Since 2009, some of Dallas’ best chefs have come together a few times a year to host dinners that showcase the bounty produced by local farmers. Organized by FT33 chef Matt McCallister (duh) and his wife, Iris, Chefs For Farmers dinners over the past few years have raised money for…
Lactobacillus fans, this one’s for you. As part of their Super Sour Power Week, Strangeways has 35 different sour beers on tap through Sunday, October 26. So what are you waiting for? Make like a wild yeast strain get at it. What it be: Super Sour Power Week When it…
I’m sitting at the bar at Proof + Pantry, which faces away from the hustle of the One Arts District, and the place is humming with its new lunch service. A man next to me is polishing off a lobster roll. He lets me know the salad I ordered with…
Danyele McPherson has been waiting for her turn in Dallas’ culinary spotlight for some time. After a stint on Bravo’s Top Chef and working in the kitchens of Stephan Pyles and The Grape, McPherson has finally landed her own soon-to-open restaurant on Lower Greenville. The highly anticipated Remedy is McPherson’s…
As sandwiches go, the meatloaf burger served at Urban Acres is a very good one. Filled with well-pedigreed ingredients, it tastes like a meat lover’s dreamwich. The puck of meatloaf in the center is made with 100 percent grass-fed beef, and it’s cradled in a sumptuous bun baked at Empire…
We get it: You’re too good to put sauce on your barbecue or ranch on your pizza. Us? We like our food better when it’s wet, especially when these condiments are involved. Have a condiment you like better? Dip your laptop in it or something. These are better. The BBQ…
News reaches us that Lower Greenville’s fanciest coffee shop/bar/place to look at people using Apple products is to branch out to the previously uncool downtown Dallas in a redevelopment on the 1500 block of Elm. When it gets there, it’ll take one look at its new building and notice it…
After well-received stints at two Dallas institutions and her currently-airing appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, Rosanne “Roe” DiLeo is seemingly up for anything. This time, Chef Roe won’t be dodging pans slung by a cursing Englishman or setting a new standard for bar food at The Libertine. Instead, she’ll…
Not all Coca-Colas (“Cokes”) are created equal. On one end of the spectrum is an especially frothy Coke that comes fizzing from a fountain into a much-too-big red plastic cup loaded to the brim with ice, in a dark pizza parlor in the sweaty aftermath of an especially tense slow-pitch…
Lemongrass, the Deep Ellum Vietnamese restaurant that survived for years at 2711 Elm despite no one you know ever eating there, is closing. It will be replaced by a bar with the last remaining clever bar name, On Premise. All future bars will simply be numbered (“Bar 1,” “Bar 2,”…
There is, it seems, yet another burger chain ready to bloom in Dallas: Dugg Burger, a “deliciously simple yet innovative eating experience” coming soon to Casa Linda. The menu is straightforward and enticing because I’m physically addicted to animal fat. The restaurant says it “will serve burgers, fries & drinks…
Back in September, Urban Acres announced that it had hired David Rodriguez, the chef who’d jest left Oddfellows. In that short time, he’s turned out a new menu of impressive sandwiches and breakfast items to show off some of the delicious ingredients for sale in the co-op. Till then, the…
For the past few months we’ve been nibbling like rabbits on vegetables while visions of ourselves in bathing suits flicker on the projector screen in our brains. But now there’s a snap in the air, and skimpy clothes and frail fabrics will slowly take the back seat to wardrobes with…
Unless your mother kept a five-pound bag of masa in her kitchen and scratch-cooked Mexican dishes every day of the week, your first introduction to tacos was likely crafted in part by the folks at Old El Paso. I bet you can still picture those pre-formed taco shells warming in…
A few minutes go by at Deep Ellum’s Local when I have the entire restaurant to myself. When I walk in, the music’s playing, candlelight’s on the tables and I can hear plates chattering in the hallway. It’s like I walked into someone’s duplex, too early for dinner. I made…
Snap Kitchen has been slowly invading Dallas since this summer, opening its first location in Uptown and then opening three more around the city since. Another location is planned for Fitzhugh. The latest location to open is on the corner of Preston and Royal, in the same shopping center and…
Craft beer is more popular than ever, which means that chefs have been as interested in creating dishes that pair beautifully with an IPA or witbier as they were previously in cooking to suit fine wines. Local gastropubs and fine-dining restaurants alike are bulking up their beer selections, and the…
I’ve been poring over local-restaurant news while trying to lay out my restaurant-review plan for the rest of the year, and the list I’ve compiled is strangely void of burger restaurants. I couldn’t be happier. Don’t get me wrong. I love burgers. (Especially this one.) But there are only so…
The Five Commandmeats Lesson #1: “sold out” signs at BBQ restaurants are what distinguish the truly hungry from the peckish. Bet the House BBQ is sold out. The sign on the front window says so in clear, authoritative lettering. Having never let a sign deter me before (stop signs? more…
Every Thursday, the Dallas Farmers Market — newly renovated and bustling with vendors — 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 food trucks, an open-air market and beer and wine vendors as prime…
It’s pretty impressive if you think about it: Gathering 7,000 vegetarians and otherwise curious omnivores together to celebrate meat-free living might be hard enough, but to do it in Dallas? Texas is a land that celebrates steakhouses, where smoked beef brisket is its own food group, and where beans aren’t…
For all of the fit-throwing, cursing, and discussion about food critics in Dallas, we’ve kind of lost sight of the fact that John Tesar is actually an incredible chef. The controversy surrounding you-know-who’s three-star review of Tesar’s second Dallas restaurant Knife may have died down, but the hype for his…
