Peanut butter and jelly. Sunshine and shoulders. Art and booze. Some things just go together, you know? Experience the latter pairing — art and booze, that is — as part of Artful Pairings. This week, Artful Pairings heads to the Dallas Museum of Art, where a brewer from Noble Rey…
Five months ago, the Blind Butcher on Lower Greenville threw a Hail Mary pass and shared on Facebook that as neighborhood eateries were struggling, they were, too. “Truth be told, the last 18 months have not been kind to us, either,” the Blind Butcher’s owners posted. “Construction on Lower Greenville and more…
If you were drafting a dream team of Texas barbecue pit masters in 2018, your first two picks arguably would be Todd David of Cattleack Barbecue in Dallas and Aaron Franklin of Franklin BBQ in Austin. If ESPN covered this barbecue draft like it does football, hours would be spent…
When people hear the phrase “vegan restaurant,” they typically react in one of three ways. One — the vegan — is gleeful and full of excitement about the prospect of being able to eat a meal as it was prepared and without special requests or modification. Another reaction usually involves…
Dallas artist Shelby David Meier is fascinated by food. “I think about food a lot,” Meier says. “It ties to culture and experience. I also think about ideas of consumption. I also like the play around with the idea of taste.” Food has appeared in her work before. Her 2016 video “In…
Fusion has become a dirty word in the food world. High-end chefs line up on the field of battle, ready to trade words over whether fusion is the driver of innovation and cross-cultural exchange or a craven attempt by white Americans to profit off the cuisines of immigrants. But there’s…
You forgot about your New Year’s resolution months ago, so pizza and barbecue plates aren’t out of the question — but it’s summer in Texas, so maybe it’s a good time to try slightly lighter versions. If you wanna treat yourself in a halfway healthy manner, sample one of these…
The most underestimated breakfast food in the arsenal is the meatball. There’s something about garlic-studded pork spheres, screaming awake in a sizzling-hot pan, that sends an ancestral happiness ricocheting down the strands of your DNA. Meatballs are a serene village vacation compared with the gray static that you feel when…
The Box Garden, the self-described patio on steroids that’s the newest addition to the burgeoning Legacy West development in Plano, opened for business the weekend of May 18, with singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe headlining the festivities. In addition to being a live entertainment venue, the Box Garden sports several bars and, for…
Dallas has enough brunch places that you can try them all without repeating a spot, but one spot in Deep Ellum might tempt you to go a second time. Or a third. Harlowe MXM sits at the northwest corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Main Street, offering a brunch menu…
The Asian-fusion boom in Dallas has yet to bust, and this week another new restaurant has thrown its hat in the pan-Asian ring: Tracy and Kent Rathbun’s Imoto, “an upscale dining experience serving favorites from various Asian cultures in a contemporary style, with sharable plates and a traditional sushi bar,”…
Everyone loves a comeback. Antonio Swad, founder of iconic American chains like Wingstop and Pizza Patrón, knows this. After selling Wingstop in 2003 and Pizza Patrón in 2017, he started his newest concept, Porch Swing, back on his home turf and opening sometime early this summer. At 3855 W. Emporium…
Finding a new neighborhood hangout isn’t always an easy charge in Dallas — unless you happen to walk into the Mercado 369 artisan gallery in Oak Cliff and make your way to the back. Nestled amid breathtaking hand-worked pieces that come from all corners of the Americas you’ll find a…
What would you do for your kids? For most people, the answer is pretty simple: anything. That’s just what Debra Moore did to get her youngest son, Caleb, through college. Her anything, however, was starting a mobile popcorn concession company — Mamma Moore’s Gourmet Popcorn — in 2012. “My husband…
Lowest Greenville gets a new bar and restaurant Wednesday — Laurel Tavern, “a casual but elevated modern American bar and restaurant with an intentional focus on high quality but approachable food, cocktails and superior hospitality.” That’s gibberish, of course — the words casual, elevated, modern and approachable need to be…
The automated voice you know as Google Maps announces over the phone’s speaker, “Right turn at Whataburger.” The orange burger hut is the last sign of Texas you’ll see, at least for the moment, if you’re headed to Aloha Hawaiian BBQ. The view from Aloha’s front door is a heat mirage…
After four years at One Arts Plaza, Proof + Pantry has closed, according to signage posted on the restaurant’s doors. Michael Martensen’s cocktail bar and restaurant, popular with Arts District show-goers, shuttered last week. According to a letter posted to the restaurant’s door, the restaurant has defaulted on its lease…
Jon Stevens, the man behind Stock and Barrel in the Bishop Arts District, is trying out a concept in the Design District. Foxyco’s menu will come stocked with comfort foods such as dumplings and pastas, but a big focus for Stevens is the wood-fired grill. You can see the grill…
It begins, as some of the best meats do, behind pit doors. A ground beef patty snoozes for a while inside a sauna of smoke. The hand-formed beef discs, dusty from Lakewood Smokehouse’s barbecue seasoning, rest in a gray cloud until they’ve hit a rosy-middle temperature. If you like your…
When I first walked into Express Kabob, the restaurant was empty. Not just empty of customers — empty, period. As the door shut behind me, the sound attracted the attention of no employees. I tried opening and closing the door again. No luck. I picked a chair up and dropped…
Food is culture, food is art, food is family. There’s no better representation of this than Maroches Bakery in North Oak Cliff. The bakery started informally more than 18 years ago in the Tellez family home when neighbors started asking about the delicious smells coming from the apartment. The Tellezes…
Chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits, eggs Benedict — in a city that brunches as hard as Dallas, it’s easy to fall in a brunch rut. This weekend, take your brunch to the next level with one of these completely over-the-top Dallas-area brunch dishes. Zoli’s chicken and waffle cannoli Zoli’s…
