Where to Drink with* Your Kids in Dallas

It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. *Not with with. You know what we mean. It’s hard to recall, now that your brain is sleep-starved and littered…

The Female Bartenders Who Rule Dallas’ Cocktail Scene

It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. Mustachioed, bowtie-and-fedora-wearing Newsies extras shaking out cocktails is so last year: This is the year of the “ladytender.” Much more…

The Best Frozen Cocktails in Dallas

It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. It may be less than a month until the official start of fall, but this is Texas, so it’s best…

The Best Smoked Cocktails in Dallas

It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. “Mixology” has officially gotten a little out of hand. Who hasn’t witnessed a mustachioed barman pour 37 different ingredients into…

A Graphic Designer Reviews Dallas Beer Labels

It’s Drinking Week at City of Ate, which means even more stories than usual about our favorite pastime. Check back for more stories about craft beer, killer bartenders and more. Maybe you don’t care about graphic design. Maybe the only reason you look at a beer bottle label is to…

AF+B’s Cocktails Are the Real Deal

Since opening earlier this year, AF+B has been cranking out food and cocktails that are impressive enough to justify a drive to Fort Worth even if you don’t have other plans. What hasn’t gotten as much fanfare, though, is the restaurant’s impressive (if short) cocktail menu. In an effort to…

Martin House’s Daybreak: It’s Beer for Breakfast

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Behold (and Chug): LUCK’s Beer Stout Float

Fear not, Dallas citizens, for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people aged 21 and over. For unto you is served this day, in the master-planned restaurant complex of Trinity Groves™, a summer indulgence, which you’re going to want to pour into…

The Summer Drinks of Dallas

Soon enough the Polar Vortex will be rightfully consumed by summer and the sweat will start pooling again. When it does, douse it with one of these summer cocktails, either using the recipes below or just showing up at the bar. Violet Beauregarde, above (Bolsa): 1 1/2 oz Tito’s vodka…

Tasting the Beers of Panther Island Brewing

These days it seems like you can’t swing an empty growler in Dallas without breaking a freshly-screened pint glass from a new local brewery. Is our market saturated? Is there room for another new brewery? What makes this one different from the last? *insert incessant hand-wringing* Well, I’ll tell you…

Meet Sancerre, Your New Favorite Summer Wine

Remember when rosé first became a thing? It seems without much notice that many Americans collectively put down the Boone’s Farm, or perhaps a fizzy Bartles and Jaymes and picked up a bottle of pink wine from France to fill in as their summer sipper. Speedos suddenly became OK, along…

Brewfest Is Back Again. Get Ready to Drink Up.

If the Dallas Observer’s Brewfest is anything, it’s a dynamic event. The first few years the sudsy celebration was held at the zoo until someone threw a can of Dale’s Pale Ale at a flamingo and our editor out-wrestled a gorilla. Then we moved the event to the Arts District…

Prairie Has a Beer That Smells a Little Funky. You’ll Like It.

I don’t know Lauren’s last name, partly because I was drinking while researching this post and partly because I was drinking while I was researching this post, but I’ll never forget her answer to my question. I’d just ordered a glass of Prairie’s Funky Gold Mosaic and was blown away…

The Five Best Summer Beers in Dallas

This past weekend I decided to wander around Dallas drinking all the summery local beers I could find. There were a lot of them, and I became very drunk, awaking the next morning in a haze of hoppy memories and the remnants of a Quesarito in my lap. I felt…

The Dallas Half-Priced Food and Drink Calendar

Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals. That’s why we built this calendar of half-price food and drink specials, listing the restaurant, special and time under each date. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date on a large chunk of weekly half-priced food and drink deals…