Danyele McPherson has been waiting for her turn in Dallas’ culinary spotlight for some time. After a stint on Bravo’s Top Chef and working in the kitchens of Stephan Pyles and The Grape, McPherson has finally landed her own soon-to-open restaurant on Lower Greenville. The highly anticipated Remedy is McPherson’s…
After well-received stints at two Dallas institutions and her currently-airing appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, Rosanne “Roe” DiLeo is seemingly up for anything. This time, Chef Roe won’t be dodging pans slung by a cursing Englishman or setting a new standard for bar food at The Libertine. Instead, she’ll…
Over the past year, access to safe and legal abortion has taken some serious hits from the Texas Legislature. After the passage and implementation of HB2, one of the country’s most restrictive abortion laws, the majority of the state’s abortion facilities were forced to close. In the wake of these…
Craft beer is more popular than ever, which means that chefs have been as interested in creating dishes that pair beautifully with an IPA or witbier as they were previously in cooking to suit fine wines. Local gastropubs and fine-dining restaurants alike are bulking up their beer selections, and the…
For all of the fit-throwing, cursing, and discussion about food critics in Dallas, we’ve kind of lost sight of the fact that John Tesar is actually an incredible chef. The controversy surrounding you-know-who’s three-star review of Tesar’s second Dallas restaurant Knife may have died down, but the hype for his…
Local food is one of those trends that has been absolutely beaten to death by food critics and chefs, and has recently become a little lost in translation. Any chef can slap “local greens” on their menu when they’re really buying from a massive multi-national food conglomorate, but others have…
As if we haven’t heard enough about Misery Loves Company’s spanking-new restaurant in One Arts Plaza, Proof + Pantry over the weekend announced that it would be expanding the extremely limited lunch options starting tomorrow. Owner Michael Martensen hinted to the Observer in August that the restaurant would begin doing…
The combination of motorheads, good food and great live music probably is probably, well, music to some peoples’ ears, and it’s one that has worked really well for the brains behind Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill. Outside of serving some really stellar brisket and other delicious food, Gas Monkey has…
The Dallas of 20 years ago exists only on the margins of the current culinary climate. There are more restaurants in this city than ever, and the focus of the chefs who run its best restaurants has shifted dramatically in the last five years. No longer is Dallas known for…
After coming from New York City, Proof + Pantry chef Kyle McClelland knew that Dallas had some big shoes to fill when it came to good eats. Fortunately, the city’s restaurants have provided this East Coaster with plenty to love, especially in the form of Asian food. Most people think…
Like any other job, being a server comes with its share of shittiness. Working all day on your feet is exhausting, patrons can be dicks, and you have to work really, really hard to earl that $2.13 an hour plus tips. And on top of all of the usual stresses,…
After scoring a massive electronic-pop crossover hit in “I Love It” with Icona Pop, British-born Charli XCX has ridden a rising tide of indie buzz straight to the top of the pop charts, both as a solo artist and with acts like Iggy Azalea. The lead single from Charli XCX’s…
The ascension of Dallas’ culinary scene has been a curious thing to watch from the sidelines. As a diner, Dallasites have more restaurants to choose from than ever, helmed by some of the country’s brightest up-and-coming chefs. At the same time, this progress has been slow-going, and Dallas has been…
Leslie Brenner, the Dallas Morning News’ food critic, isn’t the most popular journalist in town. In the past few months, she’s taken fire from chefs and diners alike who say Brenner doesn’t understand Dallas or its cuisine. Most famously, Knife and Spoon chef John Tesar joined the chorus of Brenner…
If it seems like we’re always talking about Kitchen LTO, the Trinity groves “permanent pop-up” restaurant, it’s because it’s hard to ignore a restaurant that completely changes the concept every four months. Some chefs’ short-lived tenures are more exciting than others, but no one’s start have been as exciting as…
In the process of revamping the formerly-meh Dallas Farmers Market into something that at least marginally represents local growers, the private operators who bought the Market from the City of Dallas have made some serious changes, like kicking the parking spaces out of the produce sheds and tightening rules on…
Kacey Musgraves With John and Jacob Granada Theater, Dallas Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Kacey Musgraves and I come from similar backgrounds. Musgraves grew up in East Texas, Mineola to be exact, and I come from a little town just about 75 miles north of there. Musgraves’ debut album, Same Trailer…
This weekend, the minds behind The Double Wide are planning a seriously fucking epic party to celebrate 11 years of bringing trailer-trash kitsch and a lot of great bands to Exposition Park. Outside of the fact that they’ve gotten permission from the City of Dallas to host their party across…
When great music and smoked meats come together to raise money for an excellent cause, you pack your bag and head downtown. Smoked Dallas is brand new to the city, but there’s no doubt that it will be sticking around after people taste some of the state’s best barbecue, from…
When we talk about the burgeoning culinary scene that exists in Dallas today, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the chefs who spent years trying to convince us that great food was worth a little extra cash. Abraham Salum’s eponymous restaurant Salum has been a fixture of the Dallas food…
Local author Merritt Tierce is quite the media darling these days. After publishing her debut novel Love Me Back, Tierce has made the rounds on TV, been compared to Joan Didion by one critic, and perhaps most famously, told The Dallas Morning News about the time she donated Rush Limbaugh’s…
At the age of 14, most of us were just sitting around and picking our noses while watching Boy Meets World and listening to our N*SYNC albums. Adolescence is usually when most of us do our slacking off, but Kelli Mayo, one-half of the Oklahoma-based sister duo Skating Polly, was…
