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Dos Mares Brings Mexico’s Coastlines to Fort Worth

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Fort Worth already has one of the best Mexican restaurants in North Texas. Now it has two, and they share a wall.

Dos Mares opened last November at 3260 W. 7th St., right next door to Don Artemio in the Cultural District. Both restaurants come from the same family — chef Juan Ramón Cárdenas and his son Rodrigo, who serves as culinary director for both. Don Artemio, which opened in 2022 and earned a James Beard Award nomination the following year, draws from the interior and northeast regions of Mexico. Dos Mares goes somewhere else entirely: the coast.

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Shirley Chung Was Told She’d Never Taste Again, Then She Opened a Restaurant in Dallas

In May 2024, doctors told Shirley Chung that the best chance of saving her life was removing her tongue. She said no.

Chung had just been diagnosed with stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma — tongue cancer that had already spread to her lymph nodes. She was 47. She had built a career around taste, around the specific memory of her grandmother’s cooking in Beijing, around 20 years of working kitchens alongside Thomas Keller, Guy Savoy, and José Andrés. Two runs on Top Chef, a devoted following in Los Angeles, restaurants she had poured herself into. Losing her tongue was not something she was willing to accept.

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Barcelona Wine Bar Is Doing Brunch Right on Knox-Henderson

Most brunch menus feel like an afterthought — a few egg dishes bolted onto a dinner concept to fill weekend seats. Barcelona Wine Bar on Miller Avenue didn’t do that. Their Saturday and Sunday brunch runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and gives you the full tapas menu alongside dishes built specifically for the morning, which means you can order olive oil pancakes with cinnamon butter and a plate of gambas al ajillo at the same time. Nobody is stopping you.

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Fort Worth’s Dumpling Queen Is Finally Getting Her Own Restaurant

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Fort Worth has been waiting on this one for a while. Hao Tran — the chef behind Hao’s Grocery & Café on the Near Southside and the closest thing Fort Worth has to a dumpling institution — is building her first full restaurant. It’s called Duong DeVille, and if the five-month construction timeline holds, it should open sometime this summer.

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Shell Shack Cracks into Arlington with New Location

Shell Shack is opening a new Arlington location on April 27 at 4000 Five Points Blvd., Suite 101, with hours running daily from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. It’s the brand’s second location in Arlington, joining the existing spot at Lincoln Square.

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The Saint Is Pairing WhistlePig Whiskey With Wagyu for One Night Only

The Saint in the Dallas Design District is hosting a WhistlePig and Wagyu dinner on Wednesday, April 29, running from 5 to 9 p.m. Reservations are required and seats are limited.

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4/20 at Cocodrie’s Means Four Pounds of Crawfish for Twenty Bucks

Crawfish season is here, and Cocodrie’s Bayou Kitchen in North Richland Hills is doing something about it. Starting today, April 20, the restaurant is running a 4/20 crawfish special — four pounds for $20 — plus buckets of beer for $17. That’s a hard combination to pass up on a Sunday.

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Central Market Is Finally Coming to Uptown Dallas. Maybe.

That corner of McKinney and Lemmon in Uptown has been a dead zone for almost a decade. The old Albertsons closed in 2016, and the building has sat dark ever since — a big, empty box in one of the most walkable, food-obsessed neighborhoods in Dallas. Central Market has held the property lease the entire time. Getting something built there has just taken a lot longer than anyone expected.

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