up for it? Read on, and read carefully…
I always feel a little out of place at brunch, if only because it’s a ritual I rarely indulge in. But when our plates hit the table at Meddlesome Moth recently, I felt downright awkward. Heavy, meaty breakfast dishes surrounded me, including a short rib hash just down the table…
