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Why the Original Bob’s on Lemmon Avenue Still Feels Like Opening Night

Walk into the original Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue on any night but Sunday, and there’s a good chance the man whose name is on the sign is the one holding the door.

Bob Sambol opened this place in 1993, and after a long detour he’s right back where he started, working the front of the house six nights a week and shaking hands like it’s opening night. In a city that trades in shiny new steakhouses, there’s something wonderful about a founder who simply missed the room and came home to it.

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Stillwell’s Raises Its Own Cattle, and It Shows on the Plate

photos courtesy of Harwood Hospitality

Hallie Crawford was 19 when she took her first teaching job in Presidio, just as Pancho Villa’s raids were reaching into the Big Bend. Her father figured she was off on a wild goose chase. Her reply, “Then I’ll gather my geese,” became the title of the memoir she published in her nineties. According to the Handbook of Texas, she showed up for that first job with her teaching certificate in hand and her father’s gun strapped to her side.

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Cattlemen’s Steak House Has Been Fort Worth’s Chicken Fried Steak Benchmark Since 1947

Jesse Roach had already lived about three careers before he ever sold a steak. He grew up in Mount Pleasant, studied pharmacy in Little Rock and ran a drugstore in Austin. Then he passed the bar, practiced law and went to the Texas House for two terms representing Hunt County. When he landed in Fort Worth in the 1940s, he was selling insurance to truckers.

In 1947 he and his wife, Mozelle, opened a restaurant in the same North Main Street building as the insurance office. They named it Cattlemen’s. Their early newspaper ads pushed “refrigerated air,” Sunday “Dollar Dinners” and calf and lamb fries, which tells you a fair amount about what Fort Worth wanted after the war.

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Knife Italian Steak Closes at the Ritz-Carlton Las Colinas, Leaving Plano as John Tesar’s Last Knife in North Texas

Knife Italian Steak has served its last dinner at The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas. John Tesar’s restaurant at the Irving resort closed on Oct. 6. That ended a run of about two and a half years and left Tesar with a single Knife in North Texas, the one in Plano.

The resort confirmed the closing in a statement. It called the change part of the property’s evolution after its $65 million transformation into a luxury resort, and it thanked Tesar for his partnership. It also said a new signature restaurant is in development for early 2027, created with an acclaimed chef the resort hasn’t named yet.

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Nuri Steakhouse Names Kyungwon Kim Executive Chef, Deepening Its Korean Identity

Nuri Steakhouse has a new chef, and the Uptown restaurant is leaning harder into its Korean roots because of it. Kyungwon Kim, who goes by Ky, has been named executive chef at the Cedar Springs steakhouse, and his first menu is already on the tables.

Kim was born in Korea and comes to Dallas from New York, where he spent three years at Daniel, Daniel Boulud’s flagship on the Upper East Side. He started on the line there and worked his way up to executive sous chef. Before that he was sous chef at Oiji Mi, the Michelin-starred Korean restaurant in the Flatiron District, after years spent cooking in New York’s Korean kitchens.

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Docent Steak Opens in the Harwood District with Certified Kobe and Samurai Art

Dallas has no shortage of steakhouses, and Harwood Hospitality Group knows it. Maybe that’s why it took more than two years to open the newest one. Docent Steak finally opened its doors October 1 in the Harwood District, with two things no other steakhouse in town can match: a certified Kobe beef program and a dining room full of samurai art.

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JW Steakhouse/ Macallan Whiskey Dinner Speptember 24

The interesting bottle at this dinner isn’t the one everybody will talk about on the way out.

JW Steakhouse, inside the JW Marriott in the Arts District, is running a one-night Macallan pairing Thursday, September 24 at 7 p.m. Five courses, the Core Collection at 12, 15 and 18, a pour of the First Light, and a closing dram of the 25. It’s $195 a head with valet, 21 and up, seats limited, reservations through OpenTable. The menu hasn’t been released.

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DFW’s Fall Food Calendar Takes Shape Around the Fair, a Steakhouse Push, and a Revived Sports Bar


The State Fair of Texas has named its 2026 Big Tex Choice Awards winners, and Al Biernat’s has announced plans to plant its flag in Fort Worth. With those two developments landing in the same week, news reprts made clear that Dallas-Fort Worth’s fall food calendar is already dense with places to be and things to eat.

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