There are many ways to disguise a restaurant located in the aesthetic black hole of a strip mall, but most designers start with the windows. When used properly, drapes, blinds and window tints wrap the dining room in a shroud, creating a cocoon that transports customers far from the concrete…
Well, it’s about to happen. After running FT33 successfully for just more than two years, chef/owner Matt McCallister has announced he’ll open his second restaurant by the end of this spring in Deep Ellum. Filament will borrow from the forage-friendly high-tech approach McCallister has made a trademark at his first…
“I assume this is your first time here, since we just opened yesterday,” says the bartender as I score the last seat at Remedy’s marble-topped bar. Good guess. I tell her I’m in the mood for dessert, and she gives me a quick run-down of the menu. “We make all…
Spoon Bar and Kitchen shuttered December 31, 2014. The restaurant concluded its two-year run in the Preston Center with a packed dinner service that turned 144 covers, according to chef and co-owner John Tesar. The closure is primarily being blamed on diverging business objectives between Tesar and his partners at…
Follow the Cheap Bastard as she scours the city, looking for a good — or at least non-lethal — lunch for less than 10 bucks. Scarf-wearing dudes at the bar: 4 Times I said, “Damn!” whilst eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: 3 From the outside, Grub Burger Bar…
After years of lackluster barbecue, Dallas is finally home to some of the state’s finest barbecue joints. But as lines wind out the doors of Lockhart Smokehouse and Pecan Lodge, other barbecue restaurants are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food, particularly the brisket that so many…
Clark Food & Wine Co. is a difficult restaurant to pin down. The name suggests a casual but refined eatery — a California bistro, maybe? — and some of the plates leaving the kitchen support that guess. Roasted beets with goat cheese are plated with artistry and flair, and asparagus…
From the moment you walk into the new Eureka! Burger, the California chain’s first restaurant in Dallas, a suspicious feeling works over you. On a chilly weekday night in the West Village, the place is dim enough to render everyone in shadows. A row of patrons seated at the bar…
The soda fountain-ish restaurant Remedy opened Friday night on Lower Greenville. The eatery and bar is the creation of Elias Pope, founder of the paleo-friendly HG Sply Co., located two doors down. Remedy doesn’t look like any bubbly soda fountain you’ve ever seen: Everything is sleek and gray, from the…
It’s been cold — the kind of cold that turns everyone in our city into a bunch of whining, sniveling hermits. After a few weeks of middling cold-ass temperatures, the end of this week plans to bring cold weather, ice, and snow like we’ve so blissfully missed out on so…
It seems just a while ago, we were all sitting around and moping about the loss of Sharaku. In truth it was just last fall we heard that the Izakaya was closing: no more grilled pork skewers, no more chicken hearts, no more sake by the gallon. The horror. But…
It seemed like a long wait, but it almost always is. It was all the way back in March when we found out why Danyele McPhearson had abandoned her post at The Grape to join the folks at HG Sply Co. Owner Elias Pope was preparing to open Remedy, which…
You can walk into most taquerias in Dallas and order a torta, even if they’re not listed on the menu. That’s because the building blocks of the Mexican sandwich are the same ones used to assemble a taco plate. The only extra ingredients required are bread and a few condiments…
Wanna know what’s great about Texas? Grapefruit. This in addition to various styles of barbecue, fajitas, elotes, paletas, a wide selection of tacos, jalapeno-studded sausages and beanless chili, all of which are great in their own right. But we talk about brisket and skirt steak all the time, and heaping…
I have a proposal for you, and I know it will sound counterintuitive at best. Bear with me. Here’s the plan: I want you to go to a park. I want you to go to a restaurant in a park. Time your visit between lunch and dinner services, and indulge…
There were plenty of excellent new restaurants that opened in the city over the past year, and their arrivals signified a shift in the Dallas food scene. But 2015 may be even better. With openings from chefs like Brian Luscher, Tyson Cole, and Shannon Wynne, there is potential greatness coming…
Check out how the CBD Provisions famous pig head dish, our Dallas dish of the year 2014, is made with this amazing video from Kathy Tran. Mmm. Pig face…
Good barbecue is always a little pricey, but there are ways to make it work for $10. The main rule of eating good barbecue on a budget is order only meats. Meats with a side of more meats. On this day, you’re eating caveman style. You’re the Meat Hulk, with…
There are some years that are better for restaurants than others. In 2014, we saw explosive growth as restaurants of all kinds opened all over Dallas. Many of the city’s restaurateurs have been very lucky this year as they took risks and opened restaurants in locations that seemed tricky, if…
Do you like wreaths? Of course you do. Do you like meats? OF COURSE YOU DO WOULD YOU LIKE A MEAT WREATH OF COURSE YOU WOULD BUY ELEVENTY!! “What is a meat wreath?” you ask (for what reason, I don’t know. I should have had you at “meat wreath”). According…
Had the slice of sour cherry pie I ordered at Henry’s Majestic been served traditionally, I probably would have forgotten about it. The crust was flaky and tender, with a vaguely toasty flavor and a hint of salt, and the fruit was firm and plump, with just enough sugar added…
Remember way back in March when we told you the Dallas area was going to get a second Smoke? Owners Christopher Zielke, Christopher Jeffers and Tim Byre signed a lease on a space in Plano and said they hoped to be open by the year’s end. The latest announcement from…
