Café Dior by Dominique Crenn, One Year Later: What’s Changed

Crave DFW 8/3 9:48A Steven Doyle

Drapé Tart Beets, feta cheese, Leche de Tigre Café Dior by Dominique Crenn is still one of the more unusual things happening in Dallas dining, and it s still going strong more than a year after it...

El Molino’s Second Dallas Location Opens August 10 in Preston Royal

Crave DFW 8/3 9:14A Steven Doyle

El Molino is opening a second Dallas location, and this one comes with more room to work with. Vandelay Companies opens the new restaurant in Preston Royal Shopping Center on Monday, August 10 , a...

Everything New (and Viral) to Eat at Disney World Florida in 2026

Crave DFW 8/3 8:01A Steven Doyle

The smell hits before the gate does. Fried dough, char from a hidden grill, something citrus and cold being blended two carts over. Walt Disney World runs on four parks, two water parks, dozens of...

Sarti Rosa Just Landed at Renny’s, and Dallas Is Already Drinking It Up

Crave DFW 8/3 6:33A Steven Doyle

Sarti Rosa is the new one. Unlike the classic anise-flavored Sarti Sambuca, which traces back generations,  Sarti Rosa  is a genuinely modern addition to the lineup from Casa Luigi Sarti & Figli , the...

Meridian’s Chef Collective Welcomes Phillip Halff for a One-Night Dinner August 12

Crave DFW 8/3 5:44A Steven Doyle

Meridian is handing part of its kitchen over again. On  Wednesday, August 12 , the modern American restaurant at The Village Dallas continues its Chef Collective series with a one-night collaboration between executive chef  Eduardo Osorio  and...

Off The Hook and 19 More Restaurant News Headliners of the Past Week

Restaurant News 8/3 12:46A RestaurantNews.com

Off The Hook, Summit Hospitality Group, Beyond Juicery + Eatery, Mountain Mike s Pizza, and BUMPERS lead RestaurantNews.com s Top 20 stories for the week ending August 2, 2026.   1) Off The Hook...

This $20 Zinfandel Was Just Named Wine Spectator’s Wine of the Year, and an Italian Immigrant...

Crave DFW 7/30 9:57A Steven Doyle

Edoardo Seghesio left his family s vineyards in Piedmont, Italy, in 1886 and landed in Sonoma County with nothing but the same skill he d grown up with. He found work at the Italian Swiss Colony, one...

Kilo Is Bringing Gram-Precise Coffee to Snider Plaza

Crave DFW 7/30 8:53A Steven Doyle

Alex Vu taught himself to fix an espresso machine by watching videos online, working the equipment at his family s Vietnamese restaurant, V s House, in North Richland Hills. That repair job turned into a real obsession with dialing in a cup of...

The Dallas Morning News Is Finally Hiring a Restaurant Critic Again (Maybe)

Crave DFW 7/30 8:22A Steven Doyle

For more than four years, the largest newspaper in Dallas hasn t run a formal restaurant review. That s changing. A new job posting for a Food Editor at the Dallas Morning News confirms the paper is...

8 Small-Town Texas Restaurants Worth Driving For

Crave DFW 7/29 9:48A Steven Doyle

Texas hides its best food in places that don t show up on a typical road trip map. These are the restaurants worth the detour: a general store with no printed menu, a garden nursery with a wood-fired...

Graham Elliot’s Fort Worth Restaurant Group Is Finally Coming to Dallas

Crave DFW 7/29 8:58A Steven Doyle

Graham Elliot s first restaurant job in Texas was at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, working the line under Dean Fearing before either of them had a television deal to their name. More than two decades...

Sketches of Spain Just Closed, and The Wild Detectives Is Taking Over the Space

Crave DFW 7/29 8:37A Steven Doyle

Sketches of Spain served its last pintxo on July 19, closing the book on six years as Oak Cliff s only pincho bar. The Bishop Arts spot built its following on Basque-style small plates meant to be...

DFW Restaurant Week Turns 30 This Year, and Reservations Are Already Open

Crave DFW 7/29 6:44A Steven Doyle

DFW Restaurant Week has been running long enough to outlast most of the restaurants that participated in its first year, and this August it hits a real milestone: 30 years, making it the...

Opa! Greek Taverna Is Still Rowlett’s Best Excuse to Shout Across a Dining Room

Crave DFW 7/29 5:59A Steven Doyle

Lamb Kostas Lazanas describes himself as half Greek and half redneck, and that combination turns out to be exactly what Rowlett needed. He grew up training under Charlie Venetis at Opa Grille as a...

Marie’s Kitchen Is a Full Filipino Menu Hiding Inside a Dallas Office Building

Crave DFW 7/29 5:28A Steven Doyle

Longinisa Finding Marie s Kitchen the first time involves a little faith. The restaurant sits at 11910 Greenville Ave., inside a building called Forest Green that mostly houses medical offices and...