In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® 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’s no denying that Dallas loves steak. Without a longstanding regional dish of our own, the city has…
For 35 years, despite the ever-changing neighborhood around it, Mozzarella Company has been making incredible queso Oaxaca, burrata con crema and, of course, fresh mozzarella in Deep Ellum. Owner Paula Lambert started the company after a trip to Italy, where she experienced truly fresh mozzarella for the first time. Knowing…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® 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. North Texas has a robust international food scene, from Japanese dishes to Thai street food to regional Chinese…
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. Lunch begins with Joe Pumphaung’s dumplings. We’re sitting in the sun room, an enclosed patio space that…
These are times that try chefs’ souls. Abacus, a Dallas landmark for 18 years, is facing its most difficult test yet. Challenges are coming from every quarter. Its former celebrity chef is suing the restaurant’s owners; its neutral-beige interior feels like a time capsule from 1999; its menu, an abrupt…
No matter what time you walk through the jangling doors, the season is always Texas fall at One90 Smoked Meats. It means that there’s warming, cheesy and smoky comfort food, the kind you eat near a crackling fire while wearing loose pajamas. The sound of “Wish You Were Here,” forever…
Dallas and brunch are the types of friends born not out of interest or affection, but out of convenience. Every weekend, tables are filled, Benedicts are eaten and salt-rimmed tumblers are dredged to their bottoms. It’s not a bad relationship, really. But did you ever think that maybe if brunch…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, 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 arrives on the table on a large silver platter. At first, it’s hard to…
Dallas is, without a doubt, in the ancient Rome phase of cheeseburgers. We are flourishing with beef adorned decadently with curtains of American cheese and Martin’s soft potato rolls. We have everything: The Caligula-esque Fatburger, a California chain, will open at least 50 locations in Texas, joining the half-bacon insanity of…
Grown-ups outnumbered kids at the Hello Kitty candy party hosted by Neiman Marcus on Saturday. Celebrating the unveiling of Sugarfina’s new line of Hello Kitty candies, party guests were treated to lemonade, Hello Kitty-shaped sugar cookies and scoopfuls of samples at a shiny candy bar. The feline icon joined Sugarfina…
Meat Fight started as a backyard dinner to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Five years later, it’s one of the city’s best barbecue events, and it raised more than $175,000 last year. Money collected at the event is also used to buy specially outfitted bicycles for people…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Are we really recommending that you eat mushroom toast at a motorcycle repair shop? We…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. The charred octopus appetizer at Sassetta has proven surprisingly divisive among Dallas’ food critics. Yes,…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Avocado toast? That’s so 2015. At Canary by Gorji, the future of fancy toast has…
We all know Phil Romano has a knack for launching and expanding a concept. This time, he’s pushing a spot in Trinity Groves that goes beyond serving trendy food. Romano and James Slater — of Deep Ellum’s IdleRye — will soon open The Network Bar, “a members only concept ……
In case you’re living under a rock with exceptionally poor wifi, you’ve no doubt heard that our annual Best of Dallas issue hit newsstands this week, and it’s a doozy. In the food and drink category alone, we had 75 winners — and they’re all awesome. If you’re looking to…
In honor of the 2017 Best of Dallas® issue, on newsstands now, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. My kho dac biet, a house specialty at La Me, contains multitudes. It’s a bowl…
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. The layout of the Payless Store for Beer and Wine on Carroll Avenue goes a little something…
We’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Our Best of Dallas® 2017 issue premieres today. We could have chosen any of the fabulous foods at Mi Lindo Oaxaca, the Oak Cliff institution that is…
Leading up to this week’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. If there’s one thing Top Knot excels at, it’s snacks. Its menu revolves around small and large…
Many press releases for restaurant openings come across our desks, but when one of them promises a patio with a working 50-foot-tall Ferris wheel, we perk up. Such was the case when we heard of Ferris Wheeler’s Backyard BBQ, which opened this week in the Design District. Besides the obvious…
Lunch begins, right at 12 noon, with a few sounds. There’s the metal clang of the spoon in the coffee cup and the crisp shucking of a Dallas Morning News metro section opening up from the diner counter patron the next seat over. The wooden cuckoo clock chirps, and somewhere…
