About 30 runners gathered outside Westlake Brewery Co. for a recent cool Wednesday evening for a self-paced out-and-back along scenic Swiss Avenue. No one was racing here. It s a casual trot with friends and neighbors, with cold beers waiting at the finish line. Dig a hole, fill it up. That s how most running works.
Afterward, faces glistening from a light sweat gather around tables with pints of beer, squares of paper and pens in front of them. Some have giant pretzels or plates of nachos. They re getting ready for group trivia, a fast-paced, pop-culture, general knowledge-friendly game hosted by a funny 20-something-ish with a microphone in the center of the room. It s a good time. Easy and spacious. Different parties around the room lean into their own conversations. The founder makes the rounds regularly, refilling beers or passing out stickers, as many as you d like.
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The full menu is still intact and always available, only now it s available well into the night. Plus, there are a few new late-night bar items.
Otherwise, the interior is less cluttered with a new coat of cream paint on a brick wall in the back with a large TV in the middle. A garage door was installed to open the space up with a few tables spilling onto the small patio. There’s a pool table and TouchTunes jukebox too (to play your walk-in music).
Rothman says they might do some live music down the road on the small stage in the corner. The past two weekends they’ve had a DJ at night.
There’s a gaping hole in the structure at the southwest corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Commerce Street in Deep Ellum. Westlake Brewing said their new neighbors will soon be Federales Tacos and Tequila. A quick search shows they already have a website up.
The first Federales opened in Chicago in 2016, and another outpost is in Denver. This concept is from 4C (Four Corners, no ties to the local brewery) and the Deep Ellum “open-air tequila and taco concept” is scheduled to open this fall.
A signature pastime of Federales is to order a shot of tequila in an ice glass, slam it, then throw the ice at a bell that hangs over a fire pit to “Ring the Bell.”
The grandma pie at Pizza Leila feeds you like family. The Sicilian-style pie is a tribute to simple homestyle preparation, just as grandma would make: crust, cheese, sauce and a few basil leaves plucked fresh from a plant.
In a kitchen hidden out of sight in downtown Dallas, every component of this pizza has been stitched together from scratch. Chef Ji Kang spent two weeks developing the recipe for the dough, which had to be crispy on the bottom but soft in the middle. Two types of mozzarella mingle with a chili-kissed sauce, all topped off with basil leaves steeped in olive oil.
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