Cody Neathery
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Dallas, TX, United States
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With a New Menu, Komali Continues to Charm with Playful, Coastal-Inspired Mexican Fare
The menu items at Komali are reminiscent of Mexican talavera pottery; bright, colorful and playful. Recently, new ownership team James Broady and general manager Emanuel Salinas revamped this restaurant by keeping an upscale, yet laid back climate. After previous owner Abram Salum decided to sell, executive chef Geovanny Arredondo re-imagined... → Read More
The Brunch Chronicles: CBD Provisions' New Brunch Menu Plays with Meat and Tradition
If you want a standard Ron Swanson breakfast of eggs and bacon, you can grab that just about anywhere, and CBD Provisions at The Joule is no exception. But this is no place to play it safe. Chef Richard Blankenship's brunch menu packs a brass knuckle punch of originality. As... → Read More
Stephan Pyles' Flora Street Cafe, Now Open in the Arts District, is a Triumphant Display of Grandeur
By now, it's well known that Stephan Pyles is a pioneer of modern Texas cuisine. From the beginning of Routh Street Cafe to Star Canyon and Stampede 66, his culinary impact has been felt far and wide. Many of today's brightest young chefs have honed their skills under Pyles' cunning... → Read More
The Butcher Board Beefs Up McKinney's Burgeoning Food Scene with Solid Sandwiches
There's nothing more American than a damn good sandwich and although they weren't invented here, the fabric of our nation was stitched together by meat and bread. We love America, we love sandwiches. Bald eagles for everyone. A short distance north of 635 rests the tiny hamlet of McKinney, with... → Read More
A Meat Adventure: Deep Ellum's New On the Lamb Skips "Mainstream Meat" for Organ Meats and Curious Cuts
A blitzkrieg of buzz normally surrounds a highly anticipated restaurant — diners quickly fall into frenzy for reservations and the media stumble over themselves in feeble attempts to get the scoop. But with On the Lamb, few caught wind of this Deep Ellum restaurant’s opening weekend. Former Oak chef Ross... → Read More
Meals with Musicians: Kirk Thurmond at Henry's Majestic
Settling in from a solo tour throughout the South — and preparing for his opening slot for Third Eye Blind at Dallas Observer’s St. Patrick’s Day concert — Kirk Thurmond and the Millennials have been busy. So busy, in fact, that Thurmond recently quit his job at Oak Cliff’s Local Press... → Read More
Don't Underestimate Fort Worth's Restaurants, Like the New FW Market + Table
The Dallas dining scene undoubtedly garners — nay, demands — most of the attention in North Texas, so our friends to the west are often overlooked. Yes, exciting things are happening right now with food in Dallas, but Fort Worth shouldn’t be treated like a spelling bee runner-up. Tillman’s Roadhouse... → Read More
Stirred, Not Shaken: Remedy's New Cocktail Menu Plays with Texture
Finely tuned craft cocktails have skyrocketed bartenders to a level where their skill set is just as imperative to an establishment’s success as a cook's. No longer is it about who can make the best Dark and Stormy or Vieux Carre, but who is inventive enough to dissect the classics... → Read More
Three Decades Later, Dallas' Underground Steakhouse Keeps the Menu Fresh
Somewhere in the confusion of one-way streets and skyscrapers is one of Dallas’ oldest steakhouses, except for one minor detail — it actually isn’t visible at street level. If not for a sign and valet stand, it would be very easy to forget Dakota’s even exists. The Reunion Tower may... → Read More
Drink Beer and Launch Golf Balls at Busted Cars at this New Fair Park Bar
If you want to launch golf balls for fun within the city limits of Dallas, you can use one finger on one hand to count the applicable places. If you want to hit golf balls at busted and broken down automobiles at a rustic beer garden with various billiards, you're... → Read More
Blind Butcher's New Lunch and Brunch Menus Are a Meaty Adventure
When Goodfriend Beer Garden owners Matt Tobin and Josh Yingling opened the Blind Butcher with Chef Oliver Sitrin, they created a meat-lover's paradise inside a simple but classic old school Greenville Avenue barroom. The space has the feel of a prohibition-era saloon but also offers neighborhood warmth. Inside the Blind Butcher,... → Read More
North Texas Farms Are Booming — and Dallas Restaurants Want Their Goods
The story of our food isn’t exactly on the forefront of table conversation. What seemed to start as a trend, the farm-to-table movement has plowed through Dallas restaurants with no signs of slowing down. If you need proof, look no further than 30 minutes north of Dallas, where McKinney has... → Read More
First Look: The Whippersnapper, Now Open in the Old Slip Inn
When the Slip Inn off Henderson Avenue closed, it definitely came as a surprise to the masses. The fact that this neighborhood dive would be missed was no surprise. For 15 years, the Slip Inn's dance floor bested any other club in town. But when the turntables went silent, there was... → Read More
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler: Eight Spots Serving Crawfish on Fat Tuesday
Mardi Gras: It's happening. And as we slowly emerge from what little winter this has been, we’ve already noticed an early onslaught of crawfish boil announcements. Can it possible be true? Oh, but it is, and it’s a cause for crustacean celebration. Typically the hearty harvests come later in the... → Read More
Ragin' Crab Spices Up Lowest Greenville Avenue with Louisiana-Style Boils
Often I get asked, “Where’s some Louisiana-style food?” My go-to answer has become very simple; there seems to be Cajun-themed restaurants hording every corner of Greenville Avenue. Starting from Shuck n’ Jive on upper Greenville Avenue to the Big Shucks off Mockingbird and its little sister, Aw Shucks across from... → Read More
Five Valentine Dates for Cheap/Broke People
Ah, Valentine's Day: The holiday nobody asked for, invented by poet Geoffrey Chaucer in honor of a priest who was beheaded in Rome, not some chubby flying child brandishing a deadly weapon. Not only is St. Valentine known to carry the afterlife duty of watching over loved ones, he is... → Read More
University Park's Front Room Tavern Seeks to Become Neighborhood Spot with New Chef and Menu
Chef Taylor Kearney brings top-notch meats and tweaked Southern favorites to Front Room Tavern. → Read More
Lakewood Smokehouse Fills the Air in East Dallas With the Missing Scent of Meat
Lakewood Smokehouse softly opened last week, puffing whiffs of smoked meat into East Dallas near lower Abrams Road, a neighborhood that has plenty of re... → Read More
Bbbop Seoul Kitchen R&D Brings a Korean Comfort Food Laboratory to Oak Cliff
It’s hard enough to open one restaurant and not fail within the first year, but Steve Shin and Greg and Sandy Bussey, owners of bbbop Seoul Kitchen, have rolled the dice in Oak Cliff to keep the momentum going for their blossoming Korean food chain. The original location opened in... → Read More
Parker Barrow's Takes Aim at Creating Classic Sandwiches in Bishop Arts
At the corner of Davis Street and Bishop Avenue was once a botanica that sold herbs and roots, magical oils, religious candles and other items to ward off evil spirits. The vintage 1930s building is now a new neighborhood joint where you can devour a sandwich, guzzle beer and knock... → Read More