Restaurants

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Texas barbecue: You and I know it’s the best. More importantly, it’s a food where, if you leave the state, you’ll notice other states do barbecue in strange and terrifying ways that make you feel wrong. Once I went to Oklahoma (this is how all great stories start, I know),…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

It’s a hot Friday night at Abacus, and Eddie “Lucky” Campbell is lovingly describing a gin cocktail, finished with lime and garnished with a copse of fresh herbs, to an older woman at the bar. Kent Rathbun’s flagship restaurant is fine dining tailor-made for its Uptown neighborhood, and the woman’s…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Contrary to popular belief, being a vegan in Dallas is not a wholly miserable experience. We don’t get spit on while walking down the street, nor do we have to wear big red Vs pinned to our clothing. These days, most people in the restaurant industry know that vegans don’t…

I owe an apology for each and every compilation article I’ve ever written about Arlington. Like this one and this one and this one. Seriously. So embarrassing. For some reason, I’d never been to Dino’s Deliat 2221 S. Collins Street. I beg for forgiveness and extra mustard. Dino’s is an…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Editor’s Note: Late last evening Tanoshii Ramen used their Facebook page to announce they’d gotten cold feet. The place still looks pretty inside, as all of these pictures depict, but you’ll have to wait till tomorrow if you want to try the ramen. Tanoshii Ramen and Bar (2724 Commerce St.)…

1. Earlier this year we talked to the fascinating Mark Davis Bailey at Original Pancake House (OPH) about the five-day process involved in making their from scratch-pancakes. OPH will have house-made pumpkin pancakes (pictured above) on its menu starting next week. With a cup of fresh Cuvee coffee, this might…

Thursday was an overcast, muggy day in Dallas, probably not the ideal day to order a bowl of warm, soupy noodles. But the promise of a good, hand-pulled noodle and a dumpling or two lured me and a few friends into Monkey King Noodle Co., Deep Ellum’s new late-night Chinese food…

Brandon Castillo is the kind of guy every neighborhood or movement needs. In this case, Deep Ellum has him. And the movement is making the area a more sustainable and walkable one. Recently, he opened Deep Ellum Postal and Grocer at 3100 Main Street, where he carefully fills a little…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Jason Boso’s new Truck Yard (5624 Sears), which opened last weekend, had an almost-full house on Wednesday night that involved a lot of flip flops kicked up on various stools, with their owners kicked back in various chairs like they own the place. The clientele included families, dates and gaggles…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

Fast N’ Loud is a TV show on the Discovery Channel (Mondays at 8) in which hosts Richard Rawlings and Aaron Kaufmann of Dallas-based Gas Monkey Garage find forgotten classic cars and give them new life and then some. Being acute businessmen, they’ve expanded their brand to a full-service restaurant,…

Like all things culinary, burgers, sandwiches and chicken wings — the core building blocks of human nutrition — are subject to a high degree of variability. A paper-wrapped sandwich from your corner deli is nothing like the creation cradled in locally baked bread at East Hampton Sandwich Company, which has…

Dallas’ first exclusive ramen restaurant, Tanoshii Ramen + Bar (2724 Commerce), will open next Tuesday, September 24, its owners have announced. Joey and Chi Le also own Wicked Po’Boys in Richardson and in the Preston Center. Now they’re turning their attention to house-made noodles and “late-night hot pots.”…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…

You all have seen me write a lot about Kitchen LTO and the upcoming exciting stuff going on in the Trinity Groves area. I think there’s a lot of opportunity there for refreshing restaurant concepts, great shops and an entirely new area to explore in our city. But a lot…

Deep Ellum has an interesting new restaurant: Monkey King Noodle Co. has taken over and transformed the stand-alone building at 3014 Main Street that use to house Santiago’s. Andrew Chen is the “noodle master” and chef of this new spot, and he says they’re already rolling into soft-opening phase (“sorta…

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. Find more interesting places on our all-new Best Of app for iTunes or…