by | June 12, 2026 · 3:28 pm

Haute Sweets Is Doing Beignets for Father’s Day Weekend

Most of what Chef Tida Pichakron makes at Haute Sweets Patisserie draws on her training at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and her years at the Adolphus Hotel’s French Room and the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas — precise macarons, pastries that look like they belong in a case in Paris. But Tida is a New Orleans native, and her monthly Saturday Beignets event is where that part of her background gets the spotlight. The next one lands on Father’s Day weekend, and this time it comes with a savory twist: Ham & Cheese Beignets.

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by | June 12, 2026 · 3:12 pm

There’s a Trinidadian Food Truck in the Dallas Area

Trinidadian food doesn’t show up on Dallas menus, period — and that makes Trini Style Bake ‘n Shark & Tings one of the genuinely rare things in this city’s food scene: a family-run food truck serving the real thing, the cooking of an island whose cuisine absorbed French, Spanish, African, and Indian influences over centuries and turned them into something that tastes like nowhere else in the Caribbean.

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by | June 12, 2026 · 2:13 pm

JG’s Old Fashioned Tastes Just Like It Should

In 1985, John Green opened a burger joint on Greenville Avenue near 635 with no restaurant experience whatsoever. Six months in, he was done — overwhelmed, ready to sell. Morris and Susanne Bagheri bought it that same year with a plan: clean it up, improve it, flip it for a profit. Morris had decades of restaurant experience by then, having worked every job from dishwasher to manager to put himself through college, and eventually co-owned a French continental restaurant in Dallas. “We never planned to stay here,” Susanne has said. “It was not our thing.”

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by | June 12, 2026 · 1:34 pm

Ellen’s Southern Kitchen Is Coming Back to Downtown Dallas

Here’s the part of the Ellen’s story most people don’t know: Ellen wasn’t a great cook. Founder Joe Groves named the restaurant after his mother, and by his own account she was famously bad in the kitchen — which makes Ellen’s Southern Kitchen either an elaborate inside joke or the most honest kind of tribute, food good enough to make up for whatever happened at her stove. Either way, it’s a better story than the generic Southern-name-on-a-sign approach most comfort food restaurants take, and it’s worth knowing before the original West End location reopens this month after a nearly two-year absence.

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by | June 12, 2026 · 1:12 pm

Botolino Is Quietly Making the Best Gelato in Dallas

There’s a small test that separates a real gelateria from a place that just sells frozen dessert with an Italian name on the sign: how it’s served. Soft-serve machines and pre-scooped tubs mean one thing. Flat metal tins, the gelato mounded and rippled by hand, mean something else entirely — it means someone made this today, in this building, and they’re proud enough of it to let you watch it sit there before you order.

Botolino Gelato Artigianale serves its gelato in tins, and on Greenville Avenue, in Bishop Arts, in Preston Hollow, and now in Plano, that detail has quietly built one of the most loved dessert operations in Dallas — a 4.8-star average across more than a thousand reviews, which is not a number restaurants generally get to claim about anything.

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by | June 12, 2026 · 12:55 pm

Angela’s Cafe Has Been Feeding This Neighborhood for 25 Years

There’s a category of restaurant that exists in every city — the place that’s been quietly doing the same thing well for a quarter century, sitting behind a strip center where even Uber drivers occasionally lose the plot trying to find it, serving a neighborhood that has long since stopped needing directions. Angela’s Cafe, at 7979 Inwood Road near Lovers Lane, is exactly that kind of place. Twenty-five years in, it’s still mostly known to the people who live within a mile of it, and that’s a shame, because the food is better than a strip-center breakfast spot has any obligation to be.

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by | June 12, 2026 · 12:37 pm

Community Beer Co. Is the Design District’s Best Bar-and-Kitchen Combo

Most people who know Community Beer Co. know it for one thing: the beer. Fair enough — Community has been one of the foundational names in Texas craft brewing since 2013, and it’s grown into the third-largest independent brewer in the state. What a lot of regulars haven’t caught up on yet is that the move to the new Design District location came with something the old warehouse never had: a real kitchen, doing real food, that’s worth ordering on its own merits.

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by | June 12, 2026 · 12:17 pm

Three Ways to Spend a Texas Evening on the Water Near Dallas

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Texas summer evenings are made for the water, and two completely different experiences near Dallas prove it — one slow and quiet, the other lit up and moving. Both happen on lakes most Dallas residents drive past without a second thought. Both are worth the detour.

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