There’s no reason for Digg’s Tacos to have one of Dallas’ most addictive burgers, but they do. I’m there just as it opens for lunch, before the carnitas or queso has been fired, and the burger hits the cooktop with a blazing sizzle. A griddle press is placed on top…
There is no day on your future schedule, none whatsover, in which you will get more work done than the day you sipped a Kyoto Brew from Ascension. You know that level of caffenination when you find yourself saying words at ten times the normal volume, and your laughs burst…
I’m not sure if it’s a trend or a genuine movement, but something feels different about Dallas’ newest gastropubs. It feels like reinvention. It’s not just about gathering freshly-farmed Swiss chard, pigs that had names 10 hours before you ate them or local beer anymore. Now there are iconic foods…
It was 5:45 in the morning, on March 2, 2010, when a fire began to gut Terilli’s on Lower Greenville. It spread quickly, becoming a nasty, four-alarm beast that ate Hurricane Grill, Mick’s and one of Dallas’ oldest bars, the Greenville Bar & Grill. The only reported injury, according to…
Short Rib Frites is one of the share plates at Ten Bells Tavern. Crispy fries are topped with gravy, a velvety Mornay (basically a Bechamel cheese sauce), and a pile of juicy short ribs. The short ribs have a light crisp to them, and a shower of chives give it…
A few days ago, something disturbing happened to me. The image is seared deep into the folds of my brain: I ordered a salad as a side of my burger. It was trumpet bright, fresh with good olive oil, full of radishes, and still light years from being as awesome…
I’m sitting at the bar at Proof + Pantry, which faces away from the hustle of the One Arts District, and the place is humming with its new lunch service. A man next to me is polishing off a lobster roll. He lets me know the salad I ordered with…
A few minutes go by at Deep Ellum’s Local when I have the entire restaurant to myself. When I walk in, the music’s playing, candlelight’s on the tables and I can hear plates chattering in the hallway. It’s like I walked into someone’s duplex, too early for dinner. I made…
Everything is big at the Henderson Tap House. The patio is hugely open and resort-like with a long row of misters guarding the rolled up garage doors. SPORTS and BEER, as a concept, is present like a soccer ball to the mouth. College football helmets, skis, autographed things, Miller Lite…
Every year, there should be at least one movie that lights up your senses like fireworks. You should feel anticipation buzzing at the base of your heels. Hollywood owes us this–at least one time a year. This year, one of the most anticipated films buzzing up from the feet up…
When talking food with other people that like food, it would be perfectly fine to say that Dallas has had an excellent year of making new burgers. You should feel free to clink your glass with your fork, or raise an index finger into the air, as if you are…
Saddled up to the bar at Dalat, I experienced a number of burger firsts. Hot bowls of noodles shuttled out of the kitchen under a big dragon that’s tattooed on the wall, and a guy at the bar sang along to A-ha’s “Take on Me.” I ordered the T&A Vietnamese…
A few feet behind the bar at So and So’s is a deer wearing a bright red t-shirt. Playing cards are stuck to the wall like they were sprayed on, and nearby a S&S logo has a single, sheathed knife below it. Also behind the bar: A tiny giraffe is…
There are exotic plants at the Sunset Lounge on Ross Avenue, but they’re in the wallpaper — giant, two-dimensional green leaves layered geometrically over beige paint as you look left from the bar. I’m looking at them as my attentive bartender, Rodney, who’s wearing a stylish Duck Dynasty shirt, tells…
What have you done, Oak Cliff? About 55 steps from the front door of Stock and Barrel, wherein lies a burger so mighty it should come with the Gladiator soundtrack, is the little food hut ¡C. Señor!. With the warmed concrete tables, the faded paint job and the cold Topo…
It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. There comes a time in every person’s life when you realize you love Miller High Life. When you understand it,…
The Dallas food map is studded with breakfast taco-burritos that will blow the socks clean off your feet. Some of them come with jalapeno ranch. Good 2 Go in White Rock has big hangar steak and egg tacos that will you make you cry hollandaise tears. They’re good, cheap, and…
There is a steep let down from a disappointing burger. It’s one of the harshest drop-offs in the world of food excitement. It begins with the phrase, “Want to get a burger?” Upon hearing these words, the eyes dilate, the pulse pounds, the pants expand, and the hands often tighten…
Dear burger, If you’re reading this, you are smart enough to realize what you are. You’re special. You’re a giant. If you’ve come this far, maybe you’re willing to go a little farther. It’s a tough road ahead in Dallas. There are a lot of great burgers here, many of…
You’re probably not headed to Oak Cliff’s new wharf-style seafood eatery for the burger, but you could. You could do it. When your friends order crab cakes or the shrimp and bacon mac and cheese, you could shout “actually, I’m getting the burger,” and hand the large menu to the…
I’m in a movie called Tavern. That’s what you think when you walk into The Ivy Tavern, the new pub on Lemmon Avenue. It’s the most taverny tavern ever, as though you’ve accidentally strolled into the movie set approximation of a tavern filled with previously unused tavern props. There are…
The first thing that happens at John Tesar’s three-Brenner-star Knife, after you order a glacially-cold beer from an iPad, is a flight of complimentary crudités (fancy word for chopped, fresh vegetables with dip) hits the table. The place-mats look like woven, Elvish armor. Because this is Texas, the crudités comes…
