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Eddie’s Diner Is the Last Real Diner Left Standing in Plano

Plano has spent the last decade filling in with glass towers and corporate headquarters, and somewhere in the middle of that, a small family-run diner on Parker Road kept doing exactly what it has always done. Eddie’s Diner is not trying to be part of the city’s reinvention. It is the thing that reinvention tends to erase, and the fact that it is still standing at 4709 W Parker Road, packed most mornings with regulars who have been coming since their kids were in diapers, says something about what people actually want on a Saturday morning.

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Ko Thai Brings the Cow to Cowtown, and Fort Worth Was Ready

Fort Worth has never had a shortage of good Thai food, but it has had a shortage of Thai food that looks like it belongs on Magnolia Avenue. Ko Thai closes that gap. It opened last year at 725 W Magnolia Ave, a block down from the neighborhood’s other reliable Thai spot, and it came from owners who already knew what they were doing before they ever signed the lease.

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Introducing Marlowe: Dallas’ New Design-Driven Evening Destination, Opening in September 2026

A new evening spot called Marlowe is set to open in Uptown Dallas this September, taking over a spot at 2912 McKinney Ave. with a build-out that leans hard into Art Deco lines and cinematic lighting rather than the reclaimed-wood look that’s dominated so many Uptown openings over the past decade.

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Campisi’s Moves into Perch’s Former Space as it Expands Delivery Across Dallas

David Campisi is moving his family’s restaurant into a space that already has a chef’s fingerprints all over it, and he’s doing it as a favor to a friend as much as a business decision.

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Lounge Here Turns Chicken Fried Steak Into a Dinner and a Brunch Dish

Lounge Here hides behind an unmarked strip center on Garland Road, the kind of exterior that gives away nothing about what’s happening inside. Walk through the door and the room drops you into a retro cocktail lounge, all plush banquettes, moody lighting and a mural by Rainer Judd, daughter of artist Donald Judd. Owner Julie Doyle, known around Dallas for co-founding Tripping Daisy and The Polyphonic Spree and running Good Records next door, built the place to feel like a different decade entirely. The kitchen backs that ambition up with some of the more serious Southern cooking in East Dallas.

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Both Loro Dallas locations Heat Up Late Summer with Favor & Fly by Jing Collaborations

Loro Asian Smokehouse & Bar is closing out summer with two collaborations running at both Dallas locations through the end of August, one built for heat-seekers and one built for parents who’ve had enough of the back-to-school scramble.

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The Perfect Weekend in Lake Tahoe, North and South

Some lakes ask to be admired. Lake Tahoe asks to be entered. Its water holds a clarity so complete that sunlight travels fifty, sometimes seventy feet down before it surrenders, casting the shallows in a turquoise that belongs more to the Caribbean than the Sierra, and the depths in a blue so dark it reads as bottomless. Granite peaks rise around the entire basin, holding their snow into June, framing the water like something meant to be approached slowly and left reluctantly. There is a stillness that settles over the surface in late afternoon, just before the light turns gold, that no photograph quite manages to hold onto. It has to be stood in.

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Night Rooster, Months In: What’s Working and What Isn’t

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Night Rooster has had several months now to settle into its spot on the ground floor at 1000 N. Riverfront Blvd. in the Design District, on the ground floor below Hooper Hospitality’s Italian steakhouse The Saint. The early buzz has worn off, the reviews have rolled in, and the picture that’s emerged is a restaurant that’s very good at some things and still finding its footing on others.

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