Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 38: ¡C. Señor!

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  It’s been a year since ¡C Señor! took over the former El Padrino taco…

The Rareness of Medium Rare

Since 1998, according to a report earlier this year, there have 4,359 UFO sightings in Texas. According to recent report of Me Reading Food Websites, 4,359 is also roughly the same number of places in which you can get a cheeseburger in Dallas-Fort Worth. And like UFO sightings, the accounts…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 39: Casa Rubia

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  While a few Spanish restaurants call Dallas home, finding a Spanish meal worth…

On Premise Thinks Outside the Bun

A basket of nuts does little to stir the pulse as it slides across the bar. The snack is older than pull-tabs and seldom very interesting. Bar nuts are almost always poured directly from the package they’re shipped in, and if they’re mixed, you have to worry about cherry pickers…

5 of Dallas’ Best Desserts

Each week, I set out to dig into at least one of Dallas’ best desserts. This quest has landed me everywhere from dumpy little dives to some of the city’s most elegant restaurants. Whether I’m gulping down a milkshake or savoring dessert/art that’s almost too beautiful to eat, I love…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 40: San Salvaje

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  San Salvaje is a restaurant that defies every stereotype of the downtown Dallas…

First Look at Lower Greenville’s New Spot, Pints and Quarts

It used to be a discount tire shop. On a peninsula on the corner of Ross and Greenville, Ross Discount Tire was a place you could swerve into and get your nail-bludgeoned tire swapped as fast as Marvel’s Quicksilver and hilariously cheap. Now it’s Pints and Quarts, a Bob’s Big…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 41: Luscher’s Red Hots

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  Most Italian beef sandwiches sold in Dallas are exactly the same. Chicago-based Vienna…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 42: Palapas Seafood Bar

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  I can think of many more reasons to come to Palapas than I…

Spork’s Burgers Come Up Short (Review)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a spork is a spoon-shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip, but that’s not how the term is most often used. The Oxford English Corpus, a multibillion-word database of written and spoken English, reports “spork” is employed most often as a verb…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 45: Off-Site Kitchen

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  A meal at Off-Site Kitchen can leave you questioning the past. Everyone has…

7 Paleterias & Popsicle Shops That Will Help Cool You Down

Though it took longer than usual, the disgusting heat of the dead of summer has finally arrived. If you can’t be in air conditioning all the time — and that is certainly ideal — you’re going to need to think of creative ways to cool your hot self off when…

Dallas’ Most Interesting Restaurants No. 46: El Come Taco

Leading up to our annual Best of Dallas® issue, we’re counting down the 50 most interesting restaurants in Dallas. These spots bring something unique or compelling to the city’s dining scene, feeding both your appetite and soul.  You can get tacos on what seems like every block in Dallas. There…

A First Look at The Heights

Karin Powell Porter is not new to the Dallas restaurant scene. Porter has spent time behind the pass at The Grape, and runs her own catering company Porter House Provisions. This is the first time she’s taken charge of her own restaurant, though, and The Heights is shaping up to…

Root Beer Floats: Many Restaurants Are Doing it Wrong

I love a root beer float and firmly believe that Dallas restaurants should be serving more of them — especially in the summer. Floats make perfect desserts when the weather is hotter. They’re lighter than a massive slice of cherry pie and much more cooling. You haven’t lived until you’ve…

Potato Flats Marks Second Trinity Groves Failure

Last week a Trinity Groves spokesperson announced Potato Flats had closed, becoming the second failed restaurant in Phil Romano’s theme park devoted to scalable food businesses. The closure marks a good time to check in on the overall performance of the West Dallas development, which is actually doing exceptionally well…