After more than nine months since the closure its Bryan Street location, La Banqueta, one of Dallas’ best taquerías, is open for business at its new location just a few blocks around the corner on Carroll Avenue. For taco enthusiasts, the wait has been a long one. Last August, Alberto…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. One of the harder things about compiling 100 dishes over an…
Add Method to Dallas’ growing list of serious coffee shops. The shoebox-sixed storefront on the corner of Ross Avenue and Hall Streets opened Saturday to an enthusiastic bunch of java junkies. Maybe they were jonesing so hard because they waited so long. Owner Louie Corwin has been working on the…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I know Tom’s Burgers and Grill is good because I reviewed…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It’s been two years since we last set out to find…
The last time we published this list, back in February, you could still get a slumpy burger at the Village Kitchen. Turns out you can’t do that anymore, which makes it a pretty good time to revisit the 10 Dallas restaurants you should be spending your money in right now…
Whenever I hear the term “fusion” applied to food, I tend to roll my eyes. It’s not that I think that the merging of two ingredients or dishes only stands to dilute whatever was great about each of them in the first place; it’s that fusion is everywhere. There isn’t…
Anyone who has curled their knuckles over the back of an onion, obsessed over every detail of a grilled cheese sandwich or taken any other step to produce anything remotely edible in their own kitchen, has somewhere in the recesses of their minds harbored a fantasy of opening their own…
Back in April, John Doumas announced the Pop Star Handcrafted Popsicles he and his wife brought to area farmers markets and other events was gone for good. The news was a shock. It seemed like Doumas had just gotten started, leaving a successful business career to become successful in frozen…
It was over a year ago, in March 2013, that Joel Malone announced a Kickstarter campaign for Bishop Arts Cider. He’d already been working for more than a year to get his fledgling cidery running. He’d been paying rent in the Bishop Arts for nearly as long, but was delayed…
It was 11 a.m. on Sunday, and customers who had been waiting, some for hours, were expecting Justin Fourton to emerge any minute from the kitchen of Pecan Lodge, and ask the first in line to ring the triangle that hangs near the register. The clanging iron has announced the…
Last night was a night of firsts for the Observer’s annual Iron Fork event. Held in Centennial Hall in Fair Park, it was the first time we had so much space to move around while balancing plates of food and drinks. Air conditioning was blowing full blast, and even the…
All week at City of Ate, we celebrate the magic of the taco. Check back for more interviews, essays and maybe a list or two. Or maybe four? If you live in Dallas, you’ve likely shopped at a 7-Eleven, and if you’ve shopped at Dallas’ official convenience store, then you’ve…
Last month, Gallup polled Americans to determine how happy they where in their current state of residence. Illinois, home to wicked cold winters and mass murderers that dress like clowns, was unsurprisingly the state Americans were most likely to want to leave. Montana and Hawaii, meanwhile, were the two states…
Have plans this evening? Of course you do. You’re headed to Iron Fork, the Dallas Observer’s homage to local restaurants, anchored by an epic chef battle between James Beard nominee Matt McCallister and Richard Gras, who has been cooking at Oak in the Design District. If you don’t have tickets…
If you’ve spent any time in West Virginia, portions of western Pennsylvania or eastern Ohio, then you’ve likely heard of the greatness that is the pepperoni roll. Made with soft, slightly sweet bread, folded around slices or matchsticks of salty pepperoni, and sometimes with cheese, the rolls were a staple…
All week at City of Ate, we celebrate the magic of the taco. Check back for more interviews, essays and maybe a list or two. Or maybe four? Three or so years ago, when I was driving in a rickety Penske truck with my life’s possessions toward Texas, I knew…
Want to find the best tacos possible in Dallas? Look for handmade tortillas. Sure, there are a handful of great taquerias around town that don’t make their own meat hammocks, but chances are if someone is pressing or patting out masa within the confines of your chosen taqueria, the tacos…
All week at City of Ate, we celebrate the magic of the taco. Check back for more interviews, essays and maybe a list or two. Or maybe four? There aren’t too many places you can drop buck and change these days, and end up with something as satisfying as a…
As they surely do thousands of times a second the folks at Amazon have taken the time to analyze data about the cookbooks they sell, and this time they’ve broken the data down by regions in the US. A webpage set up about the project says they wanted to learn…
The folks behind the newest location of The Ginger Man have announced a tentative opening date of May 19. General Manager Jacob Bedford, who previously served as the assistant manager at the Fort Worth location, says work crews are wrapping up construction, laying hardwood floors, installing furniture and finishing the…
As spring continues its brief appearance in Dallas, you’ve no doubt been making your way to your favorite area farmers markets to get your hands on the first spoils of the season. There’s a bumper crop of strawberries this year, as bright as ever. Asparagus is another popular early spring…
