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by | October 7, 2026 · 3:07 pm

Black Tap Brings Its Big Burgers and Bigger Shakes to Victory Park

Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer started in 2015 as a 15-seat burger joint on Broome Street in SoHo and got famous fast for milkshakes that look like a birthday party fell into a glass. Owners Chris Barish and Julie Mulligan have since taken it from Las Vegas to Singapore, Dubai and London. In August 2023 it landed in Texas for the first time, in Victory Park across from the W Hotel and a short walk from the American Airlines Center. Barish knows the area. One of his first concepts was Martini Park, which he opened in Plano in 2006.

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by | September 24, 2026 · 2:53 pm

Shady’s Burgers Turns 10 in Lake Highlands, and the Party Runs Through Sunday

Shady’s Burgers & Brewhaha started with five neighbors, a backyard fire pit and a few beers.

That was 2012, in the Canyon Creek neighborhood of Richardson. Greg Cooney, Don Bouvier, Anthony Bolner, Dave Swiney and Steve Gumbert were sitting around Bolner’s fire pit talking about what the neighborhood was missing. What they landed on was a place with good burgers, cold beer and a patio where families could hang out on a weeknight. None of them had ever run a restaurant.

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by | September 18, 2026 · 10:21 am

Five Dallas Burgers for National Cheeseburger Day, From Two Dollars to Twenty-Nine

Today is National Cheeseburger Day, which is a real, official, calendar-sanctioned holiday, and also an excuse nobody needs twice. Dallas doesn’t have one burger. It has about forty of them, spread across every zip code and every price point, from a couple of bucks at a drive-in that hasn’t changed since Eisenhower to something you’d genuinely think twice about ordering unless someone else is paying. Here are five, cheapest to most ridiculous.

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by | September 10, 2026 · 2:35 pm

Rodeo Goat’s “Big Tex” Burger Returns October 4 for State Fair

Look at what’s on this thing before you decide whether you’re the kind of person who orders it.

A beef patty, ground in house. A chicken fried mashed potato cake sitting on top of it, which is exactly what it sounds like and better than it has any right to be. Bacon. A fried onion ring, whole, riding the middle. And chorizo gravy over all of it, running down into whatever it can find.

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by | September 1, 2026 · 3:01 pm

The Best-Selling Dish at This French Bistro Isn’t French at All

Ask ten people what they ordered at Bar Sardine last week and at least four of them will say a burger, in a French bistro built around escargot and steak Diane. Nobody planned it that way. That’s just what happened once people started eating there.

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by | August 31, 2026 · 12:35 pm

The Smashburger Spot in Plano That’s Secretly a Story About a 1940s Band

Bonnie Shea spent years just trying to make sure her mother’s story didn’t disappear. Patty Lou Peters fronted an all-female western swing band called Patty Lou and the Texas Sweethearts back in the 1940s and 50s, back when female touring groups almost never existed. They piled into a convertible and drove routes stretching from Chicago to California, playing gigs along the way. Shea wanted people to know who her mother was. So she built her a restaurant.

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by | August 10, 2026 · 4:48 pm

Four Locations, One Format: The Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers Story

Bill and Lynn Gross opened their first hamburger stand in a converted fire station on Central Expressway in the early 1980s. That detail tends to get mentioned in passing whenever Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers comes up, which is a shame, because it explains a lot about why the place still looks and feels the way it does more than forty years later: built for a crowd, built to move fast, built with the sort of bones that outlast whatever’s trendy that decade.

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by | August 5, 2026 · 5:15 pm

Ye Olde Butcher Shop: Fifty Years of Fresh-Ground, Wild-Game Burgers

Ye Olde Butcher Shop sits in a Plano strip mall next to a church, and nothing about the storefront prepares you for what’s actually happening inside. The shop has been running since 1974, with the current owner taking over in the 1980s, part butcher counter, part game processor, part burger joint that regulars swear is doing the best burger in Collin County. Step through the door and you’re surrounded by red and white gingham tablecloths, antique butchery equipment, and mounted longhorn and buffalo heads watching over the dining room, the kind of unapologetic small-town Texas atmosphere that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the metro.

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