Earlier this year, Yum Brands, the corporate giant behind the processed food trifecta of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, opened a test restaurant called Super Chix. The fast food restaurant looks like a blatant attempt to steal customers from Chick-fil-A. They’re even open Sunday. Now the company is dabbling…
Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals. That’s why we built this calendar of half-price food and drink specials, listing the restaurant, special and time under each date. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date on a large chunk of weekly half-priced food and drink deals…
Two years go I stumbled upon Petit Prince, a session ale with very low alcohol content brewed by the Jester King Brewery, outside of Austin. I used the discovery to launch a discussion on what makes beers sessionable, and why they were so hard to find. Two weekends ago a…
This Father’s Day (it’s next Sunday, folks), thank your Dad. No, for real. Like, don’t get him a tie and take him out to a silly meal he’ll forget before he gets to the last stanza of that terrible Hallmark card. Instead, really, really show him you appreciate him by…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. I’ve consumed and written about the ramen at Tei-An a number…
Outdoor drinking spaces are hardly a differentiator in this town. Most restaurants have at least some summertime seating, and many have stunning, carefully designed spaces that envelop drinkers in a temporary hideaway, outfitted with ample booze, that can last as long as they can drink. Look at the shipping container-framed…
Behind Dallas’ booming craft beer scene is an eccentric (and exclusively male) batch of master brewers, former engineers and lawyers and homebrewers who have devoted their life to getting you tastefully drunk. Over the last few months, we sat down with the head brewers at 11 area breweries, to learn…
San Salvaje, located downtown at 2100 Ross Avenue (in the former home of Samar) opened its doors early last month, plating dishes that are inspired by chef and owner Stephan Pyles’ travels through South America. The menu is divided into seven sections, and includes creative twists on Latin cuisine with…
Even though the season won’t officially change until later his month, I believe that the weekend after Memorial Day ought to be heralded and celebrated as the first weekend of summer. Hopefully, you all behaved appropriately by eating your first snow cones, re-organizing your closet, and dumping standing water to prevent…
I’m getting excited. Mesero, Mico Rodriguez’s latest restaurant, is slated to open in a few more weeks in the Inwood Plaza. I’m curious to see how it will fit in with the rest of the Mesero family. It doesn’t seem so long ago that Rodriguez was preparing to open Mr…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. It was back in February that I dropped into Spoon after…
It seems there is a national “holiday” for practically everything these days. According to Food.com yesterday was National Rocky Road Day, and tomorrow might be the greatest day of all, Cheese Day. But today is National Egg Day, and so we put together a list of some of our favorite…
Well, fellow Texans, we’ve breezed past that lovely time of year when it’s cool enough to wear long sleeves with flip flops, yet we’re not quite to the miserable heat of summer in Texas. Right about now is when you want to get outside on a nice patio — read:…
It seems as if Dallas is quickly becoming a destination for chefs that hail from California. Several well-reviewed kitchens across the city, including Gemma and Victor Tangos, are helmed by chefs who honed their skills in Napa, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica. Chefs Melody Bishop and Dennis Kelley of Lark…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. The other day we got a fresh batch of summer interns…
The World Cup is coming, and if there’s one thing Dallasites need for a month-long soccer bing, it’s an official beer to string all those drinking sessions together. Lucky for you, Peticolas already has you covered. Welcome the Thrilla in Brazila. Actually you can’t yet; the beer won’t be released…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. El Ranchito has long been famous for its loud mariachi, big…
The beverage side of your dinner bill is sometimes just as costly as the food that you’re eating. The rising costs of food, everything from limes to bacon, have restaurants looking for creative ways to make extra cash. The wine list is a prime spot for boosting profits, and that…
The last time I heard about Lyfe Kitchen it was mentioned in an article in the New York Times Magazine a little more than a year ago. Mark Bittman was lamenting the options for affordable, healthy dining on the quick in America, and was resigned to bean burritos from Taco…
Sunday is the 14th annual World Milk Day. In honor of this totally real holiday, a handful of brave Dallas Observer staff members took part in a blind taste test of a variety of milks. Here’s what happened…
Food trends come and go, but for the last few years poutine has been cropping up on menus across the country. Poutine originated as a lowly diner food for drunk Canadians in the 1950s, but chefs are adding their own upscale twists to the dish as it becomes one of…
To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2014 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. With such a large Vietnamese population in Dallas, this list would…
