The Oasis on Lake Travis: Inside Texas’ Sunset Capital

Crave DFW 8/5 9:03A Steven Doyle

The Oasis on Lake Travis  started as a hamburger stand. In 1982, Houston entrepreneur Beau Therio t bought 500 acres of ranch land perched above the lake with no grander plan than a small burger joint...

Inside Wu Wei Din, Where the Soup Dumplings Come with a History Lesson

Crave DFW 8/5 8:40A Steven Doyle

Wu Wei Din Chinese Cuisine  started in a tiny Plano storefront around 2016, opened by Taiwan native Todd Hung with a singular focus: bring the wontons, noodles, and dumplings of his home island to...

Bombay Chowpatty Brings Mumbai’s Street Food Scene to Irving

Crave DFW 8/5 7:36A Steven Doyle

Samosa Chaat Bombay Chowpatty  takes its name from one of Mumbai s most famous stretches of sand, a public beach along Marine Drive in the Girgaon area lined for generations with vendors selling bhelpuri, panipuri, ragda pattice, and pav bhaji...

Inside Charlie’s Creole Kitchen, Lower Greenville’s Longtime Cajun Fixture

Crave DFW 8/5 7:13A Steven Doyle

Charlie s Creole Kitchen  has been serving Cajun and Creole food on Lower Greenville since 1989, longer than almost anything else on that stretch of Greenville Avenue, and for most of that history it...

Why So Serious? Giant Pizza-By-The-Slice in Deep Ellum

Crave DFW 8/5 6:32A Steven Doyle

At the intersection of grit and indulgence in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood, Serious Pizza has carved out a name for itself—not through gimmicks, but by doubling down on what it does best: giant,...

Pollo Rosa Vineyard and Winery Grower Profile

Texas Wine Lover 8/4 3:39A Jeff Cope

This month's Grower Profile features Duane and Donna Patrick of Pollo Rosa Vineyard and Winery. Besides having a popular winery, the couple grows a vineyard next to the winery and is also working on two other small vineyards. Read More

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...