Our regular readers may have noticed that we’ve been hitting the road this summer to get our barbecue fixes. After more than a year of barely leaving the house, we’ve started taking day trips to find new barbecue spots outside of the city.
Dallas-born and raised Lucky’s Hot Chicken is planning five new restaurants in North Texas over the next year. The Nashville-inspired culinary concept opened its flagship location on Gaston Avenue in the fall of 2020 in the iconic mid-century building where local restaurateur Norman Brinker opened his first concept. They opened their second restaurant in Highland Park at 6309 Hillcrest Ave in April.
A new generation of casual Indian restaurants is springing up in Irving, and it’s become one of the most interesting and delicious recent developments in the Dallas food scene.
The Bishop Arts District is endangered by its own success. All around its historic handful of eclectic, walkable city blocks, hulking new high-rise apartment buildings are sprouting up.
Wild About Harry’s has announced that after 25 years in the hot dog and custard business, they’re closing their doors. The last day of business will be this Sunday, July 4th — going out with a bang, if you will.
When chefs start a new restaurant, they often undertake a years-long development process, testing recipes, looking for real estate, hiring architects and all the rest. Or they could follow the path of Keiko Vinatea Williams and Paola Irrarazabal,
Yet another food hall has opened in North Texas. This past weekend, The Exchange celebrated its grand opening in downtown Dallas’ AT&T Discovery District.
A new restaurant has opened where Mudsmith was previously on Lowest Greenville Avenue. This space, Carte Blanche, is a two-for-one number. There are two chefs — husband and wife — and by day chef Amy La Rue sells pastries and in the evening,
What a fantastic time to be an onion farmer. Restaurants are opening at an auctioneer-calling pace. We’ll gladly take this blustering pace to what we were writing about a year ago at this time. We’ve compiled a list of recent openings, with links to any first looks we
With temperatures rising and COVID cases going down, more people will be outside this summer than last year. Unfortunately, East Dallas’s favorite, Ruby’s Sno-balls,
We’ve written at length about Tiffany Derry, most recently about her new restaurant, Roots Southern Table, which opened on June 18 in Farmers Branch.
Westbound on U.S. 380, the pavement sweeps to the left as we crest a hill, and wind turbines sprout from the horizon. In our travels across the state, we’ve come to recognize wind farms as the surest sign that we’ve escaped the clutches of the big cities.
With the constant downpour of rain lately, a blue sky was a calling. A calling to get into the car and drive east to the latest addition to the North Texas barbecue scene,
After a year or so that must have felt like a comedy of errors to owners Jacob and Lindsay Sloan, On Rotation has finally moved into The Braniff Centre on Lemmon Avenue. The brewpub originally opened in the Lakewood area in 2015, but needed to find new digs.
Pinpoint Burger Bar recently opened on Lemmon Avenue near Mia’s Tex Mex. It’s a flash of new in an otherwise drab-ish strip of stores. As its name implies, the focus is burgers, some of which are locally appointed, like the Red Coat which is British-inspired.
A Legacy West favorite has made its way to Uptown. Earlier this month, Haywire opened its second location on McKinney Avenue in Dallas.
Loro Asian Smokehouse, the Uchi and Franklin Barbecue collaboration that hails from Austin, is finally set to open in East Dallas on Monday, July 5.
“No one knows what Cambodian food is,” the Cambodian-American chef Joseph Be says. “But if Thai food, Vietnamese food and Lao food can be popular, why can’t Cambodia’s food?” Good question.
This Friday, Top Chef alum Tiffany Derry will open Roots Southern Table in Farmers Branch. Known for her famous duck-fat fried chicken, Derry aims for her new concept to pay homage to her Louisiana roots.
If it’s not clear yet, we (and by “we” I mean me) are crushing on the new AT&T Discovery District in downtown. The vibrant open space is refreshing. Our offices aren’t far making it perfect for a lunchtime jaunt. Earlier this week, a pimento cheeseburger at Bobbers and Whips,
A new restaurant will soon open on Lower Greenville, offering an interactive Japanese dining experience called yakinuki. The Tokyo-based restaurant, Manpuku, which in Japanese means “to be happy with a full stomach,” was founded 70 years ago;
Neighborhood bars are one of the things we missed most during restaurant capacity restrictions and social distancing. And so when you open such a place during a pandemic, it’s only fair that you get a grand opening do-over.
