by | October 29, 2026 · 10:38 am

Ramble Room Is the Snider Plaza Brunch You End Up Going Back To

Every neighborhood needs a place you can walk into on a Saturday without a plan. In Snider Plaza, that place is Ramble Room, and brunch is when it feels most like home.

Ramble Room sits on the south end of the plaza at 6565 Hillcrest Ave. It’s Jon Alexis’s restaurant, and if you know his story, it makes sense. He built his name selling fish at TJ’s Seafood, then had a hit with Tex-Mex at Escondido. When he opened Ramble Room in 2023, he went after something simpler: good American food in a room you’d happily visit on a night when you don’t really feel like going out.

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by | October 29, 2026 · 9:27 am

Where to Spend Halloween Weekend in Dallas-Fort Worth

Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, which means most of Dallas-Fort Worth is treating it as a two-night affair. Here’s where to eat, drink and show off a costume on Friday, October 30, and Saturday, October 31, plus a few places that keep the kids fed between trick-or-treat runs.

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by | October 29, 2026 · 9:05 am

Why the Original Bob’s on Lemmon Avenue Still Feels Like Opening Night

Walk into the original Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue on any night but Sunday, and there’s a good chance the man whose name is on the sign is the one holding the door.

Bob Sambol opened this place in 1993, and after a long detour he’s right back where he started, working the front of the house six nights a week and shaking hands like it’s opening night. In a city that trades in shiny new steakhouses, there’s something wonderful about a founder who simply missed the room and came home to it.

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by | October 29, 2026 · 9:00 am

Remember Prince of Hamburgers? Dallas Still Misses That Root Beer

Ask anybody who grew up in Dallas before the 2000s about Prince of Hamburgers, and watch what happens to their face.

First comes the smile. Then the story. Maybe it was the back seat of a station wagon on a summer night, windows down, waiting for a carhop to come back across the lot with a tray. Maybe it was a first car and a first date, or a Saturday night with a car full of friends circling Lemmon Avenue just to see who else was out. Everybody seems to have one.

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by | October 29, 2026 · 8:06 am

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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by | October 29, 2026 · 3:21 am

Misti Norris at Far Out

photos by Joey Stewart

Earlier this month the Michelin Guide added five Dallas restaurants to its 2026 Texas selections. Far Out was not one of them. That is worth a second look, because few kitchens in this city have had a better year.

Far Out sits in a converted Quonset hut at 1906 S. Haskell Ave., just north of Fair Park, with a cactus-lined patio out front and a bar that stays busy well after dinner. Owners Caroline and James Lee brought in Misti Norris as culinary director in May 2025, a few months after she closed Petra and the Beast. She has been cooking on Haskell Avenue ever since, and the rest of the country has noticed.

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by | October 28, 2026 · 1:06 pm

Dallas Vegan Guide: The Best Plant-Based Plates

Eating vegan in Dallas used to mean one of two things. You either knew exactly where to go, or you ordered three sides and called it dinner. That has changed. The city now has a handful of fully vegan kitchens worth a drive, and some of the best meatless plates in town come from restaurants that also smoke brisket and grill steak.

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by | October 28, 2026 · 12:11 pm

The Best Gas Station Restaurant in America Is Rolling Sushi Outside Ennis

Some of the most talked-about sushi in North Texas is coming out of a gas station on a farm road south of Ennis.

Bristol General Store, at 5710 FM 660 in the tiny community of Bristol, was just named the No. 1 gas station restaurant in America by the car rental company SIXT. It topped a national list of 20. The ranking weighed TikTok views for 70 percent of each score and Google ratings for the rest. Bristol came out on top with a 4.7 rating and more than 380,000 views, edging out Billeaud’s Meat & Grocery in Broussard, Louisiana.

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