Everybody has a burger they measure all other burgers against. Most people can tell you exactly where they ate it and roughly what year. Mine was at a counter in Chicago that doesn’t exist anymore. It was nothing special to look at — wax paper, a paper boat of fries, a cup of water nobody asked for. But I thought about that burger for three days after I left town and I have been chasing it ever since. That’s the thing about a great burger. It doesn’t announce itself. It just stays with you.
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Before Dallas had a fine dining scene worth arguing about, it had La Tunisia — and La Tunisia had a seven-foot doorman named Abdull who had allegedly been a palace guard for Sheik Mirza Hassan of Morocco and wore ceremonial Watusi chieftain’s robes to work every day on Harry Hines Boulevard.
It was that era in Dallas. And it was that kind of restaurant.
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The Philadelphia Story was released in 1940 and has never once felt like it needed updating. George Cukor directed it with such confidence in the material that time has had nothing to work with. Eighty-five years later it plays like a film made by people who knew exactly what they were doing and had no interest in hedging.
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Most World Cup visitors staying in Dallas will be staying downtown. The hotels are here — the Omni, the Thompson, the Sheraton, the Adolphus, the Westin — and so is the AT&T Discovery District, the pedestrian zone along Commerce and Main Streets that has become the city’s most active public gathering space. Downtown Dallas is not what it was ten years ago. The restaurant density has grown considerably, the quality has followed, and for visitors without a car it’s entirely possible to eat well for an entire week without leaving the neighborhood on foot.
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When The Saint opened in 2023 on Gaston Avenue near the club corridor off Good Latimer, it was a fish out of water from the start. The concept — an Italian steakhouse with serious food and a sophisticated room — landed in a block full of bars and nightclubs that drew a completely different crowd. Regulars found it. The food was better than the location suggested. But the neighborhood was never right for what the restaurant was trying to be.
In November 2025 it closed the Gaston Avenue location and moved. The new address is 1000 N. Riverfront Boulevard in the Design District — second floor, above Night Rooster, the modern Chinese concept from the same Hooper Hospitality Concepts group — with a view of the downtown Dallas skyline from nearly every seat in the room. It reopened January 3 with a new executive chef and a menu built around him.
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Casa Brasa at 8111 Preston Road launched Sunday brunch last week — three courses, $65 per person, Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you’ve been to Casa Brasa for dinner you already understand the kitchen’s instincts: Japanese raw bar technique alongside Latin American open-fire cooking, charcoal heat, live fire. The brunch menu runs on those same principles and doesn’t dilute them for the weekend crowd.
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The night before Japan faces the Netherlands in Dallas, the Crow Museum of Asian Art is turning the Trammell Crow Center Plaza into a Japanese beer garden. The event is called From Dallas to the World: A Toast to a Summer of Soccer, it runs Saturday, June 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., and it’s 21-and-up. The timing is deliberate — Dallas is about to host tens of thousands of international visitors, and this is the kind of evening that gives them somewhere genuinely worth going.
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The FIFA World Cup comes to North Texas on June 12, with matches running through July at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from dozens of countries will be in Dallas for days at a time, and most of them will be hungry. CraveDFW is building the most comprehensive neighborhood-by-neighborhood dining guide for World Cup visitors and locals alike — covering Bishop Arts, Deep Ellum, Uptown, the Design District, Downtown Dallas, Addison, and the stadium corridor in Arlington.
Whether you’re looking for a pre-match lunch, a long dinner after the final whistle, or a late-night spot that stays open when everything else closes, this is where you start.
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