A rainbow-colored assortment of macarons displayed in tidy rows and columns are presented in a long glass display case at Joy Macarons on Greenville Avenue. This particular macaron shop, Joy’s second location, opened two months ago and specializes in making macarons in the French style, which doesn’t require cooking the…
Noodle master Charlie Zhang, famous for his noodle-crafting showmanship during his time at Royal China, has branched out on his own. Imperial Noodle opened last week in Richardson, delivering entertainment along with a delicious meal. After entering the glitzy, auspiciously red restaurant, you catch sight of Zhang at work, crafting…
Follow the bright red tractor outside Hash House A Go Go, and you’ll soon tuck into heaping platefuls of “twisted farm food.” Everything here is as big as Texas itself. Happy hour munchies — chicken, pork and “taters” — are offered literally by the bucketful. Their version of a bloody…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. If the ingredients are good, the simplest breakfast can be memorable. Nowhere is that more true than at…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. We don’t often think about how foods sound, rather than smell or taste; maybe there aren’t too many…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. When Pie Tap opened last month on Oak Lawn Avenue, it brought two much-needed things to the Design…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. For those looking to downright injure themselves with food for $20.99, it’s hard to go wrong with Omi…
In this week’s roundup of North Texas food news, Punch Bowl Social comes to Deep Ellum, Oak loses yet another chef and a popular festival announces a stellar chef lineup: Meat Fight, the beloved barbecue competition that raises funds for the National MS Society, has announced this year’s participating chefs,…
A centrifuge, lasers and roto-vaporizors are typical instruments found in a chemistry lab, not in a cocktail bar — unless the bar is Hide, set to open on Elm Street in Deep Ellum by the end of 2016. Hide’s website promises to serve “cocktails clarified,” and it’s not just a…
Explore Italy one bite at a time at Scardello’s Italian cheese and wine tasting. From robiolas to the “King of Cheese,” tasters will be treated to some of the best cheeses the boot has to offer. The cost to eat your weight in Parmigiano-Reggiano is $40 per person. What it…
Pier 247’s brunch menu uses the words “creamy” and “grits” on six separate occasions, while “bacon” appears seven times. One dish, in fact, manages to capture all three: the chicken-fried chicken biscuit sandwich, which comes smothered in bacon Creole sauce, served with a side of creamy cheese grits. Using the…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. The spicy tuna roll at Maki Boy isn’t fancy date night sushi — it’s workday sushi. Ordered at…
Is there a more noble reason to drink than to benefit the North Texas Food Bank? Throughout the month of September, you can visit Mudhen and order their Canadian Clementine cocktail, developed by Mudhen cocktail director Tia Downey, and they’ll donate $1 to the NTFB in honor of Hunger Awareness Month. So pop in, order a…
Monkey King Noodle Co. is no fly-by-night Chinese food spot — this beloved Deep Ellum street food joint makes noodles and dumplings by hand, and the resulting food is some of the best in the neighborhood. After moving the restaurant from their food stand at 3014 Main St. to a brick-and-mortar with…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, long-standing North Texas eateries and examines their history while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. On a late afternoon, after crawling through traffic past Bob’s Steakhouse and The Great American Hero, I…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. Company Cafe has catered to resource-conscious, health-minded day-drinkers since it opened in 2011, and you’ll do well to…
Have you felt it? There has been an awakening. On Thursday at 11 a.m., just outside the Crescent in Uptown, there will be a disturbance in the burger force. Dallas will officially become home to the holy polygon of fast food: Whataburger, In-N-Out, Five Guys and Shake Shack. Among Shake…
In January 2015, chef John Tesar had just closed Spoon, his Preston Center seafood restaurant, and parted ways with his business partners, Chanticleer Holdings. Tesar’s Knife, his steakhouse at The Highland hotel, was taking off, and reports from early 2015 cited “diverging business objectives” as the reason why Tesar walked away…
This June, a chef named Tyler Kord published A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches. In it, Kord pens a sort of manifesto for insane sandwiches, writing, “I don’t think there are any two ingredients that can’t go together,” and, “I want to make things that nobody would think to make…
Back in 2013, the Texas Legislature decided to stifle local breweries with a provision in SB 639, known as a “sale restriction,” which forced breweries that produce more than 125,000 barrels a year to use a distribution company or self-distribute. Texas has a three-tier system of alcohol distribution left over…
Chef Kenny Bowers, of the eponymous Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill, Kenny’s Burger Joint, Kenny’s Smoke House and Kenny’s Italian, has added a new restaurant to his domain with the opening of Kenny’s East Coast Pizza on in Plano. The new spot is near Preston Road and Park Boulevard, next to…
Leading up to September’s Best of Dallas® 2016 issue, we’re sharing (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes, the Dallas entrées, appetizers and desserts that really stuck with us this year. There are a lot of restaurants in Bishop Arts, and the buzz-worthy spots often have lines out the…
