Bars & Breweries

We’ve seen some good frosés crop up across Dallas over the last year and a half, but we’re delighted to finally see one that’s a bit elevated—both in ingredients and ABV. Pie Tap decided that some frozen summer water wasn’t going to cut it, so they took it up a notch by adding Hendrick’s gin and Aperol to the usually (relatively) innocent cocktail. The result? A frosé that will bump up your brunch game. And at just $2 a pop (clink, fizz), you may find yourself calling it “pink drank”.

Summer in Texas can get expensive. Between the $300 electric bills and the cost of posting up at the FOE pool every weekend, heat-related expenses start to add up. One of our biggest summer expenditures: Topo Chico. Sure, every Texan sips this popular Mexican sparkling mineral water year-round. But when the…

It’s getting to be beer weather in Texas. OK, yes, it’s always beer weather, but the summer heat calls for something refreshing, light and well made, a beer that will make me tolerate the outdoors, a beer that’s cool consolation for the face-melting misery of the Dallas sun. Luckily, a…

Want somewhere to enjoy a meal without having to excuse yourself to change your shirt in the middle of a meal? We’ve got your (dry) back with a list of our favorite air conditioned patios around town.

In February, Amazon launched two-hour grocery delivery service in Dallas, giving us one less reason to drive across town for eggs and grass-fed beef. The grocery delivery included alcohol, but now the online retail behemoth is upping the ante with “superfast” beer and wine delivery in DFW. “Prime members can…

The cocktail menu at Lowest Greenville darling, Gung Ho, is a behemoth. Created by veteran barman Matt Ragan (of Victor Tango fame), each drink is unique and imaginative. From tiki-inspired cocktails to classics, their menu has a decidedly Far East flare.

So much can change in a year, especially in Dallas. And since Dallas loves a good rooftop patio, we thought we’d breathe some new life to last year’s article about the new rooftop patios for boozing, schmoozing, and viewing that popped up in the last year. And since we never second guess ourselves, we’re doubling down with the full list of badass rooftops from last year’s article. Happy patio season, y’all.

Enjoy this whiskey and beer cocktail at Brooklyn Brewry’s Beer Mansion this weekend.

Wanna spend an evening at Dallas Farmers Market sampling from a selection of more than 500 local, national and international craft beers? Of course you do, which is why it’s time to start planning for the eighth annual Dallas Observer BrewFest, taking over the market on Sept. 8. General admission…

Try El Fenix’s Centennial Margarita and enjoy the chance to win free food for a year.

The Parlor on Commerce, a low-key Deep Ellum bar known for its laid-back atmosphere and incredible patty melt, has closed, owner Seth Byars confirms. “We closed up shop, and it was kinda a sweet release for me, personally, cause I was working 17 hours a day, seven days a week,”…

The Dani’s Garden cocktail at Up on Knox is a beautiful cocktail simply built cocktail with complex elements.

Memorial Day weekend is pretty hectic for most bars, but this weekend was particularly so for Old East Dallas craft beer bar Strangeways. “They couldn’t wait for us to open,” Strangeways owners joked on Facebook when posting a photo of the Oldsmobile Bravada that crashed through the wall and into…

Stop into Whiskey Ranch to check out their new seasonal cocktail menu.

Dallas Tiki Week is coming up, and they want you to join them for their annual fête, the Bermuda Triangle.

The surface of the sun seems to have descended on Dallas early this year, which means it’s time to transition to summer drinking mode. After all, nobody wants to drink a pitcher of Brandy Alexanders when it’s 95 degrees outside. Chill out this weekend with one of these summery Dallas…

While there’s really no such thing as a healthy cocktail, one that offers a vegan workaround for egg white and the promise of detoxifying activated charcoal is about as good as it’s going to get. But you better believe we’re excited to see aquafaba on more cocktail menus.

To celebrate the frozen margarita, and all thing margarita, for that matter, Visit Dallas set out to make the “ultimate margarita bucket list” for visitors and residents alike, the Margarita Mile, a free app that leads “players” on a veritable margarita scavenger hunt to discover Dallas’s best margaritas.

If you’ve spent much time in the Dallas cocktail scene, you’ve come across Nico Martini. (Yes, that’s really his name.) This week, the local cocktail personality launched his latest venture, Texas Cocktails, a new book celebrating the cocktails intrinsically tied to Texas culture and cuisine. Martini’s history with Dallas cocktails…

Midnight Rambler’s new menu is inspired by the Pagan Rites of Spring and boasts nine intriguing cocktails, each with painstaking ingredients.

New Lowest Greenville spot asked patrons for funding and will finally opens its doors mid-May with prohibition-style cocktails and a laid-back, lounge vibe.

Low ABV cocktails, clear elements, and rotating bar themes are some of the trends coming to our bars this spring and summer.