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10 Great Global Restaurants on DFW's Most Diverse Street

By Brian Reinhart
Mar 29, 2016

Sorry, lower Greenville. Sorry to you, too, Richardson Chinatown. The most ethnically diverse food street in metro Dallas is Belt Line Road as it passes south to north through an ugly ocean of potholed Irving parking lots. On Belt Line, you can eat food from every continent except Australia and Antarctica...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 1: Monkey King Noodle House

By Scott Reitz
Sep 25, 2015

For our annual Best of Dallas® issue, online and on the streets right now, we've been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. The more I think about the restaurants...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 2: Eight Bells Alehouse

By Scott Reitz
Sep 24, 2015

Our annual Best of Dallas® issue is online and on the streets this week. To celebrate, we've been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. It was almost hard to...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 3: Barbacoa Estilo Hidalgo

By Scott Reitz
Sep 23, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we've been counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Getting to Barbacoa Estilo Hidalgo is a challenge for a number of reasons...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 4: Mesa

By Scott Reitz
Sep 22, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. It's hard to believe that Mesa has been trucking along in Oak Cliff...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 5: Seoul Garden

By Scott Reitz
Sep 18, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Kimchi may be the most well known dish turned out by Korean kitchens...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 7: Mughlai

By Scott Reitz
Sep 16, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. My go-to recommendation for Indian dining in Dallas has always been Mughlai. If...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 8: Brick & Bones

By Scott Reitz
Sep 15, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Over the past few years, young entrepreneurial cooks usually settled on food trucks...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 9: Mr. Wok

By Scott Reitz
Sep 14, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Peking duck has a pretty bad reputation. Chinese restaurants have done the dish...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 10: Uchi

By Scott Reitz
Sep 11, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Uchi might be offering the most dynamic cooking available in Dallas right now...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 11: Rapscallion

By Scott Reitz
Sep 10, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. When you walk through the door, you'd never think Rapscallion was the sort...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 12: Tei-An

By Scott Reitz
Sep 9, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. While many restaurants have come and gone at One Arts Plaza, Tei-An has...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 13: Bambu

By Scott Reitz
Sep 8, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. The best bites served at Bambu are the ones you have to assemble...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 14: Lucia

By Scott Reitz
Sep 4, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. One of my favorite seats in Dallas is one of the four stools...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 15: Knife

By Scott Reitz
Sep 3, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. For the longest time in Dallas (and everywhere, really) steakhouses followed a very...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 17: Zaguan

By Scott Reitz
Sep 1, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Zaguan is an interesting restaurant and café for many reasons, but the best...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 18: Ten Ramen

By Scott Reitz
Aug 31, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Many places offer ramen in Dallas, and likely many more are coming. The...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 19: Lalibela

By Scott Reitz
Aug 28, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Hungry fans of Ethiopian food have lots of choices around the intersection of...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 20: Campestre Chula Vista

By Scott Reitz
Aug 27, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Let's start by pointing out that the Fort Worth address at Campestre Chula...
Dallas' Most Interesting Restaurants No. 21: Kuby's

By Scott Reitz
Aug 26, 2015

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we're counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city's dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Kuby's, the German grocery and deli in University Park's Snyder Plaza, has been...

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