Chick-fil-A announced last week that supply chain issues have caused a shortage of select sauces in their stores, including Zesty Buffalo, Classic Chic-fil-A, Herb Ranch and Polynesian sauces. The company says it’s working to make adjustments …
Mike Chen is a food vlogger (video blogger) with more than 3.7 million followers on his Strictly Dumpling YouTube channel. Chen was born in China but was raised in the midwest, where his parents ran Chinese buffet restaurants, giving him a front-row
The Standard Pour is a charming uptown staple known for tasty happy hour specials and good bites. Like many other restaurants and bars across the city, they sloughed through 2020, bruised but not beaten.
After a year in a holding pattern (mostly, anyway) five months into 2021 and the Dallas restaurant scene is busy with new openings. Which is great to see. We’ve rounded up a highlight reel from the past few weeks.
Recently there was a coffee kerfuffle that captured the attention of a lot of East Dallas, a bean roaster in Brooklyn and Yelp. The full story is here, but in the shortest of all explanations, Melody Vo fancied a proper cup of Vietnamese coffee.
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ rapper 50 Cent was in da club at Houston Rodeo’s Uncorked! International Wine Competition this weekend. Curtis James Jackson’s champagne, Le Chemin du Roi, won 2021 …
Haywire in Plano has invited the Garrison Brothers up from their distillery in the tiny town of Hye, TX, for two events next week. The Garrison Brothers Cigar Social will take place on Haywires’ rooftop Airstream Terrace on Wednesday
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott used part of his freshly minted $160 million contract to invest in the Cajun bistro Walk-On’s. The 27-year old Louisiana native owns 20% of the restaurants located in Arlington, Las Colinas, The Colony and Waco.
After a year of hunkering down, no one is more ready to spread their wings in the sunshine, unencumbered by a pandemic, than North Texas breweries.
Dallas certainly isn’t short on glitz. The landscape offers a perpetual wheel of new and sparkly things. And with that comes good and bad. But, then there are places that despite it all, hang on for decades. Worn-down windows on a worn-down building wearing the same coat of paint summer after summer.
In a unique display of bipartisanship, ordering a cocktail to go will soon be allowed by state law. Today the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) issued an industry notice explaining the details to all those who dabble in the trade of fine
Texas farmers and ranchers have had a year. Whether they supplied restaurants with local produce or welcomed families to pick their own buckets full, even green pastures and rows of blackberries weren’t immune to the pandemic.
Booty’s Street Food was created by Kent Roth and Collin Ballard, both avid travelers. They’ve traversed countries, often breaking camp at hostels; more than 100 collectively. Their experiences led them to want to create a similar space for travelers in Texas.
A new wine-tasting and shopping experience, Vinotopia, is opening this Friday at Legacy Hall in Plano. According to their press release, this hybrid wine bar and retail shop is a “social, communal and energized premium wine-buying experience.”
Dole Whip was born at a tiki bar in Disneyland of all places and gets its name from the fruit producer, who was a sponsor at the park and makes the mix. According to Disney Food Blog, Dole Whip was first served at the Enchanted Tiki Room and in the Tiki Juice Bar in Adventureland in 1986…
Last week, on April 20 to be exact, The Grapevine reopened its main bar for the first time in over a year. The quirky Uptown dive, which was completely closed for a part of 2020 has taken careful steps in welcoming both employees and …
Eataly is the new Italian food wonderland at NorthPark Center that opened late last year. It’s hard to put into words everything that this place is exactly. If you squint and tilt your head, it’s like Central Market for the Amalfi Coast. An Ikea of charming Italian goods, but in…
Wednesday afternoon Melody Vo ordered a Vietnamese coffee at Toasted in Dallas. When she took her first sip, she immediately knew it was a cold brew mixed with condensed milk, not the stronger espresso-like pour-over typically used in Vietnamese coffee. Vo took her coffee back to the counter, sure she’d…
This Saturday, April 24, the Lowest Greenville Collective is shining a light on the diverse restaurants, bars and businesses along their namesake street from Belmont Avenue to Ross Avenue. The fourth annual Experience Lowest Greenville will offer a variety of food and drink specials, yoga, flowers, lots of mimosas and…
If you’re one who is, at least on occasion, motivated by food but hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine, we’ve got some potential gaming-changing news. The James Beard semifinalist baker Clyde Greenhouse of Kessler Baking Studio is offering a sweet incentive. Greenhouse started baking more than 20 years ago and in 2014…
The State Fair of Texas, United Way Dallas’ Southern Dallas Thrives, and Communities Foundation of Texas have collaborated with Atlanta-based Goodr to increase food access in South Dallas. The initiative launched this past Saturday with a pop-up grocery store at Fair Park. Now as part of a pilot program, for…
Bars and restaurants around the city are opening at a rather fast clip. In addition to the locations noted below, we also recently visited the new spot, me, in the Bishop Arts District. And Chris Wolfgang took a road trip to Smoke Sessions in Royce City. Plus, the underground downtown…
