Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Hungry fans of Ethiopian food have lots of choices around the intersection of…
Ah, Labor Day weekend: the end of summertime shenanigans, the promise of cooler temperatures somewhere on the horizon and the opening of Pink Magnolia. Chef Blythe Beck announced her new Oak Cliff restaurant will open September 3, just in time to catch diners as they celebrate the three-day weekend that…
For the past few months, Dallas has seen a parade of interesting restaurant openings. Even well into the often-lackluster summer months, new concepts were opening their doors across the city. This week, the minds behind Proof + Pantry announced that their latest concept, Madrina, would open in the first week of…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Let’s start by pointing out that the Fort Worth address at Campestre Chula…
I doubt I’m alone in my annual State Fair of Texas tradition that involves an ice-cold lemonade and a corn dog straight from the fryer. Maybe you order yours with a beer in hand, and I’ve seen a few frozen drinks making their ways around the fairgrounds, but the corn…
If there is anything we love here at your favorite food blog, it is addictive substances. From chocolate to caffeine, we appreciate a good-natured bad habit as much as the next person. But at Ida Claire, Addison’s new Southern-influenced, non-chain restaurant, pastry chef Sara Lewis has really outdone herself with…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Kuby’s, the German grocery and deli in University Park’s Snyder Plaza, has been…
I didn’t take long to come to terms with the fact that my favorite bowl of ramen at Wabi House was not a soup at all. A broth of sorts was included, but it was served in a shallow bowl on the side. The noodles themselves were dry as a…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Normally, brewpubs produce menus that are everything that this list is not about…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. There’s something about the new location of Smoke that makes me wonder if…
Like most other cities that are not Philadelphia, Dallas’ cheesesteak scene is seriously lacking. There are a few chain restaurants that make a passable version, and everyone loves the delicious gut-bomb cheesesteaks served up at the Truckyard on Lower Greenville. Now, though, there’s a North Dallas restaurant that is absolutely…
Toasts are kind of a big deal these days, if you haven’t heard. Perhaps it’s their visual appeal compared with traditional sandwiches — those colorful and vivid ingredients exposed to light. Or maybe it’s that toasts have half the carbohydrate load of their fully breaded counterparts. For whatever reason, toasts…
Open for about two months now, Uchi is a hot ticket. To secure a seat at this Austin-bred sushi spot, you’re going to need to book reservations about a week in advance. Without them, you’re not getting in without a long wait — unless you know how to outsmart the…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. El Ranchito remains one of my favorite Dallas restaurants. It’s loud, brash and…
For extremely picky Dallasites looking for an exclusive dining experience with rare and seasonal ingredients on an adventurous menu in an intimate setting, there’s a place you might not know about. Yet. It doesn’t happen every night, and some wait over a year to score a reservation. The chefs involved…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Any list that gives me an excuse to revisit the papusas at La…
Before we get into any of this I thought I should point out that Old Navy is having a sale on elastic pants right now. Maybe you should bookmark it. Bikini season isn’t going to last forever, you know, and I can personally attest to the comfort and appeal of elastic,…
Everything is hot. The steering wheel, the bridge, those metal birds in Deep Ellum, the hose nozzle out back, Jim Schutze and the mailbox are all like smoking nuclear rods. Yesterday I grabbed a metal chair that had been sitting outside on a bright patio, and now I can shoot powerful…
Just in case you were hoping someone would combine the unbridled glamour of a pawnshop with an upscale bar and restaurant, your wish is granted because this is Dallas, and anything is possible. District Entertainment Group has announced it will soon open Uptown Pawn, a hybrid pawnshop, bar and restaurant…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. At the intersection of quaint coffee shop and lovable bakery lies Boulangerie, a…
Tucked into a nondescript strip mall in Plano, Taipei Station Cafe is the kind of place people who love food want to know about but have yet to discover. Not that it isn’t popular — on weekends around lunchtime, Taipei is packed to the gills and the line stretches past…
The farm-to-table movement in Dallas is still going strong, at least that seems to be the case with the proliferation of restaurants that promise this style of locally focused cuisine. On the home kitchen front, though, it looks as if Dallasites might be losing interest in purchasing locally made meat…
