Just as the Internet threatens to suck the last bit of personal connection out of humanity, it’s providing interesting ways to bring people together again. Online companies like Uber and Lyft are connecting people who could use a ride with alternatives to impersonal cab services. AirBnB connects weary travelers with…
Crave DFW, the popular restaurant-news site, has been unusually quiet this week, and now we know why: Steven Doyle, the site’s founder, was arrested this week in Farmers Branch on outstanding warrants and drug charges. He’s currently being held on multiple bonds. According to the arrest report, Doyle was pulled…
In Happy Endings, food critic Scott Reitz travels part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. This is the third in an occasional series. “This has been on your menu for a long time hasn’t it?” I asked my waiter,…
If Kyle Noonan and Josh Sepkowitz, the pair behind Bowl and Barrel, Mutts and now The Rustic, have achieved anything with their latest restaurant and music venue, it is the creation of the most outwardly Texan space in Dallas. They crammed the venue full of cattle skulls, reclaimed lumber that…
With evening lows in the 30s, you may not be thinking much about your local Farmers Market, but you should be. While tomatoes are hard to find this time of year there are other things local markets have to offer beyond cold weather greens: like knowledge. Both the Dallas Farmers…
Jeff Harris is likely feeling pretty good after the opening of AF+B over the weekend. The chef left Bolsa last year to join Consilient Hospitality, the restaurant group behind CBD Provisions, Fireside Pies, Victor Tangos and others, and debuted his new menu at hit new home, sending out elevated tavern…
Back in November we told you about FoodFumble, a bare-bones mobile application that lets users search for the health department’s food safety scores awarded to area restaurants. Frisco resident Noel Geren created the app to help users make more informed dining decisions. The only problem was the app could only…
Yesterday, Chef Eric Shelton and designer Stefania Morandi were announced as the two creative minds behind the next iteration of Kitchen LTO. Chef Normal Grimm opened the restaurant last year after winning a similar contest in a dining room designed by Coveal Studios. If you were smitten with Grimm’s cooking,…
Plano might be getting a food truck park. City officials plan to vote this evening on a measure that would ease restrictions on mobile food vending, allowing trucks to operate permanently at a single location. Currently, selling burritos from the window of a kitchen with wheels in Plano is significantly…
Already bored with dining this year? That seems impossible with all of the new restaurants that have opened in the past few months. Still, it’s nice to break out of your mold and explore new dining options that exist outside the traditional restaurant experience. Here are a few upcoming events…
A little over a month ago, we reported that Acme F&B was going through some serious changes. The owners had changed the name to Acme Social Club, and the restaurant once known for its “whole animal allocation program” and killer pork chop was embracing Skittles shots — vodka infused with…
If, like me, you thought that Three Sheets, the laid-back bar with a penchant for brick-oven pizza, feels a little lonely on Ross Avenue, you might be interested to know a second location is about to open in a much more cozy location. Three Sheets Uptown is expected to take…
Like chefs who strive for consistency across each dish that leaves their kitchen, big time restaurateurs try to achieve consistency across multiple locations of their restaurants. They’re trying to create brand consistency in the hopes that customers who have fallen in love with one location will eagerly charge into the…
I encountered the fritter during my second visit to LUCK, the casual eatery featuring 40 taps of beer that opened in Trinity Groves last year. I’d just slogged my way through a lackluster meal and was expecting the same from the desserts as I talked my order out with my…
After a long wait (and we really mean long), AF+B, the latest restaurant by Consilient Hospitality, will open this Friday, January 10, in Fort Worth. We first reported on the restaurant all the way back in November 2012, when Jeffery Hobbs announced his departure from Sissy’s on Henderson Avenue to…
Whatever you’re doing you should stop right now, minimize that spreadsheet, close all your browser windows (except this one) and promise to do exactly as I say. Yesterday a thoughtful reader pointed out the owners behind the International Bakery Cuban Dulceria posted some interesting news on their Facebook page. Apparently…
Those who have spent the last decade or so calling Margaret Hunt Hill’s namesake a bridge to nowhere are running out of nothingness to shake their fingers at in contempt. Restaurants are sprouting out of a once-barren patch of ground in West Dallas, one after the other, each marked by…
If you’re like most everyone, you’re already having trouble with your New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you haven’t folded yet, but surely the gears of self-doubt have begun to turn, challenging your will to move forward. Eventually you’ll crumble, hanging this year’s resolution in the closet, ready to be dusted off…
In Happy Endings, food critic Scott Reitz travels part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. This is the third in an occasional series. I always share desserts when dining out, mostly because I feel strongly that any one person…
It feels like word of the Blind Butcher’s coming first hit the wires ages ago. Almost a year ago, Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling, the guys behind Goodfriend burgers, and Ryan Chaney announced that they were jumping into the recent spate of development on Lower Greenville. Last night, they finally…
We all knew it was coming. When I reviewed Velvet Taco last year, owner/partner John Franke told me he had every intension of opening subsequent locations of the restaurant. The only thing that was surprising was how long it took. But tonight the wait ends. The second Velvet Taco will…
It’s January again, which means it’s time for El Ranchito’s month-long extravaganza featuring The King of Rock and Roll. The Oak Cliff salsa slinger hosts a number of performances by Elvis impersonators throughout the year, but this month you can get your fill of lamb chops, suede shoes and glistening…
