The Buzzbrews planned for the old Mecca space on the corner of Skillman Street and Live Oak is expected to open around the end of March. If The Mecca’s performance was any indication, the folks at Buzzbrews will have their work cut out for them. The Mecca came to East…
Whether it’s a 50-year tradition that leaves no choice in the matter, regional availability or a staunch preference for the specific taste derived from one wood or another, Dallas pitmasters have smoking-hot takes on which wood brings the wood in the great creosote debate. A true post-oak disciple, Lockhart Smokehouse…
We’ve maybe been guilty of overhyping the opening of Brian Luscher’s meat heaven in Deep Ellum, but only because we’re really excited about this sausage. Finally, after over a year of waiting, Luscher’s has opened its doors. We were there on Opening Day to report back. The exterior of the…
The creators of Company Cafe and Dallas’ beloved gluten-free chicken-fried steak have decided to take on smoked meats. They opened Back Home Barbecue on Ross Avenue earlier this month in the old Yin’s Wok space, and I checked it out this week. The building has been spruced up but spared…
Careful thought is put into even Dallas’ seemingly simple cheeseburgers. Take the one at Boulevardier, where sherry vinaigrette dresses the tomatoes and lettuce to make them less boring. Off-Site Kitchen’s burgers are smashed onto the grill for that impactful sear. On Knife’s hot grills, a flurry of salt and pepper…
Pop Diner opened to significant fanfare a little more than two years ago. The space was filled with Lichtenstein-esque prints and head shots of pop stars. The walls were bright red, the music was loud and the place was open 24 hours. It was just the sort of diner Uptown…
I still remember my first trip to Pera Turkish Kitchen in Far North Dallas. Four of us were piled in the car, headed up Preston Road, and I was salivating already, based only on food-blog scraps. I’d read that Habip Kargin and Serdar Sensel, the half brothers who own the…
Brunch used to be something extended families did on the rare occasions they got together. Either that, or it was reserved for holiday weekends, when sleeping in past breakfast time could be excused, given either the holiness of the occasion or the quality of the brunch being served. But brunch,…
Not everyone is into bowling. “Boutique bowling” is for an even more specific demographic. But booze and pie — now there are two things you can get behind, whether you’re “The Dude” or not. The folks at Bowl and Barrel are reading your mind. It ain’t cheap to bowl here…
There are only a few days left to get your Patrizio fix at the popular Highland Park Village location. After 25 years of meatball plates on an impressive patio, its last day of business will be February 28. The landlord declined to renew the lease, opting instead to rent to…
If you find yourself in a long line for barbecue at a central Texas joint, try this for entertainment. Tell the two guys in front of you that you overheard someone in back saying they were going to douse their brisket in sauce, and causally point behind you. Aspersions will…
On the corner of Meadows and the Central Expressway, in the same plaza as Tom Thumb, a neat and tidy Tex-Mex restaurant opened at the end of last year. You might think the last thing Dallas needs is yet another Tex Mex restaurant, but open the door and you’ll find…
Dish has been serving as a Jack-of-all-trades restaurant on Cedar Springs Road in Oak Lawn since it opened in 2011. After work, the cocktail set comes in to throw back high octane drinks and obliterate bad memories from the workday. Some of them stay for dinner, one of the better…
Mark your meat calendar: March 2 at 11 a.m., Luscher’s on 2653 Commerce St. will have its grand opening. I know you’re all very excited for this restaurant to open, and there are a lot of rumors flying around about what it looks like inside, where exactly the sausage champagne…
This is getting weird: That was my first thought as the plate came in for a landing. It looked like a pâté rolled inside a boneless tube of chicken and sliced into thick discs. A plump ravioli was perched on top of each round, mimicking a cartoonish mushroom, and fried…
Cucina Neighborhood Italian, the Preston Center red-sauce restaurant that operated in the former Mi Piaci space, has closed. The restaurant opened in early 2014 after the months-long tenure of its predecessor, but was unable to capture the heart of neighborhood locals. Probably because it was bad. The cavernous restaurant, which…
Spice in the City opened in the super-swanky Dallas Power & Light building downtown this week, offering a trim menu of classic Indian dishes. You have to enter through the apartment lobby and walk toward the back of the building — there is no sidewalk storefront — but once you…
La Ventana, the downtown taqueria that’s piggybacked off the popular Mexican restaurant Meso Maya, is growing, with plans to open two additional locations in the Dallas area. The first will be located at the Farmers Market, where La Ventana, along with three other yet-to-be-announced restaurants, will do their best to…
A behemoth has been erected in Wylie, Texas. A shining neon barn, affixed with flames and guitars, holds court over the Country Club and FM 544 intersection. It looks like the perverted restaurant love child of Bret Michaels and Guy Fieri…
It takes a lot to make the best version of a Southern dish. Everyone is willing to fight to the death to preserve the honor of their grandmama’s hot water cornbread or collard greens, which means that saying that something like fried okra is better than something your Granny would…
Catherine DownesLike this, but with pepperoni. If Khanh Nguyen is known for anything at his pho restaurant DaLat, it’s his rampant and sometimes unconventional creativity. This is the person who decided to serve ceviche on Doritos, turn egg rolls inside out and serve mimosas made with Tang. Bowls of soup…
Based on the first news to trickle out about C’viche, I was expecting the bar to play significant role in the place’s vibe. The restaurant was supposed to have plenty of tequila, rum and cachaça for mojito’s margaritas and other cocktails. It was meant to evoke the wonders of Baja…
