Cookie lovers, make your way to Kessler Baking Studio in North Oak Cliff. This bakery sits in a tan, Craftsman-style house on North Beckley Avenue, on the same block as neighborhood favorites Spiral Diner and Jonathon’s Oak Cliff. Opened five years ago by Clyde Greenhouse, this charming bakeshop serves gourmet…
Recently, Texas Monthly ran an article about Barton Springs Mill in Dripping Springs, where miller James Brown is persuading farmers around the state to grow the kind of grains that basked under the sun a century ago. Texas Monthly called the endeavor the “last frontier of the farm-to-table movement.” The…
There’s a common thread throughout nearly all of Dallas restaurants serving brunch on weekends: the mimosa. While some of us prefer the superior bloody mary, when we’re at brunch, there are tables all around us topped with Champagne flutes filled with sparkling booze and orange juice. Sometimes places might go…
I scream, you scream, we all scream … for DizziCream? DizziCream is one of the products sold under DizziBrands, a collection of alcohol-infused desserts showing up in Dallas. Already a hit in restaurants such as BuzzBrews and the Rustic, DizziBrands is hoping to become a household name with the opening…
Viridescent Kitchen, a vegan kitchen, opened its doors last month in North Plano. But it’s more than just a kitchen: It’s also a market, event space and vegan business incubator. Viridescent was opened by Gabrielle Reyes, a vegan chef and cooking show host, and Laura Thornthwaite, a yoga teacher and…
Actor Mark Wahlberg decided to make an appearance at the Dallas Cowboys’ practice in Oxnard, California, where he hinted at opening a restaurant. Monday, suspicions were confirmed, when Wahlburgers sent a statement announcing plans to open a location of its burger restaurant this fall at The Star, the Cowboys’ headquarters and…
The Netflix original show Sugar Rush has bakers compete against each other for a prize of $10,000. Most recently, those competing involved a couple of familiar faces from Dallas. The premiere of the second season included Ashton Snyder and Lio Botello, owners of Sugar Daddy’s Cakery. The two competed against other…
Adding to the growing list of Fort Worth barbecue restaurants giving Dallas competition is the first wheel-less setup of Not Just Q, a smoked meats eatery set among 10 other fast-casual stalls in Cowtown’s first food hall: the Food Hall at Crockett Row. You may recall Not Just Q as…
Don’t let our name fool you: Even though we’re the Dallas Observer, we love nothing more than sharing great barbecue finds from all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And judging from our latest travels, Fort Worth is absolutely killing it in new barbecue right now. There is immense joy to…
Sunday’s brunch was supposed to feature a newer place on Lower Greenville. But it turns out our usual parking lot in the area isn’t $5 on Sunday mornings like it is at night: It’s $20 at brunch time. So the only reason we went to a place I’ve seen for…
Everyone knows sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them. When it’s fast-casual sandwich specialists from Top Round, it’s almost definitely going to be better than anything you could make yourself. Founded by Steven Fretz and a few of his partners in California, Top Round is a fast-casual sandwich shop focused…
Beating the Sunday brunch rush used to be as simple as arriving before church let out. That’s no longer the case, as devout brunch-goers have determined fried chicken and waffles are a permissible excuse to skip services altogether. Without a reservation, many of us are waiting 30 minutes or more…
Behind the counters of our favorite restaurants, people from all walks of life work tirelessly to provide us with quality food and service. It is always disheartening whenever we, as consumers, hear rumblings of owners or CEOs of places we frequent are anti-LGBTQ, racist, misogynistic or xenophobic. It’s even more…
Dallas’ queen of dessert is back. When Maggie Huff retires from serving sweets in North Texas, we’ll have to figure out where to put the statue. The year in which she wasn’t regularly baking and pastry-making — between FT33’s closure in summer 2018 and Homewood’s opening this spring — was a sort of Dark…
People often assume being a food writer for the Observer comes with a laundry list of secret restaurant perks. High among them is a notion that we can get a reservation at any spot in town on the busiest of nights, followed quickly by the assumption that we know all the…
Budget Bites is a series that looks for the best food and drink deals at restaurants in DFW, because being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat out. The breakfast of champions: Sure, Wheaties may have coined that phrase, but in Texas, brisket is king. Yes, brisket for breakfast…
Seven years since first discovering them at a street cart in Brittany, France, Bisous Bisous Chef Andrea Meyer brings kouign amanns to her uptown bakery. Magnifique!
Popular banh mi restaurant Sandwich Hag did something unusual for the industry: It reduced its hours, and not because business was slow. As of early June, The Cedars spot no longer serves dinner on weekdays. They’re only open for lunch Tuesday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. They…
After 19 years of business in Deep Ellum, AllGood Cafe has decided to shake things up with a new menu item: booze. “I didn’t really want to have liquor and a full bar in the beginning. But here we are, 19, almost 20 years later, and Deep Ellum has changed…
Similar to other hotel restaurants’ dining rooms, the one at Knife in the Highland Dallas is fairly quiet on a Sunday morning. It has a convenient enough location at the southeast corner of Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway, but this isn’t a time in Dallas when hotels are destinations…
Mago’s Cafe is a family-owned Mexican restaurant opened in the spirit of the now-shuttered Emilio’s Cafe, a favorite for residents in The Cedars. Emilio’s, which originated as Tejitas in Oak Cliff, was owned by Emilio Lira and stood at South Ervay and Corinth streets for more than 16 years. The…
Meriel Bautista urges her customers to pick the ice cream first. There’s a window that shows off all of the bars and cookies her team has freshly prepared, but Bautista wants to make sure they focus on the ice cream. After all, that’s where the ube is. Ube is purple…
