Khanh Nguyen started Zalat Pizza in Dallas back in 2015, and eleven years later the company is opening its 31st Texas location, this time in McKinney’s Heritage Village at 1720 N. Central Expressway, Suite 210, just south of Highway 380 on U.S. 75. For a brand that’s grown this far this fast, Zalat has held onto the same personality it launched with, which says something about how deliberately Nguyen has grown it.
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Terra, the restaurant inside Eataly Dallas at NorthPark Center, is bringing back its Terra Takeover series, and this round pairs the Italian marketplace’s kitchen with one of Dallas’s most respected pastry programs. From July 25 through August 23, weekends only, Terra will host a limited-time brunch collaboration with Sugar & Sage Bakery, the University Park bakery that’s built a genuine following since opening in 2023.
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The building at 600 S. Harwood St. has been saved from the wrecking ball once already, and that alone makes Bucket & Rope worth knowing the backstory of before ever getting to the food. The structure started life in 1899 as the original Liberty Bank on Cesar Chavez Boulevard, one of downtown Dallas’s oldest surviving commercial buildings. When the city moved to widen the road decades later, the bank was slated for demolition.
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Halfway through 2026, the honest read on Dallas-Fort Worth dining is that it’s been a year of real losses sitting right next to real momentum. Rent, insurance, and food costs have pushed several genuinely loved restaurants out the door, while new openings keep proving the appetite for going out hasn’t slowed down at all. Here’s where things actually stand.
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The whole idea behind a staycation is that you shouldn’t need the car. Headington Companies has spent over a decade proving that’s possible in one specific stretch of downtown Dallas, and this summer the company is pulling its own properties into one loose itinerary, a rooftop pool, a handful of restaurants, a hi-fi bar, a spa, and a 30-foot sculpture, all within a few blocks of each other around The Joule.
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Elvira Leal married Ruben right before he shipped out to fight in World War II, two purple hearts and a bronze star waiting for him on the other side of it. While he was overseas, she was back home learning the restaurant trade from her own parents, who ran a spot called La Rumba in Little Mexico. Her mother cooked at El Fenix. When Ruben came home, the two of them opened Dallas Tortilla & Tamale Factory in 1950, and the same family has been running it ever since.
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National Tequila Day lands on Friday, July 24, and this year North Texas isn’t treating it like a footnote. Restaurants and bars across the metroplex are pouring real flights, not just $3 shots, and the range on display says something about how far tequila has come from the drink people used to apologize for ordering.
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Highland Park Village on a Saturday morning has a rhythm to it, shopping bags swinging, sunglasses staying on indoors, valets moving cars in a slow choreography out front. Right in the middle of that rhythm sits Bistro 31, doing the kind of unhurried brunch that makes the rest of the morning feel like it can wait.
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