by | November 3, 2026 · 11:47 am

Southwest Will Check a Case of Texas Wine for Free Starting Now

Your Texas wine can now fly free. As of November 2, Southwest Airlines has expanded its Sip and Ship program to four Texas airports, including Dallas Love Field. Passengers can now check one case of wine at no extra charge on flights leaving from Love Field, Austin-Bergstrom, Houston Hobby and San Antonio International.

The program launched in April on the West Coast, timed to Southwest’s new service into Sonoma County wine country. It started with airports in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Texas is the first expansion beyond that region, and Southwest says it came after a big response from Texas wine lovers and growers. It’s fitting for an airline that has called Love Field home since it started flying in 1971.

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by | November 3, 2026 · 11:27 am

Retro Review: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles has aged better than almost any comedy of the 1980s, and the reason it still works comes down to one performance. John Candy takes a part that could have been a running gag and turns it into the heart of the picture.

John Hughes wrote and directed it, and it opened November 25, 1987, the day before Thanksgiving. It was the first time the man behind the teenage hits built a movie around grown men, and he reportedly wrote the script in five days, working from a real business trip of his own that detoured through Wichita. Both facts show on screen. The film is loose and quick, and it understands holiday travel misery the way only someone who has lived it can.

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by | November 3, 2026 · 11:12 am

Encina’s Team Opens Isbella in an Old Duncanville Fire Station

In 1946, twenty Duncanville businessmen met at Linwood Hayne’s service station at Main and Davis and agreed the town needed a fire department. Each man put in at least $20. Neighbors built a one-room station by hand, and a siren went up on the water tower. One tone sent the volunteers north of town. Two sent them east.

Eighty years on, a midcentury building on North Main that its new owners say once housed the town’s volunteer firefighters is sending out plates of beef cheek pastrami.

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by | November 3, 2026 · 10:59 am

Sauce’d in Grapevine Makes One of the Best Burgers in DFW

Sauce’d opened on Grapevine’s Main Street in 2019 as a pizzeria. Three years later the family that runs it added smashburgers, and the little shop has been arguing with itself ever since. The restaurant calls itself a burger joint that moonlights as a pizzeria, then corrects itself and says it’s the other way around.

After eating there, CraveDFW can settle at least part of the debate. The smashburger at Sauce’d is truly one of the best burgers in DFW.

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by | November 3, 2026 · 10:45 am

Aw Shucks and Big Shucks Throw Their First OysterFest After 43 Years

Oyster season is here, and Aw Shucks and Big Shucks are marking it with something they’ve never done in 43 years of shucking. The family-run oyster bars have launched their first OysterFest, a run of special oyster dishes at all four North Texas locations that wraps up with a patio party on Saturday, November 14.

Bob Peterson opened the original Aw Shucks on Lower Greenville in 1983 with a simple idea, a seafood shack in Dallas without the beach. His son Nick Peterson now runs the family’s Peterson Management Group, which also owns Blue Goose Cantina. The places still look and feel like they always have, which is a big part of why people keep coming back.

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by | November 2, 2026 · 2:03 pm

10 Sandwiches to Eat in Dallas-Fort Worth on National Sandwich Day

National Sandwich Day falls on Tuesday, Nov. 3, which is as good an excuse as any to skip the salad. Dallas-Fort Worth doesn’t get enough credit as a sandwich town. We have a Fort Worth deli that’s been slicing corned beef since 1928, an East Dallas Italian market that’s been stacking cold cuts since the 1960s, and a new generation of cooks baking their own bread and smoking their own pastrami.

Here are 10 places to celebrate, from old guard to new, and the sandwich to order at each.

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by | November 2, 2026 · 1:23 pm

Guest House Opens in Uptown November 18

Guest House, the Austin-born dinner spot known for tableside Wagyu and caviar cones, opens its Dallas location Wednesday, November 18, at 1900 Cedar Springs Road in Uptown. Reservations went live today.

Dallas is the fourth Guest House from RDM Hospitality. The first opened in Austin in spring 2024, followed by Las Vegas later that year and Scottsdale this past January. Aspen is next on the list.

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by | November 2, 2026 · 12:39 pm

Ethnic Dish Explained: Lomo Saltado, Peru’s Stir-Fry with a Chinese Past

Order lomo saltado for the first time and the plate looks like a happy accident. Strips of beef, red onion and tomato, glossy with soy sauce, next to white rice and a heap of french fries. It’s one of the most popular dishes in Peru, and the reason goes back to 1849.

That’s when the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in Peru, mostly Cantonese laborers brought over for the sugar plantations, railroads and guano islands. Many later settled in Lima and opened restaurants that Peruvians came to call chifas. They brought the wok and soy sauce to Peruvian ingredients, and lomo saltado is the dish that crossed over onto nearly every Peruvian menu.

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