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Haute Sweets Is Doing Beignets for Father’s Day Weekend

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:28:55 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas — precise macarons,...

There’s a Trinidadian Food Truck in the Dallas Area

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:12:27 Z

(Crave DFW) 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

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:13:37 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 bought it that same year with a plan: clean it up,...

Ellen’s Southern Kitchen Is Coming Back to Downtown Dallas

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:34:47 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 kitchen — which makes Ellen s Southern Kitchen either...

Botolino Is Quietly Making the Best Gelato in Dallas

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:12:14 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 thing. Flat metal tins, the gelato mounded and...

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

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:55:53 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 occasionally lose the plot trying to find it, serving a...

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

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:37:48 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 third-largest independent brewer in the state. What a...

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

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:17:44 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 most Dallas residents drive past without a second...

Alberta, Get Ready! Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Arrives in Style at West Edmonton Mall June 26

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:04:11 Z

(Restaurant News) Canada s fastest-growing barbecue concept enters West Edmonton Mall for the first time with grand opening celebration featuring giveaways, discounts and award-winning barbecue Edmonton, Alberta ( RestaurantNews.com ) The ultimate shopping fuel is...

Your Dallas Weekend Guide: June 12-14

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:44:51 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 of options across every price point so the weekend...

SĒR Signature Dining Series: Summer Prix Fixe

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:58:51 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 a choice of seasonal starters, from the...

Retro Movie Review: Rear Window (1954)

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:35:27 Z

(Crave DFW) Rear Window (1954) — Directed by Alfred Hitchcock . Starring James Stewart , Grace Kelly , Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr. 112 minutes. Rated PG. Alfred Hitchcock made films that asked you to be uncomfortable with yourself, and Rear...

Queens Head Pub Is Now Open in Deep Ellum

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:08:45 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 Bradford and Deep Ellum Collective, the group that...

la Madeleine Welcomes Summer with Fresh Salads, Croissant Croutons and Strawberry Sweets

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:26:20 Z

(Restaurant News) Protein Bowl Seasonal collection features balsamic-marinated chicken, fresh strawberries and new French-inspired favorites Dallas, TX ( RestaurantNews.com ) la Madeleine is welcoming summer with a new collection of seasonal salads and...

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

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:14:54 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 the Mediterranean where the cooking is as serious...

San Juan on Any Budget: Where to Stay, What to Eat, and What to Do

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:49:15 Z

(Crave DFW) San Juan is the most underrated city in the American travel universe. It is an hour and a half from Miami by air, requires no passport, runs on US dollars, and delivers a food scene that Michelin recognized in 2023 as the only one in the Caribbean...

Nothing Bundt Cakes Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday with Sweet Summer Favorites

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:05:42 Z

(Restaurant News) Patriotic Decorated Cake America s No. 1 favorite brand is serving up JOY with America s Birthday Cake, patriotic treats and fan-favorite flavors Dallas, TX ( RestaurantNews.com ) Nothing Bundt Cakes is making it easy to share something sweet this...

Where to Find the Best Pupusas in Dallas

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:51:45 Z

(Crave DFW) 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 outside crisps and the inside turns soft and...

The World Cup Is Here, Here’s How Dallas Is Going to Spend the Next Five Weeks

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:31:11 Z

(Crave DFW) The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened yesterday in Mexico City and it does not slow down from here. Dallas is one of 11 United States host cities and AT&T Stadium in Arlington is one of the tournament s anchor venues — nine matches in total, including a...

Grapevine, Texas: A Summer Destination for Grown-Up Getaways

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:47:19 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Press Release Grapevine is the ideal destination in North Texas for refreshing adult getaways and day trips this summer. Located on the shores of Lake Grapevine and home to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, this Vintage Texas destination...

How to Order Oysters: A Guide to Every Region and What to Expect

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:48 Z

(Crave DFW) The raw bar menu at a serious restaurant can look like a geography exam — names of bays and inlets and small coastal towns printed in two columns with no explanation of what any of them taste like. Most people point at something and hope for the...

Purépecha is One of the Best Restaurants in Dallas, Here’s What You Need to Know About It

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:23:52 Z

(Crave DFW) Mole del Tio Che The address is 2701 Main Street in Deep Ellum. The name on the door is Revolver Taco Lounge . Walk past the taco counter, past the dining room, through the kitchen, and into the back room, and you will find a different restaurant...

Shohei Takamatsu Brought Japanese Food to Dallas, The City’s Best Chefs Learned from What He Built

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:54:39 Z

(Crave DFW) Shohei Takamatsu died on April 26, 2026, just over a week before his 95th birthday, and the obituaries that followed described him correctly as a pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Dallas. What they couldn t fully capture is the specific weight of that...

Texas Finally Has Its Own Oyster Farms: Dallas Is Starting to Notice

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:22:57 Z

(Crave DFW) For most of its history, Texas has been an oyster-eating state that couldn t grow its own. The Gulf of Mexico runs along 367 miles of Texas coastline, and for decades the wild oyster beds out there fed the rest of the country — enormous, creamy,...

The Best Pizza in Dallas: Every Style, Every Neighborhood

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:01:03 Z

(Crave DFW) Dallas is not a pizza city the way New Haven or New York is a pizza city, but it has become something more interesting: a city where nearly every serious style of the form is being made at a high level, by kitchens that mean it. Neapolitan, New...

