Most people driving through The Village on their way somewhere else have no reason to stop at Meridian. That’s their loss. The restaurant at 5605 Village Glen Drive reopened last October under executive chef Eduardo Osorio, and buried in a menu of wood-fired oysters, foie gras cornbread, and dry-aged steaks is one of the better burgers in Dallas — a burger that most of the city hasn’t found yet.
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Leigh Hutchinson opened Via Triozzi on Lower Greenville in August 2023 and it landed immediately — handmade pasta, a Sicilian-American grandmother’s recipes, flour imported from Italy, and a room that felt nothing like the chain Italian that had been filling the gap in Dallas for years. The lasagne al forno became the dish people drove for. The bistecca alla fiorentina gave it range. The all-Italian wine list, built around natural and low-intervention producers, gave it a point of view.
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St. Martin’s Wine Bistro opened in Dallas in 1980. It sat on Greenville Avenue for 46 years. When the lease ran out in 2023, it went dark — no drama, no announcement, just gone. A lot of people who loved that room assumed it was over for good.
It wasn’t. St. Martin’s reopened March 11 at 4223 Bryan Street in Old East Dallas, in what used to be the L&B Antiques building. The piano came with it. So did the chandeliers, the white tablecloths, the dark wood, and the room’s instinct that dinner is an occasion rather than a transaction.
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If you’ve spent any time eating in New York’s East Village, you probably know Mimi Cheng’s. If you haven’t, June 7 is a reasonable introduction.
The dumpling shop at 179 Second Avenue has been one of those quietly essential New York addresses since sisters Hannah and Marian Cheng opened it in 2014. Hannah left a Wall Street career to do it. The idea was simple: their mother Mimi made Taiwanese-style dumplings at home, the sisters couldn’t find anything close to them in the city, so they started making their own. Pasture-raised pork, family-raised chicken, farm vegetables, wrappers spread thin and folded by hand. Whole Foods just named the brand one of its top food trends for 2026. It has that kind of following.
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Lower Greenville is getting two new Mexican concepts this summer, and they’re coming from the same person: Jon Garay, the SMU grad and Mexico City native who co-founded Chilangos Tacos back in 2019 and has been quietly building one of the more recognizable taco brands in Dallas ever since. Chilangos now has six locations across the city, plus Nashville and Las Vegas. This time, Garay is going a different direction — and doing it on his own terms.
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Avra Estiatorio, the acclaimed Greek dining destination celebrated for its pristine seafood and refined Mediterranean cuisine, is pleased to announce the launch of its new lunch experience, now available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Designed to offer guests an elevated yet approachable midday dining option, Avra’s expanded lunch service features a new three-course prix fixe menu for $39.50 alongside the restaurant’s full all-day menu, allowing diners to enjoy everything from light Mediterranean fare to premium seafood and signature specialties.
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Rex’s Seafood closed its Dallas Farmers Market location on Sunday, May 17. The space at 920 S. Harwood St. will go to Dock Local this summer. The lease came up for renewal and the two sides couldn’t agree on terms. That’s how eleven years ends.
The story behind Rex’s is worth knowing. Rex Bellomy Sr. opened the original location on Lovers Lane in 2006 — not a restaurant at first, just a fresh seafood market, one of the few places in Dallas where you could actually buy fish worth cooking. Customers kept asking for prepared food, so the restaurant side grew alongside the market. Beau Bellomy, Rex’s son, had been working there since he was a teenager, learning the business from the floor up.
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There’s a version of Las Colinas dining that’s been running on autopilot for years — safe menus, familiar formats, nothing that asks much of you. InSo is not that. The restaurant opened at 3165 Regent Blvd. in Irving in February, took over the old Sickies Garage space, and has been doing something genuinely different ever since. Now it’s launching weekend brunch, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Worth knowing about.
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