Henk’s European Deli is the kind of place where you’ll find a story behind everything you eat. The crackling-skinned brats and sausages served by Adrian Winnubst, Henk’s son, are the handmade tradition of family friend Siegi Sumaruk, a sausage-maker from Austria. Sumaruk runs a little shop Tulsa and drives the…
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. By every conceivable measure, it was the perfect Saturday morning: a breezy, cool pre-summer day, a colorful table…
Two of the best banh mi shops in the Dallas region — indeed, arguably two of the best banh mi shops in the United States — make their homes in Garland.
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. On June 1, Emporium Pies released their new summer pie menu, and in it, we found nirvana: the…
Are we living in the golden age of the Dallas burger? Observer burger expert Nick Rallo thinks so. If you need some convincing, here are five Dallas burgers that should be on your radar right now. The Standard Burger at Wheelhouse If you’re searching for a modern take on the…
An 18-foot-tall art installation? Check. Cornhole? Check. Avocado toast? Check, of course. Wheelhouse is one of three Design District eateries recently opened by Headington Concepts, the restaurant group behind CBD Provisions, The Rustic, Midnight Rambler and The Porch, to name a few. It shares a courtyard with one of its…
If you haven’t already, it’s time to pay attention to the burger situation in Dallas. Every week, it seems a new burger, whether built using farm-fresh Texas goods or good old-fashioned American cheese and shredded lettuce, arrives on our doorstep. Small Brewpub, for example, simmers the caramelized onions for its burger…
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’s no point in arguing: The best chicken-fried steak in Dallas is at AllGood Cafe. Piping hot and…
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. IdleRye may be a Deep Ellum newcomer, but it’s already putting out some solid plates. Case in point:…
Let’s talk chaat. It’s the unofficial favorite fast food of India, a quick cuisine of street bites, snacks, fritters and other savory treats to eat on the go. Chaat isn’t meant to be fancy. It’s almost all vegetarian, and it often repurposes other foods in surprising ways, but it’s the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dish es, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It’s one of those dishes that, if you’ve been to Gemma more than once, is kind of…
For 33 years, The Palm has fed West End diners 24-ounce prime bone-in rib-eye steaks and seven-layer dark chocolate cake. The restaurant on 701 Ross Ave. has hosted decades of birthday parties, first dates, business lunches, anniversary dinners. But on Thursday, June 1, owners Wally Ganzi and Bruce Bozzi Jr…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dish es, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Town Hearth and its chef, Nick Badovinus, have a cheeky sense of humor about food and a…
In what likely came as a surprise to meat-loving Texans, PETA recently named Globe Life Park in Arlington the most vegan-friendly Major League Baseball stadium in the country. It earned that designation thanks to the Ballpark Vegan cart in Section 16, which serves a surprisingly large array of plant-based ballpark…
In the past few years, Deep Ellum restaurants have opened and changed as fast as a windstorm. We’ve recently been meat-knighted with Easy Slider, the brick and mortar of Dallas’ best burger truck, and the Damn Burger at Armoury D.E. is well worth the mild profanity in its name. Filament has 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. If you’re woefully under-prepared enough to show up to Tei Tei Robata on a Saturday night with no…
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. At Bilad Bakery and Restaurant, there’s regular pita bread, of course, and it’s good. But the samoon, or…
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. Just after 9 a.m., Oralia Olguin presses her palms into a football-shaped wad of dough. She leans…
Waiting in line for barbecue is a Texas rite of passage. Only in these lines do we, especially the non-native Texans, fully grasp the Lone Star State’s appreciation of a worthy cut of smoked meat. And when you consider the blood, sweat and time it takes to smoke the perfect…
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. Okay, this might be heretical. At a restaurant that serves glorious Texas Monthly-lauded meats like pastrami-spiced burnt ends,…
For Tim McEneny, principal at Dallas restaurant group NL Group, the closing of Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot Cedar Grove wasn’t as abrupt as it seemed. “Cedar Grove was just exhausting, and it was just bleeding cash,” McEneny said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with the Dallas Observer. After…
Two days ago — Sunday of Memorial Day weekend — Cedar Grove, the Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot that opened in June 2016, hosted its regular monthly drag brunch. By 11 a.m. Tuesday, Cedar Grove’s Facebook page had been deleted, and the restaurant had been gutted, with workers outside…
