Good to Go: Dairy-Ette Is the Ultimate Quarantine Food

Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. The notice on the door asks you to stay in your car, which is exactly why you came to Dairy-Ette. It’s a brand-new sign for this weird dystopia:…

Dallas Chefs Share Recipes for Impossible Foods’ Plant-Based Meat

One effect of the coronavirus has been the occasional shortage of various foods, including ground beef. One result is stores such as Kroger enforcing a limit on how much meat customers can buy. To combat this shortage of beef (or possibly take the opportunity), Impossible Foods has made their plant-based…

Meet Lakewood Landing’s Baking Queen

Dallas native Tifany Swulius has worked at the Lakewood Landing as a bartender off and on since 2006, but only recently became the official in-house baker. She likes cookies and beer, so it was bound to work out this way.  “I’ve been in the kitchen all my life, and at…

Good To Go: Yakitori is a Star of Salaryman’s Curbside Menu

Salaryman has a curbside menu that’s actually worth getting excited about. When’s the last time you looked at a menu and considered how many times isn’t crazy to keep returning to a restaurant within the next few weeks to try everything? That’s a problem thanks to COVID-19, of course; you…

The Best Restaurants in Dallas for Takeout

We have some people in restaurants who really make the most out of their takeout menus. Many adjusted for prices to be more approachable, for presentations to hold up when the lid is lifted after a 15-minute drive and to keep everyone safe along the way. Take chef Peja Krstic…

Murray Street’s Skye McDaniel Takes Off With Baking

There’s another bake sale coming out of the Dude, Sweet Mothership this weekend, but it’s not by Katherine Clapner. If you had been a frequenter of Murray Street Coffee Shop in Deep Ellum, you’ll be handed baked goods by a familiar face: Skye McDaniel. The Oak Cliff resident isn’t pouring…

Pho Tay Do Still Provides Excellent Bun Bo Hue After 17 Years

Building a restaurant from the ground up is one of the most difficult business moves there are. Restaurants are notoriously volatile, with tight margins and the ability to suck up every single waking hour of one’s life. That’s why creating and subsequently maintaining a successful establishment with a devoted and…

Good to Go: The Bodega at Hi Line Has Been a Safe Haven

Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. They have pizza, cheeseburgers and local art you can buy right out of a vending machine, but staff at The Bodega at Hi Line has huddled their top…

A Taste of Dallas: A Love Letter to Chip’s from Up North

Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger, please accept this humble love letter from a Texas kid dumb enough to move to Seattle: I miss you, big guy. Living in Seattle, there are a few things I’ve come to realize. I won’t bore you with details on what the Mexican food is like,…

Good to Go: Whisk Crêpes Are Good In Many Ways

Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. There are special, large, triangle boxes. A little preview window gives you a glimpse of what’s inside. But don’t let it sit there too long. It is, after…

Good to Go: When Food Deliveries Fail, Malai Kitchen Leans on Noodles

Two weeks went by, and Braden and Yasmin Wages hadn’t received a delivery of fresh fish. Malai Kitchen’s menu is about 20% fresh seafood, and they couldn’t get a single shrimp sent to their 9-year-old restaurant. “It was a disappointment to our guests,” Braden Wages says through exhales. It’s been…

How to Make Tamales, by East Dallas’ La Popular

I feel like a lot of kids are going to be asked to report to the class in a few months what they learned during quarantine. Mommy Likes Wine. I Miss Unlimited Screen Time. I Forgot How to Tie My Shoes. Why Zoom Class Was Better. Daddy Is Bad at…