Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Nammi, which used to just be a banh mi bar in a couple of Vietnamese fusion trucks, now…
In this week’s round-up of DFW food news, a high-profile eatery gets a new chef from Chicago, two Deep Ellum spots announce plans for growth and it’s almost time for everyone to go out of their minds over Shake Shack’s slated September opening. Madrina’s got a new chef taking over…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. Put aside your Texas pride for a moment and concede the following: Kansas City invented the burnt end,…
Legal Draft Beer Company’s taproom isn’t open yet, but don’t let that stop you from trying out Arlington’s newest brewery. As their name implies, Legal Draft takes a decidedly magisterial approach to brewing with beer names like Accused Amber Lager, Presumed Innocent IPA and Hung Jury Hefeweizen. Try Legal’s five…
Eating the recommended daily amount of fruit seems easier for kids. Between bananas in lunch bags, apples and peanut butter after school and orange slices at half time during soccer games (let’s not even talk about the Capri Suns), kids are pretty fruit flush. Adults seem to buy fruit and…
Along the stretch of Davis Street in Oak Cliff where small brick homes bleed into businesses dealing in produce, piñatas and flowers, there’s Nova. The exterior of the building has a commercial, mid-century vibe with its flat, elongated storefront and wall of windows. The design makes sense; before it was reincarnated…
There are noticeable stages to burger disappointment. The first consists of the childlike giddiness that occurs in the moments before ordering a double cheeseburger. Like those of a kid putting a quarter into an old arcade game, hands preemptively tighten into a burger-holding grip (to simulate, form the letter “C”…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 Observer recently published a list of some of Dallas’ best Reuben sandwiches. Few sandwiches, after all, can…
Surrounded by a real estate boom of pricey condos and apartments, the original Fred’s Texas Cafe on Currie does its best to retain the craziness of when it was a greasy spoon in an industrial spot near downtown Fort Worth. Fred’s is a casual, friendly environment where wealthy people eat…
Local Hub, the Deep Ellum bike shop that opened late last year next door to Braindead Brewing, hosts weekly social rides, leading cyclists to various bars and parks around the city. This weekend’s social ride will feature a little something sweet: a bike that makes ice cream. “We basically mounted…
After Lakewood’s Legal Grounds changed ownership last year, the doors closed, the sign came down, and long-time customers were less than thrilled. But since then, The Heights has taken over, still serving coffee but also three meals a day. “A lot of people were very upset about it; they were…
Is it even possible for food to be “unconventional” anymore? We’ve reached an age when the restaurant industry thrives on pushing the limits with unexpected ingredients, methodology and settings. Cooling a cocktail glass with liquid nitrogen? Sure. Dinner in a location you won’t learn until you’re texted an address an…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 there’s any one dish that seems to never go out of style, it’s the tartare. This delicate…
In a strip mall at the corner of Illinois Avenue and Cockrell Hill Road, near Mountain View College, is a Thai and Laotian market with two names. The big yellow sign on the façade says Somphou Market, but the door advertises Ly Food Market. It’s maybe not the most auspicious…
A group of strangers gather at sunset in Deep Ellum, huddled next to a trendy loft door in the shadow of I-75. Someone pulls out their iPhone, looking for instructions on how to get into the building. No one knows exactly where they’re going, but they talk excitedly about how…
For the third year in a row, beloved local rock band the Toadies have teamed up with Martin House Brewing in Fort Worth to brew something they can crush on stage. And indeed, the sudsy hits keep coming as the two beers released on Sunday, Hell Below, a strong black…
The men behind Pilot Point’s Western Sons Distillery expanded their sphere of influence as the booze barons of Denton County by launching Whistle Post Brewing Company on Saturday right next door. John Straits and Evan Batt have added another wing to the “Old Panty Factory” building in central Pilot Point (hard…
The culinary spirit of the 1950s lives on in downtown Irving, where an old-fashioned soda fountain still chugs along serving patty melts and chocolate malts. Big State Fountain Grill has been around for nearly seventy years, opening as a drug store in 1948. The lunch counter from those early days…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. This year, a friend of mine bought the pig’s head carnitas from CBD Provisions for his Super Bowl…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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 we can convince you of one thing, we’d like it to be that everyone should eat more…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 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. It’s a proven fact: Lox is basically the world’s greatest breakfast. The smoky, rich salmon, the bite of…
In theory, it’s so simple — fresh fish, raw or nearly raw, chopped into beautiful square hunks and surrounded by equally fresh, crisp vegetables. But for such a simple dish, executing it at home isn’t quite so easy. Sourcing high-quality fish that can easily be consumed uncooked isn’t as easy…
