Food & Drink

Rene Ramirez has always loved to cook. “My mom said when I was little, like in first grade, she’d wake up and I’d be in the kitchen cooking my own breakfast. I was always just really independent,” he says. After spending years cooking for friends and family, he had a…

Iron Fork, one of the city’s biggest annual food events, marks its 10th year this April. More than 40 restaurants will show up with bites, beer, wine and cocktails, and two big-time chefs will compete in a live cooking competition. If you haven’t been, it’s a favorite one for many. For…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know Primo’s MX Kitchen and Lounge made a grand return to Uptown last month, following an almost seven-year hiatus. Bringing back Texas and southern Mexican cuisine, Primo’s has been a long-missed favorite. Primo’s also has plans for two new locations at the…

Bajeko Sekuwa has locations in Nepal, where the chain has become famous for its grilled meats, momo dumplings and local comfort foods. Irving’s location is the second to debut outside Nepal.

I used to go to Lucky’s Cafe all the time in college. Despite my never really having lived that far from it, it fell off my rotation until recently. And that’s a mistake, considering the place is still pretty wonderful. For one, there aren’t a lot of places that feel…

Casserole Soul Cafe is 18 miles south of downtown Dallas, but it feels like it’s a small-town restaurant, much farther from Dallas than a 25-minute drive. It’s a Southern restaurant that features soul food such as fried catfish, fried pork chops, chicken-fried chicken and a bevy of sides. Casserole Soul…

While Dallas is home to many great restaurants, sometimes it’s hard to stay afloat. This month we saw the closures of several Dallas-Fort Worth restaurants, many of which came as a shock. Here are some local bars and pubs to which we said goodbye in February. Burger Street East Dallas…

Logically, we really shouldn’t feel any differently about small food than we feel about normal-sized food. It’s not like we eat food whole. With both, you’re taking the same size bites. The makeup of those bites is the same. And yet, if there’s sliders on the menu, then I want…

Maricsa Trejo stays busy these days. She got her start with pastries in the kitchen at Oak, then landed an eight-month stint in New York City with pastry chef Stephen Collucci. Now, between baking knee-weakening pastries for her wholesale business and running her Saturday-only La Casita Bakeshop, she certainly has…

Don’t be fooled by the bright, Instagram-friendly lighting, the ivory aesthetic and the shelves of wine. The new Foxtrot Market locations you’ve seen in Uptown and University Park are very much approachable. Sure, the idea of an “elevated” bodega may elicit a few eye-rolls, but Chicago-based Foxtrot, surprisingly, is an…

It didn’t take long for the Trinity Groves spot where Chino Chinatown was to get something else. This time, it’s apparently broadly Chinese food, with a name I’m trying to delay actually typing: Sum Dang Good Chinese. A release Wednesday mentioned how Chino Chinatown, which closed mid-February, was one of…