News reaches us that Lower Greenville’s fanciest coffee shop/bar/place to look at people using Apple products is to branch out to the previously uncool downtown Dallas in a redevelopment on the 1500 block of Elm. When it gets there, it’ll take one look at its new building and notice it…
After well-received stints at two Dallas institutions and her currently-airing appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, Rosanne “Roe” DiLeo is seemingly up for anything. This time, Chef Roe won’t be dodging pans slung by a cursing Englishman or setting a new standard for bar food at The Libertine. Instead, she’ll…
There is, it seems, yet another burger chain ready to bloom in Dallas: Dugg Burger, a “deliciously simple yet innovative eating experience” coming soon to Casa Linda. The menu is straightforward and enticing because I’m physically addicted to animal fat. The restaurant says it “will serve burgers, fries & drinks…
Back in September, Urban Acres announced that it had hired David Rodriguez, the chef who’d jest left Oddfellows. In that short time, he’s turned out a new menu of impressive sandwiches and breakfast items to show off some of the delicious ingredients for sale in the co-op. Till then, the…
Unless your mother kept a five-pound bag of masa in her kitchen and scratch-cooked Mexican dishes every day of the week, your first introduction to tacos was likely crafted in part by the folks at Old El Paso. I bet you can still picture those pre-formed taco shells warming in…
A few minutes go by at Deep Ellum’s Local when I have the entire restaurant to myself. When I walk in, the music’s playing, candlelight’s on the tables and I can hear plates chattering in the hallway. It’s like I walked into someone’s duplex, too early for dinner. I made…
Snap Kitchen has been slowly invading Dallas since this summer, opening its first location in Uptown and then opening three more around the city since. Another location is planned for Fitzhugh. The latest location to open is on the corner of Preston and Royal, in the same shopping center and…
The Five Commandmeats Lesson #1: “sold out” signs at BBQ restaurants are what distinguish the truly hungry from the peckish. Bet the House BBQ is sold out. The sign on the front window says so in clear, authoritative lettering. Having never let a sign deter me before (stop signs? more…
Earlier this week, news that Chicago-based Al’s Beef would set up multiple locations in the Dallas area bubbled up like oil droplets in a pan of simmering jus. Much like Five Guys hired former Redskins player Mark Moseley to head up the burger chain’s expansions, Al’s Beef turned to Chicago…
It seems like the only people who don’t romanticize opening their own restaurant are people who have actually opened one. Home cooks are lulled into the fantasy by guests who gush over dishes that have been slaved over for a day. Diners see mistakes they’re sure they could fix with…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. Grandpa and grandma double-date count: 4 Praline count: 7 One could go to El Fenix at lunch. But it’s much more fun to go for…
I am in Frisco. I am in a strip mall. I am in a strip mall anchored by a CiCi’s pizza and Kroger. I am where culture goes to die. No, wait, I am where culture goes to live when its kid hits kindergarten. I go into this experience with…
Over the weekend, while hipsters danced at Beauty Bar, drunks played Skeeball at Barcadia and coffee nerds slurped java and discussed acidity and flavor notes at Houndstooth Coffee, the Glass Boot Biergarten sat idle. The bar with a massive patio remained locked up Monday evening well into business hours, and…
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The first thing that becomes immediately apparent when walking through the front door of the Bohemian Cafe is that every employee, all the way down to the dishwasher, is exceptionally nice. Customers are greeted with warm, genuine thank-you-for-comings, guided to the Kolache counter and coddled until they walk out the…
Sometimes the best things are found in the most unexpected places. And sometimes they’re right where food television has trained us to expect them: in a rundown gas station on the road to nowhere. If you take US-75 North and get off at Bethany Drive and follow it all the…
Everything is big at the Henderson Tap House. The patio is hugely open and resort-like with a long row of misters guarding the rolled up garage doors. SPORTS and BEER, as a concept, is present like a soccer ball to the mouth. College football helmets, skis, autographed things, Miller Lite…
“Dinner in Trinity Groves?” It’s a question that so often sends my potential dining companions running for the hill country, a trail of withering dust the only evidence they ever existed. This restaurant empire, rising from the clay of West Dallas, isn’t the only destination that has given me trouble,…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. People saying “Ooooooh” at their food: 14 Times I wondered why there was a full-length mirror next to the shitter in the ladies’ restroom, angled…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. It’s opening weekend for Chef Beck Blythe at the “permanent pop-up” restaurant Kitchen LTO, which is reincarnated every four months with a new chef. Upon learning…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Many readers submitted suggestions for this year’s 100 Favorite Dishes. Some made…
For last week’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’ve been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I’m not sure why, but I get a disproportionate number of questions…
