The Dish Explained: Georgia’s Cheese Boat, Found in North Dallas

This is the latest in our weekly Dish Explained series, where we take one dish from one culture and break down what it is, where it came from, and where to actually eat it in Dallas.

Khachapuri is Georgian cheese bread, and the name tells you exactly what you’re getting. Khacho means cheese. Puri means bread. The most famous version, called adjaruli, shapes the dough into a little boat, fills it edge to edge with melted cheese, then cracks a raw egg yolk and a pat of butter right into the middle before it hits the table. You tear off pieces of the crust and drag them through that molten well in the center. That’s it. That’s the whole ritual, and it’s every bit as good as it sounds.

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Whisk Crêpes Café’s Bishop Arts Home Is Worth the Trip

Most crepe menus hand you a finished idea and expect you to accept it. Whisk hands you the whole kitchen instead.

Julien Eelsen grew up in Paris, where crepes were as ordinary as a street snack and as elevated as a real sit-down dinner, depending on where you got them. He wanted Dallas to have both versions in one place, so he opened Whisk Crêpes Café in 2015. A decade later, the concept has outgrown its first address twice over. Whisk started in Sylvan Thirty, moved to Bishop Arts in early 2025, and has since spread well past Dallas, with locations now open in Nashville’s Assembly Food Hall and Plano’s Legacy Food Hall.

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Cune Crianza: Old-World Rioja Without the Old-World Price

Some wines earn their price through packaging and a good marketing budget. Cune Crianza earns it the harder way: a hundred and forty-five years of not screwing up a formula that already worked.

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SHEF Food + Wine Is Back, Bigger, and Still Grand Prairie’s Best Kept Secret

Two years in, and Tiffany Derry’s food festival already feels like it’s been part of the fall calendar forever. SHEF Food + Wine returns for its third run October 9 through 11 at EpicCentral in Grand Prairie, and this time Derry didn’t just bring back the festival. She brought back the festival with the biggest guest list it’s ever had, more than 40 chefs, restaurateurs, TV personalities, and culinary names descending on North Texas for a weekend that’s stopped being a local secret.

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Build Your Own Chicken and Waffle Plate at Johnny’s, DFW’s Two Locations

Crystal Smith grew up on Georgia’s favorite brunch dish, and by 2020 she’d decided it deserved a restaurant built entirely around it. She opened the first Johnny’s Chicken and Waffles in College Park, outside Atlanta, with then-husband Ne-Yo and Love & Hip Hop’s Karlie Redd backing the idea. Six years and a handful of states later, the plates are still enormous and the waffles are still stacked with more toppings than seems reasonable. Johnny’s now has two DFW locations: Dallas, open since May 2024, and Fort Worth, open since July 2025, and both are worth the drive on an empty stomach.

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The Definitive Fall 2026 Guide to Concerts, Theater, Opera, and Statewide Festivals

Fall in Texas is the season that actually earns its own calendar. The heat finally breaks, the State Fair takes over Fair Park, and every stage in the state, from a Fort Worth opera house to a Renaissance fair two hours from anywhere, gets busy at once. Here’s everything worth building a weekend around between now and the end of the year, from Broadway tours and opera openings in Dallas-Fort Worth to the festivals worth a road trip anywhere in Texas.

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Twenty-Three Years In, Besa’s Is Still the Neighborhood’s Best-Kept Secret

Twenty-three years is a long time to keep a restaurant open, and longer still to keep it feeling like the same place it was on day one. Besa’s has managed both. Garland’s own tourism site sums up owner Al Shala in one line: he waits on guests like he’s running a five-star restaurant instead of a casual Italian spot. Anyone who’s eaten there more than once knows exactly what that means.

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Hospitality Duo Opens Third Location in a Year – Cafe Olivita

Torry Cray and Adrian Verdin (we’ve followed Verdin through his hospitality career and he’s a keeper) have been on quite a run. Three restaurants in one year, all under the Café Olivia name, and this one might be the most interesting of the bunch. Café Olivita opens in early October at Park Center in Plano, and it’s not just a smaller version of the original. It’s Café Olivia rethinking what it means to serve an office building.

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