by | May 20, 2026 · 4:10 pm

Dallas Doesn’t Have a Portuguese Restaurant. That’s About to Look Like a Missed Opportunity

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New York’s food writers have been saying it for a year: Lisbon is the next great dining city to influence American restaurants. Not a prediction — a present-tense statement. The pintxos bars and conservas counters and wine-forward tascas that built Lisbon’s reputation are showing up in Manhattan, in Brooklyn, in the neighborhoods where food-obsessed people pay attention to what’s coming next. The question for Dallas isn’t whether Portuguese food is having a moment. It’s why nobody here has moved on it yet.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 1:00 pm

The Best Chef Burger in Dallas Right Now Is Hiding in The Village

Most people driving through The Village on their way somewhere else have no reason to stop at Meridian. That’s their loss. The restaurant at 5605 Village Glen Drive reopened last October under executive chef Eduardo Osorio, and buried in a menu of wood-fired oysters, foie gras cornbread, and dry-aged steaks is one of the better burgers in Dallas — a burger that most of the city hasn’t found yet.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 11:53 am

H-E-B in Mid-Cities Euless Opens Today

H-E-B bought the land for this store in 2015. The Mid-Cities location opens this morning at 6 a.m. at 2105 Rio Grande Blvd in Euless, in the Glade Parks development at the northwest corner of Cheek-Sparger Road and Rio Grande Boulevard. Eleven years from land purchase to ribbon cutting is a long time to wait for a grocery store. The Hurst-Euless-Bedford corridor — which has shared its initials with the chain for decades without actually having one — is finally getting the real thing.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 11:26 am

Via Triozzi Just Added Sunday Brunch — and the Rooftop Above

Leigh Hutchinson opened Via Triozzi on Lower Greenville in August 2023 and it landed immediately — handmade pasta, a Sicilian-American grandmother’s recipes, flour imported from Italy, and a room that felt nothing like the chain Italian that had been filling the gap in Dallas for years. The lasagne al forno became the dish people drove for. The bistecca alla fiorentina gave it range. The all-Italian wine list, built around natural and low-intervention producers, gave it a point of view.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 10:59 am

St. Martin’s Wine Bistro is Back and Here’s What to Know

St. Martin’s Wine Bistro opened in Dallas in 1980. It sat on Greenville Avenue for 46 years. When the lease ran out in 2023, it went dark — no drama, no announcement, just gone. A lot of people who loved that room assumed it was over for good.

It wasn’t. St. Martin’s reopened March 11 at 4223 Bryan Street in Old East Dallas, in what used to be the L&B Antiques building. The piano came with it. So did the chandeliers, the white tablecloths, the dark wood, and the room’s instinct that dinner is an occasion rather than a transaction.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 10:13 am

Why Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Belongs in Your Glass Right Now

Oregon Pinot Noir spent decades being underestimated. It wasn’t California, it wasn’t Burgundy, and the people making it were largely outsiders who drove north from the Bay Area in the late 1960s, looked at the Willamette Valley, and planted anyway. What they built took time to be taken seriously. VinePair named the valley the top wine destination in the world for 2025. Decanter awarded its first 100-point wine from Oregon last year. The underestimation is over.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 6:34 am

How to Date Successfully in Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth has more than a million people and nearly half of its adult population is unmarried. On paper, the dating pool is substantial. In practice, the city ranks 75th on Zumper’s 2025 list of best cities for singles — well behind Dallas and Austin, and 119th in a separate national survey from the same year. The gap between the numbers and the results comes down to geography. Fort Worth sprawls. Its singles concentrate in a handful of corridors rather than one walkable district, and daters who don’t account for that spend a lot of weekends driving thirty minutes to mediocre results. The ones who figure out the logistics tend to do considerably better.

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by | May 19, 2026 · 4:04 pm

Norman’s Japanese Grill Is Hosting a One-Night Dumpling Dinner with New York’s Mimi Cheng’s

If you’ve spent any time eating in New York’s East Village, you probably know Mimi Cheng’s. If you haven’t, June 7 is a reasonable introduction.

The dumpling shop at 179 Second Avenue has been one of those quietly essential New York addresses since sisters Hannah and Marian Cheng opened it in 2014. Hannah left a Wall Street career to do it. The idea was simple: their mother Mimi made Taiwanese-style dumplings at home, the sisters couldn’t find anything close to them in the city, so they started making their own. Pasture-raised pork, family-raised chicken, farm vegetables, wrappers spread thin and folded by hand. Whole Foods just named the brand one of its top food trends for 2026. It has that kind of following.

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