The CraveDFW Dallas Master Dining Guide

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:33:44 Z

(Crave DFW) Twenty years of covering this city and the one thing that hasn t changed is that Dallas keeps surprising people who think they already know it. What follows is every dining guide CraveDFW has published, organized by neighborhood and cuisine. Click...

Palladino’s Steak & Seafood Opens This Month at Preston Royal

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:34:14 Z

(Crave DFW) When Joseph Palladino co-founded Nick & Sam s in 1999, he helped establish the template for what a Dallas steakhouse could be — loud, celebratory, thick with regulars, the kind of room that feeds off its own energy. He eventually moved on from that...

Meals with Meaning Celebrates Two Years and 50,000 Meals with a Fort Worth Dinner on July 12

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:16:18 Z

(Crave DFW) Two years ago, Kirk Oldham started Meals with Meaning with a simple premise: chef-prepared meals for people who are food insecure, distributed through a network of Fort Worth chefs, volunteers, and community partners who believe that food dignity...

Bazaar is at the Statler Through June 27, Here’s Why You Should Go

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:49:37 Z

(Crave DFW) Chef Belal Kattan grew up in Syria and came to Dallas by way of some of the most demanding kitchens in the city — Cry Wolf on Gaston Avenue, which closed in 2023 and whose absence is still felt, and then Georgie in Knox-Henderson, where Michelin...

The Richardson and Garland Dining Guide: Where to Dine in Dallas’s Most Diverse Corridor

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:20:39 Z

(Crave DFW) The stretch of North Texas running east from US-75 through Richardson and into Garland is one of the most genuinely diverse dining corridors in the country. This is not a marketing phrase. Richardson has one of the highest concentrations of Middle...

DQ RESTAURANTS IN TEXAS INVITE FANS TO SHARE THEIR THIS IS MY BLIZZARD STORY

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:12:25 Z

(Uptown BubbleLife iReporter) DQ restaurants in Texas are celebrating the traditions, sweet moments and one-of-a-kind memories Texans have shared over the years with the launch of the This Is My Blizzard summer campaign. From post-game celebrations and birthday traditions to...

Sea Breeze to Host Gerard Bertrand French Flair Wine Dinner Monday, June 29

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:19:48 Z

(Crave DFW) Sea Breeze Fish Market & Grill, North Texas’ most beloved family-owned seafood restaurant, will host French winemaker Gérard Bertrand for an elegant culinary evening with a French flair on Monday, June 29. Gérard Bertrand, now in its fourth...

Three Dallas-Area Hotels with June Events

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:08:26 Z

(Crave DFW) June is a good month to leave the house. Three Dallas-area hotels have programming worth circling on the calendar — a Route 66 celebration in Grapevine, an elevated happy hour in Westlake that makes oysters and caviar feel entirely reasonable on a...

55 Seventy Introduces Elevated Sunday Brunch in the Park Cities

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:40:42 Z

(Crave DFW) 55 Seventy, the Park Cities dining destination quietly earning a reputation as one of Dallas most exceptional culinary experiences led by acclaimed Executive Chef Josh Sutcliff, has launched Sunday brunch. Now served every Sunday from 10:30 a.m....

Inside Eataly Dallas, Every Corner Has Something to Eat, Here’s How to Navigate It

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:30:40 Z

(Crave DFW) Italy has been exporting two things to the rest of the world with particular success for the last several centuries: its cuisine and the conviction that the way Italians eat is worth understanding. Oscar Farinetti built an entire retail concept...

Chef Roger Man Is Back at Sushi at The Mercury

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:02:16 Z

(Crave DFW) The Mercury opened on Preston Road in 1998 and has been one of the most quietly consistent fine dining rooms in Dallas ever since. Chef Chris Ward — James Beard Rising Star Chef, CraveDFW s Best Chef in Dallas, the first American Executive Chef at...

Walkers Opens on Lower Greenville June 19

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:26:44 Z

(Crave DFW) Siblings Rosemary Walker-Greene and Russell Walker are opening Walkers at 3016 Greenville Avenue on June 19, and the concept is worth paying attention to before the neighborhood discovers it for itself. Rosemary is an Advanced Sommelier with the...

Alania Mediterranean Grill Has Landed on Bryan Street

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:09:06 Z

(Crave DFW) Beef Iskender and Lamb Beyti The space at 4812 Bryan Street has been sitting empty since Mai s Vietnamese closed in 2022, and if you ve driven past it lately you know the feeling of a corner that s waiting for the right thing. Melike and Kenan Turan...

Midcult Society Is Coming to Exposition Park This Summer

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:48:10 Z

(Crave DFW) The word midcult has a history. The critic Dwight Macdonald coined it in 1960 to describe a particular kind of cultural production — work that borrows the vocabulary of serious art while making itself easier to swallow, that flatters its audience...

Campisi’s Is Coming to Preston Royal This August

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:29:10 Z

(Crave DFW) The Campisi family has been feeding Dallas since Carlo and Antonia arrived from Sicily and tossed the city s first pizza dough at a bar called the Idle Hour on the corner of Knox and McKinney in 1946. They moved to Mockingbird Lane four years later,...