We live in an age of new buns. You may have noticed the evolution: What once was bread is now ramen buns, fried chicken buns, lipstick-red buns, no bun buns (lettuce), buns the color of Darth Vader’s helmet, man buns, doughnut buns, fried mac and cheese buns, buns with cheese…
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. Hundreds of barbecue restaurants are strewn across Texas, and scores around the Dallas…
The formula has been tested so many times it’s almost mathematical law. A chef opens a restaurant, spends a few months working the pass making sure everything is just so, and then, if the business is successful enough, moves on to open more copies of the same restaurant, while quality…
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. There are plenty of Korean restaurants in the Dallas area that serve shul…
There are plain old boring cookies, and then there are palmiers. Palmiers don’t even really qualify as cookies — they’re not made with the kind of dough that you’re used to, but the shape is similar enough for us to toss it in the cookie bin without much further consideration…
Urban Acres went through a significant reconfiguration recently, switching up the menu and partnering with Kari Crowe to offer what may be the areas’ most delicious ice cream. The move makes the local urban grocery more approachable and opens up the space for cooking classes and upcoming meals catered by…
Irving is crazy about Mediterranean lunch buffets. Four are within 2 miles of my office: Terra Mediterranean Grill, Zeytin Mediterranean Grill, Andalous Mediterranean Grill and Veranda Greek Cafe. Which one is the best? Let’s find out. Three of the lunch buffets are broadly similar. (We won’t discuss Veranda, because their…
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. When we go out to dine we expect the food will be good,…
No wooden chairs broke over my back after eating this burger. No bottles shattered cleanly over the peak of my skull and nobody was thrown, like a raging wrestler, through a tabletop. Hickory, neatly tucked under the towering tollway and Texas 121, is dark and quiet. Flat-screens flash at low…
I love my condo in Upper Greenville. It’s in the perfect location — close enough to walk to grocery stores, convenient access to the DART train and located close to bars and restaurants without the noise of being in midst of everything. But one spot in particular really makes the…
Eating until one’s gastrointestinal comfort becomes compromised should not be used as an indicator of the quality of the meal. And yet, as I pushed back from the table at Sugar Skull Cafe, I did so with the knowledge that I had eaten beyond the point of satiation and to…
In a past life, Spork was a Sonic Drive-In. Chef Eric Justice and partners have jazzed it up with an outer space theme, but the ghosts of footlong chili cheese coneys and Route 44 cherry limeades linger. Ketchup-and mustard-colored neon, for example, still adorn the parking lot-turned patio. Better than…
With the restoration of the iconic 1930s-era Pegasus sign outside the hotel taken care of, Omni’s regional vice president Ed Netzhammer can turn his focus to the larger working project adjacent to his luminescent super-hotel. The patch of ground beside the hotel has been excavated for 350 much needed parking spots,…
Fans of Kansas City barbecue will be happy to hear a new option is headed to Maple Avenue in the coming months. Paris of the Plains may not be able to close out a World Series, but it’s known for smoking both pig and cow and a thick, sweet, tomato-based…
The Company Cafe surprised fans of the Katy Trail location by announcing its closure on Facebook this week. The lease on the space is up and the owners have decided not to renew. The Facebook post reminds customers that all isn’t lost, though. The original restaurant is still open Company Cafe’s…
Rapscallion, the much-anticipated Greenville Avenue bistro, debuted to an elbow-to-elbow crowd Tuesday night. The latest project of the Anderson brothers, owners of Veritas Wine Bar and Boulevardier, Rapscallion features an extensive drink menu and a 120-bottle wine list. Led by chef Nathan Tate, the kitchen serves up many traditional Southern…
The moment comes after much build up. If you’re looking down at your own beggar’s chicken, you’ve called Mr. Wok in Plano at least two days in advance and likely spent at least that much time wiping drool from your chin as you replay the coming scenes in your head…
Now that the Dallas Farmers Market is under heavy construction, you might easily think of skipping it this summer and wait until the new market is completed at some point next year. Despite the large (and rather dangerous-looking) construction pit situated in what used to be the walkway between the…
If you’ve been missing Eddy Thretipthuangsin’s cooking since the chef left Pakpao, take heart. A replacement opened this week on Oak Lawn Avenue in the old Cyclone Anaya’s space. Especially loyal fans likely know that the first location of Thretipthuangsin’s Kin Kin Urban Thai opened in Fort Worth in March,…
For most Dallasites, kolaches are a rite of passage during a trip to Austin, and most stop in West, where a number of bakeries turn out the pastries for drivers hurtling up and down Interstate 35. But those same Dallasites don’t love kolaches enough to keep Bohemian Cafe open back…
For 30 years, The Dog Stop has been the go-to location for North Dallasites looking for a taste of Chicago. Hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches and other snacks are sold from the windows on either side of the tiny drive-up cottage built on the edge of the Hillcrest Village parking…
If you don’t keep close tabs on Society Bakery, the business will completely reinvent itself between visits. It was just over a year ago that I stopped in at the bakery’s new location on Greenville Avenue. The walls were painted in a rich red color and I took home cupcakes…
