On the sixth day, Popeyes Louisiana Chicken created a sandwich. They rested the day before, having built monuments of MSG in the people’s bloodstream. Next, Popeyes, in its infinite wisdom, rolled the sandwich out nationwide. It’s out there, lurking, for $3.99, and it’s an awe-striking thing — a stupendous two-hander…
With the 50-foot Ferris wheel in the back patio, the owners of Ferris Wheelers Backyard and BBQ want to break the Guinness World Record for the longest Ferris wheel ride.
West End’s 3Eleven Kitchen and Cocktails marks one year of business this month, and they’re celebrating for a couple of hours this Thursday. They’ll have a new menu, specialty cocktails and a live DJ. What: 3Eleven Anniversary When: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, July 25 Where: 3Eleven Kitchen and Cocktails, 311 N…
We had many questions about Chubby Cattle, a Plano restaurant that boasts “conveyor belt-based hot pot.” How does conveyor belt hot pot work? Does the broth come in a little train tanker car? Do meat platters arrive in a cascade of tiny little dishes rolling along the belt? Is it true, as…
After cooking as a private chef for Oprah Winfrey for many months, chef Eric Dreyer is returning to Dallas. You may know his food from Fearing’s Restaurant, where he worked 11 years and left as executive chef. Now he’s just a bit south in the Arts District, where he will…
A number of well-known chefs will cook in the same space this weekend, all to help their colleague Josh Bonee. Bonee, who has worked locally at Stephan Pyles Flora Street Cafe and Fine China, was recently diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks…
Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in DFW, because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out. Veganable: It’s a word you probably haven’t heard before, but one you might get used to. That’s how ThaiBinh Ho is…
Thai restaurant by Tony Street family opens in West End of Dallas
From restaurants to bars to theaters, the Dallas area has plenty of dog-friendly; here are our top picks.
Sandwiches are Kaci and Robert Lyford’s second business. Their first was roving the state and country with buckets of paint. He’d been a chef since pre-Y2K, a graduate of ye olde culinary school, and, somehow, they ended up with an interior painting business. A few things happened next that sent…
Say what you want about Uptown — and many of our commenters do, sometimes using variations of the words “douche bag” — but there are some long-standing neighborhood stops you can walk to that still provide a decent meal. State and Allen Kitchen and Bar is one of those places…
Join The People’s Last Stand on July 18 for Art for Autism where you can sip on the Honey Blue and peruse art with proceeds benefiting the Autism Treatment Center.
Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in DFW, because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out. Onion rings have always been an acceptable substitute for fries, and over the years, onion rings on a burger have easily become…
Sure, you could wait until October to celebrate the heaven-sent goodness that we call beer. Ocktoberfest is a grand thing … if you’re German. Here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., or more specifically, Dallas, we prefer to get a jump on our beer-celebrating, because we’re Americans, a driving,…
For about seven years, Frank underground dinners has dominated the concept in Dallas. To be sure, there are other underground/pop-up/private dinners/etc., in town that produce good experiences, but Frank found a way to break in strong and keep it that way. Despite that, dinner service is on hold for a…
To celebrate its 11th anniversary, Eno’s Pizza Tavern has an 11-day throwback menu through Sunday, July 21. It opened July 11, 2008, and to commemorate the date, the team came together to develop a menu that brings back some all-time favorites. These include a pantry pub boy sandwich (chicken salad…
A new generation of restaurants is rising in Carrollton’s Korea Town. Across the parking lot from the traditional soft tofu stew shops, dumpling counters and barbecue houses, two recent openings offer unusual spins on Korean-Japanese and Korean-American fusion foods. At Kurobuta Ramen and Tonkatsu, “super spicy” ramen and cheese katsu…
Philip Kingston isn’t running for office anymore. And that means that, finally, he can speak his mind without fear on one of his favorite subjects: food. After we exchanged some lively words on Twitter about hummus, Kingston invited me to El Taxqueño Taquería in Oak Cliff, where we spoke for…
This has been a bad month for Mille Lire, Oak Lawn’s criminally underrated Italian restaurant. On June 30, co-owner Brian Ellard, wife Ornella and her two teenage children were killed in an airplane crash in Addison. The restaurant kept its doors open after the tragedy and Ellard’s co-owner and brother-in-law,…
Chef Kenny Mills reopened his famed Chop House Burgers earlier this year in a small, low-key spot at 2502 Little Road in southwest Arlington. Mills cut his teeth in Dallas steakhouses — Capital Grille, Sullivan’s and Dallas Chop House — before launching Chop House Burgers in 2011 near UTA. A…
Some Dallas business owners are confused and upset over the city’s shaky preparation for enacting its new paid sick leave ordinance. The Democratic Socialists of America are happy with the law, set to take effect Aug. 1, and even helping get the word out on how it works. Among restaurant…
The construction team shovels crumbles of scalding hot asphalt into a divot in East Louisiana Street. Just past old downtown McKinney, Cookie’s Mexican Food’s lights are on, despite the street being carved up, and the open sign is askew in the window. Their access, the road near the main thoroughfare,…
