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Waterloo Gin Sweeps the 2026 SIP Awards, and Brought Three Cocktails to Prove It

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:14:11 Z

(Crave DFW) Waterloo Gin just had its best showing yet at the SIP Awards, one of the few major spirits competitions where the judges aren t industry insiders but ordinary consumers tasting blind. The Hill Country distillery walked away with Platinum for its...

Zalat Pizza Puts Butter Chicken on a Crust, and It Actually Works

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:54:58 Z

(Crave DFW) Zalat Pizza has never been shy about mashing up flavors that have no business working together until they do, and the newest one might be the boldest swing yet. Starting August 17, every Zalat Pizza location in Texas will start slinging a Butter...

Retro Movie Review: High Noon (1952)

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:40:02 Z

(Crave DFW) High Noon opens on the happiest morning of Marshal Will Kane s life. Played by Gary Cooper , Kane has just married Amy Fowler, played by Grace Kelly , and turned in his badge, ready to leave the small New Mexico town of Hadleyville behind for a life...

Eddie’s Diner Is the Last Real Diner Left Standing in Plano

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:10:14 Z

(Crave DFW) Plano has spent the last decade filling in with glass towers and corporate headquarters, and somewhere in the middle of that, a small family-run diner on Parker Road kept doing exactly what it has always done. Eddie s Diner is not trying to be part...

Ko Thai Brings the Cow to Cowtown, and Fort Worth Was Ready

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:50:03 Z

(Crave DFW) Fort Worth has never had a shortage of good Thai food, but it has had a shortage of Thai food that looks like it belongs on Magnolia Avenue. Ko Thai closes that gap. It opened last year at 725 W Magnolia Ave, a block down from the neighborhood s...

Dallas-Fort Worth’s Next Six Weeks Are Loud, Then a Little Louder

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:25:52 Z

(Crave DFW) Dallas-Fort Worth is about to get loud. The next six weeks bring a run of arena rock, honky-tonk legends, and a few genuine bucket-list pairings, and the calendar only gets busier once the theaters and orchestras open their seasons behind them. Arena...

Henderson Avenue’s Comeback Restaurant, Romy, is Still on Track for December

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:22:27 Z

(Crave DFW) Henderson Avenue s long-anticipated overhaul is close enough to done now that its restaurant lineup is starting to feel real. PopUp Bagels opened its second Dallas location on the street this summer. Salt & Straw made its Texas debut nearby. And...

Lounge Here Turns Chicken Fried Steak Into a Dinner and a Brunch Dish

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:13:27 Z

(Crave DFW) Lounge Here hides behind an unmarked strip center on Garland Road, the kind of exterior that gives away nothing about what s happening inside. Walk through the door and the room drops you into a retro cocktail lounge, all plush banquettes, moody...

Lufkin’s Cafe Del Rio Covers Both Sides of Texas Comfort Food

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:32:08 Z

(Crave DFW) The name suggests a border town, sun-bleached and dusty, somewhere along the Rio Grande. Cafe Del Rio is actually about as far from the border as Texas gets, sitting deep in the Piney Woods of Lufkin , closer to Louisiana than to Mexico. The name...

Review: Vinxper Expert Adjustable Electric Wine Aerator

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:45:58 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) The Vinxper Expert takes electric wine aeration a step further with adjustable decanting from 0 to 240 minutes. I put it to the test to see how it compares with other electric aerators I have used. Read More

Both Loro Dallas locations Heat Up Late Summer with Favor & Fly by Jing Collaborations

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:41:19 Z

(Crave DFW) Loro Asian Smokehouse & Bar is closing out summer with two collaborations running at both Dallas locations through the end of August, one built for heat-seekers and one built for parents who ve had enough of the back-to-school scramble. The bigger of...

The Perfect Weekend in Lake Tahoe, North and South

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:18:12 Z

(Crave DFW) Some lakes ask to be admired. Lake Tahoe asks to be entered. Its water holds a clarity so complete that sunlight travels fifty, sometimes seventy feet down before it surrenders, casting the shallows in a turquoise that belongs more to the Caribbean...

Austin-based Verdadero Tequila Now Available in All Texas Markets

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:18:38 Z

(Crave DFW) Austin-based Verdadero Tequila is entering a new chapter. The brand, founded in Austin in 2020, has been under new ownership since August 2025, when Kentucky native Chase Deppen acquired the company. Now Deppen and the Verdadero team are rolling out...

Night Rooster, Months In: What’s Working and What Isn’t

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:00:30 Z

(Crave DFW) Sweet & Sour Halibut Night Rooster has had several months now to settle into its spot on the ground floor at 1000 N. Riverfront Blvd. in the Design District, on the ground floor below Hooper Hospitality s Italian steakhouse The Saint. The early buzz...

Truck Yard Is Opening in Richardson on September 1

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:24:47 Z

(Crave DFW) Richardson is getting its own version of the backyard party that s been packing the patio on Lower Greenville for more than a decade. Truck Yard is opening a new location at 740 S. Central Expressway on September 1, taking over the spot that used...

Old Vine Texas and Burning Daylight Estate Winery in Mansfield

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:51:05 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Old Vine Texas in Mansfield offers Texas wines, food, and featured tastings, including wines from nearby Burning Daylight Estate Winery. We stopped in to experience both in one visit. Read More

Dallas Food Bites: Closings, Openings, and Anniversaries Worth Knowing About

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:33:59 Z

(Crave DFW) Not every piece of Dallas food news needs its own headline, but stacked together, this week s smaller stories add up to a pretty full picture of where the city s eating and drinking scene is headed. A few closings, a few openings, and a couple of...

