Review: Vinxper Expert Adjustable Electric Wine Aerator

Texas Winer 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...

Old Vine Texas and Burning Daylight Estate Winery in Mansfield

Texas Winer Lover 8/12 1:51A Jeff Cope

Old Vine Texas in Mansfield offers Texas wines, food, and featured tastings, including wines from nearby Burning Daylight Estate Winery. We stopped in to experience both in one visit. Read More

Dallas Food Bites: Closings, Openings, and Anniversaries Worth Knowing About

Crave DFW 8/11 9:33A Steven Doyle

Not every piece of Dallas food news needs its own headline, but stacked together, this week s smaller stories add up to a pretty full picture of where the city s eating and drinking scene is headed. A...

Five Dallas Restaurants Worth Booking During DFW Restaurant Week

Crave DFW 8/11 9:10A Steven Doyle

Every August, Dallas hands you a reason to finally book the table you ve been putting off. DFW Restaurant Week turns 30 this year, running from Preview Weekend on August 6 through the final stretch on September 7, and more than 150 restaurants...

Cookie Is Cooking: Tiffany Derry’s Mom Takes Over the Roots Kitchen

Crave DFW 8/11 7:49A Steven Doyle

Cookies Gumbo! Ask most chefs where they learned to cook and you get a story about culinary school, or a mentor, or some line cook who showed them how to hold a knife. Ask Tiffany Derry , and the...

What Makes French Press Coffee Different, and Where to Find a Good One in Dallas

Crave DFW 8/11 7:00A Steven Doyle

There s a reason the French press has outlasted every countertop gadget that s tried to replace it. No pods, no paper filters, no app to sync. Just coarse grounds, hot water, and a few minutes of...

Chaparral Vin

Texas Winer Lover 8/11 12:10A Jeff Cope

Chaparral Vin is a new winery on US 290 with owners who already have plenty of experience in the Texas wine industry. We visited recently to learn more about the winery, its wines, and what’s still to come. Read More

Four Locations, One Format: The Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers Story

Crave DFW 8/10 11:48A Steven Doyle

Bill and Lynn Gross opened their first hamburger stand in a converted fire station on Central Expressway in the early 1980s. That detail tends to get mentioned in passing whenever Chip s Old Fashioned...

Beyond the Salsa: What Central Market Is Doing with Hatch Chile This Year

Crave DFW 8/10 11:19A Steven Doyle

We already told you the festival was coming back. What nobody s told you yet is what s actually new on the shelves this year, and that s the part worth planning a grocery trip around. The short...

DFW Restaurant Week Turns 30, and This Year’s Menu of Perks Is Bigger Than the Food

Crave DFW 8/10 10:56A Steven Doyle

Thirty years ago, a handful of Dallas restaurants agreed to knock a little off the check in exchange for sending a cut to a food bank. Nobody involved could have guessed it would still be running...