Shops & Markets

San Antonio’s Local Coffee has opened Merit Coffee, a new Deep Ellum coffee shop with slick design touches and perfectly pulled espresso.

Dallas loves to sit outside, especially this time of year, when our brief but furious winter gives way to a beautifully breezy and even more brief spring. La La Land Kind Cafe, a new Lowest Greenville coffee shop, is capitalizing on this adoration for patio space with its airy new…

Fletch, a new event-based corn dog pop-up, may not have the support of their family’s business, Fletcher’s Corny Dogs, but they do have a semi-permanent location in the works.

Is it weird that I wish every coffee shop had its own built-in dog park, even though I don’t have a dog?

Jason Roberts and Amy Cowan of Better Block, Oddfellows and AJ Vagabonds open a new Oak Cliff small-batch coffee roaster — Rabble Rousers Coffee Co. — in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District.

Clay Eiland is no stranger to the DFW coffee scene. He has been selling Eiland Coffee Roasters coffee and roasting for local shops for nearly two decades. He and his employees work out of their roastery in Richardson, which is coupled with a small cafe. Eiland says coffee shops were…

Husband and wife Robby and Neesha Grubbs may be San Antonians now, but they met when they were living in Deep Ellum 25 years ago. Since 2008, they have made a name for themselves in San Antonio with their company Local Coffee, but they’ve had their eyes on Dallas for…

There’s no shortage of coffee spots in North Texas. With that comes a variety of ways for coffee addicts to get their fix brewed — pour-overs, cold-brew, French press, standard drip. An older brewing method, however, seems to have come and gone in the DFW coffee scene. The siphon method…

Fifteen years ago, Fat Straws was one of a handful of boba places in North Texas. Today, boba is a staple in almost every neighborhood, but the market for boba wasn’t always like that. The drink became popular in Taiwan in the 1980s before it spread to other Asian countries…

Considering the number of days Dallas reaches 100 degrees in a year, it’s surprising we don’t have people producing cold brew coffee in every neighborhood. Even though we’re comfortably removed from those triple-digit days, there are still good reasons to go cold for your morning or afternoon cup of coffee…

On the night before opening their first coffee shop, Bob and Nancy Baker sifted through their checklist of to-dos. They’d spent two years prepping for launch, both head-deep in coffee grounds and the multidimensional needs of starting your own business, designing everything from the architecture to the heat of the…

Merit Coffee, an offshoot of San Antonio’s Local Coffee and Merit Roasting Co., is opening two Dallas shops: in Deep Ellum and Highland Park.

The State Fair of Texas is usually open rain or shine, but this week’s gnarly weather forced the fair to close early twice. To make up for lost time, the fair is extending its hours this weekend, the final weekend of its 2018 run. Usually open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. on…

Sisters Christi Erpillo and Johnna McKee of Winter Family Concessions are the team behind two of this year’s biggest dishes at the State Fair of Texas: Fernie’s Hoppin’ John Cake with Jackpot Sauce, this year’s Best Tasting – Savory winner in the Big Tex Choice Awards, and Fernie’s Orange You Glad We…

The State Fair of Texas puts a lot of money and effort behind its now famous Big Tex Choice Awards, where they crown each year’s best, most creative foods. They release the names of the new creations in strategic, well-timed waves. First, in July, we get a laundry list of…

The Garzas are the family behind one of this year’s winning Big Tex Choice Award items at the State Fair of Texas. Their dish, Arroz con Leche (20 coupons), won the Best Taste: Sweet category, making this their first win since they opened their first concession stand in 1984. In…

The State Fair of Texas and fried food go hand in hand. It’s almost sacrilege to attend the fair and not sample the newest, strangest, over-the-top fried items. But if your diet is keeping you from trying some of these quintessential fair foods, it is possible to find non-fried options…

The State Fair of Texas opens today, and there are even more new, gut-busting items in this year’s food lineup. Drinks — both alcoholic and not — are popular this year, each concessionaire trying to outdo the next with their unique, possibly questionable concoctions. Kool-Aid Pickle-Dilly Sangria is one of…

What happens when the space you chose to spread goodwill and a little refreshments suddenly disappears? You take to the road. At least, that’s what Union is doing. Union opened its doors nearly six years ago, offering more than just a space to share coffee. It was also a stage…

Can you smell the scent of deep-fried food in the air? Summer is nearing its end, which signals the start of fair season. Every year we’re treated to a new slate of crazy, sometimes questionable, calorie bombs as concessionaires try to outdo each other with their over-the-top treats. This morning,…

This morning, the State Fair of Texas announced the semifinalists for this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards, a competition pitting vendors against each other to see who has the craziest (and tastiest) new dish for this year’s fair, kicking off Sept. 28 at Fair Park.

In a former auto garage tucked away off Northwest Highway, two longtime friends and veterans of the Dallas coffee industry have created the city’s most forward-thinking coffee shop yet — not in Dallas itself, but in a quiet corner of Richardson. Gorgeous handcrafted wood accents fill the industrial but homey…