Dallas restaurants get lucky with spring menus and St. Patrick s deals
Dallas restaurants get lucky with spring menus and St. Patrick s deals Guinness floats, green beer, and pistachio gelato at Pinstripes.
Pinstripes This is a particularly simple edition of the twice-a-month Dallas restaurant news roundup, with really just two themes: spring menus and St. Patrick s Day, which is very big in 2021. Usually, you find St. Patrick s Day stuff at pubs. But this year, everyone s getting in on the action. There s also a restaurant opening or two, and some news about locals competing on a Netflix TV show, but spring menus and St. Patrick s Day are where it s at for now.
On March 8, 2020, a crowd converged on Four Corners Brewing Co. for a festival dedicated to Filipino food. Popular, rising-star pop-up businesses run by Filipino-American chefs with day jobs served more than a thousand customers that day. At 2 p.m., the wait for a bowl of noodles was 50 minutes, and another line was keeping people standing for an hour.
It felt like every food lover in Dallas was there. In one line, I chatted with
Texas Monthly taco editor José Ralat, and at the ice cream booth,
D Magazine dining critic Eve Hill-Agnus worked serving scoops.
None of us knew this would be the last time the Dallas food community partied together. Two days later, Dallas County reported its first known case of COVID-19. On March 17, the county’s dining rooms and bars closed by public order.
Tickets for the Second Annual Dallas Filipino Food Festival Drop Today
It s all virtual this year, with both familiar and new Filipino pop-ups in the lineup. Plus, a celeb chef from Seattle hosts a cooking class.
By Rosin Saez
Published in
Food & Drink
February 26, 2021
2:39 pm
The Dallas Filipino Food Festival will return this year. Like so many events, though, things will look differently. You might remember the long lines that snaked throughout Four Corners Brewing Co. at last March’s inaugural festival, right before the shutdown. It was a packed event probably the last big gathering people myself included attended before the pandemic quieted cities all over the world.
D.G. Yuengling & Son is America s oldest craft brewery, having first poured frothy pints back in 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Since that time they have remained a family business, passed down through generations, always father to son, until the fifth generation of all daughters who are now at the helm. Despite being the largest craft brewery by volume of sales in the United States, this brand has never been sold in Texas.
But that will all soon change. Last year the brewery formed The Yuengling Co., a joint venture with Molson Coors, and sometime this year will be brewed at the latter s Fort Worth facility and distributed throughout the state.