Our Favorite Barbecue Bites Of 2021
When we look back on 2021, we’ll remember it as a year where restaurants learned to manage pandemic restrictions, inflating costs and staffing shortages in …
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Where Have All the Busboys Gone?
For former sous chef David Gibson, last Christmas was a good one, considering what he’d endured in the months leading up to it. After 15 years of work in the service industry …
First Look: White Rhino Sets Up Shop in Downtown
A new café has opened up in The National building downtown – and this is a place in which we can afford to eat. Marking its seventh location …
Voluntary Closures at Restaurants Spread In Major Cities Because of COVID Cases Among Staff
The last two weeks of the year are usually a boon for restaurants and bars. After a year of staffing shortages and many other challenges across the industry …
KC Bar to Jackson Mahomes: “We survived a global pandemic, we’ll survive your ego.”
One of the things that has certainly changed in the restaurant and bar industry over the past 18 months is the old adage that “the customers is always right.”
First Look: Dreamy Sueño Modern Mex-Tex in Richardson
Local restauranter Julio Pineda, who previously spearheaded Pineda’s Mexican Cuisine in Richardson, recently opened a new spot, Sueño Modern Mex-Tex …
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Top 10 DFW Food & Restaurant Trends in 2021
With our sweatpants stuck on a cargo ship somewhere off the coast of California, most of us can agree that 2021 was a wild ride. But, with that came some noteworthy food trends …
Midnight Rambler to Host Chef Misti Norris for Rainbow Cat Pop-Up Tuesday Evening
Chef Misti Norris loves a good pop-up. Her James Beard-nominated restaurant, Petra and the Beast, started as a pop-up …
More Than Just a Cook, John Mueller Will Be Remembered As A Barbecue Icon
Born into a family that’s become synonymous with Texas barbecue, John Mueller could never break away from the call of smoking meats. In a 2013 profile …
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The Star in Frisco is Getting Five New Restaurants in Early 2022
Dallas Cowboys headquarters, known as the Star in Frisco, currently houses almost 20 restaurants and seven shops, in addition to the offices of the Dallas Cowboys …
The Dallas Observer’s Top 10 Food & Restaurant Articles in 2021
If we’re not eating, we’re thinking about our next meal, right? More precisely we’re thinking about our next chicken fried steak. The stories that logged the most flight time
Best Foodie Finds for the Last Weekend Before Christmas
After sitting at home a lot the holiday season last year, this season is jam-packed with events for literally everyone. Whether you prefer to celebrate Christmas with Mexican food…
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First Look: Welcome to the Jungle at Hugo’s Lost Colony
A large, white building on Justin Road in Highland Village is more than meets the eye. The sign simply reads “Lost Colony.” Is it a restaurant, a store …
First Look: Fatburger at Two In the Mornin’
Texas recently got another famous California resident: Fatburger. This longstanding West Coast burger joint opened its first Texas location in North Richland Hills back in 2020 and …
Celestial Beerworks Celebrates Fourth Annual Festivus
In 1997 on the 166th episode of Seinfeld, television viewers learned about Festivus, an alternative Christmas-season holiday celebrated by the fictional Costanza family…
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Fast Food Car Gadgets From a Local TikToker That Are Genius
While we all may disagree on how useful TikTok is, we know it’s more than just teenagers dancing. It’s also really good at telling us what it thinks we need to buy …
The Trouble with Take-Out: Orphaned To-Go Orders
On a busy Saturday night at a small Thai restaurant in Austin, the phone was squawking non-stop. A server sat walk-ins, wiped down tables and quelled the ringing while …
DL Macks’ Brings a Old School Taste of Chicago to Dallas
Chicago has come to Dallas this month with the opening of D.L. Mack’s, a Chicago-inspired pizza joint from the hospitality group that brought you Drake’s Hollywood.
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First Look: Sauce’d Pizza and their Texas-Style Crust
There’s a lot of pizza joints that have made a name on their signature crusts but only one can lay claim to the original Texas-style crust …
Rice to the Occasion with Tao Rice Rolls in Plano
Call it by its name. It is not Taiwanese sushi, nor is it Taiwanese kimbap. Even more so, it is not remotely a Taiwanese burrito. As we close 2021 and open the new year, it is time to call dishes by their actual names.
The Best Things We Ate This Year
Spotify is dinging us with our most listened to songs of this year, but our sweat pants keep reminding us how much great food we ate.
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The Original Chop House Burgers Is Moving Back Home
I’ll never forget the exact moment I was trying to find 2-inch wood screws at the Ace Hardware along Park Row in Arlington and smelled something.