This time of year, marigolds start turning up everywhere. Orange petals in grocery store buckets, on gallery floors, in bakery windows. Día de los Muertos is close, and all over North Texas people are getting ready to remember the ones they have lost.
If you did not grow up with the holiday, you are welcome here. So is everyone else. A quick word on what it is, for anyone who wants it.
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Some of the best chicken fried steak in Dallas comes out of an Italian kitchen. That sounds like a setup for a joke, but anyone who has eaten at Prego Pasta House on Lower Greenville knows it is simply true.
Prego has been a Greenville Avenue fixture since September. The roots go back even further. In 1956, Joe Barraco Sr. opened a grocery store at 2919 Bryan St., part of the stretch of bakeries, markets and shops that once made up Dallas’ Little Italy. When the family moved into the restaurant business, Joe’s wife, Rose, brought her recipes with her, and many of them are still on the menu more than four decades later. It is a red-sauce house in the best sense, with garlic bread, crab claws, veal, steak pizzaiola and pastas served with a salad, the way they have been for generations.
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If you have ever wandered the snack aisle at an Indian grocery store in Plano, Irving or Frisco, you already know the name. Haldiram’s bags of bhujia are about as familiar in Indian households as ketchup is in American ones. Now the company behind them is opening its first restaurant in the United States, and it chose Frisco.
Haldiram’s Frisco opens Sunday, October 11, at 7010 Preston Road, Suite 240. It is a full-service, casual restaurant of about 4,400 square feet with seating for 110, plus a retail area stocked with the brand’s packaged sweets and snacks. Dallas-Fort Worth is the starting point for the company’s restaurant expansion in the U.S.
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Fort Worth finally has its Michelin star, and it went to a barbecue joint on Dick Price Road. Anyone who has stood in that line on a Saturday morning will tell you it was only a matter of time.
The 2026 Michelin Guide Texas arrived this morning with no ceremony and no red carpet, just a list posted online. North Texas came away with a modest but meaningful update. Here is what actually happened, straight from Michelin’s own selections, and what we make of it.
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On the southeast edge of Fort Worth, near Kennedale, on a stretch of Dick Price Road that most Dallasites could not find without a map, sits a small barbecue joint with a red wall, a few smokers and a line that starts forming well before the doors open. As of this week, it is also the first restaurant in Fort Worth history to earn a Michelin star.
Goldee’s Bar-B-Q had already been a two-time Bib Gourmand. On October 8 the inspectors bumped it up to one star, writing that it is absolutely worth the hours-long wait in the Texas sun.
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Every October the old monsters come out to play, and every October there is an argument to be made that the best Frankenstein picture of them all is the one that was played for laughs. Mel Brooks‘ Young Frankenstein opened in December 1974, and more than half a century later it remains that rarest of things, a parody made with so much love for its source that it ends up standing right beside it.
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Most people do the State Fair of Texas the same way every year. Say hello to Big Tex, ride the Texas Star, find this year’s fried oddity, grab a corny dog, and head home full and sunburned. That is a perfectly good day. But Fair Park is 277 acres of Art Deco buildings, gardens and museums, and a lot of the best of it sits a few steps off the Midway, where the crowds never seem to look. With the Fair running through October 18, here is where to wander.
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New Orleans is close enough to Dallas that you can decide on a Wednesday and be eating oysters by Friday afternoon. Southwest flies nonstop from Love Field in well under two hours, and American and Frontier fly nonstop out of DFW. That makes it one of the easiest long weekends a Texan can take, and one of the best fed.
Here is how we would do it, from where to sleep to where to eat to what to see once you are full. Please note, that in coming weeks we will publish a NOLA restaurant guide that will be less familiar and equally delicious.
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