Six Family-Owned Restaurants Worth Your Loyalty in Dallas and Fort Worth

Crave DFW 6/15 7:25A Steven Doyle

There is a category of restaurant that no amount of new openings can replace: the place that a family built from nothing, that has fed the same neighborhood through multiple recessions and a pandemic,...

Lombardi Family Concepts Just Opened a Sports Lounge in Plano

Crave DFW 6/15 5:15A Steven Doyle

Alberto Lombardi has spent decades building some of the most reliable dining rooms in Dallas-Fort Worth — Bistro 31, Toulouse, Taverna, Lombardi Cucina Italiana. His newest concept is a sports bar,...

Mooala Milk

Crave DFW 6/15 3:39A Steven Doyle

By Chef Annie Greenslade As someone who pays close attention to quality ingredients, I am always searching for products that keep ingredients simple while still delivering incredible flavor, and I...

Botolino Is Quietly Making the Best Gelato in Dallas

Crave DFW 6/12 8:12A Steven Doyle

There s a small test that separates a real gelateria from a place that just sells frozen dessert with an Italian name on the sign: how it s served. Soft-serve machines and pre-scooped tubs mean one...

Where to Find the Best Pupusas in Dallas

Crave DFW 6/11 8:51A Steven Doyle

A pupusa is El Salvador s national dish — a thick handmade corn tortilla stuffed before it hits the griddle, not after. The masa gets pressed around the filling by hand, sealed, and cooked until the...

The World Cup Is Here, Here’s How Dallas Is Going to Spend the Next Five Weeks

Crave DFW 6/11 8:31A Steven Doyle

The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened yesterday in Mexico City and it does not slow down from here. Dallas is one of 11 United States host cities and AT&T Stadium in Arlington is one of the tournament s anchor venues — nine matches in total, including a...

Grapevine, Texas: A Summer Destination for Grown-Up Getaways

Texas Wine Lover 6/11 2:47A Jeff Cope

Press Release Grapevine is the ideal destination in North Texas for refreshing adult getaways and day trips this summer. Located on the shores of Lake Grapevine and home to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, this Vintage Texas destination...

Shohei Takamatsu Brought Japanese Food to Dallas, The City’s Best Chefs Learned from What He Built

Crave DFW 6/10 6:54A Steven Doyle

Shohei Takamatsu died on April 26, 2026, just over a week before his 95th birthday, and the obituaries that followed described him correctly as a pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Dallas. What they...

The Best Pizza in Dallas: Every Style, Every Neighborhood

Crave DFW 6/10 6:01A Steven Doyle

Dallas is not a pizza city the way New Haven or New York is a pizza city, but it has become something more interesting: a city where nearly every serious style of the form is being made at a high...

The CraveDFW Dallas Master Dining Guide

Crave DFW 6/10 5:33A Steven Doyle

Twenty years of covering this city and the one thing that hasn t changed is that Dallas keeps surprising people who think they already know it. What follows is every dining guide CraveDFW has...

The Richardson and Garland Dining Guide: Where to Dine in Dallas’s Most Diverse Corridor

Crave DFW 6/9 8:20A Steven Doyle

The stretch of North Texas running east from US-75 through Richardson and into Garland is one of the most genuinely diverse dining corridors in the country. This is not a marketing phrase. Richardson has one of the highest concentrations of...

Three Dallas-Area Hotels with June Events

Crave DFW 6/9 7:08A Steven Doyle

June is a good month to leave the house. Three Dallas-area hotels have programming worth circling on the calendar — a Route 66 celebration in Grapevine, an elevated happy hour in Westlake that makes...

DQ RESTAURANTS IN TEXAS INVITE FANS TO SHARE THEIR THIS IS MY BLIZZARD STORY

Farmers Branch BubbleLife iReporter 6/8 10:12P Mary Jane Coker

DQ restaurants in Texas are celebrating the traditions, sweet moments and one-of-a-kind memories Texans have shared over the years with the launch of the This Is My Blizzard summer campaign. From...

Alania Mediterranean Grill Has Landed on Bryan Street

Crave DFW 6/8 6:09A Steven Doyle

Beef Iskender and Lamb Beyti The space at 4812 Bryan Street has been sitting empty since Mai s Vietnamese closed in 2022, and if you ve driven past it lately you know the feeling of a corner that s...

Crave Weekend Guide!

Crave DFW 6/5 6:14A Steven Doyle

This is not a typical Dallas weekend. Saturday brings the city s first-ever downtown Pride Parade, a sunset march down Main Street that will draw one of the largest crowds this neighborhood has seen...