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by | September 15, 2026 · 4:23 pm

Tim Love’s 20th Restaurant Is His Most Ambitious. It’s Also Full of Hummus

Tim Love has opened 20 restaurants across Fort Worth. Steakhouses, barbecue, Mexican, Italian, burgers, a music hall, a hotel. At some point you run out of cuisines to tackle, and Love apparently landed on that point sometime last year. His answer was hummus.

Meraki opened March 17 at 1615 Rogers Road in the TCU corridor, a few blocks west of Woodshed Smokehouse, inside the space that used to house Courtside Kitchen at the Courtside Pickleball complex. Love says he looked around the near west side of Fort Worth and realized there wasn’t a real dedicated Mediterranean restaurant in the neighborhood. So he built one.

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by | September 15, 2026 · 11:52 am

Beef Lounge Is Back at Goldee’s Wednesday — And It Might Be the Last Pop-Up

We wrote about Jonny Butch back in May, before most people in Dallas-Fort Worth had heard his name. If you missed it, here’s the short version: Butch works the pits at Goldee’s Barbecue in Fort Worth, the place Texas Monthly has ranked number one in the state and that Food & Wine put among the best new chef programs in America in 2024. Before that, he cooked at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York and staged at Noma in Copenhagen. His resume reads like two careers stitched together — fine dining at the highest level, then a deliberate turn toward the oldest, most honest version of Texas barbecue he could find.

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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 2, 2026 · 4:00 pm

Build Your Own Chicken and Waffle Plate at Johnny’s, DFW’s Two Locations

Crystal Smith grew up on Georgia’s favorite brunch dish, and by 2020 she’d decided it deserved a restaurant built entirely around it. She opened the first Johnny’s Chicken and Waffles in College Park, outside Atlanta, with then-husband Ne-Yo and Love & Hip Hop’s Karlie Redd backing the idea. Six years and a handful of states later, the plates are still enormous and the waffles are still stacked with more toppings than seems reasonable. Johnny’s now has two DFW locations: Dallas, open since May 2024, and Fort Worth, open since July 2025, and both are worth the drive on an empty stomach.

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by | September 2, 2026 · 1:43 pm

The Definitive Fall 2026 Guide to Concerts, Theater, Opera, and Statewide Festivals

Fall in Texas is the season that actually earns its own calendar. The heat finally breaks, the State Fair takes over Fair Park, and every stage in the state, from a Fort Worth opera house to a Renaissance fair two hours from anywhere, gets busy at once. Here’s everything worth building a weekend around between now and the end of the year, from Broadway tours and opera openings in Dallas-Fort Worth to the festivals worth a road trip anywhere in Texas.

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by | September 1, 2026 · 12:42 pm

Top of the Morning Wants You to Stop Watching the Clock at Brunch

Nick Roditis grew up in Chicago’s Greek restaurant community, the kind of upbringing where a family business is basically a second home. He moved to Dallas-Fort Worth in 2015 to open Yolk’s first Texas location, and spent years afterward helping the brand spread across the metroplex before deciding it was time to build something entirely his own. That restaurant is Top of the Morning Brunch House, and it just opened in Fort Worth’s Artisan Circle, in the space that spent a decade as Mash’D before closing last year.

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by | August 25, 2026 · 1:35 pm

After Almost Thirty Years, Al Biernat’s Is Crossing Into Fort Worth

Al Biernat’s is finally doing something it hasn’t done in almost thirty years: crossing over into Fort Worth. The Dallas steakhouse just signed a lease on a building at 913 Houston St., across from the Flat Iron Building and directly opposite where the city’s new Convention Center ballroom is going up. It’ll be the restaurant’s third location, and its first outside Dallas proper.

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by | August 24, 2026 · 11:36 pm

Six DFW Spots Built Around a Great Appetizer and a Great Cocktail

There is a certain type of night that beats dinner every time, and it doesn’t involve an entree at all. It’s the night where you and a friend claim two stools at the bar, order something small and shareable, and let a good cocktail do the rest of the talking. Nobody’s watching the clock. Nobody’s splitting a check three ways over who ordered the extra side. You just eat with your hands, sip something someone actually thought about, and let the evening go wherever it wants to go.

Dallas-Fort Worth has gotten very good at this kind of night lately. Between new openings and old standbys sharpening their bar programs, there’s no shortage of places built for exactly this pace. Here are six worth building a whole evening around, appetizer and cocktail already paired so you don’t have to think too hard about it.

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