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. She first climbed the steps six years ago. She and husband Teddy Davey had been performers in Las…
One of the most underestimated techniques in the making of a good cheeseburger is seasoning. The beef can take it: A half-pound patty accepts salt like a character in a Martin Scorsese movie snorts cocaine. Dust the loose-packed beef with hefty pinches of coarse pepper and salt, slide it onto…
Show of hands: Who’s heard of Tommy Bahama? Of course you have; the line of casual apparel is featured at department stores nationwide, and it has 160 standalone boutiques across the globe. Nearly everyone recognizes the clothes — the eponymous flora shirt, likely tucked into a pair of khaki pants,…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. There aren’t many veggie burgers in Dallas like this one. Rajwadi, a fast-food counter hidden inside an Indian…
Memories are funny things. They say our strongest memories, good or bad, are the ones accompanied by powerful emotions. But over time, nostalgia creeps in and alters how we remember things, burnishing the good parts while pushing the bad ones into the shadows. We were certainly feeling nostalgic in early…
The healthy fast-casual sector continues to swell in DFW, and the latest arrival should be popular with downtown office workers: Gather Kitchen, a “customizable, fast-casual dining experience using 100 percent whole foods” that opens Wednesday, Aug. 16, in Thanksgiving Tower, according to a press release. Designed for people in a…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Let’s raise a glass, one more time, to Pietro’s, the Italian institution that served spaghetti, veal parmesan and…
When we first found Mi Lindo Oaxaca last year in a Fort Worth Avenue strip mall, it felt like uncovering a Dallas dining secret. The low-key, cash-only restaurant makes its own tortillas, bakes its own bread and makes, in house, some of the best mole in the city. We even…
An otherwise quiet, rainy Sunday took on a somber tone for those in the Dallas dining industry when two restaurants run by prominent local chefs shuttered on the same day. In Deep Ellum, chef Matt McCallister’s Filament closed after dinner service last night. The upscale Southern food spot opened last…
It’s entirely possible that Dallas’ Sumo Shack hosts one of the only baos in America stuffed with a bacon cheeseburger. The pillowy steamed bun is typically filled with pork belly or Peking duck. Some research indicates that another cheeseburger-stuffed bao exists at Pho & Bun in London, but a stern Google…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It’s that time of year when the unrelenting summer heat creeps into our eating habits, leading us toward…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. You probably already knew that CiboDivino in Sylvan Thirty is a solid spot to grab a Neapolitan pizza…
Max’s Wine Dive in West Village has closed effective today, according to a press release. The Houston-based restaurant had been open five years but owners opted not to renew their lease. “We love Dallas and are very grateful to everyone who has supported us,” Jerry Lasco, president and CEO of Lasco…
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. A good pub began with steamed mollusks. About 20 years ago, Dublin-born Feargal McKinney returned to Dallas from…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. The bowl arrives at the table, its garnish dancing happily atop a small mountain of vegetables. The Brussels…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. The best bowls of noodles come with a super power: Once you dive in, slurping up good sauces…
Toni Rivard attributes a lot of her success as a baker to her “glass half full” attitude. Now, eight years after founding Creme de la Cookie, she’s debuting an over-the-top milkshake menu that will fill a lot more than half your glass. Her “freakshakes” were inspired by a recent visit…
About eight years ago, Cosmo’s veteran Jackson Tran crafted a menu that infused his background in Vietnamese comfort food into Lakewood’s long-standing dive bar. He called it a pop-up. Tran’s parents are also great chefs; they came from Can Tho in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Tran was born in a Red…
We’ve picked the fish clean. Its spinal column yawns in a thin arc across the platter; my friend’s fork probes the vertebrae, checking for tiny, lingering morsels of meat. Most of the skin is long gone. The head has been pulled apart and searched for cheek meat — there isn’t…
In December 2015, El Palote Panadería opened in Pleasant Grove as a traditional Mexican bakery with one notable exception: vegan Thursdays. Word spread on local vegan blogs and Facebook pages, and soon the shop was serving more vegan items during the week and all-vegan menus on weekend nights to satisfy…
Shake Shack’s new Hot Chick’n is a good chicken sandwich, just not a spicy one.
If you eat a meal without posting about it to Instagram, did you even eat a meal at all? Rack up the likes with this visually appealing Dallas food and drink. The Star pizza at Cane Rosso For a bite of the most ‘Grammable pizza in town, head to The…
