Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 23: Jeng Chi

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 24: Nova

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 25: Cafe Urbano

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Pakpao’s Punch

The cuisine of Thailand is forceful and diverse. It’s deeply rooted in the same hot and sweet, sour and salty combination that forms the basis of most Asian cooking, but it’s influenced heavily by India, which lent spices, cooking techniques and a splash of Buddhism. South America offered the chiles…

Cane Rosso Coming to Cowtown

Strategic social media stalking has led to perhaps the most celebratory news for all pizza purists west of Interstate 35E: Il Cane Rosso is coming to Fort Worth. Dallas’ own Pizza Heisenberg, Jay Jerrier, dropped the not-so-subtle hint via the Cane Rosso Facebook page earlier today, setting off a torrent…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 26: El Ranchito

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 27: Ten Bells Tavern

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

First Look at Campuzano Mexican Food

On Wednesday evening, a new “Mexican” restaurant quietly opened within walking distance from Dallas Observer HQ. We’d watched with curiosity as the building at 2618 Oak Lawn Ave. made the transition from the former brick, beige and bland law offices of Robert S. Gregg to the new, stylized wooden façade…

The Scoop on Sprinkles Ice Cream (Photos)

When a brand spanking new doughnut shop and ice cream parlor both open on the same day, it makes for interesting times here in Big D. Last Friday while Glazed Donut Works in Deep Ellum posted a sign that they were already sold out just two hours after opening, another…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 28: La Pasadita

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 30: FT33

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

FT33 is One of Dallas’ Best, So Why Aren’t There More Like It?

Maybe, just maybe, Dallas’ long-bitched-about problem with flighty, temperamental diners is just an epicurean crutch. For years, chefs have blamed customers for safe, boring, innovation-free menus, swearing that North Texas diners don’t understand or desire new and evocative cooking. They blame their empty dining rooms on a dearth of loyalty,…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 31: Pecan Lodge

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 32: Bambu

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants, No. 33: Spoon

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…