Ten Dallas Restaurants You Should Be Eating at Right Now: Fall 2014 Edition
Knife
Catherine Downes It's a chuck flap, which sounds less than sex, but is actually quite delicious.
It's hard to get excited for another steakhouse in Dallas, unless it's a steakhouse designed to saw through common steak house conceptions. John Tesar's latest restaurant offers affordable steaks for $25 a cut, and there's an affordable burger on the menu too. If you've got some company plastic, there's a locker full of dry-aged steaks in various stages of funk. Some will cost you $80 an inch. Bonus: Esquire just named the new restaurant one of the best in the nation.
Monkey King Noodle Co. 
Catherine Downes
This Deep Ellum takeout has customers buzzing about every time I drive by it. Customers stand at the window ordering food, and the stand on the street slurping from cups of noodles. If you have a canine friend, you might bring it along with you. Soup bones have been handed out in the past, and dogs deserve to eat well, too.
San Salvaje
The lunch options at San Salvaje are worth an extended break from the office.
Expectations were high for Stephan Pyles' new downtown restaurant, San Salvaje, as it required him to close a fan favorite Samar. Samar focused on cuisines from the spice belt, and fresh-baked loaves emerged from a fiery tandoor oven. It seemed impossible to top. San Salvaje is off to a great start, through, with flavors borrowed from nearly every country in Central and South America. You can get tacos and arepas and a number of ceviches and get lost in a menu filled with at least a handful of dishes you've likely never seen.
¡C. Señor!
Cuban and Ropa Vieja sandwiches from ¡C. Señor!
If you're a fan of Cuban sandwiches, this is where you want to be. Melted Swiss cheese is the glue that holds together ham and pulled pork with pickles and mustard between two slices of pressed, toasted bread. If that's not your thing you can always try the Cuban burger. When chorizo and beef mingle intimately, it's always a good thing.
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