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by | October 28, 2026 · 12:11 pm

The Best Gas Station Restaurant in America Is Rolling Sushi Outside Ennis

Some of the most talked-about sushi in North Texas is coming out of a gas station on a farm road south of Ennis.

Bristol General Store, at 5710 FM 660 in the tiny community of Bristol, was just named the No. 1 gas station restaurant in America by the car rental company SIXT. It topped a national list of 20. The ranking weighed TikTok views for 70 percent of each score and Google ratings for the rest. Bristol came out on top with a 4.7 rating and more than 380,000 views, edging out Billeaud’s Meat & Grocery in Broussard, Louisiana.

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by | October 22, 2026 · 6:36 pm

Uchiko Plano Starts Lunch, a First for Uchi in North Texas

For as long as Uchi has been in North Texas, getting in has meant a dinner reservation. That changes next month in Plano.

Uchiko Plano starts serving lunch on Friday, Nov. 6. It’s the first time any of Hai Hospitality’s Uchi restaurants in Dallas-Fort Worth, including Uchi and Uchibā Dallas, has opened its doors at midday. Lunch will run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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by | October 19, 2026 · 4:38 pm

Musume Returns to Downtown Fort Worth, and Nearly the Whole Crew Is Coming Back

Down in the lower levels of the W.T. Waggoner Building, the 20-story tower that has stood at 810 Houston St. in downtown Fort Worth since 1920, there is an old bank vault. When Musume moved in, the owners lined it with tatami and made it a private dining room. When the restaurant reopens in early November, that vault will still be there, intact, after nearly three years in which very little else down there was.

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by | October 16, 2026 · 10:39 am

The Uchi Veteran and the French Laundry Chef Behind Sushi Kozy

photos by Joey Stewart

Paul Ko was the head sushi chef at Uchi when he decided to leave. He’d been there since 2017, seven years in all, and he gave up that job to open a place with his name on it.

It took a while. Sushi Kozy ran into construction delays at 2000 Ross Ave. in the Arts District, and when it finally opened in the summer of 2025, there wasn’t much of an announcement. Four months later the Michelin Guide put it on the Texas list as a Recommended restaurant, which is a fast way to let people know you’re open.

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by | July 27, 2026 · 3:25 pm

Uchiko Plano’s DFW Restaurant Week Menu is an Eight-Course Deal Worth Booking Early

Uchiko Plano is running an eight-course prix fixe for DFW Restaurant Week, August 10 through September 7, and at $99 a person it’s one of the stronger values on this year’s list given what’s actually on the menu. Uchiko is chef Tyson Cole’s fire-and-smoke offshoot of Uchi, the James Beard-winning sushi restaurant that’s been anchoring Austin’s dining scene since 2003, and the Plano location at Legacy West has built its own following since opening in 2024 without losing the technique that made the original worth the drive.

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by | July 9, 2026 · 3:55 pm

Sushi Bar Speakeasy Hiding inside a Kosher Steakhouse

There is no sign outside Shi-Ya. You walk into Meat Point, the kosher steakhouse that has held down its stretch of Campbell Road since 2014, take an immediate right, and suddenly you are somewhere else. Sage green club chairs. Gold-rimmed tables. A small marble bar pouring Japanese whisky and sake. The unmarked entrance is no accident, and neither is anything else about the room.

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by | June 10, 2026 · 4:20 pm

Sushi By Scratch at The Adolphus: Dallas’s Best Kept Secret Is on the 8th Floor

The Adolphus Hotel opened in 1912 and has been one of the defining addresses in downtown Dallas ever since — 114 years of history on Commerce Street, a Beaux-Arts façade with French Renaissance and Baroque detailing that still looks like nothing else in the city, and a dining legacy anchored by the French Room Bar, a sudden second place to the still closed formal French Room.

What most people don’t know is that there is now a second reason to go to the Adolphus for dinner, and it involves taking the elevator to the eighth floor, walking down a quiet hallway, and ringing a small brass doorbell next to a discreet plaque that reads “please ring bell for service.”

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by | June 8, 2026 · 3:02 pm

Chef Roger Man Is Back at Sushi at The Mercury

The Mercury opened on Preston Road in 1998 and has been one of the most quietly consistent fine dining rooms in Dallas ever since. Chef Chris Ward — James Beard Rising Star Chef, CraveDFW’s Best Chef in Dallas, the first American Executive Chef at the Fairmont Hotel’s prestigious dining rooms — opened it, built a neighborhood following out of it, and has run it for nearly three decades without chasing trends or apologizing for what it is. “If I weren’t here, you wouldn’t know the difference,” Ward once said. His staff runs like a well-oiled machine. He just wants his customers to be happy.

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