The costumes are wrinkled, the fake blood is smeared and somebody in your group just announced they are starving. Welcome to 2 a.m. on Halloween.
Good news. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, which means the clocks roll back and you get the 1 o’clock hour all over again. Dallas-Fort Worth has some great places to spend it, and we know exactly what we’re ordering at every one.
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John Tesar didn’t stay unattached for long.
Two weeks after his Knife Italian Steak closed at The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas, the Dallas chef has a new job. The Palladino Group has named Tesar its corporate executive chef, putting him over both Palladino’s Steak & Seafood restaurants, the original in New York’s Grand Central Terminal and the new Dallas location at 5959 Royal Lane in Preston Royal.
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The first real cold front of the season is the signal. The frozen margaritas can take a break, the cider goes on the stove and the bar cart starts leaning toward bourbon, spice and anything you’d want to sip by a fire pit.
These three fall cocktails come straight from the brands that make the spirits, so you know they work, and all three are easy enough to make at home without a bartender’s kit. Two of them are made with Texas spirits, and the third uses a bourbon that’s on just about every back bar in Dallas.
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For most of its life, Sugar & Sage Bakery has been a morning place. People come to the shop on Lovers Lane for a kouign-amann and a coffee, linger over a danish, maybe leave with a box of pastries. Now the bakery wants you back around noon.
Sugar & Sage has rolled out a lineup of five made-to-order sandwiches and wraps, and if you know anything about what executive chef Jill Bates does with butter and dough, you already know why that’s good news. The breads are baked in-house, the croissants come out of the same kitchen that turns out the bakery’s famous pastries, and the whole menu reads like it was put together by someone who understands that a great sandwich starts with what’s holding it together.
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Welcome to The Heat Check, CraveDFW’s weekly list of the places Dallas-Fort Worth can’t stop talking about. Every spot on it is open right now. The Dallas side is ranked from splurge to cheap thrills, and Fort Worth gets its own list at the bottom, because buzz doesn’t care what you spend or which side of the Metroplex you live on. It changes every Friday.
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If Sundown at Granada is one of your places, you have until Sunday.
Sundown, the restaurant next door to the Granada Theater on Lower Greenville, will serve its last day of regular restaurant service on Sunday, November 1. Owners Mike Schoder and Julia Garton announced on October 23 that they have sold both Sundown and the Granada Theater to Bathhouse, a New York-based wellness and spa brand. Sundown will keep hosting private events through December 31. The Granada will keep the music going a little longer, with shows and events through April 17, 2027.
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A good lunch in Dallas doesn’t have to come with a valet stand or a wine list. Some of the best midday meals in town still come off a charcoal grill, a flat-top or a smoker that’s been running for decades, and you can walk out full without wincing at the check.
These are the places we keep going back to when we want a real lunch at a fair price. They’re not new, and none of them are trying to be. That’s a big part of why they’re still here.
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Hi everyone,
New stories go up on CraveDFW every day, and that isn’t changing. What’s changing is your inbox. Instead of an email every time we publish, you’ll now get one each Friday morning with the week’s best, so nothing good slips past you. Between Fridays, the newest stories are always waiting at cravedfw.com.
This week has a steakhouse founder back at the front door, Jon Alexis on what’s coming in for winter at TJ’s, and Javier’s closing in on 50 years.
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