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Chef Blythe Beck's spin on the pumpkin "latte" and the Tom--ahem--Fallins cocktail
In Happy Endings, we travel the part of the globe that says "Dallas" in search of great desserts and great places to eat them.
It's opening weekend for Chef Beck B...
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Thursday evenings are good for doing life stuff -- washing the car, balancing the check book, the sort of activities that lend themselves to the steady drumbeat of functional adulthood.
This Thursday, though, why not forgo those things in lieu of e...
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I think you look like this, probably. Let's be friends.
Hey Leslie Brenner!
I don't know you. I'm Alice. I don't know what you look like, but lots of chefs in town tell me they know what you look like, and that you're never truly dining secretly ...
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For last week's Best of Dallas 2014 issue, we've been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me.
Many readers submitted suggestions for this yea...
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At the start of October, CBD Provisions announced it would offer the first version of what they say will become a monthly special. Every day from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m., you can slap $12 down on the bar and receive a Lakewood Till and Toil and a chubby w...
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An outsider looking in.
The ascension of Dallas' culinary scene has been a curious thing to watch from the sidelines. As a diner, Dallasites have more restaurants to choose from than ever, helmed by some of the country's brightest up-and-coming c...
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For last week's Best of Dallas 2014 issue, we've been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me.
I'm not sure why, but I get a disproportionate ...
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Like everyone else in town, we've told you already about Leslie Brenner's recent visit to Proof + Pantry. The dining critic at the Dallas Morning News visited the restaurant last Thursday in preparation for a review, and the meal went as most meals d...
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Beer comes forth from these handles, or so the Ancient Vietnamese Legend goes
Last summer, Texas laws governing alcohol sales changed slightly -- not nearly as much as they should have -- allowing a brewer operating under a "brewpub" license to ...
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For last week's Best of Dallas 2014 issue, we've been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me.
When I first read about So&So's in Uptown, and ...
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The scene of last week's VERY DRAMATIC showdown.
Leslie Brenner, the Dallas Morning News' food critic, isn't the most popular journalist in town. In the past few months, she's taken fire from chefs and diners alike who say Brenner doesn't understa...
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Wood fixtures evoke that casual, laid-back tavern vibe.
The change has been a long time coming. The Front Room first opened in 2012 in Hotel Lumen, with Scott Townend serving as executive chef. Back then, the restaurant was branded as a Park Citi...
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Yums.
In "Shigging," we ask pitmasters to give us some specifics about how they smoke their meats. In the spirit of barbecue secretiveness and competitiveness, they're allowed to lie once.
This week, we're asking Todd David, pitmaster at Cattlea...
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Look at this fucking waffle.
If it seems like we're always talking about Kitchen LTO, the Trinity groves "permanent pop-up" restaurant, it's because it's hard to ignore a restaurant that completely changes the concept every four months. Some chefs...
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It's a market? It's a shed? It's a bunch of new restaurants, actually.
In the process of revamping the formerly-meh Dallas Farmers Market into something that at least marginally represents local growers, the private operators who bought the Marke...
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The somber Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins at sundown, extending until precisely 7:44 p.m. tomorrow. So while you all are stuffing your faces with festival barbecue, Oktoberfest beers, fried fair fare and pumpkin-flavored everything, I, and milli...
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For last week's Best of Dallas 2014 issue, we've been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me.
Remember the Off-Site Kitchen burgers we highli...
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Signs of life from Herrera's, the much-loved Tex-Mex chain that left Maple Avenue not long ago, was recently spotted by a tipster in West Dallas on Sylvan Avenue, not far south of the river. I called owner Nora Ontiveros but she didn't answer. Maybe ...
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Michael Martensen's Proof + Pantry has barely been open a month, and while I usually avoid restaurants during their infancy, I couldn't resist a deal recently posted to their Facebook page: Nanna's Meatballs and Gravy. I'd be going as quickly as it t...
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For last week's Best of Dallas 2014 issue, we've been counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there's a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me.
We're really in the home stretch, now. And I th...
