From the founders of Sprinkles Cupcakes, comes a pizza joint that was borne from a fancy Hollywood party. Here you’ll find a neo-Neapolitan style pizza. The dough is fermented for 48 hours, which gives it true Neapolitan pizza qualities, but with a firm, not floppy, base. Start with the carciofi arrostiti is charred artichoke hearts […]
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This Austin-based chicken-wing chain clucks its bucks thanks to folks who come for the deals and the family restaurant/sports bar hybrid feel. This location, in the Old Town Shopping Center, shares real estate with many fast-casual brands, but none has wings doused in Fire in the Hole sauce. Break the record for most eaten and […]
If you’re like us, you’ve seen the sign for Pocket Sandwich Theatre while driving down Mockingbird Lane and wondered if they had falafel. Alas, it’s not a takeout joint but a theater specializing in comedies and melodramas that encourage audience participation (think popcorn-throwing). Late nights feature everything from stand-up comedy and improv to burlesque. Also, […]
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Popeyes comes by its “Louisiana fast” motto honestly. Founded in 1972 in the New Orleans suburb of Arabi, the company still specializes in Big Easy-style spicy chicken, along with buttermilk biscuits. Now operating in more than 2,000 cities, Dallas / Fort Worth included, Popeyes is all about batter-dipped innovations such as Rip’n Chick’n, an oddly […]
In the heat of summer, finding places to have a drink that aren’t dark and air-conditioned caves becomes a challenge. Enter Henderson Avenue’s The Porch, a casual brasserie for those of us with no veranda at home. When the heat comes, fans blow a cooling but oddly humid mist that does its best to keep […]
It’s always a honky-tonk Christmas under the lights at Post Time, strobing and strung festively through the dance floor. Not a place to do it small, the pool hall, the dance space and table tops are sized to fit a serious crowd. The native Texan-owned bar features American Poolplayers Association tournaments, sponsoring teams who attest […]
The Barraco family’s culinary palace honors all that is good about Italian-American fare, and it’s hard to miss, as it’s next door to building with a trippy mural painted onto the façade. The Barracos’ eatery is located in a stand-alone building constructed by patriarch Jim Barraco Sr. in 1951. But, the restaurant itself didn’t open […]
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Primo Brothers Pizza offers a solid representation of New York-style pies – the kind of thin, crisp-crust slices you’ll want to fold in half for easy devouring. Framed black and white photos on the wall drive the New York theme home, and there are a couple televisions for all your SportsCenter-viewing needs. Lunch hour tends […]
Project Pollo is on a mission to save chickens. So far, they boast that they have in fact saved over one million cluckers. This fast growing vegan-friendly concept is unique for its ability to replicate the taste and texture of chicken meat. Whether you bite into their Chickn wing drenched in herby garlic sauce, a […]
Rug rats driving you nuts? Load ’em up in your minivan and take them to this massive indoor arena filled with inflatable slides, obstacles and bounce houses as far as the eye can see. While it’s especially popular as a birthday party spot for the elementary school set, you can also just drop in for […]
Unlike taquerias, you won’t find a pupuseria on every corner in most Dallas neighborhoods. But anyone who is a fan of great street tacos and tamales should head out to Pupuseria La Pasadita. Most of the pupuserias in Dallas are also taquerias, so you’re really getting the best of both worlds when you go to […]
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In most places, you order a whole fish and it slumbers on the plate, maybe in a bath of citrus, scallions, spices, peppers and some fermented fluid to race it up. At Qu
A carry-out/delivery business borne out of founders Paul Oltmann and Steve Daroche’s disappointment in delivery services, Quesa-D-Ya’s takes a cutesy name and brings customers fresh, cooked-to-order Tex-Mex with an emphasis on — what else? — quesadillas. Among the large-portion hits here are the best-selling Smokey Mountain D-Ya (pulled pork or chicken with barbecue rice, bacon, […]
The bánh mì at Quoc Bao start with fresh-baked baguettes, which are practically cubist in their crispy-crusted flakiness. This is a working bakery, so the bread is the best part of the sandwiches, of which our favorites involve barbecued pork and marinated chicken. Because it’s a bakery first, Quoc Bao has always been takeout only, […]