• Home
  • popular
  • Events
  • Submit New Event
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • News
  • Restaurants + Bars
  • City Life
  • Entertainment
  • Travel
  • Real Estate
  • Arts
  • Society
  • Home + Design
  • Fashion + Beauty
  • Innovation
  • Sports
  • Charity Guide
  • children
  • education
  • health
  • veterans
  • SOCIAL SERVICES
  • ARTS + CULTURE
  • animals
  • lgbtq
  • New Charity
  • Series
  • Delivery Limited
  • DTX Giveaway 2012
  • DTX Ski Magic
  • dtx woodford reserve manhattans
  • Your Home in the Sky
  • DTX Best of 2013
  • DTX Trailblazers
  • Tastemakers Dallas 2017
  • Healthy Perspectives
  • Neighborhood Eats 2015
  • The Art of Making Whiskey
  • DTX International Film Festival
  • DTX Tatum Brown
  • Tastemaker Awards 2016 Dallas
  • DTX McCurley 2014
  • DTX Cars in Lifestyle
  • DTX Beyond presents Party Perfect
  • DTX Texas Health Resources
  • DART 2018
  • Alexan Central
  • State Fair 2018
  • Formula 1 Giveaway
  • Zatar
  • CityLine
  • Vision Veritas
  • Okay to Say
  • Hearts on the Trinity
  • DFW Auto Show 2015
  • Northpark 50
  • Anteks Curated
  • Red Bull Cliff Diving
  • Maggie Louise Confections Dallas
  • Gaia
  • Red Bull Global Rally Cross
  • NorthPark Holiday 2015
  • Ethan's View Dallas
  • DTX City Centre 2013
  • Galleria Dallas
  • Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty Luxury Homes in Dallas Texas
  • DTX Island Time
  • Simpson Property Group SkyHouse
  • DIFFA
  • Lotus Shop
  • Holiday Pop Up Shop Dallas
  • Clothes Circuit
  • DTX Tastemakers 2014
  • Elite Dental
  • Elan City Lights
  • Dallas Charity Guide
  • DTX Music Scene 2013
  • One Arts Party at the Plaza
  • J.R. Ewing
  • AMLI Design District Vibrant Living
  • Crest at Oak Park
  • Braun Enterprises Dallas
  • NorthPark
  • Victory Park
  • DTX Common Desk
  • DTX Osborne Advisors
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2012
  • DFW Showcase Tour of Homes
  • DTX Neighborhood Eats
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2013
  • DTX Auto Awards
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2017
  • Nasher Store
  • Guardian of The Glenlivet
  • Zyn22
  • Dallas Rx
  • Yellow Rose Gala
  • Opendoor
  • DTX Sun and Ski
  • Crow Collection
  • DTX Tastes of the Season
  • Skye of Turtle Creek Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival
  • DTX Charity Challenge
  • DTX Culture Motive
  • DTX Good Eats 2012
  • DTX_15Winks
  • St. Bernard Sports
  • Jose
  • DTX SMU 2014
  • DTX Up to Speed
  • st bernard
  • Ardan West Village
  • DTX New York Fashion Week spring 2016
  • Taste the Difference
  • Parktoberfest 2016
  • Bob's Steak and Chop House
  • DTX Smart Luxury
  • DTX Earth Day
  • DTX_Gaylord_Promoted_Series
  • IIDA Lavish
  • Huffhines Art Trails 2017
  • Red Bull Flying Bach Dallas
  • Y+A Real Estate
  • Beauty Basics
  • DTX Pet of the Week
  • Long Cove
  • Charity Challenge 2014
  • Legacy West
  • Wildflower
  • Stillwater Capital
  • Tulum
  • DTX Texas Traveler
  • Dallas DART
  • Soldiers' Angels
  • Alexan Riveredge
  • Ebby Halliday Realtors
  • Zephyr Gin
  • Sixty Five Hundred Scene
  • Christy Berry
  • Entertainment Destination
  • Dallas Art Fair 2015
  • St. Bernard Sports Duck Head
  • Jameson DTX
  • Alara Uptown Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival fall 2017
  • DTX Tastemakers 2015
  • Cottonwood Arts Festival
  • The Taylor
  • Decks in the Park
  • Alexan Henderson
  • Gallery at Turtle Creek
  • Omni Hotel DTX
  • Red on the Runway
  • Whole Foods Dallas 2018
  • Artizone Essential Eats
  • Galleria Dallas Runway Revue
  • State Fair 2016 Promoted
  • Trigger's Toys Ultimate Cocktail Experience
  • Dean's Texas Cuisine
  • Real Weddings Dallas
  • Real Housewives of Dallas
  • Jan Barboglio
  • Wildflower Arts and Music Festival
  • Hearts for Hounds
  • Okay to Say Dallas
  • Indochino Dallas
  • Old Forester Dallas
  • Dallas Apartment Locators
  • Dallas Summer Musicals
  • PSW Real Estate Dallas
  • Paintzen
  • DTX Dave Perry-Miller
  • DTX Reliant
  • Get in the Spirit
  • Bachendorf's
  • Holiday Wonder
  • Village on the Parkway
  • City Lifestyle
  • opportunity knox villa-o restaurant
  • Nasher Summer Sale
  • Simpson Property Group
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Dallas
  • Carlisle & Vine
  • DTX New Beginnings
  • Get in the Game
  • Red Bull Air Race
  • Dallas DanceFest
  • 2015 Dallas Stylemaker
  • Youth With Faces
  • Energy Ogre
  • DTX Renewable You
  • Galleria Dallas Decadence
  • Bella MD
  • Tractorbeam
  • Young Texans Against Cancer
  • Fresh Start Dallas
  • Dallas Farmers Market
  • Soldier's Angels Dallas
  • Shipt
  • Elite Dental
  • Texas Restaurant Association 2017
  • State Fair 2017
  • Scottish Rite
  • Brooklyn Brewery
  • DTX_Stylemakers
  • Alexan Crossings
  • Ascent Victory Park
  • Top Texans Under 30 Dallas
  • Discover Downtown Dallas
  • San Luis Resort Dallas
  • Greystar The Collection
  • FIG Finale
  • Greystar M Line Tower
  • Lincoln Motor Company
  • The Shelby
  • Jonathan Goldwater Events
  • Windrose Tower
  • Gift Guide 2016
  • State Fair of Texas 2016
  • Choctaw Dallas
  • TodayTix Dallas promoted
  • Whole Foods
  • Unbranded 2014
  • Frisco Square
  • Unbranded 2016
  • Circuit of the Americas 2018
  • The Katy
  • Snap Kitchen
  • Partners Card
  • Omni Hotels Dallas
  • Landmark on Lovers
  • Harwood Herd
  • Galveston.com Dallas
  • Holiday Happenings Dallas 2018
  • TenantBase
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2018
  • Hawkins-Welwood Homes
  • The Inner Circle Dallas
  • Eating in Season Dallas
  • ATTPAC Behind the Curtain
  • TodayTix Dallas
  • The Alexan
  • Toyota Music Factory
  • Nosh Box Eatery
  • Wildflower 2018
  • Society Style Dallas 2018
  • Texas Scottish Rite Hospital 2018
  • 5 Mockingbird
  • 4110 Fairmount
  • Visit Taos
  • Allegro Addison
  • Dallas Tastemakers 2018
  • The Village apartments
  • City of Burleson Dallas

