At This New Uptown Restaurant, Strange Bedfellows Make for a Fun Avocado Cocktail
Moxie’s signature cocktail for the Dallas location, the Avocado Gimlet, is one that you think would be … well, disgusting. Luckily, it works.
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Showing 6689 - 6710 of 19390Downtown’s New Tortaco Wants You To Feel Its Cheesy, Manufactured ‘Edginess’
Everybody wants their place to be the next “hot spot.” At a certain point, it all starts to feel a little manufactured. Welcome to downtown Dallas’ Tortaco, which opened last week on Ross Avenue in what used to be Stephen Pyles’ San Salvaje. Tortaco, brought to you by the same…
We Can’t Sugar Coat the Bad News About Chicken Scratch
Dallas has too much fried chicken. 2016’s Southern comfort food bubble has brought our city an ever-bigger bucket of fried chicken restaurants. Omar Flores, of the highbrow Casa Rubia, opened Whistle Britches to mixed reviews. The family behind Black-Eyed Pea opened Street’s Fine Chicken, which is, indeed, pretty damn fine. Rapscallion’s…
Is Sudden Coffee Poised to Reinvent Instant Coffee?
In a world where the specialty segment of the coffee industry is growing at an unprecedented pace and there’s more access than ever to great coffee, instant coffee isn’t exactly a buzzword, and for good reason. Consider your experiences with instant coffee and associated memories, connotations and flavors. Most instant…
Jettison Brings Craft Cocktails to Sylvan Thirty with a Side of Sleek Design
Jettison’s offerings are not to be missed by craft cocktail lovers. However, even without a deep appreciation for the art of what has been done at this bar, one can appreciate the sumptuous, sexy decor.
Grilled Cheese, Cubans and Fried Bologna: The 14 Most Comforting Sandwiches in Dallas
Comfort is a buzz word right now. All over social media, brands are telling us what we need to survive right now: Exploding burgers or pizza pot pie or movies that don’t suck. But when the winter comes, if it does, one thing you need to do for yourself is…
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This Dallas Master Sommelier Has a New Focus: Beer
There’s something wonderful about the sound of wine being poured into a clean glass from just the right height. It could be just before it’s perfectly paired with your dinner. It might be as soon as you get home, after a long workday, before you even take time to let…
Big in the ‘Burbs: Eight Things You Need to Eat and Drink in DFW Suburbs Right Now
In recent years, the suburbs of North Texas have been stepping up their culinary game with high-profile concepts that bring city-center creativity to those living outside of Dallas proper. There’s such killer food in the ‘burbs — particularly when it comes to international fare — that it’s well worth the…
The Manhattan Project Beer Co. Is Here
In 2010, Karl and Misty Sanford were looking to brew a special beer for their upcoming wedding. They needed something that met certain specifications, so they got together with their friend Jeremy Brodt. Together, the trio finally made a cross between an American brown ale and a Belgian beer over…
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Russian Culture Stands Tall in Carrollton’s Banya
When 35-year-old Marina Pomaro purchased The Russian Banya in Carrollton, she and her husband were looking to save a bit of the Russian culture that stands in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “Me and my husband, we were upset it might close down and nobody [was] going to step in to…
Joe the Baker Brings ‘Chef-Driven Doughnuts’ — With Toppings Like Edible Copper — to Glazed
Life is getting even sweeter at Glazed Donut Works in Deep Ellum.
Celebrate North Texas Beer Week with a Beertail at Stonedeck Pizza Pub
Check out Stonedeck’s wildly sour yet spicy beertail, the Habanero Razzberry Sour, to celebrate North Texas Beer Week in a whole new way.
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Nine Awesome Food Events This Weekend: Beer, Beer and More Beer — And Cupcakes
It’s North Texas Beer Week, which means it’s time to dust off the ol’ beer hat and hide the passport. Not really, though. Beer week is about appreciating what a little yeast and some wheat can do, not about reincarnating a scene from Animal House. And what better way to appreciate…
The Patty Melt at Jonathon’s Is a Work of Sandwich Art
It’s been several days since I first had the patty melt at Jonathon’s, but I can’t stop thinking about it. This statue of meat, cheese and buttery mushrooms and onions has been following me around all week. It pops in my head during meetings. It’s like witnessing an original work…
Don’t Take the 104-Year-Old Highland Park Soda Fountain For Granted — Or We Might Lose It
One of the byproducts of a beloved restaurant, odd in a city that’s constantly paving itself over, is the blissful fallacy that it will be there forever. As quickly as we can get pimento cheese to-go, we can easily take our oldest restaurants for granted. The Highland Park Soda Fountain…
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Chili’s ‘Removes’ Cedar Hill Manager Who Took Away a Vet’s Free Veteran’s Day Meal
This week, the internet has been focusing its rage on a DFW Chili’s where a U.S. army veteran had his free Veteran’s Day meal taken away after a man in a Donald Trump T-shirt questioned his military service. As The Dallas Morning News reports, 47-year-old Ernest Walker brought his service dog…
Sixty Vines Is a Plano Paradise of Pizza, Pasta and Pinot
Sixty Vines is an interior designer’s dream restaurant. This new Plano hot spot has everything: breathtakingly high ceilings with exposed wooden beams like a gleaming white barn; an open kitchen with fresh pasta hanging from pipes and a dazzling copper-domed pizza oven; long communal tables set with beautiful English plateware…
Chills 360’s Thai Rolled Ice Cream Looks Cool — But Is It Really Worth the Hype?
Deep Ellum has a reputation for rock ‘n’ roll, but now it’s also host to a cool food trend: Thai rolled ice cream. With late hours tailored to night owls, Chills 360 has lines spilling out the door, packed with curious crowds eager to experience the unique presentation of a…
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This Thanksgiving, Load Up Your Table With Smoked Meat From Some of DFW’s Top Barbecue Joints
Little known fact: We eat turkey on Thanksgiving because, at the time the fall celebration came into its own, turkeys were cheap, fresh, widely available and easily fed a crowd. Sure, they had cows back then, but beef was off the table, so to speak, as cows were more useful…
Fast(ing) Food: Four Meat-, Egg- and Dairy-Free Meals to Start Saint Philip’s Fast Strong
If you’re one of the people perennially pissed off about the Christmas creep, the St. Philip’s Fast might offer you a cure. Beginning 40 days before the Feast of the Nativity (i.e. Christmas), it is a time of prayer, almsgiving and fasting for Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians around the world. It…
Sip Local Beer While You Shop For Kale: Noble Rey’s New Taproom is Open at Dallas Farmers Market
Twenty-five years ago, the stiffest libation sold at the Dallas Farmers Market was iced lemonade. Now, market-goers can wet their whistles at half a dozen stalls — including, as of Saturday, a cozy micro-taproom from Noble Rey. The genesis of the brewpub (Noble Rey’s second, after receiving a brewpub license…
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Arlington’s Best-Kept Beer Secrets — Including a Diner That Gives Beer Away For Free
Good beer isn’t relegated to Dallas proper, which people living in the suburbs have long known. Some of Dallas’ most interesting new beer is coming from beyond 635. In honor of North Texas Beer Week, we headed to one of these suburbs to find the town’s best-kept beer secrets: Division…