Hai Hospitality has a new executive sous chef whose work will show up in Uchi Dallas. While Rhonda McCullar will be based in Austin, she comes from North Texas, having moved from Ennis to Dallas when she was in eighth grade. “I was an athlete and thought I was going…
Henk’s European Deli Inc. & Black Forest Bakery is actually the name of this wonderfully quirky establishment, and you really need that many words to describe it. After thoroughly enjoying browsing the aisles of European goodies while I waited on lunch, I’d add “& Specialty Grocer” to the title. It…
With bars closed and restaurants operating at 50% capacity, great food deals at happy hours and nightly dining specials are a little harder to come by. But if you’ve resolved to save money this year, you don’t have to restrict yourself to fast food and chain restaurants. For a little…
Ah, a new year. Let’s embrace it while we still can’t embrace those we love. It’s a new year, but it’s also just another Friday, and we’re still in a pandemic. More people are getting those “I Voted” look-alike stickers that say they’ve gotten the vaccine, but it appears we’re…
A restaurant’s ambience can influence how we perceive the food and create memorable occasions out of meals from simple to sophisticated. Thoughtful food presentation makes everything from a burger to branzino taste better. And while it’s true that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” it’s also true that…
As we tiptoe wide-eyed into 2021 with trepidation, we could all use some good luck. The most common go-to in Texas is a pot of black-eyed peas, but it turns out those odd, greenish-grey oblong orbs are imposters: black-eyed peas aren’t even peas, rather beans. With an eye toward truth…
Just two weeks after we published our list of Top 100 Restaurants in Dallas, we fell to 99. Earlier this week, Jennifer and David Uygur announced they would close Macellaio, their newer restaurant on North Bishop Avenue. “During the pandemic, we’ve struggled to find the right niche for Lucia’s casual…
High on the list of things we miss, sorely and all-over, is planting at a bar. When you park there for a while, phone down, you notice the small things. It’s those things you miss the most when you’re away from them for so long: The dim light of the…
I write this with a bit of hesitation. A fear of exposing a secret. No, not that TEN at Sylvan Thirty has some of the best ramen in the city, or that their playlist is spot-on or the chefs’ total indifference if you decide to dance for just a hot…
When chef Nidhi Mittal immigrated to the United States from India almost four years ago, she was seeking a better life for herself and for her family. Although the past year has posed many challenges for chefs, Mittal is confident in her new concept, Far East Pizza, a new ghost…
Poking through the steaming wreckage of 2020, it’s hard to find much good. But that’s what we’re going to attempt here: a list of good developments on the Dallas food scene that came from this horrible year. Yes, given all the awfulness we have endured, it is easier to list…
To properly look back on the year that has been 2020, you need to start in 2019. For many of us, there hasn’t been a more extreme difference between one year and the next as the change from last year to this year has presented. For Peticolas Brewing Co., New…
Sen. John Cornyn wasn’t the only one posting pictures of food to social media on Christmas Eve. But he might’ve been the only one to do so and attract the attention of cooks, food lovers and anyone else who appreciates meat that looks like it wasn’t overcooked and slathered in…
Anyone who has ever taught knows — or maybe dreads — the hush that falls over the room when a student calls out a teacher. For educators, the few seconds between the challenge and response rolls in slow motion, etched in memory, for better or worse, forever. For Adam Bazaldua,…
Whether you party all night for New Year’s Eve or head to bed before the ball drops, there’s something magical about the first day of another year, and that goes double this year. After a year like 2020, who wouldn’t want to eat a bite of something that promises to…
As a fan of fast food and a fan of dessert, I have long been distressed by the state of fast food dessert. But I bring good news, brothers and sisters. These dark days are over. Now we have Popeyes beignets. Well, we have them for now. The Popeyes strategy…
While breakfast may allegedly be the most important meal of the day and a favorite one for this writer, 2020 had fewer visits out for the meal than we intended. Upon putting together this list, that became obviously true, and we missed spending weekends finding new places actually cooking eggs…
This year has offered us plenty of opportunities to change the way we live. One of those is eating outside. It’s not just about doing more of it, but accepting — during these months especially — that the utensils may freeze our hands, our food may chill more quickly and…
An end to this year – the most disruptive in our lifetimes for all but a few – simply cannot come soon enough. And though we won’t be together as we usually are on the last night of the year, collectively we can throw 2020 a rousing farewell party. We…
Old Lake Highlands is a sleepy neighborhood. Perched on a hill overlooking the city, it’s known more for its views and proximity to White Rock Lake than anything else. That may be changing. At the intersection of North Buckner Boulevard and Northcliff Drive lies White Rock Center, a small strip…
One of the things I most miss from Normal Times is unexpected interactions; so it was a pleasure to run into Feargal McKinney, the owner of The Old Monk, as I arrived to try its new coffee service. “We live just the other side of Abrams [Road], and I’ve had my…
Some might say the foundation of a great taco is the tortilla. When Luis Perez opened Tortilleria La Norteña in Oak Cliff in 2014, he wanted to make a tortilla that reminded him of those his mom served him as a kid in the Northern Mexico state of Sonora, which has…
