Restaurants

With temperatures rising and COVID cases going down, more people will be outside this summer than last year. Unfortunately, East Dallas’s favorite, Ruby’s Sno-balls,

We’ve written at length about Tiffany Derry, most recently about her new restaurant, Roots Southern Table, which opened on June 18 in Farmers Branch.

Westbound on U.S. 380, the pavement sweeps to the left as we crest a hill, and wind turbines sprout from the horizon. In our travels across the state, we’ve come to recognize wind farms as the surest sign that we’ve escaped the clutches of the big cities.

With the constant downpour of rain lately, a blue sky was a calling. A calling to get into the car and drive east to the latest addition to the North Texas barbecue scene,

After a year or so that must have felt like a comedy of errors to owners Jacob and Lindsay Sloan, On Rotation has finally moved into The Braniff Centre on Lemmon Avenue. The brewpub originally opened in the Lakewood area in 2015, but needed to find new digs.

Pinpoint Burger Bar recently opened on Lemmon Avenue near Mia’s Tex Mex. It’s a flash of new in an otherwise drab-ish strip of stores. As its name implies, the focus is burgers, some of which are locally appointed, like the Red Coat which is British-inspired.

A Legacy West favorite has made its way to Uptown. Earlier this month, Haywire opened its second location on McKinney Avenue in Dallas.

Loro Asian Smokehouse, the Uchi and Franklin Barbecue collaboration that hails from Austin, is finally set to open in East Dallas on Monday, July 5.

“No one knows what Cambodian food is,” the Cambodian-American chef Joseph Be says. “But if Thai food, Vietnamese food and Lao food can be popular, why can’t Cambodia’s food?” Good question.

This Friday, Top Chef alum Tiffany Derry will open Roots Southern Table in Farmers Branch. Known for her famous duck-fat fried chicken, Derry aims for her new concept to pay homage to her Louisiana roots.

If it’s not clear yet, we (and by “we” I mean me) are crushing on the new AT&T Discovery District in downtown. The vibrant open space is refreshing. Our offices aren’t far making it perfect for a lunchtime jaunt. Earlier this week, a pimento cheeseburger at Bobbers and Whips,

A new restaurant will soon open on Lower Greenville, offering an interactive Japanese dining experience called yakinuki. The Tokyo-based restaurant, Manpuku, which in Japanese means “to be happy with a full stomach,” was founded 70 years ago;

Neighborhood bars are one of the things we missed most during restaurant capacity restrictions and social distancing. And so when you open such a place during a pandemic, it’s only fair that you get a grand opening do-over.

Slices Pizza recently opened in Uptown serving Sicilian-style pizza in a quick-serve format. This is a budding chain out of California. The location on Cedar Springs is only their fifth and according to an employee, they have plans for two more spots locally,

Some of Dallas’ most remarkable restaurants are hybrids. They serve one food by day and another by night, get dressier on the weekends or have secret back rooms. Carte Blanche, which opens on June 15 and 16 on Greenville Avenue, is a new example with big ambitions and an unusual backstory.

After spending last year at home, we’re ready to gas up the car and go somewhere. BBQ Road Trip is a series where we take a day trip to visit barbecue spots outside of Dallas just in time for summer road trip season.

How often do you think about a weekend brunch destination and consider a local barbecue joint? Better yet, how often do you consider barbecue but whoever you’re with doesn’t have the same craving?

Bobbers Burgers and Whips recently opened in downtown Dallas. No, not like you’ve been bad, kind of whip. Like Dole Whip. Calm down. This entire entertainment area covering a block in downtown can be stunning. The vibrant 104-foot media wall on the side of the building at Akard and Jackson Street..

Renowned sushi chef Tatsuya Sekiguchi is opening a new restaurant in the recently renovated Continental Gin Building in Deep Ellum this winter. The eight-seat restaurant will serve omakase-style sushi, a style of dining where there is no set menu, rather dishes are influenced by the chef’s interactions with guests.

The drive-thru chicken wars have another serious con-tender (pardon the pun, laughter distracts me from the pain). Dave’s Hot Chicken, the Los Angeles fast food franchise that specializes in Nashville hot chicken, opened its first Texas drive-thru location in Addison off Preston Road attracting

Vidorra, Stirr, Serious Eats, Chicken N Pickle and Loop 9 BBQ are all opening new spots in massive multi-purpose development, EpicCentral, in Grand Prairie this fall.

Pride is back in Dallas, sis! Although there’s no grand parade at Fair Park this year, there are still plenty of opportunities for you to spill some tea with your chosen family and have a queer old time. So pour out the mimosas and get ready for music, costumes and drag shows galore.