Bars & Breweries

Dallas’s strongest drinks and where to find them … because sometimes you just want one.

A Dallas craft cocktail mainstay has a new owner, announced today via press release. Windmill Lounge owner Louise Owens has sold the 11-year-old Maple Avenue bar to Lisa and Tom Georgalis and the Triada Hospitality Group, which also owns Ivy Tavern. While the press release notes that “big changes are in…

Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that restaurant reviewers apply to restaurants, steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. There’s a term for craft cocktail bars that struggle to produce good drinks: wine bars. As in, when you’re there,…

The B-L-TX is a light yet boozy addition to any meal at Rodeo Goat with a little sweet and plenty of booze.

In this week’s round of DFW food news, local concepts expand and indie food and drink names jump into the Victory Park fray: Victory Park has struggled to find its footing, but three new nightspots are hoping to change things. The new places feature some big names in the Dallas…

Stop into Barcadia through the end of March for a giant Frozen Tully Irish Mule

Rosé + prosecco + berries + Jello = Cedar Groves’ new Basic Bitch cocktail.

When Darin Peterson and Jill Bresnan returned from Europe a few years ago, the two homebrewers, who met through their shared love of beer, decided that they wanted to start a brewery. Shortly after, the idea for Good Neighbor Brews was born. After doing some research, the two decided to open their…

Craft beers and quality pizza give us plenty of reasons to visit Heritage Pizza And Taproom in The Colony.

We downed a couple of The Tipsy Alchemist’s new Spring cocktails, the Down the Rabbit Hole, and it took out night in a different totally f**king crazy direction.

We were promised gummy bears infused with champagne, martini chocolates, and rum balls … but we just got candy.

Pie Tap’s Bloody Mary looks like it’s quite standard until you get an eyeful of the garnish complete with a slice of pizza, and the taste is surprisingly peppery thanks to the house-infused peppered vodka.

Dozens of craft beer drinkers poured into downtown Arlington last weekend for the grand opening of On Tap, the city’s newest craft beer bar and growler-filling station. “Arlington didn’t have a brewery scene until pretty much the past year,” says general manager Jaspreet Bains. That’s quickly changing thanks to Division…

True Food Kitchen is getting in on the battle that is Valentine’s Day with the War of the Roses, a cocktail that’s as potent as it is beautiful.  February 10-14, enjoy one for just $10 (along with three other boozy options), or mix one up at home.

In 2014, Lakewood Growler opened off Abrams Road and Mockingbird Lane and has since become a haven for craft beer in East Dallas. Building on that success, the people behind Lakewood Growler announced in September that they would be opening another location in Preston Hollow. In January, that location opened…

We’re starting to see bars step up the smoke by using liquid nitrogen in different ways to do anything from muddle mint to make you a creamy frozen margarita right at your table.  While the use of a 321-degree below zero ingredient seems like a dramatic addition to entertain guests, are customers aware of the potential dangers of using it in cocktails?

One of Hide’s signatures cocktails, the Upside Down, brings together Aquavit , lemon, pineapple, sherry, nutmeg, and chamomile scotch.

Dallas, not being a fan of being seen as the underdog, has its newest tiki bar, Pilikia opening its doors January 26th at 8pm.

Hotel bars are becoming a thing again — just look at Midnight Rambler at the Joule and Knife in the Highland. SER at the Hilton Anatole is quickly becoming a hotel bar to watch. Bartender Colin Silva may be behind the stick, but he’s not behind on cocktail trends. He’s…

The last couple of years have been friendly to the North Texas beer scene — more than 25 breweries have popped up across our prairie landscape. The fears of a craft beer bubble have been popping up for years now, but on the other side of the coin, the thirst for…

We saw some new things at the SACC, but also noticed that the industry is doubling down on some previously seen movements such as the classic cocktail resurgence. Daiquiris are the leaders on that front, but we also saw draft cocktails, a Mexican ton of mezcal, and a movement to return to real hospitality behind the bar.