The Lakewood Brewing Company has wrangled their bottling line and will deliver the first bottles of The Temptress Stout and Lakewood Lager to three local Sigel stores this Wednesday afternoon. The beers will be available in cases of 12 ounce-bottles. Update: Looks like it’s six-packs of lager ($9.99) and four-packs…
Back in November I talked with chef Nico Sanchez about his upcoming taqueria opening in tandem with the new Meso Maya downtown. After hearing his descriptions of the space and the tacos I was excited to get down there and try them — all of them. Just after noon there…
From Craig Collins, the majority owner of Red Hot & Blue, comes Nazca, a South American concept opening this Friday. Located in the same plaza as Crossroads Diner at the intersection of Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane the new restaurant offers South American comfort food — kinda. There’s ceviche,…
Hang onto your pants. It’s time to lay out or favorite Tex-Mex restaurants — an endeavor that consistently draws as passionate a comment stream as any burger post. Pepe & Mito’s (Pictured above) This Deep Ellum mainstay won last year’s award for Best Tex-Mex in Dallas with homemade tortillas, great…
Klyde Warren is the park I want to be when I grow up. KW is the golden child of parks. Somewhere Mama Park is saying, “Yep, that’s my boy. He sure was a stinker when we were raising him. But, we certainly are proud now.” The family and I made…
Babb Brothers BBQ & Blues opened two weeks ago as the first restaurant in the new Trinity Groves project, which hopes to one day energize the area just west of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Investors Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts and Butch McGregor plucked cook Mike Babb out of the…
After a few of the usual permit-type delays from the city, a new coffee joint has officially opened its doors to the coffee-obsessed masses of Dallas. If you’re not the type to define yourself as coffee-obsessed, that’s OK. All you need to know is that there’s a new, locally owned…
It may look rather gloomy right now, but the weather man says we’ve got a great weekend ahead of us. If you’ve been reading CoA all week you should have plenty of plans, but just in case you tuned out… here’s what you missed. This week I reviewed everything. There…
Jack Mac’s Swill and Grill opened earlier this year in North Dallas, promising an American pub menu and Texas beer, after sliding into a spot in a suburban complex that used to house an Italian restaurant. The menu incorporates run-of-the-mill bar fare with a few elevated and interesting dishes mixed…
On Wednesday the Beer Institute announced that the number of permitted breweries in the U.S. has reached an all-time high of 2,751, up from 2,309 in 2011. Not that we needed a stat to validate this craft beer resurgence, but it’s reassuring nonetheless. “Resurgence”, you say? Yes, our forefathers were…
Lots of Top Chef QuickFires and elimination challenges are sponsored by brands (it’s a TV show, product placement happens), but this week was especially annoying. See also: Top Chef: Seattle Episode 5 Recap: The Ginger Curse Is Real Truvia sponsored the QuickFire, and the prize for the Elimination Challenge was…
Time for some more year end reflection. Next week we’ll look at the most notable openings, but right now I’m feeling glum. Did you lose one of your favorite restaurants recently? There were a number of notable closures over the past 12 months, some of which were expected and others…
Patent attorney Kevin Afgani and his wife, Catherine Kinslow, opened Craft and Growler just outside of Fair Park in mid-November. This new spot plays a unique role in the growing North Texas beer culture because it allows Dallasites to buy local beer and take it home to drink. See, only…
It’s list season, in case you haven’t heard. I was going to spend today blogging about my top lists of the most listy time of year, but I decided I’d just point to what’s been my favorite list so far. See also: Our Favorite Dallas Dishes of 2012 You probably…
If you’ve been watching Top Chef you’ve probably noticed John Tesar’s quirky habit of perching is thick-rimmed glasses on his inquisitively wrinkled forehead. What you might not have noticed is the look may quickly become what is the dorkiest Internet meme I’ve seen in some time. Local chefs (and editors)…
I’ve had a good time watching Qariah come into its own as a lower Greenvile Avenue restaurant over the past two months. When I first dropped in, my service was polite, but terribly inept. Over my visits for this week’s review, it slowly got better. The bread became more consistent,…
Well, the writing was on the sober and empty shelves. For weeks now, all Centennial liquor stores have been apparently dying a slow death. According to the TABC website, all of their stores are listed in delinquency, which automatically stops all deliveries, which meant pickings got slim real quick at…
Yesterday on the way to Craft and Growler, I spotted red electric “open” sign at the corner pupuseria, raspas and taco stand, Luna’s Cocina. Each letter lit up one at a time O… P… E… N…, like a slow taunt to my stomach. A slightly inappropriate right turn from a…
More than a year has passed since City Council’s specific use permit policies went into effect on Lower Greenville Avenue, shuttering many bars and crippling small businesses that depend on late-night alcohol sales as an important part of their revenues. The ordinance was sold as a means to clean up…
A fellow food writer recently told me that food is one of the greatest pleasures of life you get to experience three times a day. If you followed this convention, you’d have more than a thousand opportunities to consume something beautiful every year. Our daily meals seem like an almost…
On Thursday, a newly formed panel will meet to discuss future aerial mosquito spraying in the Dallas area and specifically how it affects the local food system. The panelists include veterinary entomologist Larry Boyd; Susan Pollard of the Texas Honey Bee Guild; Lea Fudge, of Citizens against Pesticides & Poison…
A new food truck, Oink N’ Moo BBQ, is launching in Dallas in January, and will be Dallas’ first dedicated barbecue food truck. And about damn time! In return for this interview, owner David Hunt has promised to drive up to my work three afternoons out of every five. Tell…
