Erica Pipes had a sore throat. Normally, this wouldn’t bother her; she’s in a band, after all, and she worked as a bartender. When you have those kinds of gigs, you get used to germs and their consequences. But this was March 14, 2020 …
After spending last year at home, we’re ready to gas up the car and go somewhere. BBQ Road Trip is a series in which we take a day trip to visit barbecue spots outside of Dallas just in time for summer road trip season.
The fireworks were really something, and some of us are thankful they’ve finally stopped, but party time in Dallas has just begun. There’s so much free music around town and game nights galore. If you like activities on the quieter side,
The Meridian is located in a popular stretch of Dallas real estate known as The Village. It is yet another advent of style and elegance adjoined to a historical and aging part of the city.
It’s no longer a question of “if,” rather “by how much.” The local bar and restaurant scene is back with margarita machines swirling at helicopter speed trying to keep up. Our cup quite literally runneth over.
We’re looking for new voices to tell stories about the vibrant food and beverage scene in North Texas. Not only are new restaurants opening at warp speed,
Beating trolls at their own game was never the plan for Jay Jerrier. It just sort of fell into him. Jerrier opened Cane Rosso in Deep Ellum in 2011, bidding adieu a stuffy corporate career. His pizza empire started as a trailer in a parking lot and it’s since grown to
DFW Restaurant Week will be back in fine form this summer, which is great and not just because a lot of great restaurants offer good deals, but also it’s a huge fundraising campaign for the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) and Lena Pope,
Our regular readers may have noticed that we’ve been hitting the road this summer to get our barbecue fixes. After more than a year of barely leaving the house, we’ve started taking day trips to find new barbecue spots outside of the city.
Some of the biggest fireworks shows in Dallas are canceled this year, but KaBoom Town in Addison is definitely on. Unfortunately, they’ve limited the number of attendees,
Dallas-born and raised Lucky’s Hot Chicken is planning five new restaurants in North Texas over the next year. The Nashville-inspired culinary concept opened its flagship location on Gaston Avenue in the fall of 2020 in the iconic mid-century building where local restaurateur Norman Brinker opened his first concept. They opened their second restaurant in Highland Park at 6309 Hillcrest Ave in April.
A new generation of casual Indian restaurants is springing up in Irving, and it’s become one of the most interesting and delicious recent developments in the Dallas food scene.
The Bishop Arts District is endangered by its own success. All around its historic handful of eclectic, walkable city blocks, hulking new high-rise apartment buildings are sprouting up.
Wild About Harry’s has announced that after 25 years in the hot dog and custard business, they’re closing their doors. The last day of business will be this Sunday, July 4th — going out with a bang, if you will.
This week’s list might look a little light, but not to worry. Later this week, we’ll share a list of the most fun food and drinks to enjoy this Fourth of July weekend.
When chefs start a new restaurant, they often undertake a years-long development process, testing recipes, looking for real estate, hiring architects and all the rest. Or they could follow the path of Keiko Vinatea Williams and Paola Irrarazabal,
Buc-ee’s recently announced their next move towards world supremacy. The company, which is based in Katy, TX, is building the world’s (we feel like we’re safe extending it to “galaxy’s”) largest travel center between Nashville and Knoxville, TN.
Yet another food hall has opened in North Texas. This past weekend, The Exchange celebrated its grand opening in downtown Dallas’ AT&T Discovery District.
It’s “Take Your Dog to Work” Day, so we’re giving you our favorite “remote offices” at which you can drink with your pup.
A new restaurant has opened where Mudsmith was previously on Lowest Greenville Avenue. This space, Carte Blanche, is a two-for-one number. There are two chefs — husband and wife — and by day chef Amy La Rue sells pastries and in the evening,
What a fantastic time to be an onion farmer. Restaurants are opening at an auctioneer-calling pace. We’ll gladly take this blustering pace to what we were writing about a year ago at this time. We’ve compiled a list of recent openings, with links to any first looks we
With temperatures rising and COVID cases going down, more people will be outside this summer than last year. Unfortunately, East Dallas’s favorite, Ruby’s Sno-balls,
