Monthly Archives: May 2026

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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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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An Introduction to Online Roulette

The red and black wheel of the roulette table has graced casinos for centuries. In the late 1990s it came to the digital world. Online casinos today serve as most people’s primary gambling outlet. They are easily-accessible and quite entertaining. But they are also relatively new. Even decades after many online casinos first launched, gamblers are still only discovering these sites. That is why it is necessary to give an introduction to online roulette, and how the game works on the internet. That is what we are here to do in this article. 

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How the Late-Night Dallas Crowd Uses Random Video Chat

The Dallas evening scene runs late. The restaurants in Uptown, Deep Ellum, and the Knox-Henderson corridor stay busy past midnight on most weekends. The bars carry the energy into the early hours. The crowd that lives this rhythm spends substantial time on phones during the slow stretches between courses, between rounds, and during the inevitable Uber wait after the bill arrives. What that crowd actually does on those phones has shifted in the past few years, and a meaningful slice of the late-evening Dallas user base now spends part of their time on random video chat platforms, sometimes alongside the dinner conversation, sometimes during the cab ride home.

This is not the kind of detail that shows up in the formal coverage of the Dallas dining scene. It shows up in the late-night Lyft conversations, the small talk at the valet stand, and the casual exchanges among the front-of-house staff at the better restaurants. The Dallas late-evening audience is large, mobile, and reasonably tech-literate, and the random video chat format fits a specific slot in their evening routine.

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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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There’s a Name in Fort Worth Barbecue You Should Know: Jonny Butch

Most people in Dallas haven’t heard of Jonny Butch yet. That’s going to change.

Butch works the pits at Goldee’s Barbecue in Fort Worth — the operation at 4645 Dick Price Road that Texas Monthly has ranked number one in the state, that the New York Times has called out, and that Food & Wine named among the best new chef programs in America in 2024. Being part of that crew is already a credential. But Butch’s path to a Fort Worth pit room is not the standard one.

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Two New Mexican Spots Are Coming to Lower Greenville This Summer

Lower Greenville is getting two new Mexican concepts this summer, and they’re coming from the same person: Jon Garay, the SMU grad and Mexico City native who co-founded Chilangos Tacos back in 2019 and has been quietly building one of the more recognizable taco brands in Dallas ever since. Chilangos now has six locations across the city, plus Nashville and Las Vegas. This time, Garay is going a different direction — and doing it on his own terms.

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Avra Introduces Elevated New Lunch Experience

Avra Estiatorio, the acclaimed Greek dining destination celebrated for its pristine seafood and refined Mediterranean cuisine, is pleased to announce the launch of its new lunch experience, now available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Designed to offer guests an elevated yet approachable midday dining option, Avra’s expanded lunch service features a new three-course prix fixe menu for $39.50 alongside the restaurant’s full all-day menu, allowing diners to enjoy everything from light Mediterranean fare to premium seafood and signature specialties.

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