Todd and Misty David started Cattleack Barbeque in 2010 as something to do in retirement. That plan did not survive contact with the public. Word got out, lines formed, and what was supposed to be a quiet hobby turned into one of the most decorated barbecue operations in North Texas. In 2023, Todd sold the business to Andrew Castelan, a 34-year-old former accountant who had been working there long enough to know what he was getting into. The name is a pun on Cadillac.
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Parlor Doughnuts is coming to Henderson Avenue, and if you’ve been watching the construction at 2802 N. Henderson — the small standalone building that used to be a clothing store — that’s what’s going in. No confirmed open date yet, but the brand is on the official website, the address is live, and franchisee Ben Burkett has been talking about it since early 2026. “You have all these great restaurants and nightlife but no place for people in the neighborhood to bring their kids and grab a doughnut and coffee,” he said when the deal was announced. He’s not wrong about the gap.
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Lockhart, Texas has been arguing about who makes the best barbecue in the state since before most of Dallas’s restaurants existed. The town earned the designation “Barbecue Capital of Texas” from the state legislature, and the Black family has been part of that argument for generations. Terry Black learned the craft there, passed it down, and in 2014 his sons Mark and Mike opened the first Terry Black’s Barbecue in Austin — reportedly not without a cease-and-desist letter and a family name dispute along the way, the kind of origin story that only makes sense in Texas barbecue. Five years later, in 2019, the brothers brought the operation to Dallas, into a 10,000-square-foot space in Deep Ellum, and it’s been one of the most consistently busy barbecue rooms in the city ever since.
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The Itoyama family has been making shabu shabu in Osaka for five generations. That is approximately 140 years of one family doing one thing, refining the same dipping sauces, sourcing the same quality of meat, and understanding something that most restaurants never figure out: that the cook at the table should be the guest, not the chef. When the family brought that tradition to DFW — first to Richardson in 2014, then to Plano in 2018 — they introduced a style of dining that most of this city had never encountered. A decade later, Yoshi Shabu Shabu is the standard by which every hot pot experience in North Texas gets measured.
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In 1908, cotton magnate Sheppard W. King and his wife Bertha Wilcox went to Europe and came home with a vision. They wanted a house unlike anything in Dallas — something palatial, something European, something that would stop people cold. They traveled with their architect, collecting antique pieces and authentic fixtures from across the continent. When they built on Turtle Creek Boulevard, they built accordingly.
The result was a Mission Revival manor that became the social epicenter of Dallas almost immediately. President Franklin Roosevelt dined there. Tennessee Williams visited. The house was, as they say in that world, important.
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At some point in the last hundred years, someone decided that two enchiladas, a crispy taco, a scoop of rice, and a ladle of refried beans constituted a complete meal, put it on a plate, and charged you a fixed price for the whole thing. Half the country has been ordering that plate ever since without once asking where it came from. The answer is Texas, and the story is more interesting than the plate.
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Winsome Prime landed at 331 Singleton Boulevard in spring 2025 and immediately became the best reason to cross the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge on a weekend. The Black-owned Houston import opened at 331 Singleton Boulevard in spring 2025, and the brunch it runs Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 4pm is the most interesting weekend meal on that side of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
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The shopping plaza on South Greenville Avenue in Richardson doesn’t look like much from the street. You’re looking for unit 210, past Sara’s Market, past BigDash Ice Cream, through a corridor of Middle Eastern businesses that the rest of Dallas mostly doesn’t know is there. Then you walk into Yemandi, and the smell of incense and slow-cooked lamb hits you, and you realize you’ve been missing something.
Yemandi opened in April 2025 as what it calls the first authentic Yemeni restaurant in DFW. A month later, a TikTok video racked up nearly six million views, and the dining room filled up with people who’d never eaten Yemeni food before and left converted. The restaurant is now the top-rated Yemeni spot on Yelp in the entire metroplex. None of that has made it feel like a scene. It still feels like someone’s home.
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