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Happiest Hour Is Dallas’s Best Argument for Day Drinking Done Right

Most bars that call themselves the largest patio bar in Dallas are overstating the case. Happiest Hour is not. The numbers are what they are: 12,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space spread across four full-service bars, a rooftop deck with a downtown Dallas skyline view that stops people mid-sentence, and a beverage program running more than 50 beers, wines on tap, and enough signature cocktails to fill a Saturday afternoon without repeating yourself. It sits at 2616 Olive Street in the Harwood District, steps from American Airlines Center, and on a Saturday it opens at 11 a.m. — which is the correct time to start if the plan is to make a day of it.

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Alebrijes Cafe Is the Breakfast Secret Dallas Has Been Keeping to Itself

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An alebrije is a fantastical creature from Oaxacan folk art — part jaguar, part butterfly, part something that exists nowhere in nature, painted in colors that have no business working together and somehow do. The name is a good one for a cafe that looks like nothing else on West Clarendon Drive, because nothing else on West Clarendon Drive looks like it either. Alebrijes Cafe sits at 1323 W. Clarendon Drive in Oak Cliff, a few blocks from the Dallas Zoo, in a room decorated with the colorful folk art the name promises, run by a couple who greet regulars by name and first-timers like they’ve been expected.

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Retro Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Stanley Kubrick read more than forty books about nuclear war before he made this film, and what he concluded was that nobody really knew anything and the whole situation was absurd. That conclusion is the movie. It is the funniest film ever made about the end of the world, and the most frightening, and sixty years after its release it has not stopped being either one.

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Your Dallas Weekend Guide: June 19-21

This is one of those weekends where Dallas stacks everything on top of itself. Father’s Day, Juneteenth, the World Cup still running, a free block party in the Arts District, and a music calendar that goes from Randy Rogers to Killswitch Engage to the Dallas Symphony in a single Friday night. Pick your lane and go.

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Father’s Day in Dallas: Where to Take Dad This Sunday

Father’s Day falls on Sunday, June 21, and Dallas has no shortage of places to take the man who insists he doesn’t need anything. Whether Dad wants a three-course lunch at one of the most celebrated tables in the city, a brunch buffet with a smoked Old Fashioned in hand, or fried chicken and champagne at a neighborhood spot that gets it right, here’s where to make a reservation before the weekend gets away from you.

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Flying Fish Adds “Surf N’ Turf” Special for Summer is a Head Shaker

Flying Fish restaurants across North Texas are presenting their version of Surf and Turf through August 31.

Peel back the lid on tinned Portuguese sardines in olive oil ($12) or a can of all beef  Vienna sausages ($15), both served alongside Saltine crackers. A mélange of mayo, yellow mustard, a shake of Worcestershire sauce and a squeeze of lemon juice accompany the ready-to-eat tinned fish.

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Zaguán Has Been Feeding Oak Lawn Since 2002

Before Carlos Branger opened a restaurant, he threw dinner parties. He’d moved to Texas from the Andean region of Venezuela, near the Colombian border, and when friends came over he cooked the things he grew up eating — arepas stuffed with shredded beef, cachapas rolled off the griddle, queso blanco, the family recipes he’d carried north like a piece of luggage. The food disappeared before the evening did, and people kept asking where they could get more of it.

Dallas had Tex-Mex on every corner and excellent taquerias in every neighborhood, but the food of Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, and the Caribbean islands was essentially nowhere. On May 9, 2002, Branger opened Zaguán Latin Café and Bakery at 2604 Oak Lawn Avenue, and the dinner party never really stopped.

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Ghost Pizza Just Opened in Lake Highlands; The Story Behind It Goes Back to 1949

In October 2019, a tornado tore through Preston Hollow and destroyed Pizza by Marco — the pizzeria that Joe Nuccio had started in 1949 on Carroll Avenue and eventually moved to Preston Royal Village in 1962, where it became a North Dallas institution over the next six decades. A few months before the tornado, Frankie Nuccio had lost his mother. His father had passed years earlier. Then the pandemic arrived. Nuccio walked away.

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