by | October 20, 2026 · 11:00 am

How Kevin Carr Built Community Beer Co. Into a Dallas Institution

Long before he was pouring beer for half of North Texas, Kevin Carr was a guy with a day job in software and a homebrew setup that kept getting more serious. He’s a Dallas native who spent about 25 years starting businesses in financial services, internet technology and manufacturing. One of those was a legal software company that had him traveling constantly, and it was on those trips that he fell for craft beer. He homebrewed for more than 15 years before deciding the hobby deserved a building.

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by | October 20, 2026 · 2:36 am

The Role of Food and Hospitality in Poker Traditions

Dinner was built into Harry Truman’s poker afternoons in Key West. Cards usually began around 4 p.m., with dinner served at 7. Sometimes the president and his guests returned to the south porch afterward and played until midnight or later. That schedule captures something familiar about poker gatherings: the meal has its own place in the evening, giving everyone time to leave the cards and talk over food.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 4:55 pm

Trapèze Brings a Bohemian French Brasserie to a Rebuilt Bishop Arts Bungalow

From the sidewalk on West 8th Street, the house at 240 still looks like what it is: a 1940s bungalow on a quiet block in Bishop Arts. Behind the porch, it is something else entirely now. The structure had to be rebuilt from the ground up, and because the lot sits inside a conservation district, the crew had to do it without changing the face the neighborhood has known for decades.

That house is about to become Trapèze, a French bar and restaurant from Peter Novotny and Dan Murry, the partners behind Ruins and Armoury D.E. in Deep Ellum. Their third project lands six miles southwest of the other two, and the reason has as much to do with history as real estate.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 4:38 pm

Musume Returns to Downtown Fort Worth, and Nearly the Whole Crew Is Coming Back

Down in the lower levels of the W.T. Waggoner Building, the 20-story tower that has stood at 810 Houston St. in downtown Fort Worth since 1920, there is an old bank vault. When Musume moved in, the owners lined it with tatami and made it a private dining room. When the restaurant reopens in early November, that vault will still be there, intact, after nearly three years in which very little else down there was.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 11:37 am

As Knox Street Grows Up, Cafe Madrid Stays Right Where It Is

Donica Jimenez fell for Spain in a high school classroom. Her Spanish teacher at Hockaday used to come back from trips abroad with slides, and those pictures brought the country to life for her. “I fell in love with Spain before I ever went there,” Jimenez has said.

She went on to study Spanish and Iberian culture and history at SMU. In 1989 she noticed a lease sign in a window on Travis Street and did something very practical. She measured the drive from her house. It came to 1.8 miles. She wanted to stay close to home, and that was close enough. The following year she opened Cafe Madrid at 4501 Travis St., at the corner of Armstrong, one block south of Knox.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 11:19 am

The Chefs Behind Midcult Society Waited for It, and Now It’s Almost Here

Mike Stites and Evan Pemberton met in 2017 in Stephan Pyles’ kitchen at Flora Street Cafe. Stites had come up from Corpus Christi the year before to go to culinary school and work for Wolfgang Puck. Pemberton grew up in Dallas and already had plenty of miles on his knives. The two became friends, and over time the friendship settled into something closer to mentor and student.

In 2019 they moved to Chicago together to cook at Roister, the Alinea Group’s open-hearth restaurant in Fulton Market. A year later they went their separate ways.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 11:02 am

Mary’s Cafe in Strawn Still Cooks the Chicken Fried Steak People Drive Hours For

Mary’s Cafe sits on Highway 16 on the south side of Strawn, a Palo Pinto County town of about 600 people. Most days the parking lot is full of pickups and motorcycles, and the extra cars park across the road. People drive in from Fort Worth, Abilene and well beyond for one dish, the chicken fried steak.

With Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day coming up on Oct. 26, this is a good week to make the trip.

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by | October 18, 2026 · 2:02 pm

How to Set a Fun-Money Limit for a Big Night Out in Dallas, and Spot a ‘Free’ Perk Worth Taking

When we talk about fun money, we usually think of limits we need to set for digital activities. Common examples include cutting two subscriptions to one, tracking app charges, or setting a fixed monthly amount for online play.

Digital users, especially casino players, often look for ways to stretch value through free perks and low-risk offers. Many check out this no-deposit bonus rundown as a basic strategy because no-deposit promotions offer quick access without upfront spending.

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