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Apr 15

Top Brass at Hotel Dax in Addison Is Better Than It Has to Be, and That’s the Point

The restaurant inside a hotel has one job, which is to be convenient enough that guests don’t leave. Top Brass, the American bistro anchoring Hotel Dax at 14315 Midway Road in Addison, has decided to aim considerably higher than that. The ...

Mike Hiller · This Way In (All Posts)
Apr 09

Cirque du Soleil ECHO Dallas: Dates, Tickets, and Why You Need to Go

Cirque du Soleil ECHO Dallas: Dates, Tickets, and Why You Need to Go Cirque du Soleil ECHO is now open under the Big Top at Lone Star Park, 1000 Lone Star Parkway in Grand Prairie, Texas, running April 9 through May 3, 2026. Tickets start at $59 and ...

Mike Hiller · This Way In (All Posts)
Apr 08

Eataly Pizza Fest Dallas 2026: Dates, Tickets, and Pizzerias at NorthPark

Dallas has developed a genuinely serious pizza culture over the past several years, and Eataly Pizza Fest is the event that proves it all at once. Now in its second year, the festival returns to NorthPark Center on Sunday, April 19, 2026, with more ...

Mike Hiller · This Way In (All Posts)
Apr 07

Lulu Modern Chinese Brings New York Nerve and Flaming Peking Duck to Plano

Chinese food in the suburbs has long been asked to behave. Keep the prices sensible. Keep the lighting bright. Don’t make too much of yourself. At Lulu Modern Chinese, now open at West Plano Village, Sunny Chang is done with all of that. He wants ...

Mike Hiller · This Way In (All Posts)
Apr 06

Shake Shack Gives Pimento Cheese a Spring Turn

There is a moment, reliably, around the first week of April, when pimento cheese stops being a thing you keep in the back of the refrigerator and becomes something people argue about. It surfaces at Augusta. It shows up at tailgates, at church ...

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Apr 04

Texas Sets the Table: The Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival Arrives With Its Most Ambitious Lineup Yet

Texas has always had more culinary talent than it’s had occasions to show it all off at once. The Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival, running April 9 through 12 at Heart of the Ranch at Clearfork, 5000 Clearfork Main St., has spent twelve years ...

Mike Hiller · This Way In (All Posts)
Mar 05

A 1776 Declaration of Independence Broadside Lives in the Dallas Public Library

A 1776 Declaration of Independence Broadside Lives in the Dallas Public Library There are plenty of places in America where you can go to feel history leaning in close, breathing its special archive breath, and reminding you politely not to touch ...

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Where to Eat Right Now

Where are we telling our friends to eat right now? Here’s our list:

 

  • Haywire (Plano and Uptown)
  • Mesero
  • Bob’s Steak & Chop House (Lemmon Ave.)
  • The Ranch at Las Colinas
  • Dee Lincoln Prime (Frisco)
  • The Common Table (Frisco)
  • Rye Craft Food & Drink (Dallas)
  • Las Palmas Mexican (Dallas)
  • Wagamama (Dallas)
  • Georgie
  • Knife

 

  • The best steakhouses in DFW?   Here.
  • The best Tex-Mex in DFW?   Here.
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