Restaurants

Tulum, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, is a hot vacation destination right now for Texans. It’s also a new restaurant that opened last week in Highland Park. “The first of its kind, Tulum is inspired by Dallas restaurateur Mike Karns and his wife, Valerie’s, favorite vacation spot,” according to a press…

When Victor Tangos closed, the Dallas cocktail scene went into a mourning period. VT was a cornerstone of the city’s craft cocktail scene, an industry hang through which many of Dallas’ biggest food and drink talent filtered during its 10-year run. As of last night, the former Victor Tangos space…

Lower Greenville’s Gung Ho launched brunch Oct. 20 with a menu involving some dishes with a Chinese twist, as well as some Chinese staples with American twists. How does orange chicken on top of waffles suit you? Last weekend brought temporary relief from rain, and the cool air coupled with…

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We were bothered by the name of Dallas’ new barbecue restaurant, Louie King BBQ, even before the doors opened last week on their Greenville Avenue location. You might think of Louie’s, the iconic dive bar on Henderson, or Bar Louie, the chain of drinking establishments with seven locations in DFW. For…

The Charles is something special, in both the traditional and slang senses of the word, with stellar people-watching and dainty but well-crafted small plates in a dining room that defies description.

If you have ever awakened with a deep craving for some of the best kolaches and klobasneks in the state, you may have considered taking a long drive to West, Texas’ Czech Stop off Interstate 35. However, there are some not-too-shabby takes on this staple of traditional czech cuisine right…

Days after the Internet apocalypse, the line of cars at the drive-thru buckles awkwardly into Lemmon Avenue. Passing car horns begin their blurts immediately as irritated drivers zoom around the gridlock and mouth things from behind the wheel, but none of it deters those who are sandwich-patient. It’s the same…

First, the Buffalo chicken pizza bested David Haynes. The Stonedeck co-owner could envision its insane construction like Dr. Frankenstein: He wanted to splash a slow-cooked cayenne pepper sauce over a base of actually-good chicken — not the frosty, processed nubs you find on chains’ chicken pizzas — with blue cheese…

Pilotworks, a shared commercial kitchen space and food incubator that started in Brooklyn and opened locations nationwide, closed it doors without warning over the weekend. Having opened in Dallas at the beginning of 2018, this co-working space for independent food professionals offered budding small businesses a space to prep, cook…

Julianna Bradley and Whitney Amber Kendall are the co-owners of Radix Foods, a plant-based food operation here in Dallas. Radix, which celebrated its one-year anniversary this month, will be a vendor at the Texas Veggie Fair on Oct. 27, in Reverchon Park. Bradley became vegan six years ago after battling…

On a cold and rainy afternoon, workers put the finishing touches on countertops and painted walls ahead of the grand opening of the Grow Deoto Market Place, taking place Saturday Oct, 20. Aside from the vegan hot spot Peace, Love & Eatz, another eatery is bringing in appetites near and…

Jalisco Norte is making it easy to eat their upscale Mexican food even if you’re in a hurry. Yesterday, the restaurant launched Loncheria, a “walk-up market offering a condensed menu of chef Jose Meza’s authentic and approachable Mexican cuisine perfect for a quick meal on the patio or easy meal…

High-profile Dallas chef Stephan Pyles has closed his Uptown restaurant, Stampede 66, as originally reported by CultureMap. The restaurant closed Saturday, Oct. 13. The restaurant, created in homage to Pyles’ 90s popular restaurant Star Canyon, was an uber-touristy locale with Texas-centric dishes that, by many accounts, seemed to have lost…

Getting wasted is likely something you’ve experienced before. And we all remember the infamous “chocolate wasted” line from the movie Grown Ups. But what about getting ice cream wasted? No? Well, meet the grown up who’s responsible for creating a non-dairy, alcohol-infused ice cream, right here in North Texas. “I…

Maroches on Davis Street is a small Mexican bakery that sits right at the edge of historic Winnetka Heights and is one of the last bastions of an older Dallas in the middle of gentrified North Oak Cliff eateries and bistros. But Maroches is going through some tough times that…

Michael Luttinger is too occupied, at least for now, to coddle his Instagram feed. He’s just, as he puts it, nonstop busy running Dallas food truck Eggstand. His two daughters log in to help him out here and there, but at 59 — he was asked to resign from his…

With its shareable dishes and games like ping-pong and bowling, Scout is a great place to grab a cocktail and dinner, and it just expanded its menu to include brunch. But for now, it remains a great place to grab a cocktail and dinner. Scout is a group-friendly cocktail bar…

The $15,000 pour-over coffee machine whispers awake. A tiny metal arm, situated directly over the coffee grind, whirls and dispenses liquid in a quiet rush that doubles as a good hypnosis act from a robot. Belly up to the counter, made of intimidatingly fancy laundry-white stone, in a daze watching…

Some comfort foods translate across all cultures and languages. Nearly everyone likes a hot bowl of noodle soup. Almost every cuisine has its sausage link. South Korea and southern America agree on the glories of fried chicken. It’s about time that koshari, the pride of Egypt, achieved that level of…

From the family behind Taverna, Toulouse and Bistro 31 comes Alberto Lombardi’s newest concept: Kai, an “original Asian restaurant with French influence” that opened Monday. The most recent addition to Plano’s Legacy West shopping district, Kai is directly above Toulouse, Lombardi’s popular French brasserie. It is a full-service sushi lounge complete…