We’re frequently told we’re not getting enough vegetables and fruit, which contain micronutrients our bodies thrive on. But we also seem to have increasingly less time every day to plan meals, buy groceries and cook with whole foods. Which is why Nick Borja and Tommy Hall have created Nosha, a pouch…
On the corner of West Davis and North Tyler streets sits a monument to one man’s mid-life career shake-up. “I’m in a totally different industry; I’m in construction [and] development, that’s my real life. So the winery thing was a mid-life crisis — you start getting old, you have to…
After Chelsea Corner opened on the north end of McKinney Avenue in 1974, it quickly became a hot spot. Even after it changed ownership and names, people still kept coming. You might remember the spot as Corner Bar, which was the most recent venture in the location that closed in…
Come late spring, the “damp” neighborhood of Oak Cliff could have a full-blown bar at North Tyler and West Davis streets. But for now, it will be one small battle at a time until Tiny Victories can open its doors, as long as its space is successfully rezoned. “We secured…
A new year usually elicits feelings of hope, optimism and positive change, but for one Dallas restaurateur Jeana Johnson it meant an agonizing decision. She shuttered Good 2 Go Taco, a restaurant she poured more than six years of her life into, on Jan. 4. “It had a really great,…
What was once the home of an auto repair shop on the corner of Garland Road and Lakeland Drive is now a shiny new restaurant where chef David Gauthier is aiming to give East Dallas another destination for smoked meats. On a recent afternoon, everyone left sincerely raving about their…
David C. Wilson Sr. was more than a restaurateur. For residents of Cedar Hill, the owner and operator of David’s Seafood Grill was also a respected civic leader. “He talked service and he lived service,” his son Shawn says. “It isn’t just service as in your customers; it’s service to…
Much of DFW’s best international fare is located nowhere near the city center. In fact, the greatest immigrant cuisine is often found by traveling out to the suburbs where international enclaves create tiny villages rich
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Small Brewpub is continuing its mission of being a neighborhood spot in Oak Cliff, but at the same time, it’s also getting a whole new kitchen staff, led by 23-year-old Alex Henderson, who has a vision of bringing more people through the restaurant’s doors. “We want it to be a…
There’s something wonderful about the sound of wine being poured into a clean glass from just the right height. It could be just before it’s perfectly paired with your dinner. It might be as soon as you get home, after a long workday, before you even take time to let…
When 35-year-old Marina Pomaro purchased The Russian Banya in Carrollton, she and her husband were looking to save a bit of the Russian culture that stands in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “Me and my husband, we were upset it might close down and nobody [was] going to step in to…
Behind the patio and open garage door of Social Pie is a dark dining room lit only by a single chandelier. The low lighting and the outside air make this an intimate place to have dinner, and the pizza and cause behind it make it worth returning. There’s a simple…
Full City Rooster has been roasting coffee beans in the Cedars neighborhood for the past three years, opening for very limited hours and hosting food pop-ups on weekends. But now you can get more than a pound of beans from owners Michael and Chris Wyatt. The warehouse-turned-coffee-roasting studio on Akard Street…
When a restaurant you love closes down, you might run in for a last taste of your favorite dish, perhaps armed with the bittersweet feeling that you’ll never twirl that particular pasta and sauce around your fork again. Unless that restaurant was Kitchen LTO. After about three months since closing…
When Ten Bells Tavern co-owners Meri Dahlke, Michael Hickey and Greg Matthews opened up the Oak Cliff pub four years ago, they had plans for good drinks and food. As time went on, their cache of regulars grew – as did a colony of cats on the back patio. “I am…
Fort Worth has another barbecue joint, one that’s crazy busy and smoking up briskets, sausage and bacon burnt ends almost non-stop. The new restaurant is made more interesting by the fact that it’s run by a couple in their mid-20s who are successfully spending nearly 24 hours a day together…
Chef Tiffany Derry is back in the Dallas dining scene, and she’s not holding anything back. The former Top Chef contestant is hitting the scene hard, too, with several forthcoming projects: Roots Southern Table at Trinity Groves, Roots Chicken Shack in the future Legacy Hall in Plano and a grab-and-go…
Bartenders have walked out, owners have changed, chefs have come and gone – but Cedars Social still sits there on the west end of the Cedars, its view of downtown now partly blocked by tall apartment buildings. But there’s a new chef making changes at Cedars Social — and it…
For Aidee Granados, being healthy is about more than cutting back on sugar and getting exercise. It’s a lifestyle she’s worked hard to embrace, and now a business she’s sharing with others. “It’s like a vocation,” she said. “We all have to be educated.” Granados, 40, has launched Merry Crate,…
Fort Worth can celebrate this week, as the second location of Dallas’ HG Sply Co. opens on the Trinity River. HG Sply Co. is a restaurant that boasts is cooks food that’s good “because it’s good.” For those of you who aren’t fans of HG yet and are picturing plates of…
The concept of a pop-up dining event for a chef is appealing: no steady salaries for a staff, no rent and perhaps fewer hours to work than at a brick-and-mortar establishment. It’s also uber-trendy right now, particularly in Dallas. Even food industry pros who have their own restaurants are using…
When you read, “the best tacos we’ve had all year” from a publication like Bon Appetit, you know you have to have one of those tacos. And when West Dallas’ Trompo received this praise last week, taco-eaters of Dallas had the same thought. “Before Bon Appetit we were doing about…
