You know the place. It’s in a strip center between a nail salon and a tax office, the lights are on before 5 a.m., and the glazed doughnuts are still warm when the first contractor pickup pulls in. The coffee is cheap. The kolaches are better than they have any right to be. And there’s a good chance the family behind the counter is Cambodian.
That’s no coincidence. It’s one of the great immigrant stories in American food, and Texas is right in the middle of it.
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Fort Worth has been patient. Dallas has had Uchi on Maple Avenue for years, Plano got Uchiko, and Loro set up shop in East Dallas and Addison. Now the group behind all of them is finally heading west.
Hai Hospitality, the Austin company founded by James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole, is bringing Uchibā to The Shops at Clearfork. It will be the group’s first restaurant in Fort Worth, and the timeline points to late 2027.
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For 53 years, the little pitched-roof cottage on Asbury Street across from SMU meant one thing. New York Sub. First dates, post-game sandwiches, late-night study breaks, parents in town for the weekend. When the shop announced early this year that it was losing its home, a lot of people who haven’t been students in decades took it personally.
This Friday, Nov. 6, the lights come back on. Rollin’ Joe’s opens at 3411 Asbury St., with a public preview the day before, Thursday, Nov. 5, from 3 to 7 p.m.
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There is a moment at every good western swing show when the fiddle player leans into the microphone and lets loose an “ah-ha,” and the whole room grins at once. Greenville gets a full weekend of those moments this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6 and 7, when the Bob Wills Fiddle Festival & Contest returns to downtown for its 12th year.
It’s an easy drive, about an hour northeast of Dallas up I-30, and much of it is free.
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The Quarter Bar never did reopen after it closed its doors on McKinney Avenue earlier this year. Its space is getting a second life with a Tulum accent.
Jākö Cocina y Agave, the modern Mexican restaurant that opened on the lower level of Grandscape in The Colony since late 2024, is moving into the old Quarter Bar at 3301 McKinney Ave., Suite 200. Co-founder AJ Acosta is aiming for a mid-November opening.
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In August 1984, Oak Lawn was still rough around the edges. Cedar Springs Road had the bars and a few brave storefronts, and not much else. That was the summer brothers Rick and David Barton opened a little hamburger counter near the corner of Cedar Springs and Throckmorton and called it Hunky’s.
Forty-two years later, it’s still there. The burgers still come off the grill, the onion rings are still made in-house, and on a warm night the patio still fills up before the sun goes down.
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Somewhere around the first week of November, Texas finally exhales. The mornings turn crisp, the afternoons finally ease up, and the idea of sitting outside after dark stops sounding like punishment. It’s the season Texans wait all year for, and most of us spend it indoors.
It doesn’t have to go that way. Within a few hours of Dallas there are forests, cypress swamps, sandstone canyons and maple-lined creeks that look their best right now, and you don’t need a plane ticket or a week off to reach them. You don’t even need to sleep on the ground unless you want to.
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Some of the most expensive restaurants in Dallas have a back door, and it’s the bar between 4 and 6:30.
The same kitchens that charge $36 for a plate of yellowtail and keep a $7,500 bottle of Burgundy on the list will sell you a smaller version of their best food for the price of a sandwich. The smart move is to show up early, sit at the bar, and save the full dinner for a birthday.
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