Bars & Breweries

National Tequila Day is July 24, and we’re going to be celebrating with some of DFW’s best tequila cocktails.

Cafe Salsera started as a Latin restaurant in Deep Ellum, but in the last few months, it became known more for its late-night dance club atmosphere that transforms the quiet restaurant into a packed nightclub that has frustrated some of its neighbors. In Dallas, nightclubs are required to have a…

It started with a bloody mary. Dallas bar veterans Michael Martensen and Omar Yeefoon were in Paris at Harry’s New York Bar, the birthplace of the bloody mary, and they were in awe. The pair has opened and consulted on dozens of Dallas cocktail bars, building menu after menu populated…

TEN50 BBQ’s Mango Margarita can soak up all that spirited fun on National Tequila Day with their amazing BBQ.

Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. Sometimes a cocktail comes into your life and fills you with…

Pie Tap is attempting to replace the standard with a leveled-up Irish Coffee that they’re calling the Irish Nitro.

Beer drinkers of DFW, get ready: Presale starts today for Dallas Observer BrewFest, our seventh annual outdoor beer tasting event that, this year, will bring more than 500 beers from around the world (and North Texas in particular) to the Dallas Farmers Market on Saturday, Sept. 9. A $35 general…

The common children’s sandwich that graced many a lunch room table with affixed stools is now showing its face at Dallas’s Downtown Southern eatery, Grayson Social, but in cocktail form in their PB&J Manhattan.

Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. If you are not a subscriber to the Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop…

Outside the front door was no noticeable signage, just a small green lightbulb. When it was lit — so long as you came invited and with a bottle of mezcal in hand — you could enter a small, candlelit room that felt more like a small Mexican church than a…

Dallas Tiki Week inspired The Standard Pour to create The Love Boat which features not just one, not two, but three banana elements—two of which were made in-house just for this cocktail.

Yesterday we shared our picks for the best new Dallas restaurants of 2017 to date, but it’s also been a banner year in the city’s drink scene. From cocktail laboratories to affordable wine bars to liquor stores with a healthy twist, it’s been a busy time for booze in Dallas…

Although summer is more of a formality than an actual seasonal shift for North Texans, the end of school and a national holiday or two offer some unique opportunities for themed beer consumption. While your options might seem simple — lagers, limes, drink, repeat — we like to think that…

Sunday kicks off the first Dallas Tiki Week, a celebration of tiki cocktails and the bartenders who do them right. In honor of the five-day event and its many bar crawls and cocktail contests — and in honor of our 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, on newsstands now — here…

We’ve got your back this summer with our favorite Dallas area patios that make it possible to log some alfresco time.

Slake your summer thirst with Fat Rabbit’s summery cocktail, The Buster Baxter

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. For a long time, tiki cocktails felt like a Dallas bartender secret, an off-menu playground where bar talent quietly…

Havana claims the mojito. San Juan, the piña colada. And Dallas? Dallas is the birthplace of the frozen margarita machine. Hometown hero Mariano Martinez came up with the frozen margarita machine in 1971, the year he opened Mariano’s Mexican Cuisine y Cantina on Greenville Avenue. The restaurant was the first…

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. In Dallas, margaritas have never been trendy. They are part of our drinking culture and our heritage, and they…

Welcome to the 2017 Dallas Summer Drinking Guide, your blueprint to the best summer ever. Hang with us and we’ll lead you to the city’s best summer drinks, parties and hotspots. If ever there was a time to skip out of work early and post up at a bar, sipping…

Get boozy and cool down with one of Dallas’s cocktails featuring boozy popsicles.