In this week’s round-up of Dallas food news, Deep Ellum gets a new vegan grab-and-go spot that also serves local coffee, two high-profile Dallas chefs team up for a new pop-up and catering business, and travelers at DFW Airport may finally get the Whataburger they’ve been asking for: Oliver Peck,…
Meet Vanessa Sampson, whose company A Cake Maker has blown up, with celebrities like Cardi B commissioning extreme cakes from the Dallas cake-maker.
Now that we’ve successfully slogged through the first half of 2018 — a year filled with more Lime Bikes and Tide Pods than common sense, it seems — it’s time to look back and assess. OK, so maybe Dallas still hasn’t solved the affordable housing crisis or homelessness or that…
Approximately 150 yards north of the historic Rockwall downtown square, home to restaurants like Zanata and the Fatted Calf, is Bin 303, a family-owned tribute to Texas gastronomy. Owned by Mat and Breean Nugent, Bin 303 is the culinary brainchild of the two food industry pros. “I have a bachelor’s…
Midnight Rambler pays homage to the watermelon with their 1000W Thumper.
There’s not much of a view at Haystack. The beer and burger joint is nudged into a strip mall overlooking a typical Dallas parking lot partially fenced off, its asphalt blanketed by a layer of dust from construction. Just above the strip mall, a tower of Turtle Creek condominiums blocks…
Del Frisco’s Grille has launched a new brunch menu, giving Uptown another spot to soak up hangovers with waffles and eggs. Just after opening at 10 a.m., it’s quieter here than the crowd that never seems to dwindle at Bread Winners across the street. The menu’s large enough, even though…
Wine and dine the night away at CiboDivino Marketplace’s Rosé Flights and Gourmet Bites. A curated selection of four rosé wines will be paired with a selection of gourmet bites as Cibo continues their Flights & Bites series. Tickets are limited and available for $35 per person.
In the South Oak Cliff food desert, Pan African Connection Bookstore’s Harvest Project Food Rescue takes perfectly good food bound for the landfill and gives it to people who need it, no strings attached.
Poke Bop. Pok the Raw Bar. Malibu Poke. Poke O. Go Fish Poke. Bowls and Tacos. Poke Sushi Roll. Cbowls Poke. Mola Mola Poke. Hoki Poki. These are just a few of the poke restaurants that have opened in Dallas in the last two years, and we’re not even mentioning…
This morning, the State Fair of Texas announced the semifinalists for this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards, a competition pitting vendors against each other to see who has the craziest (and tastiest) new dish for this year’s fair, kicking off Sept. 28 at Fair Park.
Through years of rehab, relapses and second, third and 40th chances, there is one life raft that parents of addicts cling to: hope. Hope that this counselor, this medication, this stint in rehab sticks. Hope that this rock bottom will be their offsprings’ last, that they’ll miraculously wake up one…
Most everyone knows the Merc, one of the most iconic structures in the downtown Dallas skyline with its mid-century clock and steeple. But unless you live in one of the residences there or know someone who does, you might not have had a reason to visit the 31-story Art Deco…
After sipping cocktails in the lounge of Moviehouse and Eatery, a dine-in theater in McKinney, you check your watch to find your showtime is approaching. You make your way to your theater and into a cool brown leather seat and find a food menu so diverse, it gives Alamo Drafthouse’s…
Asian cuisine is having a moment right now in DFW. From the rapid expansion of Carrollton Korea Town to new locations of massive Asian grocery chains like 99 Ranch and H Mart and the micro-Asiatowns quickly gaining a foothold in suburban cities like Plano, we’re swimming in xiao long bao,…
In this week’s roundup of Dallas food news, The Theodore throws in the towel, Bishop Arts gets overloaded with ice cream, and there’s even more Asian and Asian-inspired cuisine on the way. NorthPark’s quirkiest restaurant, the Wes Anderson-inspired The Theodore, closed yesterday, GuideLive reports. The restaurant opened in 2015 with…
Now 11 years old, Olivella’s has a surprising New York origin story – and several new DFW locations in the works.
In early June, a new Japanese bar landed just off Oak Lawn Avenue. It debuted quietly — the restaurant is still in a lengthy soft opening phase — but when the crowds find Izakaya RoMan, they might be thrilled. Our first impression is of a winning bar with an especially…
The familiar jangle of the convenience store bells fills the air as you push through the double doors. It’s a signal that a good meal is on its way. You’re beelining to the back of the store, through the bodega’s aisles, to the wall-bound menu that’s wrapped in ever-blinking lights…
Out of Obscurity, a cocktail on Knife’s new menu, brings together the aloe liqueur, coconut, elderflower, and a bitter element, Aperol.
In a former auto garage tucked away off Northwest Highway, two longtime friends and veterans of the Dallas coffee industry have created the city’s most forward-thinking coffee shop yet — not in Dallas itself, but in a quiet corner of Richardson. Gorgeous handcrafted wood accents fill the industrial but homey…
Make like Oda Nobunaga and head to Saint Ann Restaurant & Bar for an evening of cocktails and samurai education. After you grab a cocktail from the bar, head upstairs for an after-hours tour of The Samurai Collection of Japanese armor. The cost is $10. What it be: Samurai Cocktail…
