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Brian Reinhart

Dallas

Dining Critic at D Magazine

Dining critic, @dmagazine. reinhart on Bluesky. bg_reinhart on Instagram. dfwfoodcritic on Reddit. This account is inactive.

Articles

  • 1 week ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

    Brix Barbecue, just south of downtown Fort Worth, hasn’t achieved quite the same fame as neighbors like Panther City and Goldee’s. But it’s one of the region’s very best barbecue joints, fueled by a creativity that leads to spectacular pork belly porchetta, well-made tacos, and smoked ragù. Now you can try some of the Brix bounty without making the drive west.

  • 1 week ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

    Gonzalez has been a Dallas-area fixture since it first opened on Maple Avenue in 1973. The Gonzalez website still boasts about the time this magazine named it one of the region’s top 10 best restaurants—all the way back in 1982. (From that review: “This is currently the best Tex-Mex in town, beating out a host of competitors.

  • 1 week ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

    It is a story we’ve heard many times before. Cooking and leading are different skills, and being good at one doesn’t automatically make you good at the other. For nearly a decade, the restaurant industry has been subjected to story after story about chef misbehavior. Here in Dallas, we’ve had chefs get in fistfights, lie to staff and diners, drunkenly refuse to tip, and those are just the incidents I could find past news articles about.

  • 1 week ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

    A friend of mine likes to describe a certain type of Dallas restaurant as “fancy Chili’s.” Chili’s is, of course, a Dallas-founded institution, but my friend contends that our city’s favorite food is that same style, dressed up with better cooking and a more sophisticated atmosphere. This is not always a compliment, but I most definitely mean high praise in the case of Claremont Neighborhood Grill, the latest from restaurateur brothers Nik and Greg Katz.

  • 2 weeks ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

    What kind of restaurant do you want in your neighborhood? That’s the question on the minds of Dallas chefs as the city’s dining scene moves in a more casual direction. A menu that works in Preston Hollow is unlikely to fly in Elmwood. While some newcomers try to please everyone, a tiny, new spot in Casa Linda had the opposite idea: the owners made a restaurant for themselves and trusted that the rest of us would come, too.

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