“Awful treatment. We walked in at 3 pm on a Friday, the doors were open so we assumed it was open. The gentlemen who appeared to be a server with long hair came in and very rudely told us that it was closed and continued to wave at us out the door like we had committed some sort of crime. Lock your doors if you re closed.” Jordan S., Yelp Review for Ten Bells Tavern, 11/6/2020 We all have good days and bad days, times when we re not at our gleeful best, either as an individual or a business. The worst are misinterpreted moments that lead to hurt feelings. Incidentally, restaurants and bars have the unique luxury of having all these moments, good and bad, memorialized through online reviews.
Asian Mint has a winter shirataki soup menu Jan. 19 through March 30, where the tom yum, tom khan and noodle soups with zero-carb shirataki noodles offer a healthier and warm meal.
These noodles are made from the fiber of the root of a konjac plant native to East and Southeast Asia. They add lovely sustenance to the already-great tom kha, a wonderful standard coconut Thai soup.
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Coffee Cultivar Coffee Roasting Co.
It’s good to vary where you get your local coffee, but it seems whenever a roast from Cultivar gets into the home grinder again, that smell offers a reminder of why this is such a favorite (OK, we feel the same way about Noble Coyote). Right now there’s a roast owner Jonathan Meadows says is an all-time favorite: Tres Bourbon Seasonal Blend, with notes of peach, dark chocolate and toasted nuts. As long as you don’t harm the integrity of coffee with sugar-cream nonsense, a cup of coffee is healthy enough, if not mandatory, to accomplish work for
Seven years ago a question was posed on Reddit, “What’s your idea of a perfect day?” The top answer, by an account that has since been deleted, was “Wake up next to someone you love, spend the day exploring the outdoors, spend the evening drinking with friends, fall asleep next to someone you love.”
Maybe throw in a plate of nachos, a sporting event or live music, and now we’re feeling a pang of wistfulness. With the vaccine rollout sputtering to a start now in a race to stay ahead of a more contagious strain we know there is light at the end of this tunnel, but we’re understandably skeptical at this point. Is it a light? Or Carol Anne’s closet in
Dallas’ most exciting new restaurants and bars opening in 2021
These 16 restaurants will help define the Dallas dining scene in 2021.
Dallas chef Jimmy Park is opening a sushi restaurant on Greenville Avenue in Dallas in 2021.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
After a tumultuous 2020, Dallas diners seem hungry for hope. Luckily and amazingly the future of our dining scene appears as vibrant as ever.
2021 will bring a delicious bite of nostalgia to the pie-shaped building at Commerce and Cesar Chavez Boulevard in Dallas. Restaurateur Nick Badovinus (Town Hearth, Neighborhood Services) is fascinated with the 100-year-old structure, which opened as a service station in the 1920s. It was home to KLIF-AM radio in the ‘60s and ‘70s. And in 2021, it’ll become National Anthem, a 10,000-square-foot restaurant with a rock ‘n’ roll identity.
Outdoor dining grew during the pandemic, now there’s a plan to keep the expansion
Dallas’ Street Seats program will give parklets a more permanent presence.
A temporary seating area outside of Revelers Hall on Bishop Avenue in Dallas, May 15, 2020. Co-owner Jason Roberts said the built structure is an example of a semipermanent parklet, or outdoor seating area that spills out onto a street.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
We are as eager as anyone to be done with this year, to flip to the last page of the sci-fi horror thriller that is 2020 and chuck it out the window.
But we can credit this terrible year with deepening our gratitude for the things that helped us endure it. The time spent with our closest loved ones. The courage of essential workers. The spaces that our cities carved for us outdoors.