Sachet’s Menu Is a Masterclass in Mediterranean Cooking 

There’s a specific type of Dallas restaurant that never really goes out of style, the one you keep coming back to not because it’s new but because it never stopped being good. Sachet is that restaurant. located in the Shops of Highland Park on Oak Lawn Avenue, it opened in September 2017 as the second act from chef Stephen Rogers and his wife Allison Yoder, the couple behind Gemma, the Henderson Avenue restaurant that’s been one of Dallas’s most beloved dining rooms for over a decade. Where Gemma leans French and intimate, Sachet takes the same obsessive care and points it at the entire Mediterranean coast, pulling from Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and North Africa without ever feeling scattered.

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Beer by the Bay 2026: The Lineup, the Packages, and Why It’s Worth the Drive 

Horseshoe Bay Resort is about to prove for the thirteenth summer in a row that a lakeside golf resort in the Texas Hill Country can throw one of the state’s better country music weekends. Beer By The Bay Music Festival returns August 7 and 8, 2026, two nights of live country music, Texas craft beer tastings, and an all-you-can-eat, chef-prepared spread set against the shore of Lake LBJ.

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H-E-B Opens in Murphy as Its DFW Expansion Shows No Signs of Slowing

H-E-B opened its doors in Murphy at 6 a.m. Wednesday, at 740 E. FM 544 and McCreary Road. It’s the retailer’s fourteenth location in the DFW Metroplex once Central Market and Joe V’s Smart Shop are counted alongside the namesake stores, and proof of how fast a company that avoided North Texas for most of its existence is now making up for lost time.

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Your Complete Guide to a Wimberley and San Marcos Getaway

The Blanco River runs low and green past Wimberley Square on a Friday afternoon, cypress roots gripping the bank like they’ve been holding on since before the town had a name. Ninety minutes south of Austin, an hour past the last billboard for anything, the Texas Hill Country stops performing for tourists and just starts being itself. Wimberley and San Marcos sit close enough together to share a weekend without either one feeling like an afterthought, one built for slowing down, the other for cooling off. Together they make one of the easiest escapes in the state, a five-hour drive from Dallas that rewards every mile of it.

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Inside Strouderosa BBQ, East Dallas’s Quiet Barbecue Standout

Strouderosa BBQ started with a salsa recipe, not a smoker. Back in 2018, the founder was helping a friend run the iBBQ 4U food truck when he started experimenting with a Texas barbecue sauce that had a little more kick than what he’d grown up on. The samples went over well enough that he started canning it and handing it out to anyone who asked for more. That could have stayed a hobby indefinitely, but in January 2020 he was furloughed from his day job, and instead of waiting things out, he leaned all the way into the smoker.

What began as holiday meals for family turned into a Meals of the Week program, then catering, then a full storefront in the Lake Highlands corridor of East Dallas at 9090 Skillman Street.

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Everything to Know About the BBQ at Feels Like Home Festival 2026 

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Brownwood isn’t a place most Dallas or Fort Worth diners think to plan a trip around, but come October, it might be worth the three-hour drive. Feels Like Home Festival has announced the first wave of barbecue joints joining its third annual return on Saturday, October 3, 2026, and the lineup reads like a highlight reel of what’s happening in Texas barbecue right now, not just the usual suspects.

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Why Empire Baking Company Is Still Dallas’s Longest-Running Craft Bakery

Empire Baking Company started with a complaint. Meaders Ozarow and her husband, Robert, couldn’t find a real bakery in Dallas in the early 1990s, the kind that made bread the slow way instead of trucking it in from somewhere else, so in 1992 they opened one themselves in a small shop on Oak Lawn Avenue. Their own motto still sums up the founding logic better than anything a marketing team could write: we couldn’t find an artisan bakery, so we started one. More than thirty years later, it’s Dallas’s longest-running craft bakery, and neither Meaders nor Robert ever learned to bake a single loaf themselves. What they understood instead was how to find the right people and get out of their way.

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Inside the Recipe and History of Perry’s Legendary Pork Chop

There’s a version of the Perry’s story that most diners never hear, and it starts with a meat counter, not a dining room. In 1979, Bob Perry opened a small butcher shop on the south side of Houston called Perry’s Butcher Shop and Deli. It was a neighborhood operation, the kind of place people walked into for a Friday roast or a pound of ground chuck, nothing more ambitious than that. What changed the trajectory of the business was Bob’s son, Chris, who by 1986 had talked his father into adding a few tables and chairs to the shop. Customers who came in for meat started staying to eat, and what began as a butcher counter with some seating grew into Perry & Sons Market & Grille.

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