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Austin’s MML Hospitality Is Coming to Dallas Six Restaurants Deep

Austin’s MML Hospitality spent years eyeing Dallas. Now it’s here, and it has a list.

The company is run by Larry McGuire, Tom Moorman and hotelier Liz Lambert. McGuire and Moorman opened their first Austin restaurant, Lamberts, in 2006. Today MML runs more than 25 properties in Austin, including the Michelin-recommended Jeffrey’s, plus hotels in New York and New Orleans and restaurants in Houston, Aspen and California.

McGuire has laid out the Dallas plan in order. Neighborhood Sushi comes first, then June’s All Day, then Clark’s Oyster Bar, then three Swedish Hill bakeries. That’s six restaurants in under 18 months, and he has said this could be the group’s last big expansion push.

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Twelve Years In, Micklethwait Craft Meats Finally Has Room to Breathe 

The smoke gets you before the building does. Turn onto Springdale Road in East Austin on a weekend morning and it’s already in the air, oak and rendered fat drifting out over the parking lot before the line even comes into view. That smell has hung over this part of the city since 2012, first out of a trailer parked in a lot on Rosewood Avenue, now out of a building that used to be a church.

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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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The Oasis on Lake Travis: Inside Texas’ Sunset Capital

The Oasis on Lake Travis started as a hamburger stand. In 1982, Houston entrepreneur Beau Theriot bought 500 acres of ranch land perched above the lake with no grander plan than a small burger joint to serve the view. More than four decades later, that idea has grown into what’s billed as the largest outdoor restaurant in the country, a sprawling, Tuscan-inspired village of terraced decks built into a cliff 450 feet above the water, with a capacity to seat as many as 2,500 people across more than 40 separate patios and dining levels.

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There’s an H-E-B in Texas With Five Restaurants and a Full Bar

Somewhere along the way, H-E-B stopped thinking like a grocery store. The clearest evidence sits inside the company’s Mueller location in Austin, where shoppers can finish the weekly run, order duck fat fried chicken from a Top Chef alum, and settle in at a full bar with a Texas whiskey cocktail before heading home.

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Dallas Finally Gets a Seat at the Lone Star Dinner Series; Mamani Is the Reason

The Lone Star Dinner Series has been running for two years. Austin’s Hestia launched it as a way to bring acclaimed Texas kitchens into its live-fire dining room for one-night collaborative dinners — a chef swap concept that sounds simple and is actually quite difficult to execute well. In two years of doing it, the series had never included a Dallas restaurant. That changes on July 21, when Mamani chef Christophe De Lellis takes his kitchen to Austin for an evening that most serious Texas food people have already marked on their calendar.

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Austin’s Best Oyster Bar Is Finally Coming to Dallas: Here’s What to Expect

Dallas has been waiting for Clark’s Oyster Bar longer than it should have had to. The Austin institution opened in 2012, became one of the most copied seafood concepts in Texas, expanded to Aspen, Houston, and Montecito — and somehow Dallas kept getting skipped. That changes this fall.

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Austin Unplugged: Where to Stay, Savor, Sip, and See

There’s something electric in the air in Austin, Texas—part Southern charm, part renegade spirit, and entirely addictive. Whether you’re here for the live music, the smoky brisket, or the river-fed cool of Lady Bird Lake, Austin is a city that welcomes wanderers with open arms and a devil-may-care grin. To help you make the most of your trip, we’ve rounded up the top hotels, restaurants, bars, music venues, and can’t-miss sights that show off the capital city’s one-of-a-kind vibe.

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