The Crossbuck Supper Club turns the classic smokehouse on its head, offering a monthly five-course dining experience that’s as thoughtful as it is indulgent. Each evening is a carefully curated journey through the kitchen’s creativity, where slow-smoked meats and seasonal ingredients are transformed into dishes you won’t see on the regular menu.
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Food festivals can be joyful, strange, reverent, and occasionally a little unhinged—but at their best, they reveal how deeply a single ingredient can shape a community’s identity. Around the world, people gather not just to eat, but to honor the crops, animals, and culinary traditions that have sustained them for centuries. These celebrations transform ordinary ingredients into symbols of pride, creativity, and heritage. From parades held in a guinea pig’s honor to dangerous hill chases after runaway cheese, these festivals show how food can be playful, ceremonial, and even heroic. Each one tells a story of the land, the climate, and the people who have built their culture around what grows—or walks—on it.
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Sushi Kozy has appointed acclaimed chef RJ Yoakum as its new Chef de Cuisine, effective January 3. He will work alongside Chef and Owner Paul Ko, marking an important next step for the intimate Dallas sushi destination.
The appointment reflects Sushi Kozy’s continued focus on seasonality, precision, and a thoughtful, modern interpretation of Japanese dining traditions. The restaurant’s experience is rooted in the principles of kaiseki, Japan’s traditional multi-course cuisine, which emphasizes balance, restraint, and a progression guided by the seasons.
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Located on Botham Jean Boulevard in Dallas’s Cedars/Southside district, Turkey Leg Paradise is a true mo0m & pop that offers a bit more than meets the eye. The building itself is unpretentious, a simple brick facade with a few picnic tables outside, yet inside, the restaurant exudes a quiet confidence: the smell of smoked meat fills the air, and the atmosphere hums with energy without ever feeling forced.
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Haute Sweets Patisserie is the bakery people turn to when they’re feeding more than themselves. Birthdays, showers, office parties, holidays—this is where Dallas hosts go when dessert needs to look good, taste better, and work for a crowd.
What sets Haute Sweets apart is range. This is not a one-note pastry case. You can build an entire dessert spread here, mixing textures, flavors, and styles so there’s something for everyone without it feeling chaotic.
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After years as a Deep Ellum fixture on Elm Street, Brick & Bones has moved just a few blocks over to a new, roomier home at 2651 Commerce Street, #100 in Dallas. The relocation gives the restaurant more breathing room—better seating, a covered patio, and a layout that finally matches how busy this place gets. But the address change doesn’t alter the reason people keep showing up. The chicken is still the point.
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Fajitas didn’t start as a restaurant showpiece. They were borderland thrift food, born from ranch work and backyard grills, built around tough cuts made tender by fire, salt, and time. Somewhere between South Texas and North Texas, they became theater: sizzling platters, billowing steam, the smell announcing itself before the plate ever hits the table. In Dallas, fajitas are less a menu item than a loyalty test. Everyone has a place they swear by, usually learned young, argued loudly, and defended for life.
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The Dallas dining scene is no stranger to reinvention, but every so often a new opening feels like a statement. This week, Tivona Group, the Dallas-based hospitality company behind the acclaimed Indian fine-dining destination Sanjh, steps into a new lane with the arrival of Urban Italia, opening Friday, January 9, in Victory Park. Located at 3030 Nowitzki Way, the restaurant brings Italian-American cooking into sharp, modern focus—equal parts memory, technique, and appetite.
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