Six Family-Owned Restaurants Worth Your Loyalty in Dallas and Fort Worth

Crave DFW 6/15 7:25A Steven Doyle

There is a category of restaurant that no amount of new openings can replace: the place that a family built from nothing, that has fed the same neighborhood through multiple recessions and a pandemic,...

Lombardi Family Concepts Just Opened a Sports Lounge in Plano

Crave DFW 6/15 5:15A Steven Doyle

Alberto Lombardi has spent decades building some of the most reliable dining rooms in Dallas-Fort Worth — Bistro 31, Toulouse, Taverna, Lombardi Cucina Italiana. His newest concept is a sports bar,...

Haute Sweets Is Doing Beignets for Father’s Day Weekend

Crave DFW 6/12 10:28A Steven Doyle

Most of what Chef Tida Pichakron makes at Haute Sweets Patisserie draws on her training at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and her years at the Adolphus Hotel s French Room and the...

There’s a Trinidadian Food Truck in the Dallas Area

Crave DFW 6/12 10:12A Steven Doyle

Trinidadian food doesn t show up on Dallas menus, period — and that makes Trini Style Bake n Shark & Tings one of the genuinely rare things in this city s food scene: a family-run food truck serving the real thing, the cooking of an island whose...

JG’s Old Fashioned Tastes Just Like It Should

Crave DFW 6/12 9:13A Steven Doyle

In 1985, John Green opened a burger joint on Greenville Avenue near 635 with no restaurant experience whatsoever. Six months in, he was done — overwhelmed, ready to sell. Morris and Susanne Bagheri...

Ellen’s Southern Kitchen Is Coming Back to Downtown Dallas

Crave DFW 6/12 8:34A Steven Doyle

Here s the part of the Ellen s story most people don t know: Ellen wasn t a great cook. Founder Joe Groves named the restaurant after his mother, and by his own account she was famously bad in the...

Botolino Is Quietly Making the Best Gelato in Dallas

Crave DFW 6/12 8:12A Steven Doyle

There s a small test that separates a real gelateria from a place that just sells frozen dessert with an Italian name on the sign: how it s served. Soft-serve machines and pre-scooped tubs mean one...

Angela’s Cafe Has Been Feeding This Neighborhood for 25 Years

Crave DFW 6/12 7:55A Steven Doyle

There s a category of restaurant that exists in every city — the place that s been quietly doing the same thing well for a quarter century, sitting behind a strip center where even Uber drivers...

Community Beer Co. Is the Design District’s Best Bar-and-Kitchen Combo

Crave DFW 6/12 7:37A Steven Doyle

Most people who know Community Beer Co. know it for one thing: the beer. Fair enough — Community has been one of the foundational names in Texas craft brewing since 2013, and it s grown into the...

Three Ways to Spend a Texas Evening on the Water Near Dallas

Crave DFW 6/12 7:17A Steven Doyle

Spirit of Dallas Texas summer evenings are made for the water, and two completely different experiences near Dallas prove it — one slow and quiet, the other lit up and moving. Both happen on lakes...

Your Dallas Weekend Guide: June 12-14

Crave DFW 6/12 5:44A Steven Doyle

The World Cup is here, the heat has arrived for good, and Dallas this weekend has more going on than any single itinerary can hold. Here s how to spend the next three days — hour by hour, with a mix...

SĒR Signature Dining Series: Summer Prix Fixe

Crave DFW 6/11 11:58A Steven Doyle

SĒR Steak + Spirits is elevating summer dining with a three-course prix fixe experience available throughout June and July, set 27 floors above Dallas with sweeping skyline views. The menu begins with...

Queens Head Pub Is Now Open in Deep Ellum

Crave DFW 6/11 11:08A Steven Doyle

Deep Ellum has a proper English pub now, and the timing could not be better. Queens Head Pub opened Tuesday at 2713 Elm Street — the former Green Room space — and it is the second concept from Eric...

The Best Burger in the Park Cities is at a French Bistro

Crave DFW 6/11 10:14A Steven Doyle

Chef Eliott Azoulay trained at the École Ducasse in Paris, worked at La Fontaine de Mars on the Left Bank, and spent time at Le Petit Nice in Marseille — a three-Michelin-star restaurant overlooking...

Where to Find the Best Pupusas in Dallas

Crave DFW 6/11 8:51A Steven Doyle

A pupusa is El Salvador s national dish — a thick handmade corn tortilla stuffed before it hits the griddle, not after. The masa gets pressed around the filling by hand, sealed, and cooked until the...