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. Chef Mansour Gorji won back-to-back statewide Texas Steak Cook-Offs a decade ago, and although he has retired from…
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. Maybe pide will sell better if we call it a “pizza canoe.” Imagine rowing to safety on top…
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. Filament opened with a splash at the end of 2015 and drew favorable notice from pretty much everybody…
When news got out yesterday that MillerCoors’ craft division had purchased a majority interest in Granbury brewery Revolver, opinions on social media were varied — and loud. “I think this is great! People do something cool and get paid.” “Good for the owners of Revolver — hope they cashed in…
In this week’s DFW food news round-up, a “chestaurant” shutters, a barbecue joint expands and Bon Appetit is apparently not done gushing about Dallas food: Hutchins BBQ is about to begin renovations at its flagship restaurant in McKinney, according to a press release. Construction will start by September and is…
The end of August approaches, ushering in the last few weeks of another crushing Texas summer and promising a fresh influx of brand new Dentonites to this university town. They come with open minds and hungry bellies; most are unfamiliar with the area and need a crash course for dining…
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. It’s 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday night in Deep Ellum and I am drunk — everyone is drunk,…
One of North Texas’ most popular breweries — brewer of Blood & Honey, one of North Texas’ most popular beers — has been acquired by Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft and import division of MillerCoors, according to a press release. MillerCoors, like other big beer producers who’ve seen serious…
A couple of days ago, Deep Ellum Brewing Company posted on their Facebook page that they’re serving lunch now — a full menu that includes elote-covered tater tots, pizza, tacos and beer. After my car’s tires squeal in anticipation, I plop into the cool steel taproom. Little bar games are on…
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. In an era of over-the-top food, Carbone’s menu is refreshingly simple. Linguine with shrimp scampi. Spaghetti and meatballs…
Think of it this way: The resveratrol will balance out the carcinogens. Enjoy an evening of Texas wine and barbeque at Ten50BBQ in Richardson. Enjoy a four-course dinner with pairings from Messina Hof wines. Tickets are $30 per person. What it be: Messina Hof Wine Pairing When it do: 6…
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. It’s around noon at Barbec’s, and I’m overcome with a strange, uncomfortable feeling. I’m clutching the spiral…
On Oct. 15, the Dallas Observer will take over City Hall Plaza with live music, ample booze and dozens of vendors sampling all the tacos you can stuff in your taco-hole. The second annual Tacolandia is an outdoor taco-sampling festival full of Dallas’ best tacos, ranging from contemporary to classic…
When you read, “the best tacos we’ve had all year” from a publication like Bon Appetit, you know you have to have one of those tacos. And when West Dallas’ Trompo received this praise last week, taco-eaters of Dallas had the same thought. “Before Bon Appetit we were doing about…
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. A good dumpling is a revelation. A good soup dumpling is life-affirming. At Fortune House, you can’t go…
At the small tables of an underground dinner, a couple might be paired with another random couple who will become Facebook friends by the end of the evening. With a casual dress code, BYOB and good food, chef David Anthony Temple’s underground dinners give diners another option outside of the…
The wins just keep coming for Trompo. Ever since Bon Appetit named Trompo one of America’s Best New Restaurants of 2016 last week, Trompo has been slammed — so slammed that owner Luis Olvera had to adopt the barbecue joint model by shutting down every day when Trompo inevitably runs out. Today,…
Puritanical is the typical word applied to people who insist God commands humanity to stay off the sauce. That might surprise actual Puritans, who brewed (and consumed) a lot of beer on Plymouth Rock. All the same, the divide separating Bible studies and beer halls has lingered over our nation’s…
Were you the kid at camp that alway caught his marshmallow on fire and waved it in front of other campers’ faces and then got in trouble? That kind of reckless behavior has no doubt gotten you far in life. Luckily, today being National S’Mores Day and all, the bartenders…
After months of waiting, there is much rejoicing among DFW’s barbecue faithful. With a week of soft openings under their belt, Heim Barbecue & Catering officially opened their brick and mortar location on Magnolia Avenue in Fort Worth on Saturday, Aug. 6. We’ll start with the bad news first: Yes,…
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 this list of our 100 favorite dishes of 2016 came in any particular order, this one would…
Like most cuisines that arrive on American shores, Thai food has undergone a transformation in its new country. Flavors are adapted or softened for American palates, and hits like pad thai become mainstream staples. Yummy Thai on Royal Lane in Irving is a rare, but unconvincing, glimpse at the Thai…
