Around the end of one year and the start of another, most food blogs focus on two types of posts: the best things of the previous year and what will maybe be the biggest news of the next year (i.e. fortune-telling). Most food writers have probably missed the soon-to-be-biggest trend…
To me, this will always be the sandwich mom made. After those days of itchy grass-legs and punching mosquitoes in the face, this was the sandwich that hit the plate: thick sourdough slices, bacon crisp as a bay leaf, tomatoes, the mayo knife sweep, and cup-slice of iceberg. For its…
Plano might be getting a food truck park. City officials plan to vote this evening on a measure that would ease restrictions on mobile food vending, allowing trucks to operate permanently at a single location. Currently, selling burritos from the window of a kitchen with wheels in Plano is significantly…
Already bored with dining this year? That seems impossible with all of the new restaurants that have opened in the past few months. Still, it’s nice to break out of your mold and explore new dining options that exist outside the traditional restaurant experience. Here are a few upcoming events…
A little over a month ago, we reported that Acme F&B was going through some serious changes. The owners had changed the name to Acme Social Club, and the restaurant once known for its “whole animal allocation program” and killer pork chop was embracing Skittles shots — vodka infused with…
If, like me, you thought that Three Sheets, the laid-back bar with a penchant for brick-oven pizza, feels a little lonely on Ross Avenue, you might be interested to know a second location is about to open in a much more cozy location. Three Sheets Uptown is expected to take…
Like chefs who strive for consistency across each dish that leaves their kitchen, big time restaurateurs try to achieve consistency across multiple locations of their restaurants. They’re trying to create brand consistency in the hopes that customers who have fallen in love with one location will eagerly charge into the…
Restaurant news that doesn’t deal with openings and closings often has a dark tone. Either a chef is cryptically leaving their position or everyone is suing each other or staff is staging mass walkouts. Today, though, there’s a more touching story, courtesy of KHOU in Houston. Brittany Mathis, a waitress…
I encountered the fritter during my second visit to LUCK, the casual eatery featuring 40 taps of beer that opened in Trinity Groves last year. I’d just slogged my way through a lackluster meal and was expecting the same from the desserts as I talked my order out with my…
Maybe you’ve heard, Denton is pretty cool. And not just because of our close proximity to Canada. We’re so cool, in fact, that noted Dallas-y places like Rusty Taco and Hypnotic Donuts are starting to find their way north. Way north. Like, caught between the moon and Downtown Daaaaaallas. It’s…
After a long wait (and we really mean long), AF+B, the latest restaurant by Consilient Hospitality, will open this Friday, January 10, in Fort Worth. We first reported on the restaurant all the way back in November 2012, when Jeffery Hobbs announced his departure from Sissy’s on Henderson Avenue to…
Whatever you’re doing you should stop right now, minimize that spreadsheet, close all your browser windows (except this one) and promise to do exactly as I say. Yesterday a thoughtful reader pointed out the owners behind the International Bakery Cuban Dulceria posted some interesting news on their Facebook page. Apparently…
Those who have spent the last decade or so calling Margaret Hunt Hill’s namesake a bridge to nowhere are running out of nothingness to shake their fingers at in contempt. Restaurants are sprouting out of a once-barren patch of ground in West Dallas, one after the other, each marked by…
If you’re like most everyone, you’re already having trouble with your New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you haven’t folded yet, but surely the gears of self-doubt have begun to turn, challenging your will to move forward. Eventually you’ll crumble, hanging this year’s resolution in the closet, ready to be dusted off…
When life hands you a swirling blast of Arctic air, it’s best to find a way to make lemonade out of it. Franconia Brewing has done that, announcing that they’re taking advantage of the cold front besieging the country by using it to make eisbock, or ice bock. The German…
You woke up today and though it was just another Wednesday, but wrong. It’s the King’s birthday. Elvis Aaron Presley came into this world on January 8, 1935, in Memphis. And 79 years later, the king of rock ‘n’ roll continues to be celebrated primarily in two ways: impersonation and…
For the past year Sundown at Granada has been making a name for itself as a restaurant that serves vegan and vegetarian food that’s damn good — and not just damn good for vegan and vegetarian food. As executive Chef Patrick Stark told Lauren Smart last week, he’s also been…
In Happy Endings, food critic Scott Reitz travels part of the globe that says “Dallas” in search of great desserts and great places to eat them. This is the third in an occasional series. I always share desserts when dining out, mostly because I feel strongly that any one person…
Because there can simply never be enough sandwich shops — and because DFW, in fact, has a dearth of them — Fork in the Road has opened in Central Arlington (1821 S. Fielder Road). Chef-owner Josh Hopkins has worked in many kitchens around the area. He started as a busboy…
Just two years ago, much of Dallas thought a “growler” was a particularly terrible 2-year-old. Now we not only know what one is, we can’t avoid them. See also: – First Look at LUCK in Trinity Groves A quick history, just in case: In the 1800s, brewers and drinkers needed…
It feels like word of the Blind Butcher’s coming first hit the wires ages ago. Almost a year ago, Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling, the guys behind Goodfriend burgers, and Ryan Chaney announced that they were jumping into the recent spate of development on Lower Greenville. Last night, they finally…
It’s not easy to be in the coffee-shop game these days. Craft coffee isn’t cheap, and if you don’t have something else with decent margins to sell alongside it, you could be in big trouble. This has led many a business-minded person to create their coffee program in tandem with…
