Food & Drink

For more than two decades, Jasmine Café sat on the tiny, downtown-like strip lining Richardson’s Main Street, serving classic Mediterranean dishes, lots of thick (and very strong) Turkish coffee and of course, hookah. When Nameer Salman bought the business in 2012, Jasmine was a standard college-age hookah lounge and hangout…

Peter Tarantino refers to his new spot just across from Fair Park south of Deep Ellum as “in the Twilight Zone, deep deep….

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two months, you’ve probably heard the news that Texas Monthly recently released their latest list of the Top 50 Barbecue restaurants in Texas.

Chicken is having a moment, and it doesn’t seem to be dying down (or should I say frying out?) anytime soon. First, there was the chicken …

If you travel around Southeast Asia, there is no doubt you will encounter some of the best street food on the planet. However, there …

There’s a certain stereotype for Texas pitmasters; a look, a stature and a smell. Burly, a little greasy.

Greenville Avenue Pizza Company (GAPCo) has been a go-to pizza destination for late-night slices on Lower Greenville since 2007. They opened their second location in East Dallas on Peavy Road in 2017. This November, they debuted their latest pizza destination in Richardson. GAPCo is located near Belt Line Road and…

Lots of “Ah man!” in the Observer’s downtown offices this week. The café on the bottom floor of the building posted a sign on their door that they’re done.

A new – and yet, somewhat familiar – seafood kitchen recently opened in Richardson and you’ll find a menu here that perfectly blends the unique flavors of the East Coast and Asian cuisine.

When Sfereco opened last month in Lewisville, in the space that was formerly Cavalli Pizza, it marked the completion of a remake of the Old Town Lewisville restaurant park.