Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  San Salvaje is a restaurant that defies every stereotype of the downtown Dallas…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  Most Italian beef sandwiches sold in Dallas are exactly the same. Chicago-based Vienna…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  I can think of many more reasons to come to Palapas than I…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a spork is a spoon-shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip, but that’s not how the term is most often used. The Oxford English Corpus, a multibillion-word database of written and spoken English, reports “spork” is employed most often as a verb…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  Ethiopian has become one of my go-to meals in Dallas when I’m looking…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  A meal at Off-Site Kitchen can leave you questioning the past. Everyone has…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  You can get tacos on what seems like every block in Dallas. There…

I love a root beer float and firmly believe that Dallas restaurants should be serving more of them — especially in the summer. Floats make perfect desserts when the weather is hotter. They’re lighter than a massive slice of cherry pie and much more cooling. You haven’t lived until you’ve…

Karin Powell Porter is not new to the Dallas restaurant scene. Porter has spent time behind the pass at The Grape, and runs her own catering company Porter House Provisions. This is the first time she’s taken charge of her own restaurant, though, and The Heights is shaping up to…

Last week a Trinity Groves spokesperson announced Potato Flats had closed, becoming the second failed restaurant in Phil Romano’s theme park devoted to scalable food businesses. The closure marks a good time to check in on the overall performance of the West Dallas development, which is actually doing exceptionally well…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  If the evening is late and I crave something sweet, nine times out…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Check back here as the list grows until Best of Dallas rolls out…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  Hundreds of barbecue restaurants are strewn across Texas, and scores around the Dallas…

The formula has been tested so many times it’s almost mathematical law. A chef opens a restaurant, spends a few months working the pass making sure everything is just so, and then, if the business is successful enough, moves on to open more copies of the same restaurant, while quality…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  There are plenty of Korean restaurants in the Dallas area that serve shul…

Urban Acres went through a significant reconfiguration recently, switching up the menu and partnering with Kari Crowe to offer what may be the areas’ most delicious ice cream. The move makes the local urban grocery more approachable and opens up the space for cooking classes and upcoming meals catered by…

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. When we go out to dine we expect the food will be good,…

With the restoration of the iconic 1930s-era Pegasus sign outside the hotel taken care of, Omni’s regional vice president Ed Netzhammer can turn his focus to the larger working project adjacent to his luminescent super-hotel. The patch of ground  beside the hotel has been excavated for 350 much needed parking spots,…

Fans of Kansas City barbecue will be happy to hear a new option is headed to Maple Avenue in the coming months. Paris of the Plains may not be able to close out a World Series, but it’s known for smoking both pig and cow and a thick, sweet, tomato-based…