Sandaga 813

Across the street from Fair Park is the lounge-y Sandaga, a destination for music connoisseurs with discriminating ears. The Exposition Avenue club is a gem that shines with its stellar booking, from reggae nights to jazz. Erykah Badu’s band is frequently found on the venue’s stage, and the Queen herself is known to bust out […]

Sandwich Hag

Sandwich Hag is the little bánh mì shop that could. Its tiny building, which dates from 1964, has just a walk-up window for ordering and a couple of picnic tables under a shaded canopy. Inside, a tiny staff led by chef Reyna Duong assembles perfect sandwiches built around pork, sausage patties or ginger tofu. Fun […]

Sangria

An interpretation of the Spanish mid-to-late afternoon nosh by serial restaurateur Alberto Lombardi (Toulouse, Cibus, Penne Pomodoro), this eatery offers diners excursions through Mediterranean regions beyond the Iberian Peninsula. Standard tapas like garlic shrimp get equal footing (eating?) with ham and cheese croquettes with spanikopita and a chicken tagine. House-made pastas and paella are also […]

Sassetta

This is the second iteration of Sassetta, originally located in the Design District, which closed after the pandemic set it. Now at the base of The Joule hotel in downtown Dallas – adjacent to the Midnight Rambler bar and across from the eyeball art installation across the street – Sassetta has a new home. The […]

Scalini’s Pizza & Pasta

Patrons can choose fried calamari and any of a number of everyday pasta dishes, but diners can also get double-take menu options. These include the crab claws in garlic butter sauce and the Southwest linguini with Italian sausage, red onion, green pepper and mushrooms in a chipotle cream sauce. The pizzas at this family restaurant […]

Scardello Artisan Cheese

A Dallas mainstay and culinary destination for decades, Scardello stands out from other cheese shops with owner/cheese master Rich Rogers’ dedication to American cheeses and Texas dairies and creameries–with some European farmstead cheese thrown in for good measure. Here you won’t find the confusing, over-stimulating selections touted as tres chic by area gourmet supermarkets and […]

The School of Contemporary Ballet Dallas

If your childhood fantasies of doing jumps and twirls in a pink tutu went sadly unfulfilled, there’s always room for you at this Mockingbird Lane dance studio, which was founded by a group of SMU dance alumni. They offer classes for all age ranges from toddler to adult, and all experience levels (from “I saw […]

Scotch & Sausage

One thing is for certain, there’s nothing like Scotch and Sausage anywhere else in Oak Lawn. Actually, there’s nothing like this place in all of Dallas. Picture a hipster beer garden filled with beer (of course) and then sausages made from a whole zoo’s worth of animals. There are french fries, too, but these aren’t […]

The Second Floor Kitchen

Tucked away on the second floor (hence the name) and more, shall we say serene, than the Westin’s boisterous Oceanaire, this Scotch lounge/modern international restaurant was still feeling around for sure footing during review visits. But there’s quite a bit of promise, given chef J. Chastain’s penchant for solid technique. Ingredients are fresh, slices of […]

Seoul Garden

Seoul Garden offers some of the Dallas area’s best Korean barbecue, in part because red-hot coals fire the grills at every table instead of gas. Order simple cuts instead of marinated ones to get the most flavor from this rustic heat source. Open for nearly 20 years now, this restaurant caters to a mostly Korean […]

Serious Pizza

This place is called what it’s called for a reason. Few things can kill a drunken craving and sop up exorbitant amounts of alcohol as well as a notoriously monstrous Serious Pizza slice. Open until 3 a.m. on the weekends, the lively after-hours atmosphere, HD televisions and interesting people-watching are exactly the stimulation needed for […]

Sevan G&G Café

George Haber and family’s American-Mediterranean small-plate eatery has the shell of a Greek taverna, the interior of a rustic café-sword-adorned stucco walls included-and the name of an Armenian lake. Selections of the eclectic tapas (kabobs, lamb, falafel, a BLT) can be had inside or on the patio with hummus, taking advantage of the BYOB policy. […]