by | April 24, 2026 · 4:39 pm

Duck Is Taking Over Dallas Menus, Here is Where to Enjoy

Duck is having a moment. Walk through any half-dozen new Dallas menus in 2026 and you will find duck showing up where it was not showing up five years ago — in confit on brunch plates, in kebab form next to flatbread, sliced over grilled endive, glazed and hung in the window of a dumpling shop, served whole on a sharing plate at the most-talked-about new restaurant in town. Chicken is still king. Beef is still beef. But duck has quietly moved up the menu in a way that says something about where Dallas dining is going.

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by | April 24, 2026 · 3:33 pm

A Friday Night Under the Stars: Five Texas Drive-Ins

The drive-in almost disappeared. Texas had nearly four hundred of them in the nineteen-fifties, more than any state in the country, and now there are fewer than twenty. The ones that survived did it on stubbornness, mostly — family-owned places that never stopped believing a warm night and a big screen and a car full of people was a good way to spend a Friday. Some of them have been running the same single screen since 1948. Some have expanded into four and seven screens. They all still tune to FM radio for the sound. They all still sell popcorn that tastes better than it has any right to. And every one of them is worth the drive from Dallas for a weekend.

Here are the five I would point you toward, from the closest one to the furthest.

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by | April 24, 2026 · 2:18 pm

Skip the Pancakes, Brunch at Beverley’s

You know a brunch spot is working when the valet is full, the front patio is full, and nobody at any of the tables seems in a hurry to leave. That is Beverley’s Bistro & Bar on a Saturday around noon. The food is the reason, but the mood is why people stay. A couple at the bar splitting a plate of caviar latkes and not saying much because they do not need to. A family of six crammed into a corner booth with three kinds of eggs between them. Somebody at the next table ordering a second glass of prosecco before their plates have been cleared. You walk in and you feel like you just showed up at a party that was already going.

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by | April 24, 2026 · 12:52 pm

Happy Hour: Five Whiskies, One Cocktail

A good whiskey shelf does not need to be deep. It needs to be honest. One bottle for a Tuesday night when all you want is a finger of something warm over ice, one for a dinner party where somebody is going to ask for an old fashioned, one for the friend who knows what she is talking about, one for a birthday, and one for the night you actually want to sit down with a book and pay attention. Five bottles, five reasons, five prices that scale with the occasion. Here is what I would stock right now, all American, all on liquor store shelves in Dallas this week.

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by | April 23, 2026 · 1:32 pm

Uptown Dumpling with Amazing Soup Dumplings and Peking Duck



A new Chinese restaurant opened on Preston Road in March and it’s already one of the more interesting things to happen to North Dallas dining in a while. It’s called Uptown Dumpling, and the chef running the kitchen — Hao Wenjie — has cooked at a level most people in this city have never encountered.

Chef Hao is a UNESCO Ambassador of Intangible Culinary Heritage. He personally led three China Day banquets at UN Headquarters in New York, events the Los Angeles Times once called an edible cultural white paper. He was part of the founding team behind the Michelin Guide’s launch in Beijing and holds accreditation as a judge with the World Association of Chefs Societies. He ended up at 18101 Preston Rd., Suite 204c, in a strip mall space that used to be Tian Tian. Dallas does things like that.

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by | April 23, 2026 · 12:24 pm

40+ Restaurants Are Opening in Haltom City, and H Mart Isn’t Even There Yet

H Mart hasn’t opened yet, and people are already making the drive to Haltom City.

That’s the thing about H Mart Plaza at 3920 NE Loop 820 — the anchor is still months away, pushed to fall 2026 after supply chain delays on imported fixtures, but the restaurants around it have been opening on their own schedule. The plaza is fully leased, more than 40 tenants deep, and what’s taking shape out there is something Fort Worth hasn’t had before: a real Asian food corridor on the west side of the metroplex.

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by | April 20, 2026 · 5:00 pm

5 Fun Patios to Enjoy Spring in Dallas

Which patio might you enjoy this drink?

Patio season is a real thing in Dallas and it does not last long. By late May the sun starts to win, and by mid-June most of us are hiding indoors until October. That leaves a narrow window where eating outside is genuinely one of the better things you can do with your day, and the question is not really which patio has the best food. The food at a good patio is almost a footnote. What matters is whether the place matches what you are actually trying to do that afternoon or evening.

A first date needs one kind of space. A birthday with twelve people needs another. A long lunch with a friend who has news to tell you needs a third. Here are five patios I keep going back to, sorted by the thing you are actually there for.

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by | April 20, 2026 · 4:14 pm

Korea House Is Where Dallas Koreatown Started

If you asked me where Dallas Koreatown actually begins, I would point to a corner. Royal Lane and Harry Hines, southwest side. Korea House has been on that corner since 1987, and the restaurant itself goes back even further than that. Sung Kim opened the first one in Richardson in 1979. Most of her ingredients had to come in from New York back then. Korean food in Dallas was barely a thing. A handful of Korean wholesalers and small banks started moving into the cheap strip centers around Royal and Harry Hines a few years later, and Kim moved her restaurant right into the middle of them. Everything else you see out there now, all the grocers and markets and newer restaurants, grew up around her.

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