The gas station adjacent to Trinity Groves has had some updating in the small kitchen inside of it. For one, there’s a shiny new spit rotating trompo meat. Nancy Reza has opened Taqueria El Arquito inside Sunny Food Mart with the help of her siblings, all of whom come from…
Along with seemingly every other event this year, the Dallas Observer’s Iron Fork food celebration will go virtual. It’s the 10th year for the event many love, and it’s not holding back just because people won’t fill Fair Park as usual. Chef Kent Rathbun will be our host while attendees…
In 2017, critic Brian Reinhart raved about the wonderful Vietnamese food we could get at Lá Me Restaurant in Northeast Dallas. Three years and a pandemic later, we thankfully can still get these flavors, ones that easily transport in Styrofoam boxes to go. Starting out with the egg rolls is…
Old Hag’s Pizza & Pasta in Oak Cliff wants to be clear about something. And you’ll absolutely be clear about it by the time you sign your receipt. For certain. Just wait. After calling in an order recently, I knew I wanted the North OC pizza, because I like to…
As we mentioned last week, el Mana opened in Cockrell Hill recently, serving a menu of Mexican and Salvadoran plates. This location, just on the edge of Cockrell HIll’s boundary with Oak Cliff, is the third for the restaurant, with locations also in North Dallas and Grand Prairie. The menu…
La Nueva Puntada (No. 1) is a decent place to go for a breakfast taco if you’re seeking a thicker flour tortilla. My friend Laura won’t stop talking about how good the guacamole salsa is, especially on the spicy, house-made tortilla chips with red chile. What’s also rather excellent at this…
When I was around 6 years old, my mom had a distant acquaintance run some grift selling other moms something called the “Calendar of Virtues.” It was the kind of thing I imagine would have a hard time selling without relying on guilting distant acquaintances into buying it. A couple…
If you’re a State Fair of Texas fan, you’ve barely had time to digest the news that it’s not happening this year. Even so, there are still ways to get some of those treats, such as cotton candy. If cloud-like spun sugar is a favorite, you have options, and they look…
Good to go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Chef Tiffany Derry opened Roots Chicken Shak in 2017, serving all manner of things (chicken and fries, mostly) deep-fried in duck fat. A recent flurry of chicken sandwiches…
As in years past, East Dallas’ Greenville Avenue Pizza Co. is collecting school supplies for Dallas ISD students. Those schools will start later, and students may be learning online, but they still need supplies. GAPCo hosts its annual Slices for Supplies event Aug. 11, where people can donate new packages…
For July and August, we’re bringing Chilled to Go, weekly posts on the best things you can get for takeout to beat the heat. Walking through Legacy Hall in Plano is sort of an assault on the senses. It’s window shopping for the gut. The options are almost overwhelming: lobster…
Flats or drums? Bone-in or boneless? Breaded or naked? Where can I get free wings? These and other questions may be on your mind on National Chicken Wing Day. Dallas-based chain Wingstop will answer that last question along with a full day of live-streamed music by a DJ online [WingStopWingDay.com]…
A pizza place going with some kind of a divine theme opens Aug. 6 in Trinity Groves. Holy Crust is Phil Romano’s latest restaurant, and it’s geared toward the pizza his mother used to make for him growing up — “so, exactly how he believes pizza should be,” according to a…
Even before a global pandemic arrived, this was a year of change at Smokey Joe’s BBQ. Last spring, after 34 years of takeout-only service, Smokey Joe’s finally opened a dining room. Owner Kris Manning, whose father, Kenneth Manning, co-founded the restaurant with Joe Melton in 1985, hoped some of his…
While a number of restaurants are shutting their doors temporarily or permanently in response to the coronavirus pandemic, some are opening theirs for the first time. Here are new restaurants to check out, whether you’re taking meals to go, choosing to dine in or simply making a list of places…
The 11th Dallas Chocolate Festival will still happen this year, but like most things in 2020, you can experience it at home. The World of Chocolate – In a Box will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 12-13. This year’s festival is virtual, with hand-delivered boxes of artisanal chocolate…
Nearly a year after Mudhen Meat and Greens flew the coop, Hurdy Gurdy is preparing to open at the anchor location at the Dallas Farmers Market. If you’re familiar with the Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan or have an interest in folk instruments, the name may sound familiar. For those who aren’t:…
We’ve come to expect some restaurant closures during the pandemic, but when Perry’s Steakhouse on McKinney Avenue closed after its final dinner service July 11, it wasn’t exactly a closure. Five days later, its new location was open in the Park District development, just around the corner at 2100 Olive…
Estimates are ranging for what COVID-19’s long-term effect will be on restaurants in Dallas, the state and the country. Messages have come through asking if we’ve heard people talking about one in four restaurants closing. One analyst predicts 10% of restaurants nationwide will close. It may be hard to have…
One of this year’s most exciting new restaurant openings was scheduled for late February or early March: Krio, an Asian-Cajun spot in the Bishop Arts District that would specialize in crawfish boils, chargrilled oysters and po’ boy sandwiches. Then, well, everything happened. A global pandemic swept into Dallas, placing the…
Whether or not we’re in a pandemic, Lower Greenville seems to be an ever-changing roulette wheel of restaurants and bars. When something new comes in, it has to fill its role extremely well, lest it falls to the wayside as so many restaurants in the area before it. For every…
Cindy Pedraza of CocoAndré Chocolatier in Oak Cliff is used to business slowing down when the temperature rises. “Chocolate isn’t a big seller in the summer, so a while back we added horchata, then we added ice cream. My mom is always coming up with new things,” Pedraza said. Since 2009 she…
