Restaurants

Dino and Megan Santonicola are opening Partenope Ristorante, an Italian restaurant dedicated to the cuisine of Naples, in the Titche-Goettinger building this fall.

Situated right across the street from Wild Acre Brewing, the new Joe Riscky’s Barbecue has Fort Worth barbecue legacy and shockingly inexpensive eats.

Pure Milk & Honey in Mockingbird Station serves real, freshly made soft-serve made using honey as a sweetener rather than refined sugar.

Tender Smokehouse was a huge hit when the barbecue joint opened in Celina in 2018. Now, it’s taken over the massive Frisco space that formerly belonged to 3 Stacks.

How one Dallas family made an empire out of a family pad Thai recipe.

It was all a dream. Those legendary Biggie Smalls lyrics sit above a mural of the Brooklyn-born rapper in Brickhouse Burgers and Shakes. But it’s far from fan art. It poses as a precursor to what New York natives and cousins James Richardson and Jeff Dort created. When they decided…

Punch Bowl Social does not describe itself as a bar or restaurant — no, no. This, according to a press release, is “a nationally recognized lifestyle brand known for its industry-changing approach to experiential food and beverage.” We’re not so sure that pingpong and punch is exactly a game-changer in…

We can’t say we ever expected to eat doughnuts at Flora Street Cafe on a Sunday morning.

This little sno-ball stand in East Dallas makes flavors from scratch with natural ingredients, and their New Orleans-style sno-balls are so good, they’ve appeared in the pages of Bon Appetit.

Hurtado Barbecue has been drawing long lines to their food truck at Division Brewing in Arlington with their Tex-Mex barbecue.

Two regional icons stare at each other from across a parking lot in Richardson. To the east, Afrah Mediterranean Restaurant resides in its palatial new quarters, constructed just a few years ago to handle the buffet’s big reputation and equally big crowds of hungry Dallasites. Just a few feet away,…

Fat Straws is like many other boba tea shops: It’s colorful and bright and fun. Yet the boba world is strangely cutthroat. With so many bubble tea shops saturating the Dallas market, staying afloat requires more than just high-quality tapioca pearls and a good logo. Establishing rapport, keeping up with…

It’s standing room only at Burger House. Lunch is a blur of baskets: Burger drops to paper. Paper is smushed into a ball. Trash is crushed down. For the staff, bunching into the tiny, seven-decades-old kitchen is an Olympic performance. They’ve synchronized burger-flipping, steam-hopping and order-calling. “It’s going to move…

K’s House, a new Korean barbecue restaurant from Sammantha Kang, opens today at Cypress at Trinity Groves.

The new Hero by HG Sply Co., open now just steps from the American Airlines Center in Victory Park, is a massive American spectacle, all neon lights and technicolor cocktails. And we kind of love it.

Il Bracco, a new Italian restaurant with a pedigree, opened this week in The Plaza at Preston Center, and Dallas diners are gonna love that patio.

There are whispers from the bar when the bologna sandwich hits the counter. Flanked on each side by a duo of dudes, the sandwich – taller than any bologna sandwich you’ve ever seen, toasted and sturdy as a fortress -elicits genuine utterances of “Wow” on each side. Instinctively, my arms…

Bumbershoot Barbecue is well worth the trip to Argyle, especially if you visit on days when they’re selling brisket and all the fixins on special.

A damn good diner breakfast for $3.99? It’s not easy to find in Dallas proper, but Oasis on Greenville Avenue does it right.

After a high-profile start and a sputtering, lawsuit-tinged end, 20-year-old Knox-Henderson Dallas fusion restaurant Abacus is closing on June 1.

Plano biscuit restaurant The Biscuit Bar has become a fan favorite since opening in April 2018. Now, they’ve opened a second location near SMU and added new sandwiches and cereal-themed cocktails.

Shake Shack is opening its sixth DFW location, this one off Greenville Avenue in the Old Town Shopping Center.