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Kilmac’s Brought a Smoked Guinness Old Fashioned West Davis Street

Mon, 11 May 2026 10:02:07 Z

(Crave DFW) The building at 814 West Davis Street in Oak Cliff started as an automotive garage. A man named Ron Patterson eventually bought it, spent years turning it into a private room — dark, personal, built around the things he liked — and lived in the house...

The Best Burger in McKinney Was Opened by Two Chefs Who Had No Business Making Burgers

Mon, 11 May 2026 09:22:36 Z

(Crave DFW) Lamb Burger on Pita Most people who end up at Square Burger in McKinney did not plan to be there. They were walking around the downtown square, realized they were hungry, and pushed open the door of a 1929 building on the corner of Kentucky and...

Wine Review: The Best $20 Wine for a Texas Summer

Mon, 11 May 2026 08:23:01 Z

(Crave DFW) In 1936, a wine merchant named Gabriel Farnet drove through the hills of the Saint-Tropez peninsula and stopped at a 17-acre vineyard overlooking the Gulf. There was a 19th-century château on the property, a small chapel, and vines that had been...

Everything Worth Eating, Drinking, and Watching at Legacy Hall Right Now

Mon, 11 May 2026 07:47:30 Z

(Crave DFW) Whisk Crepes There is no other building in North Texas quite like Legacy Hall . Three floors, 55,000 square feet, more than 20 food stalls, five bars, a craft brewery on the top floor, and an outdoor entertainment venue built from reclaimed shipping...

Everything Worth Eating at the Dallas Farmers Market Right Now

Mon, 11 May 2026 05:42:52 Z

(Crave DFW) The Dallas Farmers Market has been at 920 South Harwood Street since 1941, which makes it older than most of the buildings around it and considerably more interesting than any of them. It is two things at once — a 26,000-square-foot indoor food hall...

The Ultimate Texas Wine Country Road Trip: A Weekend Tour of Some Hill Country Wineries

Mon, 11 May 2026 04:18:18 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Texas is the fifth-largest wine-producing state in the country, and most people still don’t believe that when you tell them. Then you hand them a glass of Pedernales Cellars Tempranillo and watch their face change. The Hill Country deserves a proper...

At What Point Does Wine Consumption Become a Legal Risk for Drivers?

Mon, 11 May 2026 04:08:26 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Wine has a way of feeling harmless, especially when it is part of something relaxed like dinner, a small gathering, or a quiet evening out. Nothing about it seems rushed or risky, so it is easy to believe you are still in control, even after a couple...

Are Millennials Saving or Reinventing the Wine Industry?

Fri, 08 May 2026 10:44:55 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) A Generation That Pops the Question Instantly The first sip unleashes the question like a cork: are millennials saving wine… or are they slowly drinking it to death? According to the purists, these brunch millennials, natural-wine connoisseurs, are...

A Dallas Drive-In That Made National Headlines

Thu, 07 May 2026 11:20:53 Z

(Crave DFW) In February 1940, a teenage girl from Houston named Josephine Powell appeared on the cover of Life magazine. She was wearing a drum majorette outfit with very short shorts, a plumed hat, and boots. She was holding a tray. She was a carhop at a...

This Restaurant East Dallas is Better Than It Has Ever Been

Thu, 07 May 2026 10:37:44 Z

(Crave DFW) Urbano Cafe should not still be open. Mitch and Kristen Kauffman founded it in 2009 in the century-old building on Fitzhugh that also houses Jimmy s Food Store, ran it for 15 years, and decided they were done. The announcement went out, the regulars...

Morning Coffee, Afternoon Beer, One Very Good Cuban Sandwich

Thu, 07 May 2026 10:13:38 Z

(Crave DFW) Most places try to be one thing and do it well. Chad and Nellie Montgomery looked at that idea and went a different direction. Civil Pour at 8061 Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas is a specialty coffee shop and a 25-tap rotating craft beer bar in the same...

K Estate Vineyards Debuts New Food-and-Wine Pairings Following Major Renovation

Thu, 07 May 2026 03:22:04 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) The tasting was complimentary and all opinions are our own. K Estate Vineyards , one of the premier tasting rooms on the renowned Wine Road 290 between Fredericksburg and Johnson City, has just launched curated food and wine pairings, featuring small...

AM/FM Is the Best Thing to Happen to the Design District in Years

Wed, 06 May 2026 05:56:26 Z

(Crave DFW) Ferris Wheeler s ran for eight years on Market Center Boulevard before it closed last fall — a big backyard, a stage, cold beer, and barbecue. It was a good run. What replaced it is something harder to describe in a single sentence, which is usually...

Michael Dickey of Veraison Hills Vineyard Grower Profile

Tue, 05 May 2026 03:56:57 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Michael and Deanna Dickey We previously showcased Michael Dickey as the original Winemaker Profile for Longhorn Cellars. Both Michael and his wife, Deanna, started in the wine industry with multiple locations for their Veraison Hills Vineyard , so...

