David Campisi is moving his family’s restaurant into a space that already has a chef’s fingerprints all over it, and he’s doing it as a favor to a friend as much as a business decision.
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Campisi’s Moves into Perch’s Former Space as it Expands Delivery Across Dallas
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Lufkin’s Cafe Del Rio Covers Both Sides of Texas Comfort Food
The name suggests a border town, sun-bleached and dusty, somewhere along the Rio Grande. Cafe Del Rio is actually about as far from the border as Texas gets, sitting deep in the Piney Woods of Lufkin, closer to Louisiana than to Mexico. The name misleads you before you’ve even walked in.
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Both Loro Dallas locations Heat Up Late Summer with Favor & Fly by Jing Collaborations
Loro Asian Smokehouse & Bar is closing out summer with two collaborations running at both Dallas locations through the end of August, one built for heat-seekers and one built for parents who’ve had enough of the back-to-school scramble.
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The Perfect Weekend in Lake Tahoe, North and South
Some lakes ask to be admired. Lake Tahoe asks to be entered. Its water holds a clarity so complete that sunlight travels fifty, sometimes seventy feet down before it surrenders, casting the shallows in a turquoise that belongs more to the Caribbean than the Sierra, and the depths in a blue so dark it reads as bottomless. Granite peaks rise around the entire basin, holding their snow into June, framing the water like something meant to be approached slowly and left reluctantly. There is a stillness that settles over the surface in late afternoon, just before the light turns gold, that no photograph quite manages to hold onto. It has to be stood in.
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Austin-based Verdadero Tequila Now Available in All Texas Markets
Austin-based Verdadero Tequila is entering a new chapter. The brand, founded in Austin in 2020, has been under new ownership since August 2025, when Kentucky native Chase Deppen acquired the company. Now Deppen and the Verdadero team are rolling out a full relaunch: new visual identity, updated packaging, a campaign called “Made for More,” and an expanded distribution deal with Reyes Beverage Group, one of the largest beverage alcohol distributors in the country.
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Night Rooster, Months In: What’s Working and What Isn’t
Night Rooster has had several months now to settle into its spot on the ground floor at 1000 N. Riverfront Blvd. in the Design District, on the ground floor below Hooper Hospitality’s Italian steakhouse The Saint. The early buzz has worn off, the reviews have rolled in, and the picture that’s emerged is a restaurant that’s very good at some things and still finding its footing on others.
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Truck Yard Is Opening in Richardson on September 1
Richardson is getting its own version of the backyard party that’s been packing the patio on Lower Greenville for more than a decade. Truck Yard is opening a new location at 740 S. Central Expressway on September 1, taking over the spot that used to be Old 75 Beer Garden.
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What Is Lagunero Food, and Where to Try It in Dallas
Most regional Mexican cooking that makes it to Dallas comes from places with some name recognition attached. Oaxaca, Jalisco, the Yucatán, places people have at least heard of even if they couldn’t point to them on a map. La Laguna doesn’t have that kind of reputation outside northern Mexico, which is part of why Mi Rinconcito Lagunero, spaced into a strip on Vilbig Road in West Dallas, is worth a drive even if you’ve never heard the word “lagunero” in your life.
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