Snuffer’s founder Pat Snuffer isn’t interested in talking about his past endeavors. Instead, he seems excited for his future in bar food and, now, pizza. His newest restaurant, Pat’s and Mike’s, is the start of a new chapter for the longtime, Dallas-area restaurateur — one that includes his son, Mike,…
Craft cocktails are like foie gras or caviar in that they inevitably make us feel fancier than we actually are. Every time you order that top-shelf gin or that herb-infused vodka, you’re essentially making a statement that you, unlike the plebes who swill well spirits and cheap beer, actually know…
Does your family follow this tradition? After the table is set and a steaming turkey is placed just in front of your nose, your mother or some elder at the table makes everyone hold hands and announce what they are thankful for. At this point you’ve been watching football all…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. See other extended interviews in our coffee archive, or see them all in one place in this week’s feature story, “Roasting Dallas.” Clay Eiland talks about his roaster with the beaming face of a dad describing his four-year-old’s soccer…
Restaurant names may range from the practical (Norma’s Cafe) to the vaguely pretentious (Spoon, Knife, any other utensil restaurant) to annoyingly alliterative (Scotch and Sausage), but they’re usually pretty good at indicating whether or not an establishment is, in fact, a place where people can buy and eat food. A…
For this special edition of the food calendar, we present to you a meticulously curated collection of restaurants. Because let’s face it, your family isn’t going to love you anymore if you spend 16 hours doing meal prep. (Also, you just don’t have the upper body strength required to stuff…
Aaron Barker isn’t upset with his current location at the Truck Yard. He says sales are up and it’s been a banner year. He’s selling plenty of frozen dairy and has even found a few ways, including flaming S’mores kits, to shore up his business during the winter months. The…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. See other extended interviews in our coffee archive, or see them all in one place in this week’s feature story, “Roasting Dallas.” Every Saturday, Kevin and Mara Sprague get up before the sun and set up their tent, table…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. See other entries from the series in our coffee archive. A few years back, after years spent behind coffee bars, Gerald LaRue decided it was time to delve deeper into the business of coffee. He ended up in Juno,…
Like craft beer and chef-driven restaurants before it, specialty coffee is having its moment, finally, in Dallas: Davis Street Espresso, in Oak Cliff, has found that a lack of Wi-Fi and to-go cups has not meant a lack of customers. Ascension, in the Design District, hums all day, despite limited…
Earlier this morning, a thief hurled a brick through the glass front door of Method Coffee, the specialty coffee shop in East Dallas. The register was robbed of approximately $300 dollars, according to a barista working the counter. Employees arrived early in the morning to find a gaping hole in…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. See other entries from the series in our coffee archive. Kevin Betts and Ryan Smith are chasing the perfect cup. This never-ending pursuit eventually pulled these two brothers-in-law into forming Novel Coffee. Both have been involved in the coffee…
The number of taquerias in Dallas that serve their taco fillings on handmade tortillas is limited. Most employ the standard working man’s tortilla, an honest round pressed from masa that’s reheated on a hot grill. These tortillas are dependable and get the job done, but their texture is lacking. They’re…
There is no day on your future schedule, none whatsover, in which you will get more work done than the day you sipped a Kyoto Brew from Ascension. You know that level of caffenination when you find yourself saying words at ten times the normal volume, and your laughs burst…
Grapevine Craft Brewery is celebrating one blissfully hoppy year of craft brewing. It’s a civic affair, this celebration, or so the guest list would imply. Grapevine’s mayor is expected to be in attendance, as are lots of other people who can’t be identified in a crowd. Ten beers — including…
“How do you get a hot dog to stand up?” I’d just walked into sərj, the new coffee shop downtown, and co-owner John Walsh had asked me if I’d like to hear the joke of the day. It’s not exactly the sort of question you can comfortably say no to…
It’s no secret that people living in parts of Dallas that lie south of the Trinity River struggle for access to fresh, healthy food. Whole Foods and Central Markets and farmers markets are abundant in wealthier parts of Dallas, but people in poorer neighborhoods often rely, necessarily, on convenience stores…
The Design District is on its way to becoming known for its beer culture as much as it is high end furniture and art galleries. The folks behind Noble Ray Brewery have announced they’ll be setting up shop as the fourth beer maker in the neighborhood. Meddlesome Moth’s seemingly endless…
It used to be that you could only find “good food,” the fancy kind made with quality ingredients, in restaurants that required both a jacket and half the average person’s weekly salary for dinner. Now, though, times are different. Fine dining restaurants are struggling to adapt to diners who are…
All week, we’re bringing you stories from Dallas’ burgeoning roasting community. Monday we introduced you to the guy behind Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters, and yesterday the guys behind Tweed. Jonathan Meadows was 18 when he started working at White Rock Coffee and fell in love with coffee culture. “A big…
There are many steakhouses in Dallas — places where you can order a thick cut of beef with potatoes gratin and spinach as a side, and places that serve plenty of overpriced bottles of red wine. You can treat yourself to a cold shrimp cocktail or freshly shucked oysters to…
Shows what I know. Of all of the Mico Rodriguez restaurants, Mesero Miguel, on Henderson Avenue, was my favorite. But apparently the restaurant is in trouble. See also: Mico Rodriguez and His Growing Tex-Mex Empire Are Putting Mi Cocina to Shame The sign has been taken down for a rebranding…
