As you approach Wild Detectives in the Bishop Arts District, it quickly becomes apparent that you’re not approaching just another Oak Cliff bar. The fresh terra cotta paint on the front porch and quaint seating on the lawn is inviting, and the lighting is subdued and enticing. The 1940s-built house…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Zaguan is the little neighborhood café you wish you could walk…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. It’s 6:30 on Saturday night at Bolsa’s bustling indoor-outdoor bar. The rest of the world may be absorbed in a little drama called the World Cup,…
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To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. When you walk into Qariah, you’ll see a number of shawarma…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It’s time for bonus dishes. Why pick one biryani when you…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I don’t typically order sandwiches from barbecue restaurants. I’d rather enjoy…
Before the door even closed behind us, Misty David belted out, “There’s free beer in the cooler,” and sure enough there was. There are worse ways to start your barbecue experience, and the box of iced Lone Star and Shiner Bock was in stark contrast to the offerings of the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. You can get a whole fish presented table side all over…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Yes, sure, OK, Bonchon is a chain that’s slowly taking over…
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. “Did you save some room for dessert?” A preposterous question, yet one always posed, including by servers who have witnessed with their own two eyes me…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Every kitchen has its hazing practices. Jiro Ono of the famous…
Last week the newest location of Hopdoddy opened on McKinney Avenue in the old Frankie’s Sports Bar space. By Friday the line for lunch-time burger action reached out the door. If you’ve chomped your way through any of Hopdoddy’s sloppy burger creations at the Preston Center location, you’ll know what…
Alice Laussade is a longtime Dallas writer and the founder of Meat Fight. I decided to go vegetarian for a month, just to see how the meatless live. After a week and a half, I can tell you that the vegetarian people of Dallas are offered a lot of cheese…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Handmade tortillas are always a welcome sight, but some are better…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I’ve consumed and written about the ramen at Tei-An a number…
Outdoor drinking spaces are hardly a differentiator in this town. Most restaurants have at least some summertime seating, and many have stunning, carefully designed spaces that envelop drinkers in a temporary hideaway, outfitted with ample booze, that can last as long as they can drink. Look at the shipping container-framed…
San Salvaje, located downtown at 2100 Ross Avenue (in the former home of Samar) opened its doors early last month, plating dishes that are inspired by chef and owner Stephan Pyles’ travels through South America. The menu is divided into seven sections, and includes creative twists on Latin cuisine with…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It was back in February that I dropped into Spoon after…
It seems there is a national “holiday” for practically everything these days. According to Food.com yesterday was National Rocky Road Day, and tomorrow might be the greatest day of all, Cheese Day. But today is National Egg Day, and so we put together a list of some of our favorite…
Well, fellow Texans, we’ve breezed past that lovely time of year when it’s cool enough to wear long sleeves with flip flops, yet we’re not quite to the miserable heat of summer in Texas. Right about now is when you want to get outside on a nice patio — read:…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The other day we got a fresh batch of summer interns…
