Nobody talks about Richardson’s Chinatown the way they should. It doesn’t have the density of Houston’s or the fame of San Francisco’s, but what it has is its own story — and that story happens to be one of the more quietly remarkable things that happened to North Texas in the last 40 years.
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Olivia López and Jonathan Percival started Molino Olōyō in August 2021 out of a commercial kitchen in the Design District, delivering heirloom corn tortillas and tamales to people’s doorsteps. No restaurant, no storefront, no fixed address. They built a following the hard way — through pop-ups, private dinners, and collaborations in other people’s kitchens — until the line of people waiting for them became something the city couldn’t ignore.
The James Beard Foundation noticed. Texas Monthly noticed. And the people who had been standing in those lines for four years had been waiting for this moment since the first delivery.
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Cedar Springs Road in Oak Lawn is Dallas’s LGBTQ+ district, and it has been since the 1970s. The half-mile stretch between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue — known locally as The Strip — packs more bars, restaurants, and community institutions into a walkable corridor than any comparable neighborhood in the American South. It earned official state recognition as an LGBT neighborhood in 2018, the first in Texas. During the World Cup, when visitors arrive from countries where LGBTQ+ life ranges from restricted to illegal, Cedar Springs is the kind of neighborhood that reminds people what a city can choose to be. Everyone is welcome here. That is not a slogan. It is the operating condition of the place.
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Meridian, the modern neighborhood restaurant at The Village Dallas led by Executive Chef Eduardo Osorio, will continue its newly launched Chef Collective dinner series this June with a lineup of one-night-only collaborative dinners featuring Chef Gabe Erales and Chef R.J. Yoakum. Both dinners will bring a different format and point of view, from a lively, come-and-go event with bites, cocktails and live music to an intimate multi-course tasting menu.
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Most people planning to view soccer think of smoky sports bars, greasy food and cheap beer. However, savvy planners for the most elegant way to watch the world’s largest sporting event will instead call III Forks in Addison to utilize one of the restaurant’s two private dining rooms.
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Fort Worth is getting a new front porch. Westside Village will welcome Levee Porch, a concept created by Chimy’s owner and operator, Kyle Wright and Jason Finley, intertwined with a Fort Worth outpost of Tailwaters Fly Fishing Co.
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Uptown Dallas is the neighborhood that runs north from downtown along McKinney Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, and it is the most densely restaurant-packed corridor in the city. The McKinney Avenue Trolley runs free through the middle of it. Most of the major World Cup hotels sit on its southern edge. For visitors who want to stay in one neighborhood and eat well for three days without repeating themselves, Uptown is the answer. It has everything from a Gulf Coast seafood institution that opened the year Gerald Ford was president to a Michelin-starred French bistro that earned its star 48 days after opening. Both are worth your time.
Be mindful that lunch spots may also be great for dinner as well.
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Knox-Henderson runs roughly from the Katy Trail east along Knox Street and down Henderson Avenue, and on a good evening it is one of the most concentrated stretches of good food and drink in Texas. The neighborhood sits three miles north of downtown, bordered by Highland Park to the west and Uptown to the south, and for World Cup visitors it offers something the other Dallas neighborhoods don’t: the full range from a dive bar that’s been there since 1987 to a Michelin-recognized steakhouse, all within comfortable walking distance of each other. Park once. Stay all night.
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