Mike Chen is a food vlogger (video blogger) with more than 3.7 million followers on his Strictly Dumpling YouTube channel. Chen was born in China but was raised in the midwest, where his parents ran Chinese buffet restaurants, giving him a front-row
What do a mural artist, a graphic artist specializing in user experience and a brewery co-owner have in common? The simple answer is that they’re designing art for the beer can labels of Dallas-made beers.
The Standard Pour is a charming uptown staple known for tasty happy hour specials and good bites. Like many other restaurants and bars across the city, they sloughed through 2020, bruised but not beaten.
After a year in a holding pattern (mostly, anyway) five months into 2021 and the Dallas restaurant scene is busy with new openings. Which is great to see. We’ve rounded up a highlight reel from the past few weeks.
Even before the pandemic, the service industry was in need of reform. As restaurants begin to open to full capacity, owners and managers are having trouble finding servers, bartenders and other key players of the dining experience. With stimulus packages and unemployment checks,
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ rapper 50 Cent was in da club at Houston Rodeo’s Uncorked! International Wine Competition this weekend. Curtis James Jackson’s champagne, Le Chemin du Roi, won 2021 …
Recently there was a coffee kerfuffle that captured the attention of a lot of East Dallas, a bean roaster in Brooklyn and Yelp. The full story is here, but in the shortest of all explanations, Melody Vo fancied a proper cup of Vietnamese coffee.
Dallas is halfway through electing a new slate of city council members. Most of the seats were decided in the May 1 general election, with six to be decided by runoffs on June 5.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott used part of his freshly minted $160 million contract to invest in the Cajun bistro Walk-On’s. The 27-year old Louisiana native owns 20% of the restaurants located in Arlington, Las Colinas, The Colony and Waco.
Haywire in Plano has invited the Garrison Brothers up from their distillery in the tiny town of Hye, TX, for two events next week. The Garrison Brothers Cigar Social will take place on Haywires’ rooftop Airstream Terrace on Wednesday
Dallas certainly isn’t short on glitz. The landscape offers a perpetual wheel of new and sparkly things. And with that comes good and bad. But, then there are places that despite it all, hang on for decades. Worn-down windows on a worn-down building wearing the same coat of paint summer after summer.
After a year of hunkering down, no one is more ready to spread their wings in the sunshine, unencumbered by a pandemic, than North Texas breweries.
Brunch is big business in the Lone Star State. This couldn’t be truer than in the swanky metropolis of Dallas. The options can be overwhelming, of course, because there’s everything from home-cooked Southern fare to savory Tex-Mex and also heavenly Asian cuisine.
In a unique display of bipartisanship, ordering a cocktail to go will soon be allowed by state law. Today the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) issued an industry notice explaining the details to all those who dabble in the trade of fine
Cinco de Mayo celebrations began this weekend but there’s still plenty of partying left to do on Wednesday. And while you’re not too likely to come across many explanations of the holiday’s historic significance, there will be some honest attempts to honor Mexican culture.
Texas farmers and ranchers have had a year. Whether they supplied restaurants with local produce or welcomed families to pick their own buckets full, even green pastures and rows of blackberries weren’t immune to the pandemic.
Booty’s Street Food was created by Kent Roth and Collin Ballard, both avid travelers. They’ve traversed countries, often breaking camp at hostels; more than 100 collectively. Their experiences led them to want to create a similar space for travelers in Texas.
Sky Blossom is a cute restaurant in the center of downtown Dallas that features a top-floor restaurant and bar with stunning views and great menu options.
A new wine-tasting and shopping experience, Vinotopia, is opening this Friday at Legacy Hall in Plano. According to their press release, this hybrid wine bar and retail shop is a “social, communal and energized premium wine-buying experience.”
Dole Whip was born at a tiki bar in Disneyland of all places and gets its name from the fruit producer, who was a sponsor at the park and makes the mix. According to Disney Food Blog, Dole Whip was first served at the Enchanted Tiki Room and in the Tiki Juice Bar in Adventureland in 1986…
The state of Indiana has given exactly two culinary gifts to the rest of the world. One of them is Wonder Bread, which some of us Hoosiers are apologetic about. But the other one is our hubcap-sized offering to the bar food gods: the fried pork tenderloin sandwich. In theory,…
Tucked away in the east end of the State Thomas neighborhood, the new Asian street food concept Anju recently opened. Owned by Michael Kim of One Esca Concepts, Anju offers a …
