In this week’s roundup of North Texas food news: D/FW Airport gets a taste of Fort Worth, a local urban garden partners with a high-profile restaurant opening this fall and Lower Greenville gets another California import: Terminal D at D/FW Airport — AKA the international terminal with all the good…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. In Korean restaurants, banchan are the tiny veggie dishes that come free with the meal. They might include…
Let us guess: You had a few too many Dallas Blondes at last night’s Fleet Foxes show. Or maybe you drank an entire box of pinot grigio on your couch — we’re not here to judge. Either way, your hangover might need a helping hand today. These cheesy, sauce-covered, blatantly…
Perry’s Steakhouse & Grill’s Highland Highball brings together Glenmorangie’s original 10-year scotch that features notes of toffee and honey with Grand Marnier and the slight sweetness of almond.
It’s been 38 years since the U.S. population witnessed a total solar eclipse, and Monday, Aug. 21, North Texas will get the chance to see one in all its glory — well, part of its glory, anyway. Dallas isn’t in the path of totality — the diagonal swath of the…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. She first climbed the steps six years ago. She and husband Teddy Davey had been performers in Las…
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. A few weeks ago, Thrillist published a controversial story declaring the…
One of the most underestimated techniques in the making of a good cheeseburger is seasoning. The beef can take it: A half-pound patty accepts salt like a character in a Martin Scorsese movie snorts cocaine. Dust the loose-packed beef with hefty pinches of coarse pepper and salt, slide it onto…
From wine walks to pub runs to a celebration of the humble hatch chile, there’s a lot happening this weekend. Here are a few ways to pass the time with food and drink: ***** If public school is consistently good at one thing, it is instilling a deep and abiding…
Show of hands: Who’s heard of Tommy Bahama? Of course you have; the line of casual apparel is featured at department stores nationwide, and it has 160 standalone boutiques across the globe. Nearly everyone recognizes the clothes — the eponymous flora shirt, likely tucked into a pair of khaki pants,…
Every year, the State Fair of Texas hosts a contest to see which vendor can create the tastiest, most unusual, often deep-fried food creation. Today the fair unveiled this year’s 10 finalists, chosen from 47 entries. This year, there will be winners in three categories: Best Taste: Sweet, Best Taste: Savory…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. There aren’t many veggie burgers in Dallas like this one. Rajwadi, a fast-food counter hidden inside an Indian…
Memories are funny things. They say our strongest memories, good or bad, are the ones accompanied by powerful emotions. But over time, nostalgia creeps in and alters how we remember things, burnishing the good parts while pushing the bad ones into the shadows. We were certainly feeling nostalgic in early…
The healthy fast-casual sector continues to swell in DFW, and the latest arrival should be popular with downtown office workers: Gather Kitchen, a “customizable, fast-casual dining experience using 100 percent whole foods” that opens Wednesday, Aug. 16, in Thanksgiving Tower, according to a press release. Designed for people in a…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Let’s raise a glass, one more time, to Pietro’s, the Italian institution that served spaghetti, veal parmesan and…
When we first found Mi Lindo Oaxaca last year in a Fort Worth Avenue strip mall, it felt like uncovering a Dallas dining secret. The low-key, cash-only restaurant makes its own tortillas, bakes its own bread and makes, in house, some of the best mole in the city. We even…
Joel Mendoza has worked in high-end restaurants focused on Mexican, French and Italian cuisines. Today, he’s putting those skills toward his passion for Mexican food, and instead of working in a kitchen with a full team, he’s dishing out tacos to customers from a food truck in Dallas. “It’s a…
An otherwise quiet, rainy Sunday took on a somber tone for those in the Dallas dining industry when two restaurants run by prominent local chefs shuttered on the same day. In Deep Ellum, chef Matt McCallister’s Filament closed after dinner service last night. The upscale Southern food spot opened last…
It’s entirely possible that Dallas’ Sumo Shack hosts one of the only baos in America stuffed with a bacon cheeseburger. The pillowy steamed bun is typically filled with pork belly or Peking duck. Some research indicates that another cheeseburger-stuffed bao exists at Pho & Bun in London, but a stern Google…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2017 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. It’s that time of year when the unrelenting summer heat creeps into our eating habits, leading us toward…
We’d make some cutesy comment about how hot it is out there right now, but it’s safe to say we’re all aware — and we’ve got at least another eight weeks of this heat. How will we ever make it through? Refreshing summer cocktails, that’s how. Here’s what to sip…
We’ve reached peak summer, when the heat settles in hard and things get quiet, especially in the food and drink scene. That said, there are still a few things cooking: Tickets are now on sale for the Texas Monthly BBQ Fest, going down Nov. 4 in Austin, and DFW’s best…
