You’re familiar with this origin story: It starts when two people build something from the bottom up in their garage. They start by reverse engineering the concept, deconstructing the way it’s been done before, analyzing the method, then soldering and searing new parts together. There are wisps of smoke and misfires. In…
The Playwright Irish Pub, sister bar to Downtown’s The Craft Irishman, also owned by Alan Kearney, took over the space and opened in mid-November.
On a recent visit to Yolk in One Arts Plaza, we waited 25 minutes for a table for a late breakfast. With two decent bloody mary options nearby at The Playwright Irish Pub and Jorge’s, you can easily pass the time. What was interesting, though, was that as we approached…
“A farm-to-table Spanish tapas bar led by big-time culinary talents opens its doors inside a style-conscious youth hostel.” The summary sounds like a joke about those crazy foodies down in Austin finding yet another way to out-weird the rest of Texas. But it’s not a news alert from Austin. Deep…
El Bolero’s new East Dallas location serves brunch, but maybe it shouldn’t.
There’s a new vegan restaurant in town, but you can’t actually visit it. Lucky Cat Vegan is a delivery-only restaurant that opened three weeks ago from dietitian-chef Navin Hariprasad, the owner of downtown Indian Tex-Mex fusion restaurant Spice in the City. Food from Hariprasad’s new, virtual venture can only be…
If those midnight toasts didn’t satisfy, think of something more along the lines of morning and noontime toasts. Possibly French, definitely buttered. Maybe with a side of chicken-fried deliciousness. Now don’t go cooking up a mess in the kitchen on the first day of the year before turning to the…
The first unicorn-themed dessert bar in the U.S. graces Deep Ellum with its magical presence.
Perhaps you’ve noticed that Dallas is growing. When it comes to living, working and dining in DFW, we no longer feel confined inside the 635 loop. Sure, we still have our food and drink favorites in Dallas proper, but our suburban friends are no longer forced to drive into the city…
Simplicity and innovation have, so far, seemed to be a winning recipe for Greenville Avenue Pizza Company. It’s reliable pizza whether you’re sticking to the basics or going overboard with toppings (don’t skip the pizza crack), but there’s a lot of fun in seasonal creations. Their latest dishes are a nod to…
Casa Linda Plaza in East Dallas has a new option for healthy, fast-casual fare. Maya’s Modern Mediterranean, which serves Israeli food, opened the first week in October. Named after owner Russell Birk’s daughter, this new concept aims to show Dallas that there’s more to Mediterranean food than Greek fare —…
Five months after they opened, business went off the face of a cliff. The decline was a gut-punch surprise for owners Braden and Yasmin Wages. Malai Kitchen was their first restaurant, and good feedback met them right out of the gate. They’d traveled the world, enriched bowls of lip-smacking curries…
Dallas loves brunch. Go anyplace serving a brunch menu on a Saturday or Sunday and it becomes ever-apparent. Mimosas, chicken-fried steak, shrimp and grits, waffles: There’s something about the sweet and savory food paired with a Champagne beverage that so many of us love. As we wrap up 2018, it’s…
At Morefan in Plano, a Xi’anese food stall is cooking up stellar biang biang noodles.
Go to enough brunches in Dallas and the menus start to look the same. There’s a take on a Benedict, a plate of shrimp and grits, eggs cooked your way. The look of the menu alone at the new Merchant House immediately lifts expectations.
Few are the foods with such power over the imagination that just hearing their names can stop your stream of thoughts and send you off to the internet to look at restaurant menus. They tend to be celebration dishes — whether eaten at a celebration or cause for one. When…
Merry Christmas, burger aficionados: Burger chain Shake Shack is opening two more DFW locations at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23. In Southlake, a 3,166-square-foot restaurant is opening at 125 Central Ave., with ample patio seating, the standard Shake Shack menu and “a unique selection of frozen custard concretes in collaboration…
The bells on the front door jangle awake. The griddle crackles from hot beef fat, a sound that bests any jukebox on earth. It should be early. That’s when it’s best at Hunky’s: Be there right after the doors unlock for lunch. The sputter of rendered fat on a flat…
Haute West Dallas barbecue joint Smoke, which we recently named one of the Top 100 Dallas Restaurants, has been sold to the Belmont Hotel. Restaurant founders Chris Jeffers, Chris Zielke and Tim Byres opened the restaurant in 2009 “at the request and partnership of former Belmont Hotel owner, Monte Anderson,”…
At the Shops at Legacy’s newest eatery, Bellagreen, the worlds of fast-casual and environmentally conscious collide and manifest in fun, healthy fare. The new Plano location, which opens Friday, is the store’s eighth. The restaurant also has six locations in Houston and one in Dallas, at 8041 Walnut Hill. Bellagreen employees…
A healthy fast-casual restaurant — from Sam Fox, the restaurateur behind True Food Kitchen — is coming to Rosewood Court in Uptown: Flower Child, which will occupy 4,800 square feet facing Cedar Springs, according to a press release. Opening in late 2019, Rosewood Court will expand a 1,500-square-foot patio in front…
Dallas may have a reputation as a steakhouse city, but in 2018, we saw more new vegan and vegetarian options than ever. Hell, even some of the aforementioned steakhouses are offering vegan menus now. We’ve explored a bevy of vegan and vegetarian Dallas restaurants this year — here are our…
