Café Olivia is Finally Open on Weekends, and it’s Bringing Yoga with it

Café Olivia has been a weekday-only operation since it opened its first Addison location last fall, which meant anyone who worked a normal schedule had exactly five days a week to get in. That changes Saturday, July 25, when both the Addison spot and the newer downtown Dallas location inside the Arts Tower start opening Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

It’s the first weekend service either location has offered, and Café Olivia is treating the launch like an actual occasion rather than just flipping the sign to open. Both days of opening weekend come with a grand opening celebration, and the first 50 guests each day get a free pastry. Saturday morning starts at 9 with a complimentary yoga and Pilates class, plus wellness vendors on site and a bloom bar where guests can build their own flower bouquets.

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Las Brasas Brings Monterrey-Style Grilling to Lower Greenville

Tim Goza has spent more than a decade proving Lower Greenville can hold a restaurant. He opened Palapas Seafood Bar there in 2014, in the space that used to be Dallas Tortilla & Tamale Factory, and it’s still standing. In March 2025 he opened a second restaurant right next door with his business partner Gustavo De Los Rios, who also runs Mami Coco. This one isn’t about seafood. It’s about fire.

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Korean Food in Dallas: The History Behind the Banchan, and Four Places Doing It Right

Order a bowl of seolleongtang anywhere in North Dallas and the first thing that hits the table isn’t the soup. It’s six or seven small plates you didn’t order, arriving before you’ve said a word past your entree. That’s banchan: a rotating set of shared side dishes, usually cold or room temperature, that come free with every meal and get refilled if you ask. Seasoned bean sprouts, braised potatoes, pickled radish, a few kinds of kimchi. They aren’t appetizers and they aren’t extras tacked onto the bill.

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Sachet’s Menu is a Masterclass in Mediterranean Cooking 

There’s a specific type of Dallas restaurant that never really goes out of style, the one you keep coming back to not because it’s new but because it never stopped being good. Sachet is that restaurant. located in the Shops of Highland Park on Oak Lawn Avenue, it opened in September 2017 as the second act from chef Stephen Rogers and his wife Allison Yoder, the couple behind Gemma, the Henderson Avenue restaurant that’s been one of Dallas’s most beloved dining rooms for over a decade. Where Gemma leans French and intimate, Sachet takes the same obsessive care and points it at the entire Mediterranean coast, pulling from Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and North Africa without ever feeling scattered.

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Beer by the Bay 2026: The Lineup, the Packages, and Why It’s Worth the Drive 

Horseshoe Bay Resort is about to prove for the thirteenth summer in a row that a lakeside golf resort in the Texas Hill Country can throw one of the state’s better country music weekends. Beer By The Bay Music Festival returns August 7 and 8, 2026, two nights of live country music, Texas craft beer tastings, and an all-you-can-eat, chef-prepared spread set against the shore of Lake LBJ.

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H-E-B Opens in Murphy as Its DFW Expansion Shows No Signs of Slowing

H-E-B opened its doors in Murphy at 6 a.m. Wednesday, at 740 E. FM 544 and McCreary Road. It’s the retailer’s fourteenth location in the DFW Metroplex once Central Market and Joe V’s Smart Shop are counted alongside the namesake stores, and proof of how fast a company that avoided North Texas for most of its existence is now making up for lost time.

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Your Complete Guide to a Wimberley and San Marcos Getaway

The Blanco River runs low and green past Wimberley Square on a Friday afternoon, cypress roots gripping the bank like they’ve been holding on since before the town had a name. Ninety minutes south of Austin, an hour past the last billboard for anything, the Texas Hill Country stops performing for tourists and just starts being itself. Wimberley and San Marcos sit close enough together to share a weekend without either one feeling like an afterthought, one built for slowing down, the other for cooling off. Together they make one of the easiest escapes in the state, a five-hour drive from Dallas that rewards every mile of it.

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Inside Strouderosa BBQ, East Dallas’s Quiet Barbecue Standout

Strouderosa BBQ started with a salsa recipe, not a smoker. Back in 2018, the founder was helping a friend run the iBBQ 4U food truck when he started experimenting with a Texas barbecue sauce that had a little more kick than what he’d grown up on. The samples went over well enough that he started canning it and handing it out to anyone who asked for more. That could have stayed a hobby indefinitely, but in January 2020 he was furloughed from his day job, and instead of waiting things out, he leaned all the way into the smoker.

What began as holiday meals for family turned into a Meals of the Week program, then catering, then a full storefront in the Lake Highlands corridor of East Dallas at 9090 Skillman Street.

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