Your Dallas Weekend Guide: June 19-21

This is one of those weekends where Dallas stacks everything on top of itself. Father’s Day, Juneteenth, the World Cup still running, a free block party in the Arts District,…

Assembly Icehouse Is Adding an Adults-Only Lounge in Plano

Assembly Icehouse opened in Plano’s Assembly Park last November and has spent seven months becoming exactly the kind of neighborhood anchor that most new restaurants spend years trying to be.…

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

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…

Texas This Weekend: Three Roads Worth Taking

by Cassidy Everett Some weekends are made for catching up on chores. This is not one of them. This weekend, Texas offers three distinctly different adventures. You can spend two…

Sor Juana Just Opened and It’s Unlike Anything Else in Dallas Right Now

Most people don’t know what a botanería is. That’s fine. Go to Sor Juana and you’ll figure it out in about five minutes. The concept is Mexican in origin and…

Our Q&A with Hao Tran on Her Upcoming FW Restaurant and Pop Up

Hao Tran did not arrive in the food world through a culinary school or a restaurant kitchen. She came through grief and an empty house and a therapist who wasn’t…

Off the Bone Came Before All of Them

Dwight Harvey spent 38 years in finance at PepsiCo. When he retired, he started barbecuing in his backyard. Rose, his wife, thought it was a fine hobby. Then it became…

A Dallas Weekend That Delivers: Where to Eat, Drink, and Be Somewhere

Dallas on a good weekend is one of the better cities in America to be in with no particular agenda. The food is serious, the weather in late May still…

Malai Kitchen is a Thai Paradise

Ahi Tacos When Malai Kitchen opened in West Village in January 2011, the landlord pulled Braden and Yasmin Wages aside and told them he didn’t think the concept had legs.…

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

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…