Restaurants

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…

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. Flora Street Cafe, the Arts District’s bold venture into a modern Texas cuisine, has spent 2017 dialing into…

The parking lot is getting barren at Collin Creek Mall. Anchor stores like Macy’s are fleeing, and although there are stores remaining — including Sears, Victoria’s Secret, an indoor mini-golf course and something called Amazing Jake’s Food & Fun — the mall’s southern end is growing forlorn. This is not…

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. Just about every Korean restaurant in metro Dallas — and there are more than 50 — serves kimchi,…

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. You lose all sense of time inside Cosmo’s. Without any sense of urgency, three good-old boys sit…

Summer is quickly approaching, and for most Texans, that means a lot of iced teas and cold beers – because duh. But in Frisco, another cold treat is the star of the summer: snow cones. Not just any snow cones either, but snow cones from the Frisco Snow Cone Lady,…

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. In October, when we wrote about the opening of V-Eats Modern Vegan, the vegan restaurant in Trinity Groves,…

Son Phung knows exactly what his restaurant does best. “We want to be that late-night food,” Phung says of his latest venture, opening tomorrow on Lower Greenville. “After they’ve had a lot to drink, we want them to sober up here.” At 4 p.m. Friday, Phung and his business partners…

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. Over the last few months, Small Brewpub has shifted its food menu to focus less on avant-garde meat…

For those not familiar with pierogis, their textbook definition can sound more like a wet blanket than comfort food. What’s so great about a boiled potato dumpling? Everything, actually. Growing up on a Northeast Ohio peninsula, my only native foodstuffs came from Lake Erie — how I miss fried perch…

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. Yes, you’ll look like a tourist eating it. Yes, someone at your table will try to Instagram it…

Every week, it feels more official: Dallas has expertly somersaulted into the golden age of cheeseburgers. We’ve reached such a high point that enjoyable burgers can be found at restaurants that focus solely on fried chicken. Street’s Fine Chicken, a poultry-themed restaurant wherein a mural of American Gothic with chickens…

Texas Monthly’s newest BBQ Top 50 is out; how did DFW fare?

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. We didn’t expect to come to a Taiwanese noodle restaurant and fall in love with kimchi. But Wu…

Houston import Little Woodrow’s has had an eventful six months in Dallas. In November 2016, less than two months after opening, the craft beer and sports bar on Ross Avenue came under fire after the company’s legal counsel told the media that the bar “would just prefer not to serve…

It was one of those restaurant visits so bad, you start to wonder if you’re on “Candid Camera.” It started with a server wearing less than what most people wear to the beach; her lacy lingerie top (a black bra with sheer black lace covering a small portion of her…

When it opened Tuesday, May 16, not much information was publicly available about José. The Mexican restaurant, on Lovers Lane just west of Inwood Road, had a Facebook page that featured pictures of its exterior and some cacti, with no other information. The official website was a single brightly colored…

Lovers Seafood and Market is part of a milieu of boutiques, juice bars and high-end nurseries that stud a short strip of Lovers Lane. These places act as pit stops on the road to income disposal for nearby Highland and University Park residents and nonresidents alike, granted they have beefy credit…

You may have a few questions as the Santana, one of Blues Burgers’ new burgers, arrives on its metal tray. Those questions likely include: “Why are they doing this to me?” or “What have you done?” or “Am I going to be OK?” Why so many questions? Because you’ve ordered…

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. Everything you need to know about Angry Dog is in the nachos. The dish is a scatter…