Denton’s Osteria Il Muro Is a James Beard Finalist. It Seats 22 People

Crave DFW 4/29 8:42A Steven Doyle

There is a restaurant in Denton called Osteria Il Muro with 22 seats, a backyard garden, and a menu that changes every single day. It is one of the hardest reservations in North Texas. People set...

Prana: The Most Intimate Dinner in Dallas Comes from One of Its Most Decorated Chefs

Crave DFW 4/29 5:52A Steven Doyle

Vijay Sadhu Vijay Sadhu has been one of the most interesting chefs in Dallas for a long time. He opened Samar with Stephan Pyles and watched it become a James Beard semifinalist. He ran the kitchen at...

The Best Tortilla in Dallas Is About to Have Its Own Restaurant

Crave DFW 4/28 10:05A Steven Doyle

The tortilla is the first thing you need to understand about Molino Olōyō. Not the filling, not the protein, not the salsa. The tortilla. That s where this whole operation begins, and once you taste...

The Best Mother’s Day Brunches in DFW for 2026

Crave DFW 4/28 8:11A Steven Doyle

Mother s Day falls on Sunday, May 10 this year, and if you haven t made a reservation, now is the time. Restaurants across Dallas-Fort Worth are pulling out the good stuff — prix fixe menus, skyline...

The Village Dallas Hosts the Dallas Margarita Festival

Crave DFW 4/28 6:39A Steven Doyle

Cinco de Mayo falls on a Monday this year, which means the weekend before it is fair game for the kind of day-drinking that the holiday was practically invented to justify. Dallas has its answer...

Sant Ambroeus Picks Dallas for Its First Texas Location

Crave DFW 4/28 6:25A Steven Doyle

If you have spent any time in New York and wandered into one of those rooms on the Upper East Side or in the West Village where the espresso is perfect and the pastel-colored cakes look like they came from a set designer s dream, you already know...

Wine Society of Texas Announces 2026 Scholarship Program Awards

Texas Wine Lover 4/28 12:39A Jeff Cope

Press Release The Wine Society of Texas (WST), a 501c3 non-profit educational organization, is pleased to announce that it will be awarding scholarships totaling $11,000 in support of four students. These students are: (a) attending institutions...

55 Seventy with Chef David Uygur of Lucia for Exclusive Dinner on May 4

Crave DFW 4/27 8:30A Steven Doyle

55 Seventy continues its 2026 Guest Chef Series on Monday, May 4 with David Uygur, chef-owner of Lucia . The dinner is members-only and limited in size. Lucia has a long-standing reputation in Dallas...

Farmers Markets in DFW & What Produce is Best in Spring

Crave DFW 4/27 7:01A Steven Doyle

Farmers market season is back, and with it the question every Dallas cook eventually asks: which one is actually worth the Saturday morning. There are dozens of markets in the metroplex, and they are not all the same thing. Some are real...

Happy Hour: Five Whiskies, One Cocktail

Crave DFW 4/24 7:52A Steven Doyle

A good whiskey shelf does not need to be deep. It needs to be honest. One bottle for a Tuesday night when all you want is a finger of something warm over ice, one for a dinner party where somebody is...

Kyle Allen Winemaker Profile

Texas Wine Lover 4/21 12:29A Jeff Cope

This month’s featured Winemaker Profile is Kyle Allen from Turtle Creek Vineyard . The tasting room at their vineyard is a gorgeous facility with the tasting room and vineyard overlooking Turtle Creek and the beautiful hillside. There is also a...

Long Weekends for Camping at Glen Rose

Crave DFW 4/20 6:01A Steven Doyle

Dallas does not have the mountains or the coast. What we have is a good road in a lot of directions, and a handful of small towns close enough to reach in an afternoon but far enough to feel like...

Shopping Made Simple at HEB

Crave DFW 4/20 5:10A Steven Doyle

For decades, HEB was the grocery store Texans kept a shared secret about. If you grew up in Kerrville, Corpus, or San Antonio, you knew. If you lived in Dallas or Fort Worth, you had to settle for...

How to Spend Cinco de Mayo in Dallas — With and Without the Tequila

Crave DFW 4/17 5:43A Steven Doyle

A quick note before we get into it: Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. That’s September 16. May 5 commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of...

Our First Blog Post was in 2011. A Lot Has Changed in Texas Wine – Or Has It?

Texas Wine Lover 4/15 6:14A Jeff Cope

Texas Wine Lover Website header in 2011 With Texas Wine Lover celebrating its 15th anniversary in March, I thought it would be fun to look back at the very first blog post I wrote when I decided to...