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The Beauty's in the Bun With Top Knot's New $5 Happy Hour Burger

By Nick Rallo
Dec 30, 2016

It starts with a good roll. Every morning, Top Knot makes fresh Parker House-style buns. The result is a butter-sheened cloud with a delicately thin shell. With a few flakes of Kosher salt on top, you have one of the best damn bread bites in Dallas. You’ll find the roll...
Amid 40 Years and a Sea of Construction, S&D Oyster Company Hasn't Changed a Bit

By Nick Rallo
Dec 29, 2016

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. It feels like it changes every day, right before our eyes. The construction cranes whirl around in...
Our Favorite Dallas Burgers of 2016

By Nick Rallo
Dec 27, 2016

Let’s celebrate some hamburgers. It’s easy to feel pangs of despair: Dallas has lost some new classics, in a blunt way, right before the end of this year. Like something from Tolkien, Remedy’s super yet simple burger is sailing off into the Grey Havens. On the Lamb had a nearly...
Dallas Beer Kitchen Goes Hard With New Deep-Fried and Bacon-Covered Burgers

By Nick Rallo
Dec 22, 2016

For Lower Greenville’s understated little bar Dallas Beer Kitchen, it’s been a state fair-ride of a year. Early into 2016, the bar shut down after construction laced its way across Greenville Avenue. Five days after shutting down forever, it reopened with different owners but still plagued by the torn-up streets directly...
Don't Think a Vegan Burger Can Be Great? Try the Bacon Ranch Burger at Spiral Diner.

By Nick Rallo
Dec 21, 2016

Let’s get this out of the way first: Spiral Diner does not have a vegan burger that mimics the taste of a beef and bacon burger. A good cheeseburger, topped with undulating, crispy bacon, lives in a different place along the spectrum of joy. You’re not going to take a...
In the Wake of Luscher's Red Hots' Closing, The Grape Has Never Been More Important

By Nick Rallo
Dec 16, 2016

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. For chef Brian Luscher, taking ownership of The Grape was like coming home. He’d been chef for...
Armoury D.E. Quietly Launched a Weekly Burger Series and It's Full of Cheeseburger Dreams

By Nick Rallo
Dec 14, 2016

Just under the radar, there’s been a whole lot of burgering going on at Armoury D.E. Every Friday for several weeks now, Elm Street's Hungarian-inspired bar has released a new cheeseburger into the wild. They're out there, roaming. There's been a pulverized shrimp burger. Ham resting under the shade of...
For Nearly 40 Years, the Gold Rush Cafe Has Been Lakewood's Living Room

By Nick Rallo
Dec 8, 2016

In the corner booth behind me, an elderly man sits by himself and talks to a younger woman at the table across from him. He’s got his iPad out, propped up, and plays a video for her. They’re talking politics. “There was a time when different beliefs could get together,”...
The $17 Cabernet-Smothered Akaushi Burger at Sixty Vines Is Worth Every Penny

By Nick Rallo
Dec 7, 2016

One look at the menu and the awe-inspiring space, including a copper pizza oven that looks like it gave birth to C3PO and the stylishly illustrated wall of wine on tap, and you might think there’s little restraint at Sixty Vines. The menu promises a “cabernet-smothered local Akaushi patty,” caramelized...
Homemade American Cheese? Kitchen LTO Nails It on Their New Burger.

By Nick Rallo
Dec 1, 2016

Before any patty hits the griddle at Kitchen LTO, there’s plenty of work to be done. Cream, butter and vegetable stock bubble up in a pan before receiving shards of smoked cheddar, white cheddar and cream cheese. It’s kept at a very low temperature so it doesn’t burn on the...
Deep Ellum Gets Trendier by the Minute, but Adair's Saloon Has Stayed a Dive for More Than 30 Years

By Nick Rallo
Nov 30, 2016

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. Except for the hiss of the flat-top, it’s peaceful at Adair’s Saloon on a weekday. The jukebox...
Grilled Cheese, Cubans and Fried Bologna: The 14 Most Comforting Sandwiches in Dallas

