Yesterday morning news broke that The Loon is looking for a new location. One of the most revered bars in Dallas is being pushed aside to make room for a CVS. While the relocation is sad news for anyone who’s spent any time at the decades-old bar, I was secretly,…
Dallas was long-protected from the ramen craze until Tanoshii Ramen Bar set up shop in Deep Ellum. Now a second is already on the way. Carol Shih at Sidedish reported that Teiichi Sakurai, the owner of Tei-An, planned to open a fish market at Sylvan|Thirty, but apparently he’s pivoted. Instead…
Just up Greenville Avenue from Lovers Lane, nestled between a Sweet Tomato and a Potbelly Sandwich Works, Bonchon’s sharp new facade is marked by a large Now Hiring banner. The restaurant is expected to open later this month. News of the coming chicken chain broke back in May, filling Dallasites…
Good news for the adventurous eaters out there who think they’ve tried everything Thai food has to offer: CrushCraft Thai Street Eats, the fast-casual restaurant from retired chef Paul Singhapong and restaurateur Jack Nuchkasem, will open in mid-January at 2800 Routh Street in Uptown. The menu will be divided into…
If you’re an East Dallas resident and a fan of Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, more than six months of anticipation comes to a close today. The second location of the Dallas-based burger restaurant opens today, the restaurant announced on Facebook…
It’s kind of gross outside lately. Perhaps we’re about to pay for what was a relatively mild summer with a long and brutal winter. At least we don’t have the Super Bowl to worry about this go around. Instead we can focus our attention on remedies that warm us from…
If there’s one thing you should be thankful for this holiday season, it’s the pecan pie that is sitting on your table — provided it’s there. News of supply and price pressures have been coming out for weeks, but The New York Times recently declared an all out crisis. The…
While there were certainly ramen restaurants in New York City before David Chang began rolling and cutting his alkaline noodles in the East Village, they have exploded since he opened up his famed Momofuku almost a decade ago. Chang made waves with his creative take on traditional Japanese cooking, viewed…
The day after Thanksgiving is known for two things. For those with materialistic inclinations, Black Friday is a day to shop till your AMEX hurts. For those who prefer couches, televisions, magazines and food, this is the greatest sandwich day of the year. But the biggest question isn’t what is…
Earlier this summer the folks at Urban Acres started a Kickstarter campaign. They wanted to create a one-of-a-kind farmstead, a business that would bring together farmers and artisans under one roof. It sounded a bit like a farmers market but promised better air conditioning. See also: Urban Acres Beats its…
Grub Burger has been showing low rumblings of being alive for the past few months, and now like a Coke-ad polar bear it’s finally rousing to take advantage of the holiday shopping season. The last thing any of us want to do right now is to look past the mountain…
It is an act of marketing genius. On the fattest day of the year — the day you are most likely to be as filled with self-hatred and guilt as you are stuffing, turkey and the baby marshmallows you picked off the top of the sweet potato casserole — Roots…
Despite the perplexing news that Dallas drinks less than any other major city, now is a good time to be a beer lover here. The city just keeps getting more and more good beer news lately. Tap-crazy restaurants with beer-based desserts are opening. Growler-filling stations are spreading to different neighborhoods…
It’s been exactly a year since Babb Bros. BBQ opened in Trinity Groves, kicking off the restaurant development project that hopes to anchor future growth in the West Dallas neighborhood. Hoffmann Hotts, a casual hot dog restaurant soon followed, and then openings slowed down until recently, when Kitchen LTO, Souk,…
Of all the seven deadly sins, if you subscribe to that sort of thing, gluttony is probably the most enjoyable. Although, Netflix and slothiness do pair quite well, especially during a holiday. But gluttony, man, that’s good times. We’ve pretty much mastered the craft of shameless gluttony here in the…
OK, turkey revelers, it’s about time for elastic pants, pie and plates of regret. But, before we get too deep in the holiday mood, let’s pull back a little. Don’t hit the season too hard. Walk in softly. After hours of being stuffed like a turkey in a small house…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more charming chef than Dean Fearing, the man behind Fearing’s Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas. Known fondly as the “father of Southwestern cuisine,” he earned a world-class reputation as The Mansion on Turtle Creek’s executive chef. He left that post in 2007 to head…
Abacus executive chef Kent Rathbun is now taking reservations for his Dirty Dozen cooking class, and if you want to get a slot for yourself or as a Christmas present you better act fast. Over at Sidedish Nancy Nichols predicts that they’ll be sold out by the end of the…
Doughnut shops are one of the few establishments that can get away without actually having a proper name, either on their building or anywhere else. All they need is a sign, preferably one that lights up, that proclaims “DONUTS” to the world. Pawn shops may be one of the only…
Last week Pat Snuffer announced Snuffer’s Restaurants Inc., responsible for a number of Snuffer’s restaurant locations around the DFW area, had ceased operations, and a new restaurant called Pat’s Burger & Cheddar Fries would be opening on Greenville Avenue. Snuffers had been providing Dallasites artery clogging fries in a casual…
Last week Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead hosted a telethon called “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can Choose,” a fund raiser for a variety of Lady Parts Justice, a Texas-based pro-choice organization that promoted the event under the Twitter handle @TXWomenForever. During the telethon chef Mario Batali encouraged people to donate…
My excitement runneth over. With the best holiday of the year just a few days away, it’s about time to start getting prepped. But it’s hard to know where to start. That in mind we asked some of Dallas’ best chefs for some Thanksgiving cooking tips. Omar Flores, Driftwood “Thanksgiving…
