Food & Drink

Yatai Ramen Izakaya in Plano first look.

Halcyon is a lofty name for a cafe. Halcyon is defined as denoting “a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful,” so one might describe their childhood as halcyon, or a summer spent touring the English countryside, or that time when one’s stomach capacity seemed…

All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed – for the good or bad – over the years. Standing at a table in the dining room, one of Lucky’s servers scoops something from a large…

Nazca Kitchen has a lot going for it: fresh green tea and Colombian coffee, solid ceviche, a flat-screen near the kitchen that displays photos of llamas so vividly that you may try to hug one and slam into a wall. And then there’s the burger, a hidden gem on this menu…

Prohibition Chicken to bring fried chicken and Prohibition-era cocktails — with a speakeasy — to Old Town Lewisville.

Town Hearth is a ridiculous love letter to a ridiculous city, a monument to Dallas-sized ambitions, cars, hair and egos. Beautiful, loud-talking people congregate here in absurd shirts, poofy dresses and hair products sturdy enough to survive hailstorms. Town Hearth feels like the kind of place that will appear on…

Iron Fork, the Dallas Observer’s annual food- and booze-tasting event, is next week, and the foodie extravaganza just added a little dose of celebrity: Top Chef alum and Dallas steakmaster John Tesar. Take a break from gorging yourself on unlimited food samples (and eight booze samples, with the opportunity to…

It’s been a tumultuous few years for local Thai chef Eddy Thretipthuangsin, AKA Chef Eddy. He left his post at Pakpao in 2014 to start his own restaurant, Kin Kin Urban Thai in Fort Worth, eventually opening a second Kin Kin location on Oak Lawn. He eventually closed the Fort Worth location…

Tacodeli opening a second Dallas location in The Hill on Walnut Hill.

The great thing about good barbecue is that it can come from anywhere – some of North Texas’ best joints started as little more than a smoker in a trailer. If you’re looking for some killer barbecue with a small footprint, check out these tiny operations that pack big flavor…

The owners of the new Roux Bistro on Lemmon Avenue have done a fine job at stripping the restaurant of any reminders of its past life as Tallywackers, a novelty establishment often described as the “male version of Hooter’s.” The decor is mild and inoffensive, the playlist oscillating between Amy…

The DFW vegan food scene has come a long way since Spiral Diner & Bakery paved the way with their first location in Fort Worth 15 years ago. Spiral Diner eventually expanded into Dallas and soon Denton, and V-Eats, the high-profile Trinity Groves restaurant that opened last year, has become…