Bars & Breweries

Join Fogo de Chão on September 13 for $5 Caipirinhas!

It seems like people all over social media spent Labor Day weekend posting about the end of summer. Dallasites know better. Summer isn’t over yet. That’s why when this past Saturday hit 102 degrees, a cold beer was nearly mandatory. BrewFest made that easy with hundreds of beers for people…

Knife’s summer cocktail list is the perfect playlist for the end of summer.

On Sunday around North Texas, a celebratory, almost holiday-like vibe of fuzzy feel-goods accompanied many brewery staffs as they switched their lights on for the day. It was a clear, sunny day on what was indeed a holiday weekend, but Sept. 1 marked the first day Texas craft production breweries…

Beer and music. To steal an oft-used Twitter cliché, we’ll wait while you attempt to name a more iconic duo. The bands and breweries of Fort Worth have embraced that most holy of unions rather excitedly. Panther Island Brewing’s newest beer, Queso Blanco Mexican lager, a collaboration with local Southern…

The Clover Club in Dallas is named after a classic cocktail, and is making it beautifully.

Te Deseo’s The Brazillionaire cocktail will enrich your life … and not just thanks to the fake money on the rim.

We know the Dallas Observer has a broad and diverse audience of readers, thanks in part to our alt-weekly status. So we also know when we write a piece on micheladas, some of our readers will say, “Mmm, my favorite cruda drink,” while other readers will think to themselves, “What…

By 11:30 a.m. Saturday, roughly 75 people lined up outside Martin House Brewing Co. in Fort Worth. Of course, there was. The adventurous brewery — picturesquely positioned along the west fork of the Trinity River with an up-close view of the downtown skyline — unveiled what might be the most…

As exciting as a local craft beer boom is for drinkers seeking a wealth of flavors and styles, the same certainly  can be said for an aspiring brewer. In terms of beginning a commercial brewing operation, what seemed unlikely, if not impossible a few years ago is now a viable…

I love Manhattan Project Beer. I keep a stash of their impeccably made, ultra-drinkable pilsner in my fridge. I chat about the beer business with one of its founders. Every few weeks, my girlfriend and I stand in front of the coolers at Central Market, awed by all the choices,…

HG Sply Co will offer a bee-saving scotch cocktail through August 31.

Texas beer lovers are about to get a new holiday. Sept. 1 marks the legalization of beer-to-go sales, meaning customers will be able to buy up to one case (288 ounces) per person, per day of beer directly from the brewery that made it. Dallas craft breweries are planning to…

One of Dallas’ biggest beer festivals returns to Dallas Farmers Market from 7 to 10 p.m. Sept. 7, bringing with it more than 500 beers from local, national and international breweries. Presale starts today for Dallas Observer BrewFest, which means you can snag tickets early and at the cheapest rate possible…

Dallas’s wine scene is growing more elevated thanks to our local wine experts, and it’s showing.

The Whip is at it again with its second kitschy pop-up, and this time they’ve gone full-tilt into the wizarding world. The facade will have you saying “alohomora” thanks to the refreshed paint job that took it from the Drunken Clam to the rickety doors of The Leaky Cauldron, a…

A Dallasite who helped launch Deep Ellum Distillery is leaving our city, state and region — and he’s taking his skills with him. Reade Huddleston, 27, is leaving this weekend to be the head of production at Headframe Spirits in Butte, Montana. A graduate of St. Mark’s School of Texas,…

The French Room Bar offers a bright gin cocktail, the C&C, and a respite from the heat.

Music fans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have spent a good bit of time in recent years debating the merits and follies of the always-eventful music festival landscape around town. Some start small and grow bigger each year with enormous support, some seem to bust out of the gate with…

Eddie Campbell, the popular bartender known as “Lucky” to many, is bringing Uptown the Clover Club, a “supper club experience” with big-band music setting the atmosphere at the Cedar Springs Road location. Brad Woy, Campbell’s business partner, is helping bring the Clover Club to life. The two own Standard Pour…

La Viuda Negra brings a neighborhood mezcal bar with authentic and creative cocktails.

It wasn’t that long ago that Dallas-Fort Worth was without a selection of craft breweries, with only mass-produced brews distributed while the availability of craft beers was little to none. Now we have an array of quality craft brews spread throughout the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the number drastically…