Flats or drums? Bone-in or boneless? Breaded or naked? Where can I get free wings? These and other questions may be on your mind on National Chicken Wing Day. Dallas-based chain Wingstop will answer that last question along with a full day of live-streamed music by a DJ online [WingStopWingDay.com]…
A pizza place going with some kind of a divine theme opens Aug. 6 in Trinity Groves. Holy Crust is Phil Romano’s latest restaurant, and it’s geared toward the pizza his mother used to make for him growing up — “so, exactly how he believes pizza should be,” according to a…
Even before a global pandemic arrived, this was a year of change at Smokey Joe’s BBQ. Last spring, after 34 years of takeout-only service, Smokey Joe’s finally opened a dining room. Owner Kris Manning, whose father, Kenneth Manning, co-founded the restaurant with Joe Melton in 1985, hoped some of his…
While a number of restaurants are shutting their doors temporarily or permanently in response to the coronavirus pandemic, some are opening theirs for the first time. Here are new restaurants to check out, whether you’re taking meals to go, choosing to dine in or simply making a list of places…
The 11th Dallas Chocolate Festival will still happen this year, but like most things in 2020, you can experience it at home. The World of Chocolate – In a Box will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 12-13. This year’s festival is virtual, with hand-delivered boxes of artisanal chocolate…
Nearly a year after Mudhen Meat and Greens flew the coop, Hurdy Gurdy is preparing to open at the anchor location at the Dallas Farmers Market. If you’re familiar with the Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan or have an interest in folk instruments, the name may sound familiar. For those who aren’t:…
We’ve come to expect some restaurant closures during the pandemic, but when Perry’s Steakhouse on McKinney Avenue closed after its final dinner service July 11, it wasn’t exactly a closure. Five days later, its new location was open in the Park District development, just around the corner at 2100 Olive…
Estimates are ranging for what COVID-19’s long-term effect will be on restaurants in Dallas, the state and the country. Messages have come through asking if we’ve heard people talking about one in four restaurants closing. One analyst predicts 10% of restaurants nationwide will close. It may be hard to have…
One of this year’s most exciting new restaurant openings was scheduled for late February or early March: Krio, an Asian-Cajun spot in the Bishop Arts District that would specialize in crawfish boils, chargrilled oysters and po’ boy sandwiches. Then, well, everything happened. A global pandemic swept into Dallas, placing the…
Whether or not we’re in a pandemic, Lower Greenville seems to be an ever-changing roulette wheel of restaurants and bars. When something new comes in, it has to fill its role extremely well, lest it falls to the wayside as so many restaurants in the area before it. For every…
Cindy Pedraza of CocoAndré Chocolatier in Oak Cliff is used to business slowing down when the temperature rises. “Chocolate isn’t a big seller in the summer, so a while back we added horchata, then we added ice cream. My mom is always coming up with new things,” Pedraza said. Since 2009 she…
The sun had just dipped below the horizon. A car did a doughnut in a store parking lot, screaming and sending up clouds of white smoke into the thick air. Other cars headed north on Harry Hines Boulevard, inspired by the display, and suddenly gunned it to the next stoplight…
It’s unassuming as you turn onto San Jacinto Street from North Haskell Avenue. The Old East Dallas spot nearly looks like it’s not open for business. But it is, and it’s scooping flavorful shreds of ice in to-go containers to keep us cool all summer long. Ruby’s Sno-Balls is serving…
For more than five weeks, aesthetically pleasing photos of sandwiches have been scrolling across Instagram for Dallas users. And every week, Sandoitchi, a new pop-up providing these Japanese sandwiches, has been selling out. It’s not a surprising phenomenon. This type of sandwich, popular for a quick meal in Japan, graced…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. It may be a tough time for our country — politically, spiritually, emotionally and mentally — but that doesn’t mean we can’t strive to make America kind again…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Dino’s Subs in Arlington is celebrating its 40th year in business this year. Over that time, many have grown up going to this sandwich shop and are now…
They scramble eggs in the morning, wrapped with veggies and potatoes in a blistered roti, but that’s not why you should stand in line at the brightest food stand at the Dallas Farmers Market. This many miles into quarantine, cooking, for some of us, has devolved into the most primal…
A Deep Ellum favorite is sliding over to Grapevine. Easy Slider is set to open its second physical location in a new food hall in the North Texas suburb this fall. Harvest Hall comes as part of new development project Grapevine Main, a $105 million transit-oriented project located at the…
From Across the Pond has been serving English fare in North Richland Hills for more than a decade. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it hit them hard. “We literally did 99% of our business through dine-in,” owner Lee Herdman says. “Take-out was maybe 1% of our business.” “We used…
For July and August, we’re bringing Chilled to Go, weekly posts on the best things you can get for takeout to beat the heat. I could tell by the way they whipped their car into the parking space that they were on a mission. The driver had pulled in at…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. For months now, chefs in town have been posting about a certain to-go container full of sauce-drenched meatballs from Il Bracco in University Park. That’s for good reason…
Good to Go is a column in which our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. One of the strangest food moments of the year has to be ordering takeout from a luxury steakhouse during a pandemic. The Town Hearth parking lot was…
