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. You can tell a lot about a bar by the hats…
Stop into HIDE to check out their new food and drink menus, new for Fall.
Downtown Dallas cocktail den, Midnight Rambler, is bringing back some old favorites from menus past and throwing in a soon-to-be fall favorite or two. One of their new tipples is the Hot Buttered Soul, a fall forward cocktail named for a Southern soul album by Isaac Hayes.
Jalisco Norte’s Crafty Paloma serves up an elevated take on a traditional cocktail.
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. Have you seen the bar stools at Harlowe MXM? You should…
If you’re not the type to dress up as a Game of Thrones character and binge drink in a crowded nightlife district, there are other, subtler ways to celebrate Halloween. Have a cocktail at one of several Dallas bar/restaurants rumored to have spirits lurking within. You don’t have to believe…
Dallas-Fort Worth has a weeklong celebration of all things beer — and in particular, the locally brewed beer that makes our local brew scene so special. Looking to celebrate? Here are a few of our favorite events this week, but you can see a full list at the North Texas…
The Truluck’s specialty Halloween cocktail, 43 Reasons to Love Halloween, is simple, yet delicious. And it’s half price during Happy Hour.
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. When I moved to Dallas a few years ago, everyone told…
During Hidden Gems Week, the Observer food and drink writers are celebrating an abundance of diverse, delicious restaurants and bars around Dallas, places that don’t often (or ever) get mentioned by big-name food media, trendsetters, bloggers or chefs. We’re taking you outside of the ordinary to help you discover something…
We’re just gonna say it—we’d plunder a village for Hot Joy’s Pirate Booty cocktail.
Henry’s Majestic is about to celebrate its birthday … and it’s doing it with creative tiki cocktails featuring hazelnut orgeat for just $7.
Oak Cliff’s self-proclaimed cat lady may soon lose that title. Meri Dahlke, co-owner of Ten Bells Tavern, has a colony of cats on the property, registered through local organization Feral Friends Community Cat Alliance, but the numbers have been dwindling. “I think when we registered, the colony was 13, and we’re…
This cocktail from Harlowe MXM’s cocktail bar, Trick Pony, that only has three ingredients whose flavor is anything but simple thanks to its mushroom demerera.
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. You cannot build a dive bar. Dive bars are formed slowly,…
Worn out by IPAs and tired of the same-old stout? A new roster of locally brewed beers is bringing something interesting to the table: inspiration from a wide range of curious, generally hop-free foods. Between a ramen noodle-infused sour and Girl Scout cookie-inspired stout, these craft brews stand out as…
Midnight Rambler, never one to back down from a unique ingredient, uses the makrut leaf and lemongrass to infuse gin for its Savory Hunter cocktail.
Nickel & Rye’s Calamity Child brings together unusual elements that you’d think would clash, but it’s a beautiful calamity.
Tired of the same old watering hole? Switch things up this weekend by visiting one of the city’s new bars, which run the gamut from fancy rooftop bars to vintage motorcycle shops with cheap granddad beer. Bar StellarStellar on Henderson Avenue was a disaster, so it was no surprise when…
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. To build an enviable home bar, you need to invest in…
The Black Truffle Martini on the Pappas Bros. current cocktail menu (which changes semi-annually) elegantly puts the high dollar mushroom to good use by infusing Vermouth with just the right bit of it.
Beer festivals, like this weekend’s Dallas Observer Brewfest in Dallas, create a dilemma for devoted drinkers. There are only so many glasses you’re going to fill and so many lines you’ll wait in. For those of us there to catch a buzz … oh, right, beer is supposed to be…