By Nick Rallo
Nov 21, 2016

Comfort is a buzz word right now. All over social media, brands are telling us what we need to survive right now: Exploding burgers or pizza pot pie or movies that don’t suck. But when the winter comes, if it does, one thing you need to do for yourself is...
The Patty Melt at Jonathon's Is a Work of Sandwich Art

By Nick Rallo
Nov 17, 2016

It’s been several days since I first had the patty melt at Jonathon’s, but I can’t stop thinking about it. This statue of meat, cheese and buttery mushrooms and onions has been following me around all week. It pops in my head during meetings. It’s like witnessing an original work...
Don't Take the 104-Year-Old Highland Park Soda Fountain For Granted — Or We Might Lose It

By Nick Rallo
Nov 16, 2016

One of the byproducts of a beloved restaurant, odd in a city that’s constantly paving itself over, is the blissful fallacy that it will be there forever. As quickly as we can get pimento cheese to-go, we can easily take our oldest restaurants for granted. The Highland Park Soda Fountain...
This North Dallas 'Garbage Burger' is Topped with Mac and Cheese, Candied Bacon and Heartburn

By Nick Rallo
Nov 10, 2016

There may be other crucial moments for the rapid-fire consumption of comfort food, but this week is high on the list. The sky in Dallas is graying, and we may be headed toward this thing called “winter." Cold beer or saucy dumplings or hot and cheesy burgers all taste better...
How Royal China Evolved Beyond Lo Mein and Became a Haven for Hand-Pulled Noodles and Dumplings

By Nick Rallo
Nov 9, 2016

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. There’s so much to take in at the dumpling bar at Royal China. Dough, dusty with flour,...
Instagram This Burger: The Cow + Pig at Stirr

By Nick Rallo
Nov 3, 2016

Dallas' newest double cheeseburger indulgence is a double-whammy: The Cow + Pig, a house-ground brisket and bacon patty. In other words, bacon is blended right in with the beef. Even sitting at the bar of the shiny-new Stirr makes it obvious this Deep Ellum spot isn’t skimping on the details. A bottle of Dom...
Biscuits, Bacon and Art Deco: 10 Reasons to Love Bubba's Cooks Country

By Nick Rallo
Nov 2, 2016

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. The line moves quickly at Bubba’s Cooks Country. Right in the middle of lunch rush, I’m waiting...
Street's Fine Chicken Has a Cheeseburger on the Menu, But Do They Need It?

By Nick Rallo
Oct 27, 2016

Cozied up to the bar, I’m sitting with a burger at Dallas' new-ish chicken restaurant, and it prompts questions: Do poultry-focused restaurants need a cheeseburger? Why did Street's put one on the menu? Is it even about “need”? Why in cluck’s name am I the one complaining about a cheeseburger...
As Lower Greenville Gets Trendier by the Day, Melios Char Bar Stays Cheap, Quick and Easy

By Nick Rallo
Oct 26, 2016

Mike Melios, the youngest of four brothers who all own the Melios Char Bar, isn’t thrilled with the parking situation on Greenville. He’s happy to chat about it, however, while shooting a couple burgers from the grill to the flat top. Melios is thin with a swoop of gray hair...
Veggie Burgers Can Actually Be Great — and These 10 Dallas Veggie Burgers Are Proof

By Nick Rallo
Oct 24, 2016

Withhold your judgment, carnivores: There are 10 vegetarian burgers in Dallas that are downright delicious. I know — it’s a challenge to believe that's possible. One of these veggie burgers is, somehow, even better than its beef compatriot. There are vegetarian burgers in Dallas that come with aromas of cumin...
Dugg Burger is Paying Homage to the State Fair of Texas with Fried Things

By Nick Rallo
Oct 20, 2016

When eating your way through the State Fair of Texas, one of the best ways to keep your insides happy is to exercise fried restraint. It’s like a food casino. Stick to a corny dog, zig-zagged with mustard, or the Game of Thrones-level turkey leg or anything dunked in hot...