Twenty-three finalists, three judges, one Best of Show ribbon. That was the math in the Competition Kitchen at the State Fair of Texas this year, where the best cake in Texas turned out to be a four-layer German chocolate. The fair runs through ...
Feeding 80,000 Dallas Cowboys fans requires a lot of brisket, a small mountain of tortilla chips and, apparently, more than one interpretation of what can reasonably be stuffed into a 17-inch tortilla. But one of the more interesting ...
Dinners built around a single collaborative menu tend to promise more than they deliver, five chefs, one plate each, everybody smiling for the group photo. What’s set for Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at Lion’s Den inside The Stoneleigh in ...
A line stretched around the corner of Haltom City’s newest shopping plaza on September 10, and for once the draw wasn’t barbecue or tacos. It was Japanese cheesecake, specifically the soft, jiggly, made-from-scratch kind that Uncle Tetsu ...
Every September, Fair Park turns into the closest thing Texas has to a culinary proving ground, and the State Fair of Texas has just shown its hand for 2026. Dozens of new dishes, four new vendors, and four reworked concepts join the fairgrounds ...
Maple Leaf Diner, the North Dallas spot known for bringing Canadian comfort food to Preston Road, is taking a detour into fairground territory this fall. Starting September 8 and running through October 18, the diner is rolling out a limited-time ...
Shake Shack has spent the past year and a half getting very good at one specific trick: freezing a hard chocolate shell around a milkshake so that the first bite requires a little violence. The chain introduced the technique with its Dubai Chocolate ...