After the City of Dallas abruptly changed the way it issues temporary permits for food events, festival organizers say their cost for food permits have skyrocketed — Chefs for Farmers costs alone jumped from $3,000 per year to $34,000 per year, organizers say.
Blatt Beer & Table is making sure you get your daily serving of fruit (or at least think you are) with their Tennessee Manhattan.
From beer brunches to seafood fiestas to cheese-making classes, there are a ton of food events this weekend in DFW. Here’s a rundown: ***** Belly or strip? When it comes to which type of clam New Englanders prefer, the resounding answer is belly. The belly affords a great deal more…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. It’s hard to imagine another restaurant that uses the honor system for paying your check. At Aw…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. The Blind Butcher loves meat, so much so that they undertake the process of smoking, curing and otherwise…
The new East Coast-inspired seafood restaurant Hudson House is not a one-trick pony. It brings more than just East Coast fare to Lovers Lane. From their $90 Royal Seafood Tower, featuring specialty oysters, shrimp cocktail, tuna tartare, cracked king crab and poached lobster tail, to their $12 cheeseburger, the management team…
There are no secret recipes at IdleRye. The kitchen window is permanently open, allowing a glimpse into the work. Co-owner and executive chef Ray Skradzinski dives into the inspirations behind his food with exuberance. “I enjoy doing stuff that reminds me of home,” he says. Skradzinski grew up in Alloway,…
This town ain’t big enough for all the “elevated Southern” restaurants we have running around. Just about every street corner in Dallas harbors a Southern fare kitchen offering deviled eggs, pork belly, burgers and the inevitable shrimp and grits. Many of them are good; some are excellent; most are forgettable…
The air is thick. With humidity at almost 100 percent and the unrelenting sun directly overhead, everyone is uncomfortable. The group has even stopped swatting at the insects; there’s no point anymore. One member has a scratched arm. Another has already made a misstep across a swampy culvert and saturated…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Picking a favorite dish from a meal at Uchi is like picking your favorite from a basket of…
National Tequila Day is July 24, and we’re going to be celebrating with some of DFW’s best tequila cocktails.
The new documentary What the Health, released globally on Vimeo in March and on Netflix in June, is a compelling indictment of the processed meat and dairy industries that has sparked a flurry of conversation and controversy online, and not just in vegan circles. Described by its makers as “the…
Casa Rubia, one of the first restaurants to open in the West Dallas restaurant incubator Trinity Groves, closed its doors after dinner service Saturday night, chef Omar Flores confirms. The Spanish tapas spot had been open for four years. Flores was one of Trinity Groves’ most high-profile chefs, and Casa…
Cafe Salsera started as a Latin restaurant in Deep Ellum, but in the last few months, it became known more for its late-night dance club atmosphere that transforms the quiet restaurant into a packed nightclub that has frustrated some of its neighbors. In Dallas, nightclubs are required to have a…
Deep Ellum is Dallas’ fastest-growing food and drink neighborhood. There’s so much opening up over there that it’s hard to keep up — but we can help. Here are four things you need to eat and drink in the city’s foodiest neighborhood of the moment. The pulpo taco at Revolver…
The Facebook rumor mill in East Dallas went berserk in the last 24 hours after several posts claiming that Barbec’s, the White Rock Lake diner that’s been serving chicken-fried steak and other no-frills diner fare for more than 40 years, was closed for good. Barbec’s has not shuttered, manager Joanna…
Hot Joy is all about quirk. The San Antonio restaurant, known for its kitschy, playful ambiance and Asian fusion menu, has found the perfect place to let its freak flag fly: the former Texas Land and Cattle on Lemmon Avenue in Uptown. The Texas-themed bones of the restaurant are still…
It started with a bloody mary. Dallas bar veterans Michael Martensen and Omar Yeefoon were in Paris at Harry’s New York Bar, the birthplace of the bloody mary, and they were in awe. The pair has opened and consulted on dozens of Dallas cocktail bars, building menu after menu populated…
TEN50 BBQ’s Mango Margarita can soak up all that spirited fun on National Tequila Day with their amazing BBQ.
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. We’re addicted to Mi Lindo Oaxaca, the extraordinary Oak Cliff restaurant that makes its chocolate and breads from…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. The Inwood Theatre is a baby boomer, celebrating its 70th birthday in May, but few things are…
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. Sometimes a cocktail comes into your life and fills you with…
