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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Downtown Dallas

Most World Cup visitors staying in Dallas will be staying downtown. The hotels are here — the Omni, the Thompson, the Sheraton, the Adolphus, the Westin — and so is the AT&T Discovery District, the pedestrian zone along Commerce and Main Streets that has become the city’s most active public gathering space. Downtown Dallas is not what it was ten years ago. The restaurant density has grown considerably, the quality has followed, and for visitors without a car it’s entirely possible to eat well for an entire week without leaving the neighborhood on foot.

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The Crow Museum Is Throwing a Japanese Beer Garden Party the Night Before Japan vs. Netherlands

The night before Japan faces the Netherlands in Dallas, the Crow Museum of Asian Art is turning the Trammell Crow Center Plaza into a Japanese beer garden. The event is called From Dallas to the World: A Toast to a Summer of Soccer, it runs Saturday, June 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., and it’s 21-and-up. The timing is deliberate — Dallas is about to host tens of thousands of international visitors, and this is the kind of evening that gives them somewhere genuinely worth going.

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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Bishop Arts District

The FIFA World Cup comes to North Texas on June 12, with matches running through July at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from dozens of countries will be in Dallas for days at a time, and most of them will be hungry. CraveDFW is building the most comprehensive neighborhood-by-neighborhood dining guide for World Cup visitors and locals alike — covering Bishop Arts, Deep Ellum, Uptown, the Design District, Downtown Dallas, Addison, and the stadium corridor in Arlington.

Whether you’re looking for a pre-match lunch, a long dinner after the final whistle, or a late-night spot that stays open when everything else closes, this is where you start.

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The World Is Coming to Dallas This Summer — Here’s Where to Feed It

Dallas is hosting more FIFA World Cup matches than any other city in the tournament — nine games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington starting June 14, including a semifinal on July 14. That means fans from Argentina, England, Japan, the Netherlands, Croatia, Jordan, Austria, and Sweden are all coming here, many of them for the first time. They are going to eat. The question is where you point them, and more importantly, where you go yourself when you want to eat in the spirit of what is happening.

Here is what to eat for each nation playing in Dallas this summer — and where to find it.

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