Smoke

In a laid-back Oak Cliff dining room with a warm and winning personality, chef Tim Byres offers up soulful, original dishes so seriously handcrafted they’d put your grandma to shame. House-smoked everything and fabulous produce are common threads. Cocktails are outstanding; Sunday brunch is extravagantly delicious. Full bar.Leslie Brenner/Guide

Catch live tunes in the lounge or on the terrace every Thursday night.

The Cliff cocktail--chocolate malt martini with Stoli Vanilla, Godiva Chocolate Liquer and coffee liquer and the lemon meringue martini with Absolut Citron and Limoncello and occasionally a dollop of meringue.

Formerly operated by the guys of design firm Coeval Studio, the restaurant was taken over by local icon Tim Byres and his business partners at nearby Smoke, Chris Zielke and Chris Jeffers, back in November. Unsurprisingly, this means the food here is better than ever — think roast chicken paired with wild mushroom sauce and unusual parsnip croquettes, spicy broiled oysters and thin-crust...

No one really knows exactly who invented the Bloody Mary. A couple bars from the 1930s claim the rights to creating the cocktail, and some say that it's named after a British queen — but origins aside, there is fortunately no shortage of fine Bloody Marys in Dallas. A favorite of the hungover brunch crowd, you can find bartenders pouring up their own tomato-based concoctions infused or...

Easter approaches, so what better time to hunt down some of DFW's finest egg dishes? Thanks to the "put an egg on it" trend of recent years, you'll find them not only in souffles, French toast and eggs Benedict but also plopped on top of poutine and burgers. Here are 12 of DFW's best egg dishes (and for more tasty egg creations, scope out last year's map).

It's that time once again: The Eater 38 has returned with a quarterly update. For the uninitiated, this is a map intended to help answer that age-old question, "Can you recommend a restaurant...?"

Cliff Caf , located in Dallas, is an eating establishment that offers a range of food items and beverages. The restaurant provides breakfast, lunch and brunch menus. It serves pancakes, French toast, biscuits, sausage, muffins and fresh fruits for breakfast. The restaurant also offers tea, coffee, skim milk and lemonades. Cliff Caf s lunch and dinner menus include a variety of soups, salads and...