Sunday’s brunch was supposed to feature a newer place on Lower Greenville. But it turns out our usual parking lot in the area isn’t $5 on Sunday mornings like it is at night: It’s $20 at brunch time. So the only reason we went to a place I’ve seen for…
Give some gear, get a slice: The Greenville Avenue Pizza Company will host its annual Slices for Supplies on Monday, Aug. 5. Owner Sammy Mandell, 36, started the drive after his wife Molly, a former teacher, suggested it. She had watched as parents and students struggled to get the supplies…
Potpourri Boulangerie is a little yellow house that sits on Zang Boulevard, just south of the Bishop Arts District. Originally a wedding cake and flower shop, this place was known as Potpourri of Silk up until late June. Three years ago, the owners’ son transitioned it to a cafe; this…
Visit the wine retail shop inside Frank Kent Cadillac and walk out with a cava to go with your Caddy.
Everyone knows sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them. When it’s fast-casual sandwich specialists from Top Round, it’s almost definitely going to be better than anything you could make yourself. Founded by Steven Fretz and a few of his partners in California, Top Round is a fast-casual sandwich shop focused…
This month’s come-as-you-are dinner at The Grape will feature wines selected from Burt Street Cellars. Chef Brian Luscher will have a three-course, paired dinner to complement, as special host winemaker Timothy Skok discusses the wines. What: Winemaker’s Come-as-You-Are Dinner When: 5:30-9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1 Where: The Grape, 2808 Greenville…
Dallas chefs and many others close to the industry gathered Sunday evening to support one of their own. For the Love of Josh was held at 3015 Trinity Groves and hosted by The Giving Table, a group of local chefs, beverage enthusiasts and restaurateurs who collaborate for events like this…
Beating the Sunday brunch rush used to be as simple as arriving before church let out. That’s no longer the case, as devout brunch-goers have determined fried chicken and waffles are a permissible excuse to skip services altogether. Without a reservation, many of us are waiting 30 minutes or more…
Elizabeth Dry has long been serving Dallas communities their vegetables with her work as executive director of Promise of Peace Community Gardens. The nonprofit focuses on families living in food deserts. Next time you’re at Trinity Groves, look around the northwest edge of the development, and you’ll see one of…
Behind the counters of our favorite restaurants, people from all walks of life work tirelessly to provide us with quality food and service. It is always disheartening whenever we, as consumers, hear rumblings of owners or CEOs of places we frequent are anti-LGBTQ, racist, misogynistic or xenophobic. It’s even more…
Dallas’ queen of dessert is back. When Maggie Huff retires from serving sweets in North Texas, we’ll have to figure out where to put the statue. The year in which she wasn’t regularly baking and pastry-making — between FT33’s closure in summer 2018 and Homewood’s opening this spring — was a sort of Dark…
People often assume being a food writer for the Observer comes with a laundry list of secret restaurant perks. High among them is a notion that we can get a reservation at any spot in town on the busiest of nights, followed quickly by the assumption that we know all the…
Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in DFW, because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out. The breakfast of champions: Sure, Wheaties may have coined that phrase, but in Texas, brisket is king. Yes, brisket for breakfast…
Seven years since first discovering them at a street cart in Brittany, France, Bisous Bisous Chef Andrea Meyer brings kouign amanns to her uptown bakery. Magnifique!
One of downtown Dallas’ oldest buildings is getting a local craft brewery and beer garden. The 19-story Dallas Power and Light Building will soon be home to a second branch of Pegasus City, the 2-year-old Design District brewery that specializes in hugely drinkable styles and won the Observer’s Best Brewery…
The recent swell of restaurants and bars arriving in Victory Park continues to transform the area into a destination in its own right. No longer just a neighborhood for a Stars game or concert, Victory Park is now a growing neighborhood and place to visit, regardless of events happening down…
Popular banh mi restaurant Sandwich Hag did something unusual for the industry: It reduced its hours, and not because business was slow. As of early June, The Cedars spot no longer serves dinner on weekdays. They’re only open for lunch Tuesday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. They…
After 19 years of business in Deep Ellum, AllGood Cafe has decided to shake things up with a new menu item: booze. “I didn’t really want to have liquor and a full bar in the beginning. But here we are, 19, almost 20 years later, and Deep Ellum has changed…
HIDE will offer a by-request-only cocktail featuring spicy notes from the bog myrtle.
Similar to other hotel restaurants’ dining rooms, the one at Knife in the Highland Dallas is fairly quiet on a Sunday morning. It has a convenient enough location at the southeast corner of Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway, but this isn’t a time in Dallas when hotels are destinations…
Mago’s Cafe is a family-owned Mexican restaurant opened in the spirit of the now-shuttered Emilio’s Cafe, a favorite for residents in The Cedars. Emilio’s, which originated as Tejitas in Oak Cliff, was owned by Emilio Lira and stood at South Ervay and Corinth streets for more than 16 years. The…
Meriel Bautista urges her customers to pick the ice cream first. There’s a window that shows off all of the bars and cookies her team has freshly prepared, but Bautista wants to make sure they focus on the ice cream. After all, that’s where the ube is. Ube is purple…
