Bars & Breweries

Get literary with new cocktails named for Raymond Chandler works at Knife.

Beginning in May, lovers of linguistics and lexicons will be able to show off their spelling skills in an epic drunk spelling bee battle. Wheelhouse will kick off Boozy Bee, a tipsy spelling bee series that will take place every Friday night between 9 and 11 p.m. Boozy Bee will…

Before 2016, there wasn’t much to do in Arlington that didn’t involve ballparks or Six Flags. Legal Draft Beer Co. helped change that.

Start your week off right with craft beers and food pairing at the Meddlesome Moth’s ninth annual beer dinner. Tickets are on sale for $80, which gets you a six-course meal with each dish being uniquely crafted to pair well with your beers. The beers being served are locally crafted…

Dallas’ Bishop Cider Co. has launched Uncommon Wines, a woman-led brand of fruity, low-ABV “session” wines that come in a can.

Five Sixty’s bar offers a Maker’s Mark take on the Paper Plane cocktail that will mean $2 will be donated to Paper for Water.

We’re not sure why it took so long, but it’s safe to say that we’re in the midst of a golden age when it comes to dine-in movie theaters. Sure, there have been a couple of chains offering less than stellar bar food with what has historically been a ho-hum…

Victory Park has a new restaurant and watering hole: Dibs on Victory, a bar and restaurant with a second-floor patio overlooking Victory Park and the nearby American Airlines Center. The 7,700-square-foot restaurant comes from This and That Concepts, which also owns High Fives, Tiny Victories, Ferris Wheelers and the late…

Barrel aged beers always stir up craft beer lovers, and now Strangeways Dallas has really caused some commotion with their Barrel Week event. All week long, they will have 40 barrel-aged beers on draft to sip and savor. There will be a variety of different styles to try, so get…

The Tipsy Oak, a craft beer spot with a gorgeous patio and live music, is further proof that Arlington — yes, Arlington — is getting cooler by the day.

Although it’s a craft beer hotbed these days, there was a time not too long ago that Dallas’ Design District at least seemed like an odd place for a craft brewery. Of course, the area, filled with all sorts of available warehouse space, makes sense for a new brewer to…

The Uptown Dallas bar Ill Minster Pub has transformed itself into a “Game of Thrones” pop-up bar to coincide with the show’s final season, which premiers this Sunday.

When some people hear the term “sour” beer, the instinctive reaction is puckering of the lips and a polite, yet affirmative, “no thank you.” The idea of sipping something that presents acidic, pungent and tangy is a hard sell for some, especially for the everyday Miller drinkers where the mountains…

The recently renovated bar offers the chance for patrons to enjoy a cocktail and help those in need of clean water with their Eau d’Elyx cocktail.

Shannon Wynne wrote an op/ed in the Texas Tribune citing brewery taprooms as the reason he had to close an Austin location of his Flying Saucer chain, and claimed that letting brewers sell directly to consumers will hurt the bar industry. But we disagree.

For its eighth annual edition, the Big Texas Beer Fest in Dallas felt like the biggest one ever. On Saturday afternoon, a sold-out crowd of 5,000 filled Fair Park’s Automotive Building to take a shot at around 100 brewers offering nearly 500 different beers. Add in the 2,100 that festival…

Taco Lingo’s Strawberry Tamarind Margarita will help you learn the lingo.

If you’re not paying close attention, you’ll drive right by the entrance for Outfit Brewing. Even with the help of your phone’s map app, it’s reasonable to wonder if you entered the wrong address as you pull into the parking lot for Standard Insurance just off of Highway 114 in…

The Henry’s signature Dallas cocktail, The Devil’s in the Details, brings together spice and sweet for the perfect patio sipper for the spring.

This is the end of Noble Rey Brewing Co. as we know it: the Dallas brewery announced on Facebook today that it has sold to new owners and will close April 1 before new owners take over. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we come to you, our…

The Color Run invades Dallas next weekend along with a signature cocktail, the Haven on Earth.

You won’t find any trendy NEIPAs or spontaneously fermented sours on Steam Theory Brewing’s taproom menu, but what you will find is fantastic, straightforward Dallas craft beer.