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

Crave DFW 8/14 9:14A Steven Doyle

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...

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

Crave DFW 8/14 8:54A Steven Doyle

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)

Crave DFW 8/14 8:40A Steven Doyle

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...

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

Crave DFW 8/14 7:10A Steven Doyle

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...

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

Crave DFW 8/14 6:50A Steven Doyle

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...

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

Crave DFW 8/14 6:25A Steven Doyle

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...

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

Crave DFW 8/14 5:22A Steven Doyle

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....

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

Crave DFW 8/13 9:13A Steven Doyle

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...

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

Crave DFW 8/13 7:32A Steven Doyle

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...

Review: Vinxper Expert Adjustable Electric Wine Aerator

Texas Wine Lover 8/13 1:45A Jeff Cope

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

Crave DFW 8/12 10:41A Steven Doyle

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...

The Perfect Weekend in Lake Tahoe, North and South

Crave DFW 8/12 8:18A Steven Doyle

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...

Austin-based Verdadero Tequila Now Available in All Texas Markets

Crave DFW 8/12 6:18A Steven Doyle

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....

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

Crave DFW 8/12 6:00A Steven Doyle

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...

Truck Yard Is Opening in Richardson on September 1

Crave DFW 8/12 5:24A Steven Doyle

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...