Food & Drink

In the past few years, Deep Ellum restaurants have opened and changed as fast as a windstorm. We’ve recently been meat-knighted with Easy Slider, the brick and mortar of Dallas’ best burger truck, and the Damn Burger at Armoury D.E. is well worth the mild profanity in its name. Filament has a…

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. If you’re woefully under-prepared enough to show up to Tei Tei Robata on a Saturday night with no…

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. At Bilad Bakery and Restaurant, there’s regular pita bread, of course, and it’s good. But the samoon, or…

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. Just after 9 a.m., Oralia Olguin presses her palms into a football-shaped wad of dough. She leans…

Waiting in line for barbecue is a Texas rite of passage. Only in these lines do we, especially the non-native Texans, fully grasp the Lone Star State’s appreciation of a worthy cut of smoked meat. And when you consider the blood, sweat and time it takes to smoke the perfect…

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. Okay, this might be heretical. At a restaurant that serves glorious Texas Monthly-lauded meats like pastrami-spiced burnt ends,…

For Tim McEneny, principal at Dallas restaurant group NL Group, the closing of Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot Cedar Grove wasn’t as abrupt as it seemed. “Cedar Grove was just exhausting, and it was just bleeding cash,” McEneny said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with the Dallas Observer. After…

Two days ago — Sunday of Memorial Day weekend — Cedar Grove, the Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot that opened in June 2016, hosted its regular monthly drag brunch. By 11 a.m. Tuesday, Cedar Grove’s Facebook page had been deleted, and the restaurant had been gutted, with workers outside…

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. Flora Street Cafe, the Arts District’s bold venture into a modern Texas cuisine, has spent 2017 dialing into…

The parking lot is getting barren at Collin Creek Mall. Anchor stores like Macy’s are fleeing, and although there are stores remaining — including Sears, Victoria’s Secret, an indoor mini-golf course and something called Amazing Jake’s Food & Fun — the mall’s southern end is growing forlorn. This is not…

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. Just about every Korean restaurant in metro Dallas — and there are more than 50 — serves kimchi,…

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. You lose all sense of time inside Cosmo’s. Without any sense of urgency, three good-old boys sit…

Summer is quickly approaching, and for most Texans, that means a lot of iced teas and cold beers – because duh. But in Frisco, another cold treat is the star of the summer: snow cones. Not just any snow cones either, but snow cones from the Frisco Snow Cone Lady,…

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. In October, when we wrote about the opening of V-Eats Modern Vegan, the vegan restaurant in Trinity Groves,…

Son Phung knows exactly what his restaurant does best. “We want to be that late-night food,” Phung says of his latest venture, opening tomorrow on Lower Greenville. “After they’ve had a lot to drink, we want them to sober up here.” At 4 p.m. Friday, Phung and his business partners…

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. Over the last few months, Small Brewpub has shifted its food menu to focus less on avant-garde meat…