Carlo’s is a family owned bakery featured on the TLC hit show Cake Boss. Carlo’s, originally opened by Carlo Guastaffero in 1910, was acquired by Bartolo Valastro Sr. in 1964. Since the untimely passing of Bartolo Sr. in 1994, matriarch Mary Valastro and her children Grace, Maddalena, Mary, Lisa and master baker Bartolo Jr. “Buddy” Valastro…
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Dallas’ new ‘The Office’ pop-up bar perfect for fans of bears, beets and Battlestar Galactica
The Whippersnapper has transformed into Dunder Whiplin, Inc., an ‘Office’-themed pop-up bar. Welcome to Dunder Whiplin, Inc. Beverage Company. Most days this place is known as The Whippersnapper. But for one month, this Dallas bar will pay tribute to the popular show “The Office.” And it’s not co-owner Phil Schanbaum’s first rodeo when it comes…
New England pizzeria Flatbread Company
Dallas, Texas…their first adventure in the continental USA outside of New England. Many asked… “Why Dallas’ Lower Greenville Avenue”? That answer is easy for them! When Josh Stone, their partner in Paia, Maui, introduced them to the local Dallas brothers David and Michael Leake, they knew they had to do something altogether! When their family…
10 biggest restaurant and bar openings in 2019 in North Texas
How many have you been to? Picking a best restaurant that opened in Dallas in 2019 is a matter of opinion. But picking the biggest, buzziest restaurant doesn’t have to be: We combed through our digital analytics to find the 10 stories you clicked on most. In essence, this list is of your favorite restaurant and…
Long-awaited Dallas bar-restaurant Desert Racer is open on Lower Greenville — and it’s a stunner
The carefully-designed space has at least six vehicles parked inside and on the patio. Step inside Desert Racer on Greenville Avenue and it’s easy to forget you’re in Dallas. The long-awaited patio bar from Dallas restaurateur Nick Badovinus feels like a curated Santa Fe home, with its rust-colored rugs and funky choices in cacti. But there’s…
5 funky restaurants to check out in Fort Worth’s booming South Main neighborhood
Spiritually, South Main is a soul sister to Austin’s SoCo and Dallas’ Bishop Arts, minus the nerve-wracking traffic and crowds – for now. Fort Worth has seen its share of neighborhood dining explosions. In the past decade, Cowtowners watched Magnolia Avenue, in the heart of the Fairmount Historic District just south of downtown, blow up…
Dallas chocolatiers popping up with special holiday shops all over North Texas
Kate Weiser brings Carl the Snowman to Frisco and Plano, and Dude, Sweet heads to downtown Dallas. Chocolatier Kate Weiser didn’t know five years ago that she was creating a million-dollar snowman. Since then, the popularity of Carl the Snowman has soared. He landed on the 2018 Oprah’s Favorites Things list and today graces the…
Delightful ‘parlor’ La Reunion brings more coffee, cocktails, food to Oak Cliff
The baristas are already getting to know the regulars at this Bishop Arts spot. Don’t consider La Reunion in Oak Cliff a coffee shop, even though the shop’s general manager Ali Abderrahman was the most lauded barista in Texas after scoring high at the 2019 U.S. Barista Championship. La Reunion’s owner, Michael Mettendorf, has more…
One counter, 24 seats, 17 brilliant Thai dishes: Ka-Tip is Dallas’ next breakthrough restaurant
In a small spot near the Dallas Farmers Market, two veterans of Tei-An are serving astoundingly delicious, regional Thai street food unlike anyplace else in D-FW. It’s easy to miss this small storefront, just across the street from the Shed at the Dallas Farmers Market. And so far, it looks like most people have: Every…