The World Cup is here, the heat has arrived for good, and Dallas this weekend has more going on than any single itinerary can hold. Here’s how to spend the next three days — hour by hour, with a mix of options across every price point so the weekend works whether you’re stretching a budget or treating yourself.
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SĒR Steak + Spirits is elevating summer dining with a three-course prix fixe experience available throughout June and July, set 27 floors above Dallas with sweeping skyline views.
The menu begins with a choice of seasonal starters, from the reimagined SĒR Wedge with green goddess and crispy shallots to a bright strawberry avocado salad.
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Rear Window (1954) — Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr. 112 minutes. Rated PG.
Alfred Hitchcock made films that asked you to be uncomfortable with yourself, and Rear Window is the most honest of them all about why. There is no monster in this film, no thunderstorm, no castle on a hill. There is only a window, a courtyard, a man in a wheelchair, and the oldest of human impulses: the need to watch other people without being watched back. By the time the film is over, Hitchcock has made you complicit in that impulse and then made you answer for it. That is the genius.
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Deep Ellum has a proper English pub now, and the timing could not be better. Queens Head Pub opened Tuesday at 2713 Elm Street — the former Green Room space — and it is the second concept from Eric Bradford and Deep Ellum Collective, the group that launched The Terrace event space last September. Bradford has been part of the Deep Ellum fabric for decades, going back to the Bomb Factory era, and Queens Head is his most ambitious project in the neighborhood to date.
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Chef Eliott Azoulay trained at the École Ducasse in Paris, worked at La Fontaine de Mars on the Left Bank, and spent time at Le Petit Nice in Marseille — a three-Michelin-star restaurant overlooking the Mediterranean where the cooking is as serious as anything in France. He relocated to Dallas specifically to open Le Bistrot Bar Sardine for Vandelay Hospitality, a candlelit room with checkerboard tiles and flickering tapers at 6805 Snider Plaza in University Park that opened in December 2024. The menu is exactly what it should be: escargot in butter, oysters, salmon tartare, scallops, croque monsieur, salade niçoise. The food is genuine and unhurried and the room feels correctly like Paris.
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San Juan is the most underrated city in the American travel universe. It is an hour and a half from Miami by air, requires no passport, runs on US dollars, and delivers a food scene that Michelin recognized in 2023 as the only one in the Caribbean worth the guide’s attention. The cobblestone streets of Old San Juan date to the 16th century. The beach at Condado is a ten-minute walk from a tasting menu worth flying across the country for. Thursday nights at La Placita de Santurce are the best outdoor bar experience in the Caribbean. Most Americans still think of it as a cruise ship stop. They are wrong, and the people who have figured that out would like to keep it that way.
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A pupusa is El Salvador’s national dish — a thick handmade corn tortilla stuffed before it hits the griddle, not after. The masa gets pressed around the filling by hand, sealed, and cooked until the outside crisps and the inside turns soft and molten. Most are filled with chicharrón (braised pork, not the crunchy kind), black beans, Salvadoran cheese, or all three at once — that last combination is called the revuelta and it is the one to order first. They come with curtido on the side, a lightly fermented cabbage slaw with vinegar and carrots that cuts through the richness, and a thin tomato salsa. The curtido is not optional. It is part of the dish.
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The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened yesterday in Mexico City and it does not slow down from here. Dallas is one of 11 United States host cities and AT&T Stadium in Arlington is one of the tournament’s anchor venues — nine matches in total, including a semifinal on July 14 that will be one of the most watched sporting events on the planet. The city has been building toward this for three years. The next five weeks are the payoff.
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