Imagine this: Saturday night, while you and your fuzzy-ass slippers shiffled to the thermostat to crank your heater to 11, four teams of fancy chefs were huddled around smokers in a muddy West Dallas parking lot, drinking beer and cooking meat overnight in freezing temperatures, all in the name of…
When the former owners of Knox Street Pub sold their business last summer to eventually open Glass Boot Biergarten, not much attention was paid to the business they left behind. The Boguses renovated a liquor store to open a restaurant and bar with a massive patio, only to have the…
I’m not sure if it’s a trend or a genuine movement, but something feels different about Dallas’ newest gastropubs. It feels like reinvention. It’s not just about gathering freshly-farmed Swiss chard, pigs that had names 10 hours before you ate them or local beer anymore. Now there are iconic foods…
When Jon Alexis took over TJ’s Seafood in 2009, the fish counter was still just a guppy of an enterprise. Sure, it had more than 20 years of fish peddling under its gills, but at that point it was still a small shop tucked into a North Dallas strip mall…
Could David Anthony Temple’s long awaited Twenty Seven finally be coming to fruition? The rogue chef says he’s aiming to open his first restaurant at the start of next year in Deep Ellum. Temple gained popularity years ago as one of the first chefs to shore up Dallas’ rather anemic…
About two weeks ago, a new storefront opened up on West Davis Street in Oak Cliff, near Spinster, Glass Optical and Davis Street Espresso. Joy Macarons, it’s called, and it offers macarons, obviously. But don’t expect to meet a baker named Joy when you visit. “It’s Liz, by the way,”…
The Blind Butcher probably isn’t the first place you think of when you’re craving something sweet. They’re a self-proclaimed “Beer + Meat” Mecca, and they’ve rightfully earned a spot on Scott Reitz’s list of “100 favorite dishes” with their pastrami egg rolls. Yet, this is where I found myself on…
The folks at the Blind Butcher laminated a new menu recently, adding a number of options for beer drinkers stumbling around Lower Greenville Avenue. Not to worry, the same meaty theme is in full effect, there’s just a few new items to round out the menu and close off your…
It was 5:45 in the morning, on March 2, 2010, when a fire began to gut Terilli’s on Lower Greenville. It spread quickly, becoming a nasty, four-alarm beast that ate Hurricane Grill, Mick’s and one of Dallas’ oldest bars, the Greenville Bar & Grill. The only reported injury, according to…
The Herrera’s location that closed recently on Maple Avenue has been revived and then some at its new address in West Dallas. Touted as the original Hererra’s, as a slew of spinoffs have opened and closed around the city, the new location opened for business yesterday and bests its previous…
It’s that time of year, when the sky clouds over, everything gets damp and everyone’s immune systems start to fall apart. The clerks at CVS are fronting the NyQuil section every other hour, noses are red and taste buds are shot. It’s inevitable that either you or someone you know…
Specials typically have a less-than-savory connotation within the restaurant industry. If a chef orders too much meat for Friday and Saturday night dinner services, he might throw what’s left in the grinder the next morning, creating the makings for a meatball special for Sunday brunch. Day-old fish covered in a…
A few years back, I set out in search of a great gyro for all to enjoy. It didn’t go well. My partner-in-tzatziki almost died, and neither of us was able to work the rest of the afternoon. We ate pounds and pounds of gyros, and when we finished we…
You may have heard by now of bulletproof coffee, the coffee drink doctored up with as much as two tablespoons of butter that’s gaining popularity for its purported health benefits. A bulletproof coffee in the morning will help you burn fat all day, they say. Bulletproof coffee will increase mental…
Greenville Avenue continues to add restaurants after the city widened sidewalks, added parking and generally increased the number of potential customers walking around the neighborhood. The latest to open, Clark Food and Wine, began serving customers last Thursday. See also: Bohemian Cafe, the New Kolache Restaurant on Lower Greenville, Is…
Last week, Knife announced a new lunch menu at the Hotel Palomar. In typical hotel-lunch fashion, the menu promises a number of classic sandwiches dressed up with luxurious, hand-crafted ingredients, presented with precision and care. How else could you persuade a patron to spend $18 on a sandwich you can…
Chipotle needed a better vegetarian option. Until recently, the only thing a meat-adverse diner could order in the restaurant was a set of tacos or a burrito stuffed with black beans and a mix of grilled onions and bell peppers. The results were filling (everything at Chipotle is filling) but…
It’s 9 on Wednesday night when I drag my friend out to Joyce and Gigi’s in East Dallas. She’s in nursing school and should be writing a paper that’s due the next day, but fortunately one of us has her priorities straight: half-priced drinks and dessert to share. The restaurant’s…
A few days ago, something disturbing happened to me. The image is seared deep into the folds of my brain: I ordered a salad as a side of my burger. It was trumpet bright, fresh with good olive oil, full of radishes, and still light years from being as awesome…
In “Shigging,” we ask barbecue experts to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they’re allowed to lie once. This week, for Shigging, we’re switching meats. For the moment, we’re moving on from brisket, and we’ll be asking Jeffery…
I’m sitting at the bar at Proof + Pantry, which faces away from the hustle of the One Arts District, and the place is humming with its new lunch service. A man next to me is polishing off a lobster roll. He lets me know the salad I ordered with…
As sandwiches go, the meatloaf burger served at Urban Acres is a very good one. Filled with well-pedigreed ingredients, it tastes like a meat lover’s dreamwich. The puck of meatloaf in the center is made with 100 percent grass-fed beef, and it’s cradled in a sumptuous bun baked at Empire…
