Burger Schmurger Returns to Lake Highlands Fourth of July Parade

Crave DFW 6/16 7:08A Steven Doyle

Burger Schmurger  is bringing the sizzle back to the  Lake Highlands Fourth of July Parade , returning for its third consecutive year with a  burger-grilling parade trailer , festive giveaways and a...

Escondido Has Been the Right Tex-Mex Answer in Preston Royal

Crave DFW 6/16 6:54A Steven Doyle

photos by Joey Stewart When Cantina Laredo closed at Preston Royal after more than twenty years, the neighborhood lost its Tex-Mex anchor and didn t have a replacement. Jon Alexis — who has run TJ s...

Cris & John Made a Move

Crave DFW 6/16 6:36A Steven Doyle

John Pham grew up in Ho Chi Minh City walking to his favorite street food carts, watching traffic and eating well for almost nothing. Cristina Mendez grew up on the other side of that equation —...

Assembly Icehouse Is Adding an Adults-Only Lounge in Plano

Crave DFW 6/16 5:57A Steven Doyle

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. The...

Drake’s Hollywood Has Been Getting It Right on Lovers Lane

Crave DFW 6/16 5:37A Steven Doyle

There are restaurants built around food, and there are restaurants built around a feeling. Drake s Hollywood is the second kind, and it makes no apologies about that. The room at 5007 W. Lovers Lane...

Palladino’s Steak & Seafood Is Open Tonight in Preston Hollow

Crave DFW 6/16 5:01A Steven Doyle

Joseph Palladino spent years helping build Nick & Sam s into one of the most recognizable steakhouses in Dallas, then went to New York, opened Palladino s Steak & Seafood at Grand Central Terminal,...

Meredith Reed Winemaker Profile

Texas Winer Lover 6/16 12:57A Jeff Cope

Some winemakers start their career in another field and then discover the wine industry, which leads them down a different path. Meredith Reed is someone who worked in the healthcare field, but once she discovered the wine industry, it was the...

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

Crave DFW 6/15 7:25A Steven Doyle

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 recessions and a pandemic,...

Lombardi Family Concepts Just Opened a Sports Lounge in Plano

Crave DFW 6/15 5:15A Steven Doyle

Alberto Lombardi has spent decades building some of the most reliable dining rooms in Dallas-Fort Worth — Bistro 31, Toulouse, Taverna, Lombardi Cucina Italiana. His newest concept is a sports bar,...

Mooala Milk

Crave DFW 6/15 3:39A Steven Doyle

By Chef Annie Greenslade As someone who pays close attention to quality ingredients, I am always searching for products that keep ingredients simple while still delivering incredible flavor, and I...

Haute Sweets Is Doing Beignets for Father’s Day Weekend

Crave DFW 6/12 10:28A Steven Doyle

Most of what Chef Tida Pichakron makes at Haute Sweets Patisserie draws on her training at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and her years at the Adolphus Hotel s French Room and the...

There’s a Trinidadian Food Truck in the Dallas Area

Crave DFW 6/12 10:12A Steven Doyle

Trinidadian food doesn t show up on Dallas menus, period — and that makes Trini Style Bake n Shark & Tings one of the genuinely rare things in this city s food scene: a family-run food truck serving the real thing, the cooking of an island whose...

JG’s Old Fashioned Tastes Just Like It Should

Crave DFW 6/12 9:13A Steven Doyle

In 1985, John Green opened a burger joint on Greenville Avenue near 635 with no restaurant experience whatsoever. Six months in, he was done — overwhelmed, ready to sell. Morris and Susanne Bagheri...

Ellen’s Southern Kitchen Is Coming Back to Downtown Dallas

Crave DFW 6/12 8:34A Steven Doyle

Here s the part of the Ellen s story most people don t know: Ellen wasn t a great cook. Founder Joe Groves named the restaurant after his mother, and by his own account she was famously bad in the...

Botolino Is Quietly Making the Best Gelato in Dallas

Crave DFW 6/12 8:12A Steven Doyle

There s a small test that separates a real gelateria from a place that just sells frozen dessert with an Italian name on the sign: how it s served. Soft-serve machines and pre-scooped tubs mean one...