Maman opens its third Dallas-area location Friday, August 7, at Legacy East in Plano, marking another step in the French-inspired café’s steady expansion across North Texas since it first landed in Park Cities. The new spot joins that original location and the Lakewood café that opened in Hillside Village this spring, giving the brand a real foothold across three very different corners of the metro in under a year and a half.
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Rodeo Goat’s in-house “Battle of the Burger” competition heats up in August with the return of the popular “Hatch Me if You Can” burger battling the spicy “Radio G.O.A.T.” through August 26.
White cheddar Hatch chile queso, tortilla strips, roasted Hatch green chiles, bronzed onions and avocado ranch on a brioche bun makes the Hatch Me If You Can an all-time favorite ($12.99). The over-the-top Radio G.O.A.T. features a beef patty, double pepper jack, roasted green chiles, prickly pear BBQ sauce, cactus fries and micro cilantro ($13.99).
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Vickery Cafe has been a Fort Worth breakfast fixture for two decades, and this year it made its first real move, relocating from its longtime spot on Vickery Boulevard to 2421 W 7th Street, Suite 109, in the West 7th district. Chef and owner Curtis James still runs the kitchen the same way he always has: old-school diner bones with a Texas-Cajun streak running through nearly everything on the menu. It’s open daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., no separate weekday-versus-weekend split, which means brunch here isn’t a special occasion. It’s just what the place does every single day.
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Central Market’s Hatch Chile Festival kicks off August 5 this year, and if you’ve never planned a grocery run around a pepper before, this is the week to start.
The chain’s 31st annual celebration runs at every Central Market location in Texas, including the two DFW stores at 5750 East Lovers Lane in Dallas and 4651 West Freeway in Fort Worth. The premise hasn’t changed in three decades. Hatch chiles only grow in the Hatch Valley of southern New Mexico, a stretch of the Rio Grande where blazing days and cold nights push the peppers toward a flavor nobody has managed to replicate anywhere else. Green chile peaks in August. By September the pods start turning red and sweeter. The whole window closes with the first frost, usually by early October.
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DFW Restaurant Week has been running long enough to outlast most of the restaurants that participated in its first year, and this August it hits a real milestone: 30 years, making it the second-longest-running restaurant week campaign in the country. The main event runs August 10 through September 7, with a Preview Weekend August 6 through 9 for anyone who doesn’t want to wait for the official kickoff. Reservation Day landed July 16, which means the full list of participating restaurants, expected to run past 160 across Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, and Denton counties, is already public and booking is open now through DFWRestaurantWeek.com.
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The building at 9812 Camp Bowie West Blvd. has already played a restaurant on television. It was the Patch Cafe on Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman,” the Paramount+ series with Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, and Demi Moore, filmed on location in the Westland Shopping Center before the crew packed up and left the storefront empty again. Now it’s becoming an actual restaurant, and the family behind it already runs one of the most recognized names in Fort Worth hospitality.
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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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Three days after Chris Jordan and his partners signed the lease on their new steakhouse, a Dodge Challenger ran off White Settlement Road and drove straight through the storefront. The explosion made the local news. A few months later, once repairs were mostly finished, a second Dodge Challenger, nearly identical to the first, did it again.
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