The Burger at City Council Bar and Restaurant Should Resign

The first thing you’ll notice at City Council Bar and Restaurant in Uptown is the decor. The entire restaurant is ready for its HGTV shoot: There are bookshelves made of leather straps, Edison bulbs the size of cucumbers, fresh flowers in jars and empty picture frames holding books on a…

Worth the Wait: Why We Stand in Line for Texas Barbecue

In the documentary It Might Get Loud, guitarist Jack White shows off a 1950s-era Kay archtop guitar as an example of what he looks for in an instrument. “I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bent, and it’s a little bit out of tune,” he explains…

SusieCakes Teams Up with Cultivar Coffee for New Preston Center Location

Touting its made-from-scratch, home-style baked goods, California bakery SusieCakes announced its first location outside of the Golden State: 6100 Luther Lane, at the corner of Luther Lane and Westchester Drive in Preston Center. Along with baked goods, SusieCakes will sell breakfast goods and Cultivar Coffee, according to a press release. Founded…

10 Great Global Restaurants on DFW’s Most Diverse Street

Sorry, lower Greenville. Sorry to you, too, Richardson Chinatown. The most ethnically diverse food street in metro Dallas is Belt Line Road as it passes south to north through an ugly ocean of potholed Irving parking lots. On Belt Line, you can eat food from every continent except Australia and Antarctica…

A Cuban Sandwich Survey of DFW

A Cuban sandwich has a very specific, wonderful flavor. Health-wise, eating a sandwich with pork and ham in it is crazy, but some people eat bacon every single day, so I frequently indulge in a Cuban. And if that statement seems logically suspect, then consider this: along with the slow-roasted…

One of Dallas’ Best Burgers Just Popped Up at Kitchen LTO

There’s something deeply satisfying about eating solo at the bar of a brand-spanking new restaurant. It’s the sights and smells. You have time to take things in. At Kitchen LTO, Chef Amoriello (of Driftwood, So & So’s, Rapscallion) is the brand new component. A caricature of him already hangs above the…

An Indulgent Barbecue Delicacy: A Guide to Burnt Ends in DFW

What was long ago considered the unwanted scraps from a finely smoked brisket has rightly become a modern-day barbecue delicacy — a rich, indulgent pile of meat and fat and bark known as burnt ends.  Legend has it, burnt ends used to practically be given away; the unattractive, fatty trimmings…

First Look: Sabaidee Gives Central Dallas a Takeout Taste of Laos

Sakhuu Express, a Thai takeout standby on Lemmon Avenue, has reinvented itself as something a little more interesting. The newly rebranded Sabaidee Lao & Thai Cuisine still carries a full list of Thai favorites, but the main focus is on food from Laos, which, despite being wedged between Thailand, China…

Emporio de Empanada: Empa Mundo Brings Buenos Aires to the Metroplex

Folding meats, starches and other delights into dough and frying it isn’t a uniquely Argentine idea. You’ll find some variation of that theme on menus from Ghana to the Virgin Islands, but equating Empa Mundo’s empanadas to beef patties or pastelitos is like saying Jorge Luis Borges and Dora the…

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant Is Coming to the Galleria This Summer

The first Texas location of a California sushi restaurant is opening this summer on level one of the Galleria’s Alley, according to a press release. The 6,000-square foot Kabuki Japanese Restaurant will be the eatery’s 18th location.  The “full-service, casual dining chain” first opened in 1991 and boasts a team of…

Hold On to Your Hamachi: Top Knot’s Sunday Brunch Starts April 3

And Dallas rejoiced: Top Knot, Uchi’s laid-back little sister upstairs, has announced that Sunday brunch service begins this weekend, with Saturday brunch starting April 30. Service runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and no reservations are necessary, Top Knot says. So what’s on this menu? In classic Top Knot…