The corny dog was born at the State Fair of Texas in 1942, when Neil and Carl Fletcher figured out how to get a hot dog on a stick into hot oil without it falling apart. Eighty-four years later, a member of that same family just won one of the fair’s biggest honors by taking the family’s own invention apart and putting it back together as dessert.
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The Pizzeria Testa building on Greenville Avenue has sat with new owners for over a year now, and what’s coming next is finally close enough to talk about.
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Charles Olalia just left one of Dallas’s most storied kitchens, and the story of how he got there in the first place is most of the reason this move matters.
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The building at 1208 W. Magnolia Ave. spent years as Cat City Grill. It’s now home to Mary Perez’s Enchiladas ¡Olé! and her barbecue spinoff, Holy Cue, sharing one kitchen and one dining room for the first time.
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Henderson Avenue has a new bar with a twang, and it landed in exactly the right spot.
Stay Darlin’ opened this summer at 2929 N. Henderson Ave., in the old Sissy’s Southern Kitchen space, right where Tecovas, McKinney Hat Company, and Rancher Hat Bar have all set up shop within a block of each other. Put a boot store on three corners of an intersection and eventually somebody opens a bar to match. Stay Darlin’ is that bar.
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Here’s something most people standing in line at The Bread Club on a Saturday morning don’t know: the loaf under their sandwich is the same bread served a few doors down at Mamani, the restaurant that earned Dallas one of its two Michelin stars.
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Dakota’s Steakhouse in Southlake has a foundation date now, and it also has a firm answer on when the doors open: 2027.
Southlake City Council approved the site plan for Dakota’s new location at its August 4 meeting, signing off on elevations for three retail buildings, updated designs for the event center, and revised parking for the project now known as Kirkwood Reserve. Developer Tim McEneny told the council crews have finished pouring an 820-foot retaining wall on the property and expect to pour the restaurant’s foundation soon. He put the total project cost at around $25 million.
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Waterloo Gin just had its best showing yet at the SIP Awards, one of the few major spirits competitions where the judges aren’t industry insiders but ordinary consumers tasting blind. The Hill Country distillery walked away with Platinum for its flagship Waterloo No. 9 Gin, Double Gold for the Prickly Pear & Rose Gin, and Gold for the Barrel Aged Gin, a clean sweep across the brand’s three core expressions.
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