    Best Desserts

    10 best Dallas restaurants for the sweetest desserts

    Teresa Gubbins
    Dec 20, 2016 | 9:13 am

    In times like these, we think of desserts. Times like these might be when it's cold outside. Or when the holidays are near. Or when everything around us feels like it's going to collapse, and all we want is a slice of cake to make it all better.

    There are plenty of great sweets to be found in Dallas-Fort Worth. But for these 10, we turned to our Top 100 list of the very best restaurants in Dallas. So that means no cookie shops, no ice cream stands, no place that wasn't already on our list. We sifted through dozens of desserts to arrive at what we felt like were 10 of the best dessert options in the city. These are our best of the best.

    Asian Mint
    Chef-owner Nikky Phinyawatana is well-known for her dedication to desserts. When Asian Mint first opened at US 75 and Forest Lane in 2004, she earned as much buzz for her gorgeous green-tea ice cream layer cake as she did her impeccable Thai food. The sweets don't stop at the cake. There's a crème brûlée infused with jasmine, a cheesecake flavored with salted caramel and cashews, and the oh-so intriguing sticky rice with your choice of coconut or green tea ice cream.

    Cafe Pacific
    Highland Park Village restaurant is a classic, and that extends to the impeccably made desserts. It knows that no dessert list is complete without chocolate cake. Its French apple cake is dense with apples. Lemon curd comes with irresistible pistachio biscotti. Chocolate chip cookies are served warm. But don't forget the signature pecan ball — vanilla ice cream rolled in pecans, served with house-made fudge sauce — so wow-ee it was featured on TV show The Best Thing I Ever Ate.

    CBD Provisions
    Joule Dallas hotel restaurant has pastry chef extraordinaire Ruben Toraño on its team, so we know the desserts are good. The dessert menu evolves with seasons but includes treats such as the clever banana trifle with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, a hot fudge sundae with cream cheese ice cream and salted caramel hot fudge, and one dessert that demands a special trip: the chocolate stout bar, with toasted meringue, salted pretzels, and orange sorbet.

    Del Frisco's Grille
    Hugely popular casual restaurant in Uptown knows how to please dessert addicts. Its sweets look as good as they taste, especially the coconut cream pie, showered with a blizzard of white chocolate shavings. Other desirable options include molten chocolate cake and a bread pudding flavored with Nutella. But bypass all those, if you can, for the simple-yet-stunning lemon doberge cake, with six thin layers of cake interspersed with lemon butter cream icing and topped with a lemon glaze.

    Hattie's
    Southern restaurant in Bishop Arts gives an ultra sophisticated twist to its desserts. Push the kids aside, these sweets have a worldly savvy that seems more suited to adults. Its bread pudding comes fortified with bananas and almond. Dear Hattie's Key lime tart, is that a frill of Chantilly cream you are wearing? There's a super-elegant version of strawberry shortcake made with a sweet biscuit, and oh yes, there are fried fruit pies.

