Winsome Prime landed at 331 Singleton Boulevard in spring 2025 and immediately became the best reason to cross the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge on a weekend. The Black-owned Houston import opened at 331 Singleton Boulevard in spring 2025, and the brunch it runs Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 4pm is the most interesting weekend meal on that side of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
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Abraham Salum has been cooking in Dallas for more than twenty years, and the room at Salum Restaurant on Cole Avenue still fills up the way it did when he opened in 2005. That kind of staying power doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because the food is consistently excellent, the menu changes every single month — never repeated in two decades — and the chef himself is the kind of person who makes a dining room feel like somewhere you belong.
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The shopping plaza on South Greenville Avenue in Richardson doesn’t look like much from the street. You’re looking for unit 210, past Sara’s Market, past BigDash Ice Cream, through a corridor of Middle Eastern businesses that the rest of Dallas mostly doesn’t know is there. Then you walk into Yemandi, and the smell of incense and slow-cooked lamb hits you, and you realize you’ve been missing something.
Yemandi opened in April 2025 as what it calls the first authentic Yemeni restaurant in DFW. A month later, a TikTok video racked up nearly six million views, and the dining room filled up with people who’d never eaten Yemeni food before and left converted. The restaurant is now the top-rated Yemeni spot on Yelp in the entire metroplex. None of that has made it feel like a scene. It still feels like someone’s home.
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Sometime in late July, the parking lot at Central Market stops smelling like a parking lot. The roasters fire up — big black drum roasters that tumble the chiles over open flame — and the smoke carries across the lot and into the street and into the cars of people driving past who don’t even know what they’re smelling yet but slow down anyway. That’s how Hatch season announces itself in Dallas. You don’t read about it first. You smell it.
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Halcyon has been doing its thing at 2900 Greenville Avenue long enough that it’s become part of the Greenville Avenue furniture — a coffee bar, full bar, all-day café, and weekend brunch room that somehow covers every hour of the day without losing its identity. It started in Austin in 2002, expanded to San Antonio, and landed on Greenville with the same formula: serious espresso, a full cocktail program, food that goes further than the room suggests, and an atmosphere that works equally well for a solo laptop afternoon or a table of six who’ve been talking about brunch since Thursday.
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Eduardo Osorio came to Dallas for one reason: to take over the kitchen at Meridian. He left Los Angeles, where he had been working his way through serious restaurants — Catch Hospitality, the 50 Eggs group, Yardbird — and moved here in 2024 to rebuild a restaurant that had gone quiet after James Beard-recognized chef Junior Borges departed. The renovation took the better part of a year. The result, which reopened in October 2025, is the best version of Meridian since it opened.
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Lower Greenville has been waiting for a place like Walkers’ for a while, even if nobody said so out loud. Not another bar. Not another taco concept. Something that works at noon with a sandwich and a glass of wine, and then again at eight o’clock when you want to sit down to something serious.
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Robert Quick and Matt Gottlieb have been running Western Addition Restaurant Group since 2018, and their track record in Dallas is hard to argue with. Il Bracco at Preston Center has held the most-booked restaurant ranking on OpenTable month after month. Bobbie’s Airway Grill at Preston-Royal found its footing quickly. Last spring, they took il Bracco to Scottsdale — the group’s first move outside Texas. Now they’re building something new, and it’s coming to Knox Street.
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