Pangea Has a New Address and Downtown Dallas Is Better For It

Mon, 04 May 2026 07:42:52 Z

(Crave DFW) Kevin Ashade was born in Dallas, grew up in the U.K. and Nigeria, came back to Texas, went to the Culinary Institute of America, and spent years inside some of the most serious hotel dining rooms in the city — Nana at the Hilton Anatole, Craft at the...

Dallas Margarita Guide: 12 of the Best in the City Right Now

Mon, 04 May 2026 06:48:12 Z

(Crave DFW) On the night Mariano Martinez opened his restaurant in Dallas in 1971, his bartenders nearly quit. The blended margaritas were coming out different every single time — some icy, some half-melted, some barely cold — and the crowd was not having it....

Cinco de Mayo at Luna Roja: Downtown Dallas Has Its Party

Mon, 04 May 2026 06:03:29 Z

(Crave DFW) Luna Roja opened on April 2 in downtown Dallas, and it hit the ground doing something nobody else in the AT&T Discovery District was doing. The restaurant sits at 1525 Elm Street inside the Hilton Garden Inn — with a separate entrance off the street...

Omar Flores Behind Muchacho and Whistle Britches Opens Maroma in the Design District Today

Mon, 04 May 2026 05:50:34 Z

(Crave DFW) Omar Flores grew up in El Paso helping his father run family restaurants. Not as a dishwasher, not clearing plates — actually in the kitchen, learning how things worked from the time he was old enough to hold a knife. That early start shaped...

Dock Local to Open at Dallas Farmers Market Summer 2026

Mon, 04 May 2026 05:25:18 Z

(Crave DFW) Dock Local , the premium casual coastal cuisine concept founded by Chef Brett Curtis , is expanding its Dallas footprint with a highly anticipated new location at the Dallas Farmers Market opening Summer 2026. This marks the fourth DFW location ...

There’s a Burger on Lower Greenville You Need to Know About

Fri, 01 May 2026 09:24:17 Z

(Crave DFW) Jeff Bekavac opened Goodwins in May 2024 in the old Blue Goose space on Greenville. He named it after the cross street. He s been in Dallas kitchens for years — Neighborhood Services, Cane Rosso — and this is his first real shot at doing it his own...

Austin’s Best Oyster Bar Is Finally Coming to Dallas: Here’s What to Expect

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:56:52 Z

(Crave DFW) Dallas has been waiting for Clark s Oyster Bar longer than it should have had to. The Austin institution opened in 2012, became one of the most copied seafood concepts in Texas, expanded to Aspen, Houston, and Montecito — and somehow Dallas kept...

Mother’s Day at The French Room Is One of Dallas’s Great Annual Traditions

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:20:25 Z

(Crave DFW) The French Room inside The Adolphus has been one of the great rooms in Dallas since the hotel opened in 1912. Adolphus Busch built it on the beer fortune he made in St. Louis, and the design — vaulted ceilings, Corinthian columns, twin Murano glass...

The Charlotte on Henderson Is a Brunch Worth Planning Around

Fri, 01 May 2026 07:50:44 Z

(Crave DFW) Wyl Lima grew up in Keene, Texas, which is not a place most people have heard of. It s a small town built around Southwestern Adventist University, a school that draws students from over a hundred countries. Lima was born in Angola, moved to Texas at...

Inside the Underground Listening Bar That’s Quietly Changing Dallas Nightlife

Fri, 01 May 2026 06:17:41 Z

(Crave DFW) Shyboy Hi-Fi has been open for two months and it s already doing something Dallas nightlife hasn t seen before. The venue sits underground at 1313 Main Street in the former bank vaults of The Drakestone — nine-foot OJAS speakers, acoustics tuned by...

Flock & Fresh Opens Saturday on Greenville Avenue with a Michelin Chef Behind the Menu

Fri, 01 May 2026 05:26:16 Z

(Crave DFW) Wan Kim knows both ends of the dining spectrum. He runs Smoothie King, a chain with over a thousand locations worldwide. He also built Nuri Steakhouse in Uptown Dallas — a $20 million Korean steakhouse that the Wall Street Journal named one of three...

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

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:42:35 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 calendar alarms for the last Monday of each month —...

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

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:52:56 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 W Hotel s Cook Hall . He beat Bobby Flay on...

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

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:05:00 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 one, you ll understand why chef Olivia López has...

The Best Mother’s Day Brunches in DFW for 2026

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:11:43 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 views, afternoon teas, and a few places that don t...

The Village Dallas Hosts the Dallas Margarita Festival

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:39:01 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 ready. The Dallas Margarita Festival lands at The...

Sant Ambroeus Picks Dallas for Its First Texas Location

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:25:51 Z

(Crave DFW) 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...