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...

Shark Club Sports Bar & Grill Expands Texas Presence With Northlake Opening

Restaurant News 7/29 3:10A RestaurantNews.com

Second U.S. location joins Children s Health StarCenter Multisport complex, bringing an elevated sports viewing experience to North Texas families, teams and fans Dallas, TX  ( RestaurantNews.com )  Shark Club will open its second U.S. location...

Inside The Wild Detectives, the Oak Cliff House That Turned Books and Booze into a Dallas...

Crave DFW 7/28 12:21P Steven Doyle

Javier García del Moral and Paco Viqu e met as civil engineers, which is not the résumé line most people would guess for the two men behind Dallas s most quietly influential bookstore. Both are...

A Four-Day Weekend in Seattle, and Where to Actually Eat While You’re There

Crave DFW 7/28 9:39A Steven Doyle

Somewhere between the fishmonger hurling a forty-pound salmon over your head and the ferry horn cutting through the fog on Elliott Bay , Seattle stops feeling like a city you re visiting and starts...

Kelly Vargas from Omni Hotel to Her Own Kitchen

Crave DFW 7/28 8:44A Steven Doyle

Kelly Vargas opened her first restaurant in 2025, and she s already a chef the local dining scene has started keeping an eye on. Curuba Colombian Kitchen, the mom-and-pop she runs with her husband Leo...

Canada’s Biggest Dessert Chain Picked Carrollton for Its First U.S. Location

Crave DFW 7/28 6:57A Steven Doyle

Of every city in the country a Canadian dessert chain could have chosen for its American debut, it picked a strip center off the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Carrollton. D-Spot Dessert Café , which has...

A Big Tex Choice Winner Is Opening Her First Restaurant in Victory Park

Crave DFW 7/28 6:19A Steven Doyle

Kendall Williams won last year s Big Tex Choice Award for Most Creative with a Wagyu Bacon Cheeseburger Deviled Egg Slider, the kind of dish that sounds like a bit until you actually taste it. Now she s building a full restaurant around that same...

A Michelin-Connected Houston Group Is Bringing a Spanish Farmhouse Concept to Dallas

Crave DFW 7/28 5:35A Steven Doyle

BCN Dallas is getting a Spanish restaurant built around the idea of a countryside home rather than a dining room. Masía , opening at 2530 Fairmount Street sometime this winter, comes from  Arrels...

Zepeda Vineyard & Winery: Muscadines, Memories, and Great East Texas Hospitality

Texas Wine Lover 7/27 3:12A Ron Martin

Discover Zepeda Vineyard Winery located in Pittsburg, Texas. The family-run winery is led by Mary and Julio Zepeda. Read More

RestaurantData Estimates 8,171 Restaurant Closures in First Half of 2026

Restaurant News 7/27 2:14A RestaurantNews.com

Source: RestaurantData An estimated 8,171 restaurant locations closed across the United States and Canada during the first half of 2026, according to a new market analysis from RestaurantData. The research found that closures were divided almost...