The dining room at Ebb and Flow has the right esthetics and playlist for a posh and slightly raucous dinner or brunch. Hip hop hits from the ’90s and early 2000s play a few decibels higher than the normal background-noise setting. Black and white tiled floors are surrounded by forest green wallpaper embellished with baroque […]
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Ebesu is an all-around excellent Japanese spot with no weaknesses and some unique strengths. Most excitingly for many diners, it brought the kind of excellence and attention to detail usually associated with Tei-An and Tei Tei Robata, in central Dallas, to the suburbs with its location in downtown Plano. Now suburbanites, too, can enjoy great […]
Eddie’s Tex-Mex Cocina is a staple spot on along Greenville Avenue with a menu that features platters of sizzling fajitas, tacos, enchiladas and nachos as well as some specialties like chile rellenos and a stuffed chicken with peppers, bacon, mushrooms and spinach. They also serve breakfast all day. The bowl of loaded queso is good […]
Wouldn’t your middle school years have been way more rad if you’d had a skate park to hang out at? The lucky kids of northern ‘burb Allen have just that with The Edge, which boasts not only a concrete skate park complete with plenty of handrails, bowls, boxes and ledges just begging to be ollied, […]
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Chef Keunsik Lee, a Nobu veteran, presides over a thoughtful menu at this hidden spot in Irving. Some of the sushi items are traditional, but others reflect his Korean heritage or his decades of living in Texas, like the incorporation of wasabi into salsa verde, or the choice to top a spicy tuna roll with […]
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It’s a little-known fact that Albert Einstein had two carb-loving brothers who chose to devote their lives to bagels instead of physics. OK, we’re lying. In reality, Einstein Bros. Bagels was created by the Boston Market company in 1995 as a way to market breakfast food; it now holds the title of the largest retail […]
Hiding out at the intersection of Trinity Mills and Midway is El Arepazo VZLA, a hole-in-the-wall joint offering up authentic Venezuelan fare. Start with an order of empanadas; whatever is fresh and available, but go early because they do sell out. Try the tostones, fried plantains topped with shredded queso blanco and two different salsas, […]
“Tortas gigantes,” their tall sign promises, and they deliver. Huge sandwiches are named for the country that inspired each particular meat combination. The German torta, for example, includes fried steak, ham, sausage and cheese.
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El Bolero is the first Mexican restaurant by the Apheleia Group, and in true Apheleia fashion they’ve decked out this Design District dining room. Patterned tile covers the floors, while subway tile seamlessly flows into mosaics on a far wall. Tile frames the kitchen, which glows like it’s under a heat lamp, and it frames […]
From the Dallas-based group Duro Hospitality, think of El Carlos Elegante as The Charles’ Mexican cousin. The restaurant is nondescript outside, but inside is a vibrant and lively space, serving authentic Mexican and South American fare with an upscale polish. The best of El Carlos’ dishes center on anything made with house-made masa; the mushroom […]
Chef Marko Ramirez-Pursley, who is from Puerto Rico, graduated from culinary school in Costa Rica and started his food truck, El Chifrijo, in his hometown in 2015. He often set up his truck near a beach with tall palm trees arching overhead. He had a booming beachside business until 2017, when Hurricane Maria devastated the […]