When it comes to fast food, I’m a traditionalist at heart-stomach. If I’m headed to McDonald’s, usually at the airport because that seems like a safe sanctuary to eat McDonald’s, I’m sticking to the combo No. 2 (two single cheeseburgers, Coke, fries), which I’ve ordered since high school. New items…
The last time I visited my family in Turkey, my grandmother made me hünkar begendi. The name means “Sultan’s delight.” You can tell it will be good because an all-powerful dictator gets exactly what he wants. What is hünkar begendi (pronounced, roughly, HOON-care BAY-and-ih, with a silent g)? First my…
If you are so over the endless parade of doughnuts, cupcakes, cookies, cronuts, macarons, popsicles, juices, fro-yo and every other kind of sweet treat Dallas has to offer, well, too bad because there’s one more you’ve just got to try. That’s right. There’s another sweet in town, and it’s available by…
Every Thursday the Dallas Farmers Market stays open late. For vegetable lovers, these extended hours represent a rare opportunity to get their late-night-produce-groove on, while others see the combination of artisan vendors, live music and beer and wine from Green Door Public House as prime “milling” territory. So whether you need…
One shot. Most dishes I encounter during my food explorations get one chance to make an impression before they’re captured in my notebook and churned into words. Dallas is filled with interesting restaurants and has too many menus with too many dishes for me to give mediocre plates a second…
Sometimes new restaurants just strike gold. For all the hard work that goes into opening a restaurant, some are luckier than others. In Dallas, Boulevardier in Bishop Arts has quickly developed a reputation for serving incredible food, mixing great cocktails and shucking the freshest $1 oysters in town. Now, brothers…
Each month it seems like yet another brewery is announcing their opening, from Texas Ale Project to Bitter Sisters to Four Bullets to Tupps, they just keep appearing. Back in April, I wrote about 3 Nations Brewery releasing beers as early as May. Unfortunately, the release of 3 Nations’ beer…
Remember Obzeet, that groovy little restaurant/bar/tchotchke shop on Preston Road in North Dallas? It was a fun place to unwind with friends and enjoy live music on the patio, even if the tiny parking lot was incredibly hard to navigate (I think the translation of “Obzeet” is roughly something like…
Just when you think John Tesar is planning to keep quiet and stay out of the news for a while, he somehow manages to make an appearance. After the restaurant shuffle that took place earlier this year — closing Spoon and taking over the kitchen at Oak — Tesar has,…
After teasing pedestrians on Greenville Avenue with banners and signs for months, Rapscallion will at last open July 7. Brothers Brooks and Bradley Anderson and chef Nathan Tate, who run Boulevardier in Oak Cliff, say they plan to bring a new take on Southern cooking to the neighborhood. Bradley Anderson’s…
Smack in the middle of DFW lies an abundance of meathead smokers and barbecue sandwich stops. From Arlington to Southlake, gas stations, shacks and barns turn around beef plates and classic sides ad nauseam, and it can all start to run together a bit, just like the towns. But some…
The only thing constant with respect to iced coffee is change. First cold brew coffee was all the rage — reveled for its fruity tones and subdued bitterness. Then slow drip contraptions from Japan wowed us all with subtle notes of chocolate and bourbon plus a highly caffeinated kick. Now…
“Humidity’s our friend,” Chuck Cole, owner of Corner Market said as a thin trickle of water rinsed compost from his hands. Cole had just given a tour of the garden he’s set up on the roof of his market and flower shop — a garden irrigated by rainwater runoff and…
Café Salsera quietly opened its doors this week, as employees scrambled to make last-minute adjustments. Plants were freshly mulched out front and new signs were hung. News that the restaurant was on its way came five months ago, as a construction crew set out to transform the dining room. The space…
When Spork, the overtly outer-space themed restaurant opened in March, it felt less like a sonic boom and more like the seal of a Pringles can being broken. Living nearby and being the consummate professional/fledgling alcoholic that I am, I made semi-frequent visits during happy hour wherein I would find…
It’s no secret that co-owner Sandra Bussey and her partners plan to open additional locations of their fast-casual Korean restaurant bbbop. Even though each of her two restaurants are a little different, you can sense the potential for scalability in the dinning rooms. That carefully crafted logo looks the part,…
Addison (probably) has more restaurants per capita than any other suburb on the planet, but they generally tend to be of the chain variety. You can’t throw a chicken finger without hitting a Chili’s, TGI Friday’s or even smaller chains such as Yard House, but that doesn’t seem to dissuade…
Like any fan of tomatoes, I get excited when the weather starts to warm up each year. I have a ritual involving freshly baked bread, an absurd amount of mayo and an even crazier amount of tomato slices that I indulge at least a few times each summer. Sometimes I’ll…
Dallas isn’t a just a burger destination anymore; it’s a wildly-thriving meat ecosystem. It’s why it’s so damn hard to answer the question, “What’s a good burger I should eat right now?”: There are enough burger sizes, classifications and hybrids in Dallas to live on their own, roaming the grassy…
Two Dallas-based chains hit up Wall Street for some capital recently, and they both came out of the gates on an upward trend. Wingstop and Fogo de Chao both went public this month, and both Dallas-based companies are now trading significantly higher than their initial public offering. Fogo de Chao…
Being at Trinity Groves in the middle of the afternoon is a bit surreal. This “restaurant amusement park” is desolate at 3 p.m., when most of the restaurants are closed between lunch and dinner. We’re a long way away from the vibrant neighborhood that the city and developers have promised,…
Cook Hall and Y5 Farms present Swine & Dine, a farm-to-table dinner. The four-course menu will feature smoked pork belly, pork jowl, spice rubbed pork loin and bacon bread pudding. The oink-tastic menu is no coincidence: a portion of the proceeds from Swine & Dine will benefit Haden Smith, an Ellis…
