Fairmount Music Hall: Watch Your Back
At the risk of sounding like a third-rate psychic, give me a single strip of bacon and I’ll foretell the eventual doom of a...
BoomerJack’s Arlington Thrives
On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, I found an Arlington sports bar that offers the alcoholic equivalent of the lost treasure of El...
Bearded Lady to South Main
The Bearded Lady’s patio crowds have always doubled as West Magnolia Avenue’s welcoming committee, ever since the craft beer-centric bar/restaurant opened five years ago....
Frankie’s: Thanks, Obama
Finding a true sports bar to post up at for football Sunday proved a lot more difficult than it was in past years. Not...
A Proper Tiki Lounge
Almost a century after famous establishments like Don the Beachcomer and Trader Vics introduced their Polynesian-themed good times to the West Coast, tiki bars...
Life’s Too Short to Live in Dallas
Arlington residents might have heard bullets whizzing overhead recently or at least caught the verbal kind of shots fired from Dallas back toward Fort...
Uno Mas, Americado
It seems like I read the words “authentic tastes of Mexico City” on an improbable number of bar and restaurant marketing materials. I have...
Heim’s Whiskey Bar
If you delight in the abject misery of other people, this year is a playground of schadenfreude. Chances are you have friends or family...
Studio Eighty Redux
If you were cruising down University Drive last week, with the ragtop down so your hair can blow, you would have spied a pile...
Hit the Bar at Hopdoddy
At the risk of tossing away any street cred I’ve amassed: I dig restaurant bars. With the exception of a few outstanding craft cocktail...
