Fort Worth has never had a shortage of good Thai food, but it has had a shortage of Thai food that looks like it belongs on Magnolia Avenue. Ko Thai closes that gap. It opened last year at 725 W Magnolia Ave, a block down from the neighborhood’s other reliable Thai spot, and it came from owners who already knew what they were doing before they ever signed the lease.
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Dallas-Fort Worth is about to get loud. The next six weeks bring a run of arena rock, honky-tonk legends, and a few genuine bucket-list pairings, and the calendar only gets busier once the theaters and orchestras open their seasons behind them.
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Henderson Avenue’s long-anticipated overhaul is close enough to done now that its restaurant lineup is starting to feel real. PopUp Bagels opened its second Dallas location on the street this summer. Salt & Straw made its Texas debut nearby. And the anchor tenant everyone’s been waiting on, a Tristan Simon restaurant called Romy, is still on track to open at 2110 N. Henderson Ave. this December, right as the rest of the ten-building Henderson East project wraps construction.
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A new evening spot called Marlowe is set to open in Uptown Dallas this September, taking over a spot at 2912 McKinney Ave. with a build-out that leans hard into Art Deco lines and cinematic lighting rather than the reclaimed-wood look that’s dominated so many Uptown openings over the past decade.
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55 Seventy will host its Inaugural Food & Wine Tasting Experience on Saturday, August 29, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., offering members and invited guests an afternoon of exceptional wines, chef-driven cuisine and meaningful connections with some of the industry’s premier wine producers.
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David Campisi is moving his family’s restaurant into a space that already has a chef’s fingerprints all over it, and he’s doing it as a favor to a friend as much as a business decision.
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Lounge Here hides behind an unmarked strip center on Garland Road, the kind of exterior that gives away nothing about what’s happening inside. Walk through the door and the room drops you into a retro cocktail lounge, all plush banquettes, moody lighting and a mural by Rainer Judd, daughter of artist Donald Judd. Owner Julie Doyle, known around Dallas for co-founding Tripping Daisy and The Polyphonic Spree and running Good Records next door, built the place to feel like a different decade entirely. The kitchen backs that ambition up with some of the more serious Southern cooking in East Dallas.
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The name suggests a border town, sun-bleached and dusty, somewhere along the Rio Grande. Cafe Del Rio is actually about as far from the border as Texas gets, sitting deep in the Piney Woods of Lufkin, closer to Louisiana than to Mexico. The name misleads you before you’ve even walked in.
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