Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. At 10:30 p.m., there’s one remaining space — minutes before closing time — as families sit in their cars with open Styrofoam containers on their laps. A kid…
I miss eating alone. I mean, when you live alone during the time of COVID, you do that a lot. Too much. Way too much. So let’s get to what it’s really about: I miss sitting at the semi-circle bar top of Cosmo’s, eating broth-drowned dumplings by myself. Everyone who’s…
While some restaurants have chosen to open at 25% capacity, many service industry workers are still without work. Meanwhile, medical staff and frontline workers are putting their lives on the line to provide people with care and essential products. That’s why several Dallas restaurants are working to provide meals to…
When the federal government opened emergency and Payroll Protection Program loans to small businesses, the funding appeared to be a lifeline. But even for the lucky restaurant owners who got a share of the money, the hard part is just beginning. Jennifer and David Uygur, the owners of Lucia and…
There’s another bake sale coming out of the Dude, Sweet Mothership this weekend, but it’s not by Katherine Clapner. If you had been a frequenter of Murray Street Coffee Shop in Deep Ellum, you’ll be handed baked goods by a familiar face: Skye McDaniel. The Oak Cliff resident isn’t pouring…
Building a restaurant from the ground up is one of the most difficult business moves there are. Restaurants are notoriously volatile, with tight margins and the ability to suck up every single waking hour of one’s life. That’s why creating and subsequently maintaining a successful establishment with a devoted and…
Here’s where you can get takeout in Dallas right now.
The need to distance during the COVID-19 pandemic combined with people working from home or not working at all, combined with cabin fever, has created an unprecedented demand for trails and parks. Major cities around the world have responded to this demand by closing streets to automotive traffic to make…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. They have pizza, cheeseburgers and local art you can buy right out of a vending machine, but staff at The Bodega at Hi Line has huddled their top…
People can’t get enough of Khao Noodle Shop, and today’s news around the East Dallas restaurant is Food & Wine naming its Donny Sirisavath on its 10 Best New Chefs in America for 2020. This is the 32nd year for the list, which will be in the June edition of…
When restaurants and drinking establishments were forced to close their dining rooms and bars due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, part of Texas’ disaster proclamation allowed restaurants to sell alcohol to-go. It was a huge break for them. Margaritas and quarantine survival kits with bottles of…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. Ginger Thai could’ve easily been included as great takeout before we entered a pandemic that forced us to focus on regular food items that are “good to go.”…
Yuki Hirabayashi, the sushi chef who opened Sushi Bayashi at Trinity Groves in 2014, is taking over the sushi bar at Musume in the Dallas Arts District. Hirabayashi, a native of Tokyo, came to Dallasites’ attention during a seven-year run at Kenichi in Victory Park before moving to Trinity Groves…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. As we’ve watched Deep Ellum evolve over the years, there are some spots we see lovingly hold on, and one of those is St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin. St…
Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger, please accept this humble love letter from a Texas kid dumb enough to move to Seattle: I miss you, big guy. Living in Seattle, there are a few things I’ve come to realize. I won’t bore you with details on what the Mexican food is like,…
In strong winds, the Angry Dog staffer carries the to-go bag to the car window. Construction slices and pounds on Commerce Street — cones and barricades narrow the one-way street down to one lane; nearby they’re replacing a broken water line. On Clover Street, which runs directly behind Angry Dog,…
People all over Dallas are working to support others as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues. Here are a few doing good around Dallas: Caven Employee Pantry at Station 4 3911 Cedar Springs Road (Oak Lawn) The Caven bars on Cedar Springs were not among the few restaurants that chose to…
The original Mia’s Tex Mex on Lemmon Avenue is closing. But, calmate, they’re moving to the old BuzzBrews location at 4334 Lemmon Ave., just 171 feet up the road. That’s less than a football field. Speaking of great segues, the original location has some Dallas football history. Sometime in the…
Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas’ restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. There are special, large, triangle boxes. A little preview window gives you a glimpse of what’s inside. But don’t let it sit there too long. It is, after…
Two weeks went by, and Braden and Yasmin Wages hadn’t received a delivery of fresh fish. Malai Kitchen’s menu is about 20% fresh seafood, and they couldn’t get a single shrimp sent to their 9-year-old restaurant. “It was a disappointment to our guests,” Braden Wages says through exhales. It’s been…
In March, when the Texas restaurant industry had the emergency brake slammed on it, Gov. Greg Abbott threw it a life ring: As part of the disaster proclamation, for the first time ever restaurants were allowed to sell booze to go and for curbside pickup. As owners and operators have…
Whether you’re sitting at a table or quickly grabbing takeout, you can feel a noticeable difference at a restaurant that has opted to open for in-house dining at 25% capacity. Cinco de Mayo had restaurants doing specials — one restaurant did this, continuing its to-go operations and allowing people to…