Five Dallas Restaurants Worth Booking During DFW Restaurant Week

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:10:47 Z

(Crave DFW) Every August, Dallas hands you a reason to finally book the table you ve been putting off. DFW Restaurant Week turns 30 this year, running from Preview Weekend on August 6 through the final stretch on September 7, and more than 150 restaurants across...

Cookie Is Cooking: Tiffany Derry’s Mom Takes Over the Roots Kitchen

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:49:13 Z

(Crave DFW) Cookies Gumbo! Ask most chefs where they learned to cook and you get a story about culinary school, or a mentor, or some line cook who showed them how to hold a knife. Ask Tiffany Derry , and the answer has always been her mother. On August 23, that...

What Makes French Press Coffee Different, and Where to Find a Good One in Dallas

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:07 Z

(Crave DFW) There s a reason the French press has outlasted every countertop gadget that s tried to replace it. No pods, no paper filters, no app to sync. Just coarse grounds, hot water, and a few minutes of patience. It s the closest thing coffee has to a...

Chaparral Vin

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:10:43 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Chaparral Vin is a new winery on US 290 with owners who already have plenty of experience in the Texas wine industry. We visited recently to learn more about the winery, its wines, and what’s still to come. Read More

Four Locations, One Format: The Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers Story

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:48:41 Z

(Crave DFW) Bill and Lynn Gross opened their first hamburger stand in a converted fire station on Central Expressway in the early 1980s. That detail tends to get mentioned in passing whenever Chip s Old Fashioned Hamburgers comes up, which is a shame, because it...

Beyond the Salsa: What Central Market Is Doing with Hatch Chile This Year

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:19:57 Z

(Crave DFW) We already told you the festival was coming back. What nobody s told you yet is what s actually new on the shelves this year, and that s the part worth planning a grocery trip around. The short version: Central Market is running its Hatch celebration...

DFW Restaurant Week Turns 30, and This Year’s Menu of Perks Is Bigger Than the Food

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:56:21 Z

(Crave DFW) Thirty years ago, a handful of Dallas restaurants agreed to knock a little off the check in exchange for sending a cut to a food bank. Nobody involved could have guessed it would still be running three decades later, or that it would grow into the...

The Uyghur Corridor: Four Stops from Preston Road to Plano

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:31:30 Z

(Crave DFW) Start on Preston Road in North Dallas and drive north for twenty minutes, and you ll pass through one of the more unexpected food corridors in the metroplex. It doesn t advertise itself. There s no sign, no branded district, no banner year hung on it...

Inside Flora House: Juan Rodriguez’s New Restaurant at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:39:18 Z

(Crave DFW) Rock Springs Cafe shut its doors for good on June 30. It had sat inside the Rock Springs Building at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden since 2019, pouring coffee and building lunch plates for a steady stream of garden visitors who wanted something to eat...

Jason Dady’s Mexico Ceaty: Inside San Antonio’s New River Walk Food Hall

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:03:13 Z

(Crave DFW) The boats still make their slow loop below the River Walk turnaround, same as they always have. But look up now from that spot near the Shops at Rivercenter and something has changed. Where a food court used to sit — the every mall has (had),...

2027 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition Entries Now Being Accepted!

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:34:29 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) The 2027 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition has announced the Featured Wine Region plus entries are now being accepted for the competition Read More

The Oasis on Lake Travis: Inside Texas’ Sunset Capital

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:03:27 Z

(Crave DFW) The Oasis on Lake Travis started as a hamburger stand. In 1982, Houston entrepreneur Beau Therio t bought 500 acres of ranch land perched above the lake with no grander plan than a small burger joint to serve the view. More than four decades later,...

Inside Wu Wei Din, Where the Soup Dumplings Come with a History Lesson

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:40:04 Z

(Crave DFW) Wu Wei Din Chinese Cuisine started in a tiny Plano storefront around 2016, opened by Taiwan native Todd Hung with a singular focus: bring the wontons, noodles, and dumplings of his home island to North Texas the way they re actually made there, not...

Bombay Chowpatty Brings Mumbai’s Street Food Scene to Irving

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:36:18 Z

(Crave DFW) Samosa Chaat Bombay Chowpatty takes its name from one of Mumbai s most famous stretches of sand, a public beach along Marine Drive in the Girgaon area lined for generations with vendors selling bhelpuri, panipuri, ragda pattice, and pav bhaji...

Inside Charlie’s Creole Kitchen, Lower Greenville’s Longtime Cajun Fixture

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:13:04 Z

(Crave DFW) Charlie s Creole Kitchen has been serving Cajun and Creole food on Lower Greenville since 1989, longer than almost anything else on that stretch of Greenville Avenue, and for most of that history it wasn t called Charlie s at all. Owner Charlie...

Why So Serious? Giant Pizza-By-The-Slice in Deep Ellum

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:32:00 Z

(Crave DFW) At the intersection of grit and indulgence in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood, Serious Pizza has carved out a name for itself—not through gimmicks, but by doubling down on what it does best: giant, unapologetic New York-style slices served with...

Pollo Rosa Vineyard and Winery Grower Profile

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:39:07 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) This month's Grower Profile features Duane and Donna Patrick of Pollo Rosa Vineyard and Winery. Besides having a popular winery, the couple grows a vineyard next to the winery and is also working on two other small vineyards. Read More