Meridian has been on a quiet roll since reopening at The Village Dallas last fall under executive chef Eduardo Osorio, and now the restaurant is doing something genuinely interesting with the momentum. Starting this month, Meridian is launching the Chef Collective, an ongoing dinner series built around the relationships Osorio has curried in the Dallas dining scene over the past few years. One-night-only events, different collaborators each time, no two dinners the same.
It’s a smart move. Osorio came up through serious kitchens — Catch Hospitality, the 50 Eggs group, Yardbird — and he’s spent enough time in Dallas now to have a real network. This series is the payoff on that. Not a marketing exercise dressed up as a dinner. The chefs on this list are people he actually cooks with, eats with, respects.
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