Trees fall in forests without a sound, and barbecue restaurants can close in Deep Ellum in nearly the same silence. That’s the case this week as Crave DFW reports that Mama Faye’s BBQ on Commerce Street has closed its doors and is relocating out of the city. Except for those…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. While a few Spanish restaurants call Dallas home, finding a Spanish meal worth…
A basket of nuts does little to stir the pulse as it slides across the bar. The snack is older than pull-tabs and seldom very interesting. Bar nuts are almost always poured directly from the package they’re shipped in, and if they’re mixed, you have to worry about cherry pickers…
Each week, I set out to dig into at least one of Dallas’ best desserts. This quest has landed me everywhere from dumpy little dives to some of the city’s most elegant restaurants. Whether I’m gulping down a milkshake or savoring dessert/art that’s almost too beautiful to eat, I love…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. San Salvaje is a restaurant that defies every stereotype of the downtown Dallas…
It used to be a discount tire shop. On a peninsula on the corner of Ross and Greenville, Ross Discount Tire was a place you could swerve into and get your nail-bludgeoned tire swapped as fast as Marvel’s Quicksilver and hilariously cheap. Now it’s Pints and Quarts, a Bob’s Big…
Whiskey Cake is many things. It is a Green Certified business of Plano. It is a farm-to-fork restaurant. It is very, very popular. And it is passive aggressive. This is quite an accusation to bandy about, I know. Call it cavalier, but Whiskey Cake had it coming when they served…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Most Italian beef sandwiches sold in Dallas are exactly the same. Chicago-based Vienna…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. I can think of many more reasons to come to Palapas than I…
DFW’s favorite limey Brit Gavin Cleaver recently regaled us with an account of Texas barbecue in London, which put my mind at ease to a certain extent. Even if the product wasn’t any good, at least I knew that someone somewhere had meat on a smoker, should my blood’s oak…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Ethiopian has become one of my go-to meals in Dallas when I’m looking…
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a spork is a spoon-shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip, but that’s not how the term is most often used. The Oxford English Corpus, a multibillion-word database of written and spoken English, reports “spork” is employed most often as a verb…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. A meal at Off-Site Kitchen can leave you questioning the past. Everyone has…
Though it took longer than usual, the disgusting heat of the dead of summer has finally arrived. If you can’t be in air conditioning all the time — and that is certainly ideal — you’re going to need to think of creative ways to cool your hot self off when…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. You can get tacos on what seems like every block in Dallas. There…
Casa Vieja makes no compromises and has no pretensions. It is a Colombian restaurant, and it is purely, deeply Colombian. Casa Vieja doesn’t pose as a hipster hangout for those who think Mexican food is boring. Nor does it offer a page of Tex-Mex standards to cater to the masses…
Karin Powell Porter is not new to the Dallas restaurant scene. Porter has spent time behind the pass at The Grape, and runs her own catering company Porter House Provisions. This is the first time she’s taken charge of her own restaurant, though, and The Heights is shaping up to…
I love a root beer float and firmly believe that Dallas restaurants should be serving more of them — especially in the summer. Floats make perfect desserts when the weather is hotter. They’re lighter than a massive slice of cherry pie and much more cooling. You haven’t lived until you’ve…
Last week a Trinity Groves spokesperson announced Potato Flats had closed, becoming the second failed restaurant in Phil Romano’s theme park devoted to scalable food businesses. The closure marks a good time to check in on the overall performance of the West Dallas development, which is actually doing exceptionally well…
Sometimes the afternoon slump hits hard. You’ve learned the hard way the boss isn’t too keen on naps. You could try cubicle exercises to stay awake, but that stuff is for chumps. What you need is sugar. Or caffeine. Or both. Sneak in a quick trip to Latin Pig, and…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. If the evening is late and I crave something sweet, nine times out…
Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul. Check back here as the list grows until Best of Dallas rolls out…
