4 New Restaurants Opening in Dallas

While a number of restaurants are shutting their doors temporarily or permanently in response to the coronavirus pandemic, some are opening theirs for the first time. Here are new restaurants to check out, whether you’re taking meals to go, choosing to dine in or simply making a list of places…

More Restaurants Close and Open Amid the Pandemic

Estimates are ranging for what COVID-19’s long-term effect will be on restaurants in Dallas, the state and the country. Messages have come through asking if we’ve heard people talking about one in four restaurants closing. One analyst predicts 10% of restaurants nationwide will close. It may be hard to have…

Meat Fight Combines Food, Fitness to Benefit MS Patients

Every year, Meat Fight hosts events benefiting people living with multiple sclerosis. In normal years, there would’ve been a bike ride already. Now, the folks behind Meat Fight are launching a series of virtual “food-plus-exercise” events for the cause — participants are called to move a little bit and support…

Sandoitchi‘s Instagram Propels Its Sandos in Dallas

For more than five weeks, aesthetically pleasing photos of sandwiches have been scrolling across Instagram for Dallas users. And every week, Sandoitchi, a new pop-up providing these Japanese sandwiches, has been selling out. It’s not a surprising phenomenon. This type of sandwich, popular for a quick meal in Japan, graced…

Town of Addison Cancels Oktoberfest

Fall is a time when we would usually expect a number of great things: cooler temperatures, the World Series, the State Fair of Texas and a number of festivals. Surely that first point will remain this year, but thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the other three are looking differently this…

Good to Go: Meatballs from Il Bracco Hold up Across Town

Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. For months now, chefs in town have been posting about a certain to-go container full of sauce-drenched meatballs from Il Bracco in University Park. That’s for good reason…

Tito’s Vodka to Provide Hand Sanitizer for the Public Thursday

Texas’ Tito’s Handmade Vodka is pivoting to making hand sanitizer, specifically more than 44,000 bottles. People can pick these up for free from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Thursday at Gate 2 of Fair Park, 921 S. Haskell Ave. in South Dallas. Tito’s has been producing hand sanitizer since…

How One Farm Is Thriving During the Pandemic

Pure Land Farm is in its third year of summer picking — people from around North Texas visit the McKinney Farm to get fresh fruits and vegetables straight from the ground. Organic growth in attendees is expected, but last year, the father-daughter duo who run the farm wasn’t expecting the…

Good to Go: Ka-Tip Offers a Wealth of Flavor Curbside

Months ago, just after critic Brian Reinhart had already visited and raved about the flavors coming out of Ka-Tip Thai Street Food, I tasted something I hadn’t experienced since sitting outside some restaurant in Bangkok years ago. The soup, rice dishes and appetizers we tried were wonderful, but the first…

First Look: La Tarte Tropézienne Is Finally Downtown

It’s nearly eight months later than planned, but La Tarte Tropézienne is fully open in downtown Dallas. Fully open in the time of the coronavirus pandemic, that is, offering curbside takeout. But considering they were waiting on permits in mid-January for a place they had wanted to open in November,…

Good to Go: Si Lom’s Mango Sticky Rice Is a Welcome Respite

Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. There is something so wonderful about fulfilling a craving you’ve had for weeks. I’ve been thinking about mango sticky rice (khao neow ma muang) since Mother’s Day, when…

White Rock Coffee Wants to Offer a Cup of Normalcy

The novel coronavirus may have shifted the way we work out, eat and live, but it didn’t change the need some of us have for coffee. That’s evident based on the line of cars and people at White Rock Coffee in the Hillside neighborhood of East Dallas. The Lake Highlands-based…

For a Taste of Homegrown Freshness, Pay a Farm a Visit

Businesses are slowly bringing back some food events — which you can attend masked up and staying the heck away from other people — and whether or not you decide to be a patron at one of those, one can start to feel cooped up after 100 days in a…

To Brunch or Not to Brunch? If You Do, Try Zaguán.

There has been some talk about how the restaurant industry might look when we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic: Maybe QR menus should stay. What will happen to fine dining? Perhaps being able to purchase alcohol to-go from a restaurant could stick around. It’s entirely possible that months ago,…

Amid Coronavirus, Save a Little Time for Azúcar’s Sweetness

As we get deeper into life amid a pandemic, simple pleasures are sweeter: a beautiful summer afternoon, a cooler morning with rain falling, an exceptionally friendly server who beams sincerity even though you can’t see his smile behind a mask. And ice cream. There are plenty of places to get…