Bars & Breweries

LUCK changed up the traditional Cosmopolitan to bring us a cider-and-black eyed pea vodka version.

Celestial Beerworks, which opened in fall 2018 in the Medical District, is a friendly little brewery on a rather pleasant trajectory. Along with its easily accessed, central location, the brains behind the beer offer enthusiasts plenty of reasons to put this place on their schedules. Owner Matt Reynolds is a…

Gung Ho’s 9 Volt shot gives you a little buzz with your buzz.

It’s not a very common menu item, but it is certainly a memorable one: “Buy a round of beers for the kitchen.” But what are the rules? Which beer does the kitchen choose to drink? How drunk are the cooks while they work?

Perhaps the most common question one can overhear from another table when visiting one of the dozens of local brewery taprooms is “Ooh, now what’s that I’m tasting here?” Thanks to the ever-expanding number of craft breweries in North Texas, each with its own ever-expanding list of selections both permanent…

Meddlesome Moth’s Windy Apple offers up a rich flavor thanks to brown butter-infused bourbon.

Pasha Heidari and Sam Wynne come together to bring us our favorite new divey nice bar … or maybe our new favorite fancy dive bar.

Perle on Maple created a Singles Awareness Day cocktail worthy of a self-love toast.

Pok The Raw Bar offers a CBD powder-infused mocktail.

The Topo Chico anthem Texas deserves.

For people who live and work in downtown Dallas, City Tavern was the ideal neighborhood bar. After City Tavern opened in 2004, its cheap drinks, no-frills bar food and cozy dive bar ambiance made it the neighborhood’s favorite hang spot, a real-life Cheers where bartenders set your usual on the…

It’s no secret Las Colinas has become the most entertaining part of Irving, reinforced by last year’s opening of entertainment complex Toyota Music Factory. Despite the failure of Big Beat Dallas, and the restaurants associated with it, a ton of other food and drink options remain. One such business is…

Pappas Bros.’s Irish Coffee uses dark sugars and Amaro Montenegro to set their Irish Coffee apart from other traditional ICs.

District 9 Draught House brings German pub food and draft craft beer, including growler fills, to Lake Highlands.

Through the end of February, Kenny’s Burger Joint offers two Girl Scout Cookie cocktail options: Thin Mint and Samoa milkshakes with optional booze, just in case your Scout wants a taste.

We’ve always been fans of grocery stores where you can sip beer and wine while you shop — buying vegetables just feels less humdrum while nursing a glass of rosé. Now, a Plano mall is letting visitors sip booze while shopping, which is about to make that bathing suit-buying experience…

Veronica and Craig Bradley mortgaged their future to open the brewpub Vector Brewing in Lake Highlands. In December, they signed a lease for the 10,000-square foot brewery. Just 14 days later, the federal government shutdown started, and now, the Bradleys’ future — and Vector Brewing — is in terrifying (and expensive) limbo.

It’s National Mocktail Week, so we thought we’d embrace a booze-free option and we were DELIGHTED that Blue Sushi Sake Grill offers not just one, but FOUR creative, zero-proof cocktails to keep our hands occupied and our self-awareness in check.

Beer cocktails are a pretty common sight on many of the menus and chalkboards of North Texas’ favorite craft beer destinations. And any Mexican joint worth its Tajin has some form of michelada available come brunch time. By flipping the script, Peticolas Brewing just introduced something far more rare to…

Jalisco Norte offers us four Ranch Water slants. Our favorite is the Early Riser; it’s just the thing to get us through these weird 60-degrees-in-January days and not ruin our resolutions … just yet.

If you frequent the Whippersnapper — that smaller establishment next to High Fives off North Henderson Avenue — the place might look a little different than usual. The bar closed after a massive New Year’s Eve party, but something new has already opened in its place — something new, something…

The Guadalajaran, a large format cocktail from Vidorra, is here to help us ruin our resolutions and pour on the fun.