Food & Drink

Emporium Pies opened just several months ago in a remodeled 1930’s Victorian bungalow in the heart of the Bishop Arts District. It all began, however, in 2011 when Megan Wilkes, 26, and Mary Gauntt, 24, met through a mutual friends. Wilkes had hopes of becoming an independent business owner and…

Just yesterday I wrote a post suggesting that the smaller, local farm vendors at the Dallas Farmers Market be moved to Klyde Warren Park. Now there’s evidence that other models for farmers markets are flourishing in the Dallas area. See also – Want To Fix The Farmers Market? Ditch the…

I expected a strange look and a question or two from my dinner guests. After all, I was standing in front of a red hot fireplace with a wild look in my eye and a large flap of meat dangling from my fist. “Why aren’t you using a grill?” one…

It’s National Pie Day! What else do you need to know? Nothing! Well, actually, two things. 1. Norma’s Cafe is giving away slices of Oreo Mile-High Cream Pie all day. Dine-in only, while supplies last and all that good stuff. No fighting over pie. This brand-spanking-new pie is made with…

Yes, there’s pie. Lots of really really good pie. But, we want to embrace National Pie Day for every flake of crust it’s worth, including doing a little math, listening to great old Dean Martin songs and arguing about the metaphor of that tiger in Life of Pi. In a…

Dallas is going to get a really big bar. At least it looks pretty big in this rendering. “The Rustic” will open this spring, according to Josh Sepkowitz and Kyle Noonan, who also opened Bowl and Barrel recently on Park Lane. See also: – Bowl and Barrel to Open Soon…

I know this is going to upset some people. The folks that run the current market might not like what I’m about to say, and the Dallas Farmers Market Friends organization definitely won’t like it. The Fourton’s at Pecan Lodge probably won’t dig it either, but I’m going to say…

It was a rough night over at the Windmill Lounge: not a good night for planter boxes at all. “No we do not have a drive-in patio. Well, not until tonight,” reads a post on their Facebook page alongside a dark, ambiguous picture of some strewn-about lumber. See also: -…

Every September-or-so here at the Dallas Observer, we unveil one of our meatiest issues: the Best Of Dallas. It features, as you know, the best damn things in the world of arts, film, theatre, food, booze and everything culture in Dallas. It’s with that in mind that we announce our…

The new Greenville Avenue specialty grocer, Green Grocer (3614 Greenville Ave.), will host grand opening festivities from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. this coming Saturday with lots of vendor samples and merriment. They also announced via their Facebook page the store is open all week, although not at full capacity…

Yiannis “Yanni” Arestis and Bobby Mullins of Armadillo Ale Works in Denton have been trying to pull this thing together for quite some time. But, building a brewery isn’t necessarily easy. Well, backtrack. Building a brewery might actually be the easy part. Building a sustainable and successful beer brand isn’t…

Observer food critic Scott Reitz is off work being a good son this weekend, so I’ll wrap it up for the week. Stephan Pyles’ new restaurant Stampede 66 was the subject of this week’s review. Scott was disappointed cricket tacos weren’t on the menu, despite the how comical those little…

Coca-Cola has a long history of capturing our imaginations through advertising. Polar bears and the northern lights. Olympic athletes. A rosy-cheeked Santa holding a glass of the elixir. However, recently Coca-Cola has stepped up to the scale and released their first anti-obesity ad. Coca-Cola sits us down on the sofa…

Until recently, the chicken nugget biz was a two-player game. McDonald’s ruled the roost with their all-powerful tempura style, while Wendy’s occupied a smaller cult market with a more “breadcrumby” version. Both have their merits and their die-hard loyalists, but now two new competitors have entered the ring: Burger King…

Yelp is adding restaurant health inspection grades to its restaurant pages. The reports, however, aren’t based on customer reviews, but rather city-provided health score information. Yelp has already launched the new feature in San Francisco. New York is next and then it will gobble up the rest of the country…

Last week, when they teased this week’s episode of Top Chef: Seattle, Padma promised me that the chefs would battle it out during restaurant wars. I was really excited to see Viking Valentine with an axe, or maybe Merman Valentine busting out a trident on someone’s ass. But it didn’t…

Photo by Katharine ShilcuttLa Gloria in San AntonioIf you’ve read this week’s feature — The 30 Essential Texas Restaurants to Visit Before You Die — by food critic Katharine Shilcutt at our sister paper the Houston Press, then you’ve no doubt already asked why X, Y or Z restaurant didn’t…

Now that they have their checkbooks all sorted out, the boys are back in town and on Saturday night the Stars face off against the Edmonton Oilers. Or someone. I actually have no idea. When they traded Shane Churla, I bowed out gracefully (although he is still with the organization)…