Dinner, Brunch, and Everything In Between at Encina

Crave DFW 5/14 11:05A Steven Doyle

Matt Balke grew up in Uvalde, a small ranching town near San Antonio where the Spanish name for the place was once Encina — holm oak. He left for Texas Tech, then changed course and enrolled at the...

Meridian Launches “Meridian’s Chef Collective,” a New Dining Series

Crave DFW 5/14 9:54A Steven Doyle

Meridian has been on a quiet roll since reopening at The Village Dallas last fall under executive chef Eduardo Osorio, and now the restaurant is doing something genuinely interesting with the...

The Best Breakfast Burritos & Tacos in Dallas

Crave DFW 5/14 8:49A Steven Doyle

Austin gets the credit. It always does. The breakfast taco conversation in Texas starts and ends there, and if you want to argue about it you ll lose, because Juan in a Million has been in East Austin...

Rose’s Bluebonnet Sandwich Shop: The Dallas Burger Legend Nobody Could Find

Crave DFW 5/14 8:01A Steven Doyle

The address was 4515 Greenville Avenue, but that didn t help much. The building sat back off the street, down an alley near Yale Boulevard, behind nothing that looked like a restaurant. No sign. No...

Republic Wine Castle Opens in Johnson City With Texas Wine, Boots, Hats, and Big Plans

Texas Winer Lover 5/14 12:23A Jeff Cope

Back in January, the announcement that Republic Boot Company had purchased the iconic former 290 Wine Castle property in Johnson City created a massive buzz across Texas wine and Hill Country tourism circles. The idea of combining handcrafted...

Malai Kitchen is a Thai Paradise

Crave DFW 5/12 7:18A Steven Doyle

Ahi Tacos When Malai Kitchen opened in West Village in January 2011, the landlord pulled Braden and Yasmin Wages aside and told them he didn t think the concept had legs. Thai and Vietnamese food in a...

Cakebread Wine Dinner at Princi Italia | May 20

Crave DFW 5/12 6:32A Steven Doyle

If you ve been looking for a reason to get out on a Wednesday night, Princi Italia on Royal Lane is doing a Cakebread Cellars wine dinner on May 20 that s worth the calendar block. Four courses, four...

Sonny Bryan Sold Everything He Owned to Open a BBQ Joint

Crave DFW 5/12 6:06A Steven Doyle

Before there was a Sonny Bryan s , there was a Thunderbird. A 1955 Ford with a continental kit on the back. There was also a house, and a collection of antique Colt firearms that had taken years to...

North Texas Wine Jam Brings Wine, Music, and Creative Culture to Lost Oak Winery This June

Texas Winer Lover 5/12 1:07A Jeff Cope

A brand-new Texas wine festival is making its debut this summer, and it sounds like one North Texas wine lovers will not want to miss. The inaugural North Texas Wine Jam is coming to Lost Oak Winery on Saturday, June 6, 2026, from 3 p.m. to 9...

Kilmac’s Brought a Smoked Guinness Old Fashioned West Davis Street

Crave DFW 5/11 10:02A Steven Doyle

The building at 814 West Davis Street in Oak Cliff started as an automotive garage. A man named Ron Patterson eventually bought it, spent years turning it into a private room — dark, personal, built...

The Best Burger in McKinney Was Opened by Two Chefs Who Had No Business Making Burgers

Crave DFW 5/11 9:22A Steven Doyle

Lamb Burger on Pita Most people who end up at Square Burger in McKinney did not plan to be there. They were walking around the downtown square, realized they were hungry, and pushed open the door of a...

Wine Review: The Best $20 Wine for a Texas Summer

Crave DFW 5/11 8:23A Steven Doyle

In 1936, a wine merchant named Gabriel Farnet drove through the hills of the Saint-Tropez peninsula and stopped at a 17-acre vineyard overlooking the Gulf. There was a 19th-century château on the...

Everything Worth Eating, Drinking, and Watching at Legacy Hall Right Now

Crave DFW 5/11 7:47A Steven Doyle

Whisk Crepes There is no other building in North Texas quite like Legacy Hall . Three floors, 55,000 square feet, more than 20 food stalls, five bars, a craft brewery on the top floor, and an outdoor...

Oak & Stone to Open McKinney Location Tuesday, May 19

Crave DFW 5/11 5:56A Steven Doyle

Florida has been quietly building something worth paying attention to. Oak & Stone started in St. Petersburg in 2018, spent eight locations proving its concept worked, and then decided Texas was the...

Everything Worth Eating at the Dallas Farmers Market Right Now

Crave DFW 5/11 5:42A Steven Doyle

The Dallas Farmers Market has been at 920 South Harwood Street since 1941, which makes it older than most of the buildings around it and considerably more interesting than any of them. It is two...