I know you were planning on taking it easy the next few weeks. Thanksgiving in only a month away, and the gustatory excess always starts a few weeks early. Buttery baked goods, excess alcohol, sausage, gravy and the inability to say no to anything (unless it’s green beans (unless they’re…
We once again surface from the depths of Craigslist to bring you news from the underscape. Well, not really the depths, since this doesn’t involve any weird sex or a dresser drawer you’ve had since college. Rather, we bring you more burger news. Specifically, Grub Burger Bar is looking to…
The three of us had our spoons at the ready the second the dessert plate landed on the table. Smothered with whipped cream, flecked with freeze-dried strawberries, nuts and tiny cubes of pineapple, and flanked by scoops of ice cream, the plate looked a lot like most brownie sundaes. “This…
Local Urban Craft Kitchen, more smoothly shortened to LUCK, opens this evening at 5 p.m. in Trinity Groves, according to a press release put out today. As the name suggests the restaurant will put a heavy premium on local ingredients and American regional dishes, but what the name leaves out…
UPDATE: According to a spokeswoman the opening has been pushed back to mid-November, firm date coming. Vegetable matter is a precious commodity when it comes to takeout and fast food. So the Green House food truck, even if it left Carnivore-in-Chief Alice wanting a little something more, was a welcome…
Maybe Rick Perry’s “come check out Texas” campaign is really paying off. According to Austin360.com, Union Square Hospitality Group has announced their first ever restaurant opening in Austin in late 2014. Which means Texas is getting its very first Shake Shack. Shake Shack is famous not just for its legendary…
CBD Provisions opened earlier this month inside The Joule Hotel, in the space where Charlie Palmer used to live. The restaurant’s menu, which was created by Chef Michael Sindoni, includes a mix of small plates, including a pickle jar ($5), pig tails ($11) and kale salad ($10); sandwiches, like a…
Homesickness can be a bear. It skews your thoughts and wrings enjoyment from things that should bring you pleasure. Each experience in a new environment is unfairly judged against memories that have been glazed over with sweet nostalgia. When you’ve got it bad, nothing measures up. I’m talking about doughnuts,…
Last week a reader tipped us off that Kozy Kitchen, the casual restaurant on McKinney Avenue with a penchant for local ingredients, would be opening a second location. This week chef and owner Nick Nicholas Pavageaux confirmed the new restaurant, saying he held a soft opening last Wednesday and is…
Dallas restaurateur Yaser Khalaf has partnered with Najat Kaanache for a new Moroccan restaurant, Souk (which means marketplace or bazaar), located in the entertainment district Trinity Groves, just west of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Stefania Morandi, a graduate of Politecnico di Milano and designer for Trinity Groves, created the…
When Kitchen LTO opened earlier this summer, the “permanent pop-up” promised to be at least the most interesting restaurant at Trinity Groves. Before it, the development that sprang up at the end of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge had only produced mediocre barbecue and hot dogs. Now a flashy marquee…
Chef Patton Robertson of Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck is teaming up with a few local chefs next week to host a Japanese dinner. His guests include Teiichi Sakuria of Tei-An, Matt Raso of Nobu, along with Scott Drewno from The Source (another Wolfgang Puck restaurant) in Washington D.C. Each…
The Shell Shack in Uptown opened last week, in the spot where the hot-dog centric The Stand used to be. The Shell Shack specializes in piles of crustaceans. Bibs are highly suggested. This is the first Shell Shack, which is owned by a group of people that dabble in a…
Earlier this week I received a box containing assorted pecans, shortbread cookies and a number of other items from a company called Bandera Foods. All of it was delicious, but the Smokin’ Pecans were near transcendent. They were light, had a crisp, airy texture and were laced with a subtle…
The new restaurant and bar Nickel And Rye, at 2523 McKinney Ave., smartly opens today to accommodate the throngs of TX/OU revelers who will hit Uptown at any moment. This “libations and hashery” spot is located in the old Uptown Bar and Grill space and is owned by the group…
The famed Charlie Palmer checked out of boutique hotel The Joule recently, and today, CBD Provisions (1530 Main St.) opens as the hotel’s new anchor restaurant. CBD is owned by Consilient Hospitality, who also owns Hibiscus, Victor Tangos, The Porch, The Front Room at Hotel Lumen and multiple locations of…
Who knew that when Jay Jarrier was zipping around Dallas with a trailer-mounted pizza oven in 2010, he was sowing the seeds of a mini-pizza empire? Jerrier traversed this town like the Pizza Pied Piper, plying his followers with delicious Neapolitan rounds. His trailer kept him busy until he opened…
As we’ve previously discussed, being a vegan in Dallas isn’t a miserable and lonely existence, so long as you know how to navigate eating situations involving friends, family and coworkers. A crucial piece of information to have in your back pocket is a restaurant list. But not just any restaurant…
Mexican Sugar is a new restaurant opening in The Shops at Legacy in Plano this November. Created and developed by the management group Fork It Over LLC, which also owns Whiskey Cake and Velvet Taco, this spot will focus on dishes from Central and South America, anchored Mexican food. Mexican…
It’s not a stretch to compare our desire for chips and salsa to an addict’s lust for his drug of choice. We know they do us no good, and yet we pine. They seduce us with their golden sheen, glistening in the dim lighting of our favorite Tex-Mex restaurant. We…
On Sunday evening as most people in the universe were watching a chemist rig a gun in his trunk, the West End Pub was preparing for its very own finale. After 25 years of business in the West End, the self-described “neighborhood pub without a neighborhood” shut the doors for…
Meat Fight is an annual celebration of meat, meat, and meat that raises money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). The event started just three years ago as a back yard barbecue, then graduated to a bigger space that would allow for more meat for more meatheads last year…
