Duong DeVille doesn’t open until August. But if you want a seat at Hao Tran’s table before then, Meals with Meaning is giving you one.
On June 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Fort Worth nonprofit hosts a special edition of its monthly Supper Club at Brewed on Magnolia Avenue, with Chef Hao Tran and Chef Luu Lac cooking a menu drawn directly from the Duong DeVille kitchen. Tickets are $99 and limited. The event is at 801 W. Magnolia Ave in Fort Worth.
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Pascal Cayet grew up in Argenteuil, just outside Paris, and trained at the Médéric culinary school before landing his first real job at La Tour d’Argent — the legendary Paris restaurant perched above the Seine with Notre Dame Cathedral. He was in his twenties and cooking in one of the most storied rooms in the world. Then he came to America, worked in Indianapolis alongside a young Wolfgang Puck at a restaurant called La Tour, spent a year in the French Army, five years running food and beverage in Bermuda, and arrived in Dallas in 1982 with a clear idea of what he wanted to build.
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In 1981, Ana and Tiburcio Enriquez opened a small Tex-Mex restaurant on Lemmon Avenue. They had spent years managing El Chico locations and knew the business from the inside out. What they built at Mia’s was something different — a room that felt like family because it was family, named after their daughter, anchored by recipes that didn’t come from a corporate playbook.
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There are war films that show you what war looks like, and there are war films that show you what war does to people. The Bridge on the River Kwai belongs firmly in the second category, which is why it still matters nearly seventy years after David Lean pointed a camera at a river in Ceylon and told some of the finest actors of his generation to go to work.
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Hendy’s on Henderson just launched its spring menu, and if your last visit was a while ago, this is a reasonable excuse to go back. The restaurant opened last summer in the former Sfuzzi space — walls knocked out, sliding glass doors installed on both sides, the whole building opened up to the patio in a way the old layout never allowed. The back room has dark green walls, brown leather seating, bookshelves, a working fireplace, and antler chandeliers. It doesn’t look like anything else on Henderson.
Chef Peja Krstic — the same Michelin Bib Gourmand chef behind Mot Hai Ba and Pillar — built the original menu. Executive Chef Fares Hussein handles the day-to-day kitchen. Together they’ve put together a spring refresh that keeps prices sensible, most dishes landing between $12 and $26.
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Charlie Unlu spent more than a decade managing expensive dining rooms — steakhouses, luxury hotels, the Dallas Cowboys organization. He understood restaurants from every angle. What none of those jobs let him do was put his wife Leman’s cooking in front of people.
Her family recipes go back generations in Turkey. They started selling her baklava at farmers markets, built a following, and in early 2025 opened a food hall stall at the Funky Town Food Hall under the name Beren — after their youngest daughter. Fort Worth Magazine called it one of the best new restaurants of the year. It had a waiting list on weekends.
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There’s no sign outside. You pull up to Hi Line Drive, the valet points you toward a door, and you walk through velvet drapes into Tango Room. Sixty seats. Mahogany walls, burgundy booths, brass fixtures, and original Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha pieces from Tim Headington’s personal collection. The room feels like somewhere a lot of decisions get made over a lot of good wine.
Headington — The Joule, Forty Five Ten, Commissary, CBD Provisions — built this one with Simon Roberts, who owns Graileys, the members-only wine club where the two met. Roberts runs the wine program himself here, works the floor with sommelier Nick Burns, and the list reflects that personal investment. People come in having already decided what they want to drink and build dinner around it. The room accommodates that without making you feel like you’re doing it wrong.
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Coury Hospitality has been quietly building one of the more interesting collections of hotels in North Texas — Hotel Vin in Grapevine, The Ricardo Marriott in Westlake, and the newly rebranded Hotel Mockingbird in Dallas. All three have something going on right now worth knowing about, and none of it reads like the usual hotel programming calendar.
Here’s what’s happening and when.
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