The area around Reverchon Park was once known as Raccoon Springs a popular hunting area. The area also has the largest oak tree in Dallas! Later the area became known as Woodchuck Hill a slum district. When the Park Department acquired the property the park and later the recreation center, built in 1974, was named […]
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R.L. Blues Palace may be tucked away in a run-of-the-mill strip mall, but it’s a great hangout to catch a live performance and drink your blues away. A frequent inclusion on the Observer’s best bars list, R.L. Blues is located in the Oak Cliff area of South Dallas. It’s a newer iteration of an older […]
This storied institution has live blues music every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It’s come and gone a few times over, but remains Dallas staple for blues music. “Pure grown folks fun,” per their Facebook page, best describes it. The venue offers offers a genuine blue shows with a lively crowd. They sell beer, but it’s […]
Really, just about your best dining option in the southern suburbs, as the numerous diners at all hours will attest. We’ve often bemoaned the absence of decent restaurants in far Southern Dallas County and rejoiced when Romano’s opened last year. We love the foccacia bread that’s served before every meal and the fresh, tangy tomato […]
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In the words of Simon & Garfunkel, are you going to Scarborough Faire? If you’re into dressing up like a wench and gnawing on gigantic turkey legs, you really ought to be. This festival celebrating all the glory of the renaissance runs annually from April through Memorial Day and draws tens of thousands of people […]
This cafe in the Elmwood neighborhood of South Dallas is an ode to fine tunes and single origin coffee. Relax on the couch or work in the spacious back patio area while nibbling on pastries from La Casita Bakeshop.
This is not your average brewpub, and the changes reach far beyond producing pints of beer that you actually want to drink. Small turns out plates of food that look like they belong in a Stephan Pyles restaurant and then somehow manages to charge you as little as 10 bucks for them. Misti Norris is […]
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The dining room at this elegant barbecue restaurant fills up at brunchtime – which is a bad beginning to a description of Smoke for two reasons. First, the kitchen does far better work at dinner than at brunch. And second, “elegant barbecue” is not nearly the oxymoron or hipster prank that it sounds. If you’re […]
Regulars at Smokey Joe’s know that its bricks of fabulously tender and minimally treated pork ribs are unbeatable. And owner Kris Manning’s personal passion happens to be brisket, which might be why his has become the best brisket between Cattleack and Waco. Its balance – not overly smoky, not harshly seasoned, fabulously tender and moist […]
Although this is not the original location, South Dallas Café has been the standard for soul food in Dallas. For almost 25 years, the Price family has been serving some of the best southern comfort food this side of the Mason-Dixon. Here you can enjoy soul food favorites like oxtail, smothered pork chops, collard greens, […]
Chef Terrill Burnett of South Polk Pizzeria once had another chef tell him, “We only sell winners,” and it’s a motto he lives by. When Burnett, who cut his chops at Nobu and Knife, got an opportunity to open this pizza spot, he studied all types of dough and settled on cross between Neapolitan and […]
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The Gilley’s Dallas Complex, home to The South Side Music Hall, is located just a few blocks south of downtown near the Convention Center. Opened in 2003 a few years after a fire gutted the original Gilley’s in Pasadena, Texas, Gilley’s Dallas has “El Toro,” the original mechanical bull made famous in Urban Cowboy, much […]
It’s entirely possible to live at South Side on Lamar and never leave your building. Besides 450 loft apartments with original maple floors and exposed brick, each with a unique floor plan, the complex also boasts a concierge, a rooftop pool, an art gallery, a business center, dry cleaner, a liquor store, a movie theater, […]
Southside Steaks and Cakes first popped up on many a radar when the family-owned restaurant in South Dallas – situated within 1,000 feet of Fair Park – was added as a concessionaire to the State Fair in 2021. Then, in 2022 fireworks went off when its prison-food-inspired Peanut Butter Paradise won a Big Tex Choice […]