The window-side tables at Veracruz Cafe in the Bishop Arts District make for excellent people-watching. They afford views of the rosy-cheeked toddler and his grandfather as they loiter outside of their home and of the quick-walking passersby who clip by the toddler in hot pursuit of a piece of pie,…
Pun intended, there’s no showboating at 20 Feet Seafood Joint. Cod is fried until it’s encased a golden orb of batter. Most things are served in a foil-lined plastic basket because some of the best, most emotional food is served in a basket that’ll never disintegrate from the Earth. Chef Marc…
As the Dallas food scene grows, so does its options for vegan diners. Last year, vegan-focused lifestyle magazine VegNews named Dallas a top 10 vegan city. Dallas is home to a host of well-known and well-loved vegan restaurants, including Spiral Diner, El Palote Panaderia, V-Eats and Loving Hut. These restaurants are…
The French Room is still The French Room. In fact, it’s more The French Room than it had been in decades. A no-expense-spared restoration has returned the dining room to the elegance of its original look, closer to the way the restaurant appeared when it opened in 1912. Gone are…
If your New Year’s resolution is to stop potentially poisoning yourself by eating raw cookie dough, things are looking up. Next month, the Dough Dough opens its first storefront on the northwest corner of Preston Road and Forest Lane, introducing the safely edible “raw” cookie dough concept to Dallas. Not everyone…
A few weeks back, we shared the life-changing news that Dallas was about to get its first slider festival: Between the Buns, an afternoon dedicated to everyone’s favorite tiny sandwiches. From 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, the Dallas Farmers Market will be overtaken by these tiny sandwiches, and attendees…
Twenty-eight years after he opened Dodie’s Cajun Diner on Greenville Avenue, Charlie McGuinness was required to change its name. McGuinness moved to Dallas in the 1970s from New Orleans, and he’d opened up a Cajun-classics spot in a city where it wasn’t easy to find grandma’s gumbo recipe. Now, McGuinness…
Unless you have traveled to India or are of Indian origin, you’ve likely never experienced the spicy, comforting delight that is to be found in a hot Indian breakfast. Unlike the legendary American and English breakfasts, there are no bacon or sausages in the vegetarian Indian breakfast, but there are…
Two Dallas restaurants start the year off by, well, not existing anymore, but we also get a peek at new things to come. Dish in Preston Hollow — owned by NL Group (Jalisco Norte, Dakota’s Steakhouse) — closed Jan. 2, according to a press release. “As of today, January 2, 2018,…
Chef Joshua Harmon knows his audience. A few weeks after launching a late-night bao cart in front of his trailblazing Deep Ellum restaurant Junction, Harmon is switching things up with a late-hours menu and a speakeasy that pays homage to the neighborhood’s blues history. Starting at 8 p.m. tonight, Junction…
On one of the coldest days in Dallas, the diner in Oak Cliff feels too warm to be real. Chicken-fried steak, big as the sun and shimmering with pepper gravy, steams visibly; it’s ready to go in the kitchen window like a pie in the windowsill of an old cartoon…
Most restaurants fail within the first two years, which makes it no surprise that Dallas, too, frequently sees eateries shutter with little to no warning (at least for consumers). These closures can feel like a tiny heartbreak — we form close bonds with the businesses we frequent. We make memories…
In the window at T-swirl Crepe in Carrollton is a collection of life-sized, polymer crepes. These beauties are filled with fruit that will never rot, scoops of mossy green matcha ice cream that can’t melt and shrimp that will remain ever-fresh. They provide a startlingly accurate depiction of the food that inspired…
After a decade of stellar cocktails and solid late-night eats, Dallas cocktail forefather Victor Tangos is closing after service concludes on New Year’s Eve, bartender Carlos Marquez confirmed on Facebook. Over the years, Victor Tangos has been home to some of the city’s leading bar and culinary talent, from chefs Kirstyn…
Many white American food writers call tacos and other Mexican foods “humble,” but is a cuisine humble if its flavors are brash and bright, its traditions are worn with confidence and its sandwiches are so big they resemble ocean liners? There’s nothing humble about the tostadas at Frida’s Tacolandia. They…
American cheese should be the unofficial flag of Dallas in 2017. It could hang in the sky like a glittering yellow square, stiff and proud as the American flag on the moon. American cheese is the sigil of house Dallas, and it symbolizes, all jokes aside, a real movement in…
When family and friends come to town for the holidays, one question looms heavy over the entire visit: What the hell am I going to do with these people for the next several days? The easiest answer, of course, is eat, and you can’t truly experience Dallas cuisine without going…
It’s nearly impossible to detect when a seismic shift in your life is approaching. You must watch yourself and your surroundings carefully, and there may be coincidental signs. On a normal morning in Sanlitun, a bar district in Beijing, chef Andrew Dilda would walk out of his 40-story apartment building,…
91.3. According to the National Chicken Council, that’s how many pounds of chicken Americans will have consumed, per capita, in 2017. If that projection holds, it will mean that we as a country ate more of our fine, feathered friends than ever before in one year. And can you blame us?…
Construction ruptures the ground on Davis Street. Near its corner at Bishop Avenue, workers are standing in a carved-out rectangular slice in the middle of the road, and a massive crane reaches into the sky above Stock and Barrel. North Oak Cliff is, for better or worse, changing. On this…
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. On an icy Christmas in Dallas about 34 years ago, Jesse Moreno Sr. scoured the neighborhood, looking…
It is no accident that this has been a stellar year for sandwiches in Dallas. From the boom of bars to skyrocketing construction, the city inflates with restaurants as if we’re inside a bubble made of butter. The byproduct of our little food boom is a growing movement throughout the…
