Christian Koelling is white. He’s also a DFW native, graduating from Plano High School and working at restaurants like Tei-An and Ten Ramen before taking a sous chef position at Braindead Brewing. Despite his “super Caucasian” background, he says, yesterday, a Donald Trump supporter verbally attacked Koelling at in the…
Now that the election is over, it’s finally time Dallas to unite again over our favorite thing: beer. The annual North Texas Beer Week kicks off Friday with events taking place across the DFW area. But rather than digging fruitlessly through hundreds of events, here’s a rundown of events that…
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Canary by Gorji will move to a no-tipping service model — the first major full-service restaurant in Dallas to do so. “It has not been an easy decision,” chef-owner Mansour Gorji told the Observer. “I have been thinking about it for over a year now.” The no-tipping…
What makes the perfect enchilada? Is it the sauce? The filling? The tortillas? We can’t tell you, but Sylvia Casares, the official Enchilada Queen herself, certainly can. Casares owns Houston’s famed Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen and was dubbed Queen of Tex-Mex Cuisine after competing against Bobby Flay. Casares will showcase her…
Dallas is awash in good Mexican food, from El Tocallo’s lengua tacos served on house-made tortillas to Seafood Shack’s citrus crazy ceviche tostadas. Entire blogs are dedicated to the pursuit of the very best Mexican food Big D has to offer, and devotees disregard mileage when it comes to hunting…
There may be other crucial moments for the rapid-fire consumption of comfort food, but this week is high on the list. The sky in Dallas is graying, and we may be headed toward this thing called “winter.” Cold beer or saucy dumplings or hot and cheesy burgers all taste better…
Stop into Ida Claire and try out their Garden Punch, or make the fruity, herbaceous punch for your next party.
There seems to be no end to the explosion of barbecue restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and we’re beyond the point of offering guesses as to when the trend will peak. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; when the craving for barbecue strikes, there’s a preponderance of choices no…
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. There’s so much to take in at the dumpling bar at Royal China. Dough, dusty with flour,…
Back in May, we shared the big news: that Dallas would soon have its very own “artisanal toast” restaurant, Toasted Coffee + Kitchen. Feedback was swift — and harsh. “Fucking hipsters,” seemed to be a common refrain. Despite the, uh, feedback, Toasted co-founder Joel Roldan insisted that his toast-centric concept was…
Once upon a time, downtown Dallas was a ghost town come 6 p.m. Office workers poured out of their skyscrapers and went straight home. The only watering holes were dives, and the only places to eat were fancy hotel kitchens like the French Room. That’s all changed dramatically in the…
The idea is simple: give Dallas an affordable place to hang out. With 15 beers and some cocktails on tap, it’s a laid-back place to stop for a drink or three, and really the perfect place to spend a Sunday Funday guzzling mediocre (yet well chilled) brews and playing backyard games.
Shoppers at the Galleria have a new dining option: Kabuki Japanese Restaurant, a California franchise specializing in “Japanese cuisine and mixology,” according to a press release. The new restaurant opened Monday at 13270 Dallas Parkway. Set in the Galleria Dallas shopping center, Kabuki Japanese Restaurant provides a casual setting that includes…
Dallas chef Kent Rathbun was seriously injured this weekend in an ATV accident in West Texas. According to information on a crowdfunding website, Rathbun had to be flown by helicopter to an area hospital after the accident: On Saturday afternoon, Kent, Tracy and Garrett were going up a steep mountain…
The Rube, named for Kansas City Negro league baseball player Rube Foster, is a hoagie-shaped vessel for a mountain of burnt ends style rib meat crumbles. Its simplicity is its beauty and it tastes better than it looks, adorned with house-made pickles and two stripes of sauce.
Behind the patio and open garage door of Social Pie is a dark dining room lit only by a single chandelier. The low lighting and the outside air make this an intimate place to have dinner, and the pizza and cause behind it make it worth returning. There’s a simple…
If there’s one thing Dallas knows, it’s burgers — you’ll find one on almost every menu in the city. With so many options, it can be hard to find the right one. Whether you’re looking for a Wagyu burger, veggie burger, turkey burger or even a burger taco, these are…
III Forks, legendary steakhouse, is rolling out some seasonal features including a cold weather take on every vodka drinker’s go-to cocktail, the Apple Cinnamon Mule.
In this week’s round-up of DFW food news, beer shake-ups, food halls and tacos on tacos: Another day, another best burger list. One Dallas burger recently made Thrillist’s 10 best burgers in America: Knife’s Ozersky burger. Topped with only American cheese, red onion and a white bread bun, the Ozersky…
Grayson Social, Dallas’s newest Southern eatery, serves up haute Southern cuisine, cocktails with some decidedly bizarre twists, and a private members-only “social club” in the heart of Downtown.
You know those sad stand-up comedy bars? The ones that smell like nachos and dead-end careers? Don’t go to any of those. Go to Oak Highlands Brewery instead, where they will host the Brew-HaHa Comedy Series. For $20 (in advance, $25 at the door), a ticket to Brew-HaHa gets you…
My first experience at the Flying Fish was an accident. I had taken my family to Fort Worth for the day and we wound up desperately seeking out a casual (read: affordable) lunch spot open on a Sunday afternoon somewhere near the museum district. The Flying Fish beckoned like a memory of…
