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Hudson House Opening 12th Location in Southlake on September 11

Hudson House started as one restaurant in Highland Park. It’s about to open its twelfth, and this time it’s landing in Southlake, a city that says a lot about how far this brand has traveled from its first neighborhood spot.

The new location opens Friday, September 11, at 1131 E. Southlake Blvd., roughly 5,000 square feet of the same East Coast sensibility Hudson House built its name on, just with more room to stretch out. Hudson House comes from Vandelay Companies, the Dallas group founded by Hunter Pond, and Pond isn’t shy about why growth here has been slow and deliberate rather than fast. He picked Southlake for its energy and its appetite for real hospitality, and he’s said the goal was never just adding another location to a map. It was making sure every Hudson House feels like it’s always belonged to its block.

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The Best Patio in Dallas This Weekend Is at Paradiso in Bishop Arts

If you are going to spend a Saturday afternoon in Dallas in July, you want shade, something cold in your hand, food that encourages you to stay, and a room that doesn’t feel like it’s trying too hard. Paradiso in Bishop Arts checks every one of those boxes and then keeps going.

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Two Guys Named Hugo Run the Best Seafood Bar in Bishop Arts, Here’s What to Order

The name makes more sense once you meet them. Chef Hugo Galván runs the kitchen. Hugo Osorio runs the bar. Together they run Hugo’s Seafood Bar at 334 W. Davis Street in Bishop Arts, inside a room with an original stamped tin ceiling, exposed brick, and an octopus painted on the wall. The place seats fewer than 30 people. On a Friday night it feels like twice that, which is not a complaint — it’s the sign of a room that has figured out exactly what it wants to be.

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How to Order Oysters: A Guide to Every Region and What to Expect

The raw bar menu at a serious restaurant can look like a geography exam — names of bays and inlets and small coastal towns printed in two columns with no explanation of what any of them taste like. Most people point at something and hope for the best. There is a better way. Oysters are one of the few foods that taste specifically of where they come from, and once you understand the regional logic, the menu stops being intimidating and starts being a set of options you can actually navigate. Here is how to read it.

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Texas Finally Has Its Own Oyster Farms: Dallas Is Starting to Notice

For most of its history, Texas has been an oyster-eating state that couldn’t grow its own. The Gulf of Mexico runs along 367 miles of Texas coastline, and for decades the wild oyster beds out there fed the rest of the country — enormous, creamy, deeply flavored bivalves that bore no resemblance to the delicate East Coast varieties sitting on ice at the better raw bars in Dallas. But farming them? That was illegal. Texas was, until 2019, the last coastal state in the country that hadn’t legalized cultivated oyster mariculture. Every state on the Atlantic, every state on the Pacific, even Louisiana and Mississippi and Florida — all permitted. Texas: no.

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Austin’s Best Oyster Bar Is Finally Coming to Dallas: Here’s What to Expect

Dallas has been waiting for Clark’s Oyster Bar longer than it should have had to. The Austin institution opened in 2012, became one of the most copied seafood concepts in Texas, expanded to Aspen, Houston, and Montecito — and somehow Dallas kept getting skipped. That changes this fall.

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Shuck & Jive Serving up Fantastic Crawfish

On Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Shuck‑n Jive has become a must-visit for anyone craving bold, Gulf Coast–inspired seafood and crawfish. With two locations — the original on Greenville Avenue in Lower Greenville and Lakewood, and a second on Belt Line Road in Addison — it’s a neighborhood favorite from the moment you step in. The energy is lively but approachable, with generous portions, fresh seafood, and flavors that make it clear this kitchen knows its craft.

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Inside NOLA’s Casamento’s Oyster House

Casamento’s on Magazine Street is one of those rare New Orleans institutions that feels frozen in its own era, stubborn in the best possible way. Opened in 1919 by Joe Casamento, it has weathered a century of storms, booms, busts, parades, and changing tastes, yet the place looks almost exactly like it did when it began. You walk in and immediately step into a narrow, bright space covered head-to-toe in gleaming white-and-green tiles. Walls, floors, counters — everything is tiled. It’s part practical, part personality, and unmistakably Casamento’s.

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