    Lark on the Park
    Downtown restaurant not only has a view overlooking Klyde Warren Park, it has a pastry chef on-site in Laurel Wimberg. Lark's list of desserts is generally long, creative, and changes with the seasons. Currently there's a buttermilk cake with cream cheese mousse; chocolate and jasmine pot de creme; and a thick (not thin!) mint coupe, with chocolate mint chip and vanilla ice cream in a cup with chocolate-chunk cookies.

    Oak Dallas
    Design District restaurant remains quietly consistent, and its desserts follow that mantra, with flavor combinations that discreetly delight. Sweets such as white chocolate and citrus mousse with fennel ice cream accomplish the mission of making you stop for a second, then nod and say, "of course!" Oak makes S'mores feel new again by reconfiguring it with a chocolate-habanero cake, toasted marshmallow, and house-made graham cracker.

    Original Market Diner
    Market District diner is one of the few of its kind left in Dallas. The food is good, the price is reasonable, and no meal is complete without a serving of one of its exemplary cakes or pies. In addition to local standards such as pecan, it has pies you don't see around here so much, including fruit pies in cherry, apple, and blueberry. Dallas doesn't have much in the way of decent pie, making OMD all the greater a treasure.

    Rise Nº1
    Of course this dessert list would not be complete without Rise Nº1. How could we not include a place where souffles are the raison d'etre? It's fab that they offer savory souffles in options such as cauliflower and Brie, but our focus is on their lineup of sweet soufflés, with flavors range from the archetypal chocolate to fruits such as raspberry and apricot, and the unique dark chocolate mint, all buoyant and ethereal.

    Spiral Diner
    While Spiral Diner is definitely best known as the city's premier vegan restaurant, what is perhaps less known is how good its desserts are. The Oak Cliff spot (and its Fort Worth sibling) has amazing cakes, cupcakes, thick chewy cranberry-oatmeal cookies, rich dark brownies, cheesecakes, and some of the best pies in the city. Its desserts are not merely "good for vegan" — they're just plain good.

    Del Frisco's Grille lemon cake.

    Del Frisco's Grille, lemon cake
      
    Photo courtesy of Del Frisco's Grille
    Del Frisco's Grille lemon cake.
    listsbestsawards
    news/restaurants-bars
    series/top-100-restaurants-2016

    Steak & Ale News

    Local opening of Dallas chain Steak and Ale gets derailed

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 16, 2025 | 5:27 pm
    Steak and Ale
    Steak and Ale
    Steak and Ale

    The long-in-the-works return of Steak and Ale in Dallas is being shelved for now: The casual steakhouse chain which in its heyday had nearly 300 locations is no longer opening a location it planned for in Grand Prairie.

    According to a May 11 post from company owner Paul Mangiamele, the restaurant is definitely now a no-go.

    "After years of very hard and exhausting work for making the Grand Prairie side by side S&A and Bennigan’s happen, the rug has been yanked out from under us," Mangiamele said in his post.

    Often referred to as a pioneer in casual dining, Steak and Ale debuted in 1966, offering an affordable steakhouse experience with rustic Tudor design that included wooden beams and stained glass. In addition to steak and a signature salad bar, the menu featured then-fancy items such as steak Oscar, baby back ribs, and Hawaiian chicken with pineapple teriyaki sauce.

    The chain remained a buzzy destination throughout the '70s and '80s, but by 2008, the parent company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the remaining locations closed.

    In 2023, businessman Paul Mangiamele, chairman and CEO of Legendary Restaurant Brands (which includes Monte Cristo sandwich purveyor Bennigan’s and Bennigan’s On The Fly, which he has also revived), launched a long-held plan to revive the Steak and Ale concept that included opening a new Steak and Ale in Burnsville, Minnesota, as well as partnering with a franchisee to open a location in Grand Prairie, side-by-side with a Bennigan's.

    The Minnesota location opened in August 2024, but Grand Prairie will not be so lucky, and according to Mangiamele, it's due to the shenanigans of the franchisee.

    "For years, we were being told by the developer and owner of the land how he was going to be our franchise partner," Mangiamele says. "He shared with me numerous times how he grew up with the brands and wanted to do his part in honoring Norman Brinker and would be a proud franchise owner. Well, after he finally (3 years later) received his money for selling some of his land, instead of being our franchise partner, he changed his tune, and wanted to instead, sell his land to us!!"

    According to Mangiamele, not only did the franchisee try to sell back the land, he tried to make a profit.

    "Our special deal was a ‘discounted’ price per foot on the land we’d need," Mangiamele says. "After a few due diligence calls, the discounted ’deal’ price was 20% higher than the comparable prices in the same area!! Simply unbelievable!"

    Mangiamele says they are still talking to other interested parties in the greater DFW area and should have more news soon.

    closings
    news/restaurants-bars
    series/top-100-restaurants-2016
    CULTUREMAP EMAILS ARE AWESOME
    Get Dallas intel delivered daily.
    Loading...