by | June 10, 2026 · 4:53 pm

Élephante is Coming to Uptown Dallas

Nick Mathers opened Élephante on a rooftop in Santa Monica in 2018 and built one of the most photographed restaurants in Los Angeles — not because the food is transcendent but because the combination of coastal Italian cooking, ocean views, a well-designed room, and a cocktail program that produces espresso martinis in volume has made it the kind of place where people go to be seen and end up wanting to come back. The Scottsdale location opened at Fashion Square and confirmed the concept travels. Dallas is next.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 4:20 pm

Sushi By Scratch at The Adolphus: Dallas’s Best Kept Secret Is on the 8th Floor

The Adolphus Hotel opened in 1912 and has been one of the defining addresses in downtown Dallas ever since — 114 years of history on Commerce Street, a Beaux-Arts façade with French Renaissance and Baroque detailing that still looks like nothing else in the city, and a dining legacy anchored by the French Room Bar, a sudden second place to the still closed formal French Room.

What most people don’t know is that there is now a second reason to go to the Adolphus for dinner, and it involves taking the elevator to the eighth floor, walking down a quiet hallway, and ringing a small brass doorbell next to a discreet plaque that reads “please ring bell for service.”

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by | June 10, 2026 · 3:24 pm

Hotel Jerome Epicurean Passport Weekend Returns to Aspen June 18-21

Every June, Aspen makes a credible case for being the best food city in America for four days. Hotel Jerome, Auberge Collection has been at the center of that argument for six years running, and the Epicurean Passport Weekend returns June 18 through 21 alongside the Aspen Food & Wine Classic with its strongest lineup yet.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 3:00 pm

How to Order Oysters: A Guide to Every Region and What to Expect

The raw bar menu at a serious restaurant can look like a geography exam — names of bays and inlets and small coastal towns printed in two columns with no explanation of what any of them taste like. Most people point at something and hope for the best. There is a better way. Oysters are one of the few foods that taste specifically of where they come from, and once you understand the regional logic, the menu stops being intimidating and starts being a set of options you can actually navigate. Here is how to read it.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 2:23 pm

Purépecha is One of the Best Restaurants in Dallas, Here’s What You Need to Know About It

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The address is 2701 Main Street in Deep Ellum. The name on the door is Revolver Taco Lounge. Walk past the taco counter, past the dining room, through the kitchen, and into the back room, and you will find a different restaurant entirely — one of the finest in Texas, run by a chef who has been a James Beard finalist, operating inside a taqueria because that is how Regino Rojas has always chosen to do things: on his own terms, in his own space, without asking anyone’s permission or seeking anyone’s approval.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 11:54 am

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

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 couldn’t fully capture is the specific weight of that word in this context — what it actually meant, in practical terms, to open a serious Japanese restaurant in Dallas in 1973, and what grew from the seed he planted over the next three decades.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 11:22 am

Texas Finally Has Its Own Oyster Farms: Dallas Is Starting to Notice

For most of its history, Texas has been an oyster-eating state that couldn’t grow its own. The Gulf of Mexico runs along 367 miles of Texas coastline, and for decades the wild oyster beds out there fed the rest of the country — enormous, creamy, deeply flavored bivalves that bore no resemblance to the delicate East Coast varieties sitting on ice at the better raw bars in Dallas. But farming them? That was illegal. Texas was, until 2019, the last coastal state in the country that hadn’t legalized cultivated oyster mariculture. Every state on the Atlantic, every state on the Pacific, even Louisiana and Mississippi and Florida — all permitted. Texas: no.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 11:01 am

The Best Pizza in Dallas: Every Style, Every Neighborhood

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 level, by kitchens that mean it. Neapolitan, New Haven, New York, Roman, Detroit, Neo-Neapolitan — they’re all here, they’re all good, and the range is wide enough that the argument about which is best usually comes down to which style you were raised on.

What follows is our working list of the pizzerias worth knowing, organized by style and neighborhood. No Cane Rosso. No chains. Just pizza.

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