Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Opened at the end of 2019, Muchacho Comida Tex-Mex was one of the many new restaurant openings that got quickly overshadowed by the onset of the pandemic. But this week, I finally booked a table at James Beard honored chef Omar Flores’ first Tex-…
Read MoreBREWED has been on a roll in recent years ― finding a void in the North Texas coffee world and filling it. BREWED even repositioned its original restaurant in Fort Worth (which opened on Magnolia Avenue in 2012) last year. It eliminated its late night …
Read MoreWe pulled up to the unassuming house that is home to Taste Bar + Kitchen just before the doors opened for brunch on a Tuesday morning. Had we been here on Monday or over the weekend, we would have waited in line for three to four hours to sample Chef D…
Read MoreFor North Texas foodies, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. The 2021 version of DFW Restaurant Week begins this Friday, August 6, kicking off one glorious month of dining that lasts right through September 5. With three course prix fixe dinners …
Read MoreForty chefs from around the nation, including many from the Dallas and Fort Worth region, are celebrating Ronald McDonald House of Dallas (RMHD) with a new cookbook. The chefs share favorite family recipes in Come to the Table. Come to the Table celebr…
Read MoreIt’s been a sad couple of days in the Dallas dining community to find out that two iconic restaurants in the city have announced closings. From a favorite sandwich spot to a decade-old fine-dining restaurant, these are the Dallas restaurant closi…
Read MoreHusband-and-wife co-owners Bonnie and Nathan Shea opened their first downtown Plano restaurant in 2009, bringing wood-fired pizza and a rooftop bar to the historic neighborhood. Urban Crust was one of my favorites in the area growing up, so I was excit…
Read MorePowerhouses in their own right, siblings Patsy and Benson Vivares of Sticky’s Chicken and California restaurant innovator Andy Nguyen of Afters Ice Cream, are teaming up with a Houston rap icon on a new burger joint named Trill Burgers. Yes, Bun …
Read MoreTasting wines on a daily basis brings abundant opportunity for assessment, reassessment, discovery and reinforcement (“that wine is as good as I thought it was,” or, “I did not notice such stark acidity in my previous tasting of this …
Read MoreChef Ben Merritt closed the doors on his Rosedale Renaissance restaurant, which was located just across from Texas Wesleyan University in the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth, in June. It’s tough to keep the doors open when you can’t find…
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