Summer’s not all snow cones and pool bars. It’s also a notoriously dead season in the restaurant industry, which inevitably leads to some closures. These recent Dallas restaurant closures have us drowning our sorrows in frosé. Monkey King Noodle Co. CarrolltonMonkey King Noodle Co. is one of our favorite Dallas…
It would feel almost eerie if it wasn’t just so damn sad. This week, the suicides of two prominent American personalities — one in fashion, the other in food — once again force us to face a health crisis we’ve been ignoring and stigmatizing for so long, it’s reached epidemic…
Standing in line for brunch is a beloved pastime in DFW, and a new breakfast spot in Addison will give diners the chance to do just that. Trust us: There will be lines. Snooze, an A.M. Eatery was launched in Denver in 2006 by brothers Jon and Adam Schlegel. Their ethos:…
Atheneos Greek Village Cafe in Mesquite may look to some to be an unimposing storefront tucked away in a shopping center next to a strip of chain restaurants, but this strip mall restaurant comes with a harrowing back-story. “As a young kid, you want to travel,” owner Emmanuel Mastrogiannopoulos says…
Try El Fenix’s Centennial Margarita and enjoy the chance to win free food for a year.
The Design District’s Wheelhouse just broadened its menu to brunch, and while the food’s good, the music is what makes the experience interesting. Each Sunday as Wheelhouse serves brunch, a DJ is set up at “center court,” the open-air courtyard between Wheelhouse and Sassetta, spinning vinyl. The result is an easy…
Peanut butter and jelly. Sunshine and shoulders. Art and booze. Some things just go together, you know? Experience the latter pairing — art and booze, that is — as part of Artful Pairings. This week, Artful Pairings heads to the Dallas Museum of Art, where a brewer from Noble Rey…
Visitors will fill a room in Wilshire Baptist Church to share a meal Thursday. They’re not sharing communion or having a fellowship potluck in the East Dallas church but are coming together through Ramadan, a sacred month for those who practice Islam. Dialogue Institute Dallas, an organization based in Richardson,…
Five months ago, the Blind Butcher on Lower Greenville threw a Hail Mary pass and shared on Facebook that as neighborhood eateries were struggling, they were, too. “Truth be told, the last 18 months have not been kind to us, either,” the Blind Butcher’s owners posted. “Construction on Lower Greenville and more…
Fresh brews, tart lemonades and fruity smoothies are all on the menu at this new spot in Carrollton, Texas. What used to be a Starbucks has since been repurposed as a rustic boba tea and coffee bar right on the corner of Frankford and Old Denton. TeaLatte has a nostalgic…
If you were drafting a dream team of Texas barbecue pit masters in 2018, your first two picks arguably would be Todd David of Cattleack Barbecue in Dallas and Aaron Franklin of Franklin BBQ in Austin. If ESPN covered this barbecue draft like it does football, hours would be spent…
As protesters flocked to D/FW International Airport last year to speak out against President Donald Trump’s travel ban, friends Olga Pope and Kim Simithraaratchy decided to take their own kind of action. Simithraaratchy was born to Vietnamese refugees and wanted to show those seeking asylum a different side of America. After…
A June 16 tour of farms in the McKinney area offers the usual perks: Guests will get to taste local food, have cocktails and mingle with other people who bought tickets in the four days before the event sold out. But this tour isn’t just for schmoozing. The Farm Tour…
When people hear the phrase “vegan restaurant,” they typically react in one of three ways. One — the vegan — is gleeful and full of excitement about the prospect of being able to eat a meal as it was prepared and without special requests or modification. Another reaction usually involves…
Dallas artist Shelby David Meier is fascinated by food. “I think about food a lot,” Meier says. “It ties to culture and experience. I also think about ideas of consumption. I also like the play around with the idea of taste.” Food has appeared in her work before. Her 2016 video “In…
The Parlor on Commerce, a low-key Deep Ellum bar known for its laid-back atmosphere and incredible patty melt, has closed, owner Seth Byars confirms. “We closed up shop, and it was kinda a sweet release for me, personally, cause I was working 17 hours a day, seven days a week,”…
The Dani’s Garden cocktail at Up on Knox is a beautiful cocktail simply built cocktail with complex elements.
Memorial Day weekend is pretty hectic for most bars, but this weekend was particularly so for Old East Dallas craft beer bar Strangeways. “They couldn’t wait for us to open,” Strangeways owners joked on Facebook when posting a photo of the Oldsmobile Bravada that crashed through the wall and into…
Fusion has become a dirty word in the food world. High-end chefs line up on the field of battle, ready to trade words over whether fusion is the driver of innovation and cross-cultural exchange or a craven attempt by white Americans to profit off the cuisines of immigrants. But there’s…
Make like Oda Nobunaga and head to Saint Ann Restaurant & Bar for an evening of cocktails and samurai education. After you grab a cocktail from the bar, head upstairs for an after-hours tour of The Samurai Collection of Japanese armor. The cost is $10. What it be: Samurai Cocktail…
On Aug. 18, 2016, the Lakewood location of Mi Cocina, a popular upscale Tex-Mex chain, faced one particularly unhappy visitor: a Dallas health inspector. The food safety report filed that day graded Mi Cocina at 60 points out of 100. The details weren’t pretty. Flies in the kitchen. No hot…
Dallas-Fort Worth has the biggest Laotian food scene in North America. More than a dozen eateries, ranging from traditional mom-and-pop markets to brewery-hopping food trucks, are introducing Texans to Lao cooking. But if you’ve never had Laotian food before, what should you expect?
