Most people driving through The Village on their way somewhere else have no reason to stop at Meridian. That’s their loss. The restaurant at 5605 Village Glen Drive reopened last October under executive chef Eduardo Osorio, and buried in a menu of wood-fired oysters, foie gras cornbread, and dry-aged steaks is one of the better burgers in Dallas — a burger that most of the city hasn’t found yet.
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The address was 4515 Greenville Avenue, but that didn’t help much. The building sat back off the street, down an alley near Yale Boulevard, behind nothing that looked like a restaurant. No sign. No parking lot to speak of. No indication from the street that anything worth finding was back there. Judge Buchmeyer — a federal judge, a man accustomed to having things run efficiently — drove up and down Greenville trying to locate it before finally giving up, parking, and walking until he found the door. When he walked inside, Mickey Mantle was sitting at a table eating a burger.
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Most people who end up at Square Burger in McKinney did not plan to be there. They were walking around the downtown square, realized they were hungry, and pushed open the door of a 1929 building on the corner of Kentucky and Virginia streets. What they found inside surprised them. It still does.
Brandon Horrocks and Craig Brundege opened this place in June 2010 with credentials that had no business ending up in a burger joint. Horrocks graduated at the top of his class from the Culinary Institute of America, did a fellowship at Wolfgang Puck’s Granita in Malibu, cooked in Mexico City, and worked Dallas rooms like Patrizio’s and Café Pacific. Brundege came through serious kitchens in San Francisco and Los Angeles — Providence, one of the best seafood restaurants on the West Coast, was on his résumé. They chose burgers. Specifically, they chose McKinney.
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A Greek immigrant named Prometheus “Jack” Koustabardis opened the first Burger House at 6913 Hillcrest Avenue in 1951. Dallas looked nothing like it does now — Central Expressway had just opened, “I Love Lucy” was the hot new show on television, and a cheeseburger, fries, and a drink cost less than a dollar. Jack cooked his burgers with a seasoning blend he developed himself, put that same seasoning on the fries, and built a neighborhood burger stand that people drove across the city for. He did not change the recipe. He did not need to.
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Jeff Bekavac opened Goodwins in May 2024 in the old Blue Goose space on Greenville. He named it after the cross street. He’s been in Dallas kitchens for years — Neighborhood Services, Cane Rosso — and this is his first real shot at doing it his own way. The room is warm, the bar is brass, the back bar is darker and better for a martini. It fills up fast on weekends and most weeknights aren’t far behind.
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The Cottage sits on Northwest Highway in that stretch near Bachman Lake where the signs have been peeling for decades and nobody minds. It is a dive bar in the real sense of the word. Pool table, live blues a few nights a week, bikes lined up out front, a patio where people actually talk to each other. You do not go for atmosphere curated by a consultant. You go because it is what it is.
What surprises people is the burger.
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Burger Schmurger started as a backyard pop-up. A year later, it’s one of the more legitimate smashburger destinations in East Dallas, and the crew at 718 N. Buckner is throwing a block party to mark the occasion.
The celebration is Wednesday, May 6 from 3:00–8:00 p.m.., with the main action running 5 to 8. Live music from Downtown Doug, a dunk tank with the founders in it, balloon artists, face painters, dirty sodas from Dilly Dally Soda Co., and a raffle with gift cards, merch, and a Blackstone flat top up for grabs.
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In the Dallas‑Fort Worth area, where barbecue and Tex‑Mex reign supreme, there’s a soul‑food café quietly building its own legend — one burger at a time.
At Trucker’s Cafe Soul Food in Dallas, Texas, diners can tackle a 10‑pound burger for $69 or go even bigger with a 20‑pound burger at $139.99. But these enormous burgers are just one part of what makes the café special. Beneath the towers of beef lies a kitchen steeped in classic Southern soul food, with slow‑cooked meats, rich gravies, and tender greens that carry just as much weight on the menu.
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