A blue ribbon at the State Fair of Texas carries a certain weight in this state, the kind that gets a canning jar or a quilt square handed down alongside the recipe or the pattern. Entries for the 2026 Creative Arts Contests close Monday, July 27, ...
Cotton Patch Cafe spent the last decade under California private equity. As of June 29, it belongs to Dallas. Local Favorite Restaurants, the Dallas-based group behind El Fenix Mexican Restaurant, Snuffer’s Restaurant & Bar, Meso Maya, and ...
You smell it before you see it. Walk down Main Street in Deep Ellum on a World Cup match night and oak smoke finds you two blocks out, right before the line does: replica jerseys, a half dozen languages stacked on top of each other, all of it ...
North Texas heat doesn’t take a season off, and Rita’s Italian Ice is building its whole DFW strategy around that fact. The chain opens its first North Richland Hills shop on July 1, a drive-thru location at 8900 N Tarrant Pkwy, and it ...
Every summer, an Italian organization sends anonymous inspectors across the United States to eat pizza and rank what they find. Every summer, Partenope Ristorante on Main Street in downtown Dallas shows up on the resulting list. This year is no ...
The internet has a short memory and a talent for orphaning good ideas. What you are now seeing everywhere under the name “party ribs,” on TikTok and Traeger and a hundred recipe blogs that cannot tell you where the technique came from, ...
Pickleball venues tend to oversell the community angle and undersell the bar. The Sandy Pickle, the sport-and-social complex tucked into The Village Dallas at 5683 Village Glen Drive, has always understood that the two are inseparable. Now, ahead of ...