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Como, TX · Food & Drink
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Crispy, Never-Greasy Catfish Keeps Texans Coming Back To This Order-At-The-Counter Fort Worth Fish Shack
Some of the best seafood in Fort Worth comes with a buzzer instead of a waiter. You walk up to a counter, place your order, grab a seat, and wait for that little device to light up. The walls are crowded with singing plastic fish, the booths have decades of...
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The Burgers At This Little Texas Cafe Are So Enormous, You Can Barely Take A Bite
There’s a burger joint in Arlington, Texas that will make you question every meal you’ve eaten before it. Al’s Hamburgers is that place, and once you know about it, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Arlington is a city that doesn’t do anything halfway....
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Longtime Regulars Keep Coming Back To This Historic Texas Steakhouse In Ponder For Chicken-Fried Steak
Some small towns are known for a water tower or a high school team. Ponder, Texas, is known for a plate of chicken-fried steak. For years, people drove down country roads just to sit in one old-school steakhouse and order that dish. Then the doors closed in 2023, and a lot of folks thought that chapter was over.
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Chopped Champion Eric Spigner Opens Barro y Fuego in Oak Cliff’s East Dock
The old ice plant on East Clarendon Drive has a restaurant again, and it comes with a chef Oak Cliff already knows well. Barro y Fuego is now serving in Suite 100 of East Dock, the restored industrial complex at 900 E. Clarendon Dr. The name means “clay and fire,” and the kitchen belongs to Eric Spigner, who spent eight years cooking at Nova in Oak Cliff before winning Food Network’s Chopped.
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Chefs For Farmers Returns to Dallas With First-Ever James Beard Dinner
Chefs For Farmers Food + Wine Festival is back in Dallas for its 16th edition, running November 4 through 8, with the ticketed Main Event set for Old City Park. What began in 2010 as a single farm dinner has grown into five days of dinners, tastings, chef-farmer collaborations and new experiences across the city.
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Roanoke Chef Who Started Working in Restaurants at Age 12 Opens Italian Spot Near City Hall
A new Italian restaurant is settling into the space near Roanoke City Hall once occupied by Catch 22, and it's being led by a chef who started working in restaurants at age 12. Lusso by Vittorio Di Buglione will open its first location later in 2026, bringing traditional Italian fare built around simple, authentic ingredients, according to Community Impact.
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Why Tex-Mex Chips and Salsa Are Free (It’s Not Generosity)
Sit down at just about any Tex-Mex place in Dallas and a basket of warm chips hits the table before the server asks about drinks. There’s a bowl of salsa next to it. Nobody ordered either one, and nobody is going to put them on the check. Empty the basket and another one comes.
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Only in America: How a Vietnamese Refugee Built Dallas’ Favorite New York Deli
Every city needs a place where you can order hot pastrami, a bowl of matzo ball soup and a chicken-fried steak with cream gravy at the same table, and nobody blinks. In Dallas, that place is Cindi’s NY Deli. Cindi’s calls itself one part New York neighborhood deli, one...
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The Dish: Music, specials, community flavor Día de los Muertos dining in Fort Worth
Like All Hallows Eve, Día de los Muertos is a festival during which the living celebrate their deceased loved ones. The energy of this holiday is far from somber, and the party atmosphere is intended to keep alive the spirits of one’s departed ancestors, lost friends or family and even pets.
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Grocery Store Planned Near New Arlington Mixed-Use Site Along I-30
A separate 14-acre site is slated for a commercial anchor that Mayor Jim Ross identified as a grocery store, near a new mixed-use development on a prime stretch of land along Interstate 30 near Arlington's Entertainment District. The site has sat largely vacant for more than a decade despite repeated attempts by the city to get something built there.
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Acclaimed Vaqueros BBQ restaurant backed by M Crowd closes in Allen
A high-profile barbecue restaurant in Allen has closed: Vaqueros Texas Bar-B-Q, which opened at Watters Creek Village in early 2025 with backing from the M Crowd Restaurant Group, has shut down, and the partnership has dissolved. The restaurant announced the news in an October 28 Facebook post that says, "ALLEN,...
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Frisco Gets a Build-Your-Own Chinese Hot Pot Spot With YGF Malatang
A new build-your-own hot pot spot opened its doors in Frisco on Wednesday, bringing customizable Chinese malatang to a shopping center off Prestmont Place. The restaurant lets diners pick their own proteins, vegetables and broth before each bowl is weighed and cooked to order, a format that has built a following across Asia and is now spreading through North Texas.
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Black Business: The Neighborhood Kitchen
Visit The Neighborhood Kitchen in the heart of Joppa, aka Sunny South Dallas. What makes them special? They serve a rotating menu of your favorite soul food classics, so every visit brings comfort, flavor, and tradition. Come with friends, bring the family, or come solo; you’ll leave full and happy. Dallas, it’s time you experience some of the best soul food this city has to offer.