Brian Reinhart

Dallas

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

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Articles

One of Fort Worth’s Top Barbecue Joints Expands to Richardson

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.
Dallas Tex-Mex Institution Gonzalez Gets a Glow-Up

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.
Cooking and Leading Are (Still) Very Different Skills

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.
Claremont Adds Preston Hollow Style to the Classic American Grill

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.
Be Home Soon Delivers New Menus Weekly in Casa Linda

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.
Paper or Plastic? Credit Card Fees Arrive at Top Dallas Restaurants

3 weeks ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

At small mom-and-pop restaurants, diners are accustomed to signs restricting credit card use. Visit a hole-in-the-wall, and it might be cash only or cash-discounted or have a minimum $10 spend. Those strictures against credit cards are now resurfacing in an unlikely place: fine dining. As some of Dallas’ best restaurants face ever slimmer profit margins, they are debating what to do about credit card processing fees, often the only expense that cannot be negotiated, mitigated, or eliminated.
Rants and Raves: The Dallas Food News We’re Most (and Least) Excited About in June 2025

3 weeks ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

Restaurant openings are coming to Dallas in waves. This spring, we had a bit of a lull, but the next wave is here, and our June 2025 news roundup is here to help you navigate it. Let’s jump in. News of the month: A whole bunch of new Dallas restaurantsList time!MamaniThe new upscale French restaurant in Uptown will probably debut at the new and approved Quad at some point in June.
Meet the Coziest New Date Night Restaurant in Bishop Arts

4 weeks ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

Dining at Little Blue Bistro is a little bit like visiting a talented friend for a cozy dinner party. The setting is a 1945-built Bishop Arts house, decorated to look like a Texan’s idea of a French corner shop. There are frosted mirrors, lamps with dainty shades, and a red velvet curtain pulled discreetly in front of the restroom. The restaurant’s name is printed on a brass plate next to the door, only a little larger than a business card.
Pillar Adds Imaginative Flair to a Classic Bistro Menu in Bishop Arts

4 weeks ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

When you hear a phrase like “American bistro” and see cute floral wallpapers and exposed brick, you develop a certain set of expectations. You might imagine a pedestrian burger with oversalted fries and that most dreaded of upscale flourishes: housemade ketchup. The reality of Pillar is, thank goodness, very different. The generic descriptions on Pillar’s menu are bluffs.
This Lovable New Oak Cliff Seafood Bar Is a Tale of Two Hugos

1 month ago | dmagazine.com | Brian Reinhart

Hugo’s Seafood Bar serves fewer than 30 guests at a time in one skinny room in a 1929-built Bishop Arts District structure. The kitchen doesn’t have a back door for deliveries or trash. One wall is all exposed brick, peeling back decades of history and returning to the era when Bishop Avenue wasn’t artsy, or a district. Some of the bricks have holes large enough that you can poke around with a finger or two. You probably shouldn’t. Every square inch in this tiny space must be made useful.