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by | October 28, 2026 · 11:31 am

After 31 Years, Longoria’s BBQ in Everman Has Turned Out the Lights

David Longoria announced it the way he ran the place, with no fuss. “HELLO, we are closing BBQ shop,” he posted last Thursday. Friday was the last day.

Longoria’s BBQ, the corrugated-metal joint at 100 Christopher Drive on the Everman edge of south Fort Worth, is closed after 31 years. In his goodbye post, David listed what the shop had earned: a dozen magazine stories, two spots on the most famous Top 50 barbecue list in Texas, and a Travel Channel episode. He wrote that he was “closing the doors and cutting the light one last time.”

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by | October 26, 2026 · 7:35 pm

Glassblowing Classes in Fort Worth: Make Something With Friends, Then Eat on Magnolia

Most weekend plans revolve around eating something somebody else made. This one starts with you making something yourself.

On West Magnolia Avenue, in a building that used to sell gasoline, you can spend half an hour working molten glass with a pro at your elbow, then be sitting down to a good meal a few blocks away before the adrenaline wears off. Bring a friend, or three. It’s the rare group outing where everybody leaves with a story and a souvenir they made with their own hands.

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by | October 26, 2026 · 11:52 am

Wild Game in North Texas: Where to Buy, Where to Eat

Bison and elk used to be once-a-year meat in Dallas, the sort of thing you ordered at a steakhouse with a mounted head on the wall and then forgot about until the next anniversary dinner. These days a home cook can find it on a Tuesday. Between a Far North Dallas butcher counter, a frozen-meat chain that shelves kangaroo a few feet from the chicken thighs, and a Hill Country ranch that ships wild antelope to your porch, North Texas has more game within reach than most people realize.

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by | October 21, 2026 · 1:24 pm

Cattlemen’s Steak House Has Been Fort Worth’s Chicken Fried Steak Benchmark Since 1947

Jesse Roach had already lived about three careers before he ever sold a steak. He grew up in Mount Pleasant, studied pharmacy in Little Rock and ran a drugstore in Austin. Then he passed the bar, practiced law and went to the Texas House for two terms representing Hunt County. When he landed in Fort Worth in the 1940s, he was selling insurance to truckers.

In 1947 he and his wife, Mozelle, opened a restaurant in the same North Main Street building as the insurance office. They named it Cattlemen’s. Their early newspaper ads pushed “refrigerated air,” Sunday “Dollar Dinners” and calf and lamb fries, which tells you a fair amount about what Fort Worth wanted after the war.

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by | October 20, 2026 · 3:31 pm

The DFW Restaurant Bucket List: 16 Places to Eat Before the Year Is Out

Every city has its short list. These are the places locals take visiting relatives to, the reservations people set alarms for, and the lines that are still worth the wait years after the buzz should have faded.

This one covers all of Dallas-Fort Worth and every budget. There’s an omakase counter with only a handful of seats, a fried chicken house where the whole menu fits in one breath, a taqueria where the tacos are still a bargain, and a dining room at the Ritz-Carlton that has been part of the Dallas story for nearly two decades. Several of these places were honored again in the 2026 Michelin Guide Texas earlier this month. A few have never needed anybody’s guide.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 4:38 pm

Musume Returns to Downtown Fort Worth, and Nearly the Whole Crew Is Coming Back

Down in the lower levels of the W.T. Waggoner Building, the 20-story tower that has stood at 810 Houston St. in downtown Fort Worth since 1920, there is an old bank vault. When Musume moved in, the owners lined it with tatami and made it a private dining room. When the restaurant reopens in early November, that vault will still be there, intact, after nearly three years in which very little else down there was.

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by | October 16, 2026 · 10:17 pm

Big Tex’s Last Weekend, a Stevie Ray Sunday and Everything Else Worth Doing in DFW

Somewhere around Sunday afternoon, Big Tex is going to say goodbye for another year, and the whole city will feel it a little. This is the last weekend of the State Fair, the first weekend that actually feels like fall, and one of those rare stretches on the North Texas calendar where every corner of the Metroplex has something worth leaving the house for. Here’s how to spend it, and where to eat and drink along the way.

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by | October 15, 2026 · 12:39 pm

Top of the Morning Brings Brisket Benedict and Peach French Toast to Fort Worth

Nick Roditis grew up in Chicago’s Greek restaurant community, where breakfast counters and family-run dining rooms are part of the city’s identity. That’s where he learned the business.

In 2015, he moved to Dallas-Fort Worth to open Yolk‘s first Texas location. That opening came just before the area’s breakfast boom, and in the years since, chain after chain of all-day brunch spots has followed it into North Texas. Roditis spent years helping one of those brands grow.

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