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 and time under each day. This week we added specials at Hacienda on Henderson, which serves up half-price food on Mondays from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m…
Saturday’s Untapped fest combined the best of my two favorite worlds, beer and music, by putting equal importance on both. Each was strong enough to stand on its own. The beer selection is usually an afterthought at music fests, its only purpose to boost the revenue, while the music selection…
I can’t imagine the headache that the Sundown at Granada must be on weekends, because with patios like that, its Thursday through Sunday crowd must be hanging over the rooftop’s railings. But for a lazy and breezy Wednesday evening, the atmosphere can’t be beat. Fact: scientific research has proven that…
The Dallas-area beer scene is growing almost too quickly to keep track of, with news of another brewery coming almost monthly and enough beer festivals in the near future that hardcore suds lovers should consider opening a liver-transplant savings account. Fort Worth’s Martin House Brewing Company is the project of…
Located in the seemingly doomed Henderson Avenue strip where Horne & Dekker, Fish City Grill and Urbino all met their maker, Snack seems to be the unfortunate red-headed stepchild of the otherwise successful ventures from dynamic duo Avner Samuel and Jon Stevens. It’s been panned by critics and Yelpers alike,…
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 and time under each day. This week we added specials at both Company Cafe locations, Private Social, The Mighty Duck in Addison and Frankie’s Sports Bar in…
This is one of the most eventful weeks ever for beer aficionados in Dallas. First off, yesterday marked the release of Houston brewery Saint Arnold’s Divine Reserve 12. Divine Reserve is a series irregularly released special, rare single-batch offerings. Each is inspired by an entry in the Big Batch Brew…
I spent five days last week stumbling my way through the tenth annual Tales of the Cocktail event in New Orleans and came away with some new friends, blisters on my feet, tons of new booze knowledge, and a pretty wicked hangover. I’ve also got memories that will last a…
Greetings from currently rainy New Orleans! I’m here till Sunday checking out the 10th annual Tales of the Cocktail, a gathering of bartenders, liquor reps and booze enthusiasts that draws attendees from all over the nation for a week of seminars, tasting rooms, dinners, parties and general alcohol-fueled revelry. (I’m…
Last night amidst a whirlwind of whiskey shots inside the business card-encrusted walls of New Orleans’ Old Absinthe House (the only bar on Bourbon Street I’ve found that’s worthy of visiting so far, and the spot where everyone who’s anyone seems to convene post-Tales dinners and parties), I ran into…
The Standard Pour in Uptown decidedly un-standard. Their menu is full of “cravings:” seemingly haphazardly chosen apps, entrees, sides and desserts with cutesy titles like “conversation starters” and “centers of attention.” There are Asian tastes, Mexican tastes, Italian tastes, French tastes and American tastes. It’s like the Olympics up in…
Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals. That’s why we built this calendar of half-price food and drink deals, listing the restaurant and time under each day. We’ll do our best to keep you up-to-date on a large chunk of weekly half-priced food and drink specials. As always, we’d…
With Belgium’s Independence Day falling on Saturday, retailers and pubs specializing in good beer are celebrating all week with specials on Belgian beers, starting last night and running through Saturday — though the celebration runs through next week with the Libertine Bar’s Belgian Beer Dinner Tuesday the 24th. Other Belgian-inspired…
Anglophiles rejoice — Uptown will soon be home to another den of fish and chips and football. (And by football, we mean soccer.) Owners Larry Martin and Edgar Carlson, who are also behind the chain Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub, will open the British Beverage Co. in the Quadrangle at 2800…
If you wanna talk cocktails in Fort Worth, you’re likely speaking of one person and one person only: Brad Hensarling. The thirtysomething behind dive bar The Chat Room and creative cocktail den The Usual has almost single-handedly shaped the Cowtown craft drink scene, and today he expands his empire with…
Tonight at 7 o’clock, the Libertine Bar offers a beer dinner featuring beers from Weihenstephaner, a Bavarian brewery — the world’s oldest, in fact. In that time, they’ve clearly mastered the brewing art. Their Korbinian is my personal favorite doppelbock, and the others to be featured ain’t half bad either…
Chef Vijay Sadhu’s cocktail-centric restaurant and bar Pepper Smash (7200 Bishop Road) soft-opened Monday in the same Shops at Legacy spot where his upscale-Indian venture Sutra closed in March after being open for less than a year. The bar program is the brainchild of Keith LaBonte, the mad scientist mixologist…
Every time I go to a Flying Saucer beer festival, or BeerFeast or whatever they want to call them, I ask myself, “Why don’t I go to these more often?” And then I remember — distance. My fantasy is that the chain opens an outpost in Dallas proper within walking…
Hear that? It’s the sound of thousands of peoples’ livers collectively breathing a sigh of relief. A boozy whirlwind of a weekend concluded last night with the Craft Cocktails Texas wrap-up party at The People’s Last Stand in Mockingbird Station. The rum flowed like a river as drinkers enjoyed delightfully…
Each year as the third Sunday in June approaches, I get a little wistful. My parents split up many years ago, as parents so often do these days, around the time I discovered Boone’s Farm and fruit punch-flavored Zima. (Remember that stuff? I’m still convinced teenage girls were their target…
Surely it’s difficult to convince your spouse that it’s a good idea to quit your day job to distill whiskey. Considering that’s exactly what Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson did, they must be really good talkers. In a salvaged Prohibition-era warehouse south of downtown Fort Worth, they’re filling barrels and…
If you’ve ever sipped a $12 cocktail in Dallas, you’ve likely sampled the handiwork of Jason Kosmas. When we last caught up with him, he was boozing it up as the beverage director at Marquee Grill, but he’s also done time at Neighborhood Services and Bolsa and lent his expertise…
