Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. This is one of those ephemeral Dallas dishes that existed for one night only, enjoyed once and never…
The food at Hon Sushi tastes as good as it looks, and it looks spectacular. Chef Charlie Yun, the impresario behind the counter of this intimate new Carrollton spot, thinks just as carefully about presentation as he does about preparation. Even his salads are festivals of color and texture. Nowadays…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 a city of burger joints and blue-collar sandwich shops, Maple & Motor stands out as a winner…
Did someone at Pecan Lodge break a mirror or open an umbrella inside recently? Because the restaurant has had a weird couple weeks. There was a teeny tiny fire in the smokehouse on July 13, then last week, a promotional partnership with UberEats turned into a mini nightmare for the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Forty-five years is a long time in the restaurant business. For every Tex-Mex institution that’s been beloved for…
Just off a stretch of Main Street near historical downtown Frisco, Double Dip Frozen Custard is a merciful oasis. Travelers seeking a reprieve from the Texas heat gather at its doors, where the ambiance is all Big Bopper and next-door self-service car wash. Unbuckled kids bounce by pickup truck beds…
Texas Monthly is right: There has been a burger revolution since 2009. The humble American sandwich has grown superpowers. We’re living in the great burger age of 2016, where high-end cheeseburgers, some flecked with capers and blended with bone marrow, exist harmoniously with the roadhouse American cheeseburger. There are many…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Not many foods are named after shoes. The huarache was originally a type of sandal used among the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 rare to find a form of sizzling meat that Texans haven’t embraced. But through some shameful oversight,…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Sushi Robata is a mainstay of North Dallas dining, a rock-solid Japanese restaurant where just about everything on…
I hadn’t felt it before, not truly, until last night. I’m twisting in the counter chairs in anticipation, ice-blasted mug full of root beer, old central air unit rattling above and it really struck me: Dairy-Ette is a Dallas treasure. I’ve been to the burger joint before. I’ve sat at…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. CrushCraft Thai Street Eats doesn’t have to be this good. It has a premium location in the heart…
Batten down the hatches, Dallas: This Saturday, July 23, New York City street food vendor-turned worldwide fast casual restaurant, The Halal Guys, will open its doors on Lemmon Avenue. Blame social media or food journalism or just a propensity for anything labeled “street food,” but this has become one of…
Stepping into Cook Hall, the gastropub located downtown at the W Hotel, one cannot help but be impressed. A multitude of incandescent light-bulbs hang from the vaulted ceiling, bathing an interior that looks as if it were plucked from the pages of a Restoration Hardware catalog in warm, soothing light…
This morning, Dallas food media was abuzz with word of an UberEats promotion with Pecan Lodge that featured all the right buzzwords: barbecue, delivery, drones and a party. Here’s how it was supposed to work: For one day only, today, UberEats would offer a Pecan Lodge brisket sandwich with mac…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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’re in the midst of a great pastrami renaissance — just ask Daniel Vaughn, the Texas Monthly barbecue…
When I moved to London in 2010, everybody warned me about the awfulness of traditional English food. Friends declared pub life would be a drudgery of boiled beef and spotted dick. “The best thing that ever happened to English food,” my father advised, “was McDonald’s.” Alarmed, I spent the first…
Denton’s newest restaurant and bar on the downtown square has recently expanded its hours to include Saturday and Sunday brunch, a welcomed addition to little D’s weekend plans. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 940’s Kitchen & Cocktails serves curious small plates, boards, main dishes and even…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. “Huh?” That’s the first thing some people say when they first visit St. Martin’s Wine Bistro on Greenville…
Kitchen LTO, the “permanent pop-up” in Trinity Groves that swaps chefs and concepts every few months, closed after brunch on Sunday. Casie Caldwell, the founder of Kitchen LTO, released a statement Sunday on Facebook that eludes to possible future Kitchen LTO “pop-ups,” but otherwise, it’s unclear if there’s anything new…
Earl’s 377 is a pizza oasis, a bright blossom in Argyle’s food desert. When this restaurant opened its doors in May, Argyle’s count of eateries increased by more than 10 percent. With pickings that slim, any restaurant would be a welcome sight. But Earl’s isn’t just any restaurant; it’s slinging…
Whistle Britches is a happy spot. A partly covered patio leads into a bright, sunny dining room accented by bright yellow and rusty orange accents. What used to be a Sonic drive-in and then the now-departed Spork has been transformed into a quirky space with a menu full of oh-so-trendy…
