Every neighborhood needs its spot. What is a neighborhood without a restaurant where you can feel totally at home with a plate of reliably good, unfussy food? A soulless collection of houses, that’s what it is. The corner of Hampton Road and Illinois Avenue, deep in the heart of Oak…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. There are many categories of heat at Pepe’s & Mito’s. Depending on the Texas season and the…
In the burger capital of the U.S. of A. — at least that’s how it feels some days — there’s always a new burger around the bend. If you’re looking to try something you haven’t had before, check out one of these: Sky Rocket’s triple cheeseburger There are only four…
Botolino Gelato Artignale is a recent addition to Lowest Greenville. It opened late last summer and offers authentic, scratch-made gelato with an emphasis on using natural ingredients. Owner Carlo Gattini grew up in Tuscany, in the Chianti Hills. He learned to make gelato from his grandmother, Fernanda Gosetti, who owned…
Fuad Al Dawyma buzzes beef shawarma from the spinning grill with an electric shaver. It’s calming to watch. The meat cone twirls hypnotically, slowly. Dawyma shaves meat off into sheets, into his hand, then packs it into the pockets of soft Iraqi bread. The bread is piping steam into the…
There’s a newcomer to the Richardson Heights Shopping Center. Vegvana is a vegetarian and vegan Indian restaurant that serves a lunch buffet and regular menu in the evenings. It takes the place of Udipi Café, a vegetarian Indian chain based out of Houston. Karthik Gunasekaran opened Vegvana in February with…
Maybe we should have seen this coming. It’s been six months since Zoli’s Pizza resurrected in on Midway Road in Addison, and there has been plenty of creativity from owner Jay Jerrier, chef Lee Hunzinger and their team. The gang that once gave us a knock-off Pizza Hut hot dog…
Iron Fork, the Dallas Observer’s annual food event celebrating some of the city’s best food and drink, is just a week away. It has one of the best restaurant lineups ever, and there’s an even better reason not to miss this year: For the first time ever, two badass female…
When Aunt Stelle’s Sno-Cones didn’t open for the season last summer, Oak Cliff was despondent. The neighborhood snow cone shop’s annual opening, on the last weekend of every April, had long been considered the unofficial start to summer ever since Aunt Stelle’s first opened in 1962. Last summer, opening day…
Jon Alexis knows how to run a seafood restaurant. Now he hopes the chops he’s acquired since buying TJ’s Seafood Market and Grill helps put a unique stamp on a burgeoning poke market. Even though he purchased TJ’s from his parents in 2009, opening up Malibu Poke down the street…
Six years ago in April, Jason Boso found himself sweating away behind the kitchen of his burger joint, painstakingly separating meat from a beaver carcass. The process was arduous. He’d purchased around 60 pounds of the prehistoric rodents to grind into burger patties that he’d serve for $8 each. The…
After a long pause, Chili’s gazes deep in the centers of our eyes. Chili’s, after all, is Texas’ old friend. Chili’s whispers its big announcement in a primordial stirring, like wind jostling the canopy of a forest, swirling into a hushed chant that announces: “We have begun a New Chili.”…
Sixty Vines, the airy, modern Plano restaurant serving delightful Italian dishes with more than 40 wines on tap, is opening a gorgeous new restaurant at 5 p.m. Monday in the Crescent. Via a press release: It will feature an indoor/outdoor design that feels fresh, lush, and purposeful. Naturally placed grape…
Looking for somewhere new to grab a bite, a cup of coffee or a waffle handed to you through a fancy downtown hotel waffle window? Here are four new spots to put on your radar: Smithy The team from the Woolworth just opened this trendy new Henderson Avenue spot with…
When the first Liberty Burger opened in Dallas, there was an unexpected wave of chaos. It was a few weeks before Thanksgiving in 2011. The line at the register sprawled through the restaurant and shot out the door. Wait times for a simple cheeseburger hit one hour. “I had no…
When WhiteROC Hospitality Group announced its intention to open a restaurant called Pl8 Bistro and Gallery at Routh Street and McKinney Avenue in Uptown, it did so with the world’s most bizarre press release. The new restaurant planned to showcase Dallas artists in a space “featuring a bright, inviting ambiance and restaurant-forward concept.”…
We’re less than two weeks away from one of the biggest Dallas food events of the year: Iron Fork, which pairs unlimited food samples from dozens of Dallas’ best restaurants with ample booze and a live cooking challenge that pits two Dallas chefs against one another in front of a…
Because we can never get enough chicken and waffles, Henry’s Majestic has a brunch worth visiting — at least once. This McKinney Avenue restaurant, part of the Bread Winners family, offers a warm environment with friendly service, with meals from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends that are mostly…
This little purple building, tucked away on Haskell Avenue in an old East Dallas neighborhood that hasn’t yet had its moment, carries a lot of history. It was built as a Sinclair gas station in 1932, the same year that Sinclair trademarked its beloved dinosaur logo. The Texas Historical Commission…
When she was growing up, there were two versions of chicken-fried steak for chef Jeana Johnson. The upscale version was served at Palestine, Texas’ AAA Restaurant: a gravy-smothered, plate-spanning, deep-fried steak. The everyday chicken-fried steak options were handed through the car window from one of the Dairy Queens in her…
Last night, the team behind the Woolworth in downtown Dallas opened Smithy, a new restaurant on Henderson Avenue. What is Smithy, exactly? Much like just about every restaurant opening right now, its mission statement is ambiguous but filled with trendy buzzwords like “shareable,” “crafted” and “progressive.” Its name comes from…
It’s not every day you come across an “all-you-can-eat” establishment that doesn’t somehow disappoint. Unlimited prime beef brisket? Pork belly? Fish cakes? What’s the catch? At the new Shabro Shabu Shabu in Carrollton’s beloved Koreatown, there fortunately isn’t much of one. Of course, there are general rules to eat by:…
