SĒR Steak + Spirits is elevating summer dining with a three-course prix fixe experience available throughout June and July, set 27 floors above Dallas with sweeping skyline views.
The menu begins with a choice of seasonal starters, from the reimagined SĒR Wedge with green goddess and crispy shallots to a bright strawberry avocado salad.
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The FIFA World Cup 2026 opened yesterday in Mexico City and it does not slow down from here. Dallas is one of 11 United States host cities and AT&T Stadium in Arlington is one of the tournament’s anchor venues — nine matches in total, including a semifinal on July 14 that will be one of the most watched sporting events on the planet. The city has been building toward this for three years. The next five weeks are the payoff.
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The address is 2701 Main Street in Deep Ellum. The name on the door is Revolver Taco Lounge. Walk past the taco counter, past the dining room, through the kitchen, and into the back room, and you will find a different restaurant entirely — one of the finest in Texas, run by a chef who has been a James Beard finalist, operating inside a taqueria because that is how Regino Rojas has always chosen to do things: on his own terms, in his own space, without asking anyone’s permission or seeking anyone’s approval.
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For most of its history, Texas has been an oyster-eating state that couldn’t grow its own. The Gulf of Mexico runs along 367 miles of Texas coastline, and for decades the wild oyster beds out there fed the rest of the country — enormous, creamy, deeply flavored bivalves that bore no resemblance to the delicate East Coast varieties sitting on ice at the better raw bars in Dallas. But farming them? That was illegal. Texas was, until 2019, the last coastal state in the country that hadn’t legalized cultivated oyster mariculture. Every state on the Atlantic, every state on the Pacific, even Louisiana and Mississippi and Florida — all permitted. Texas: no.
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Plano has spent the last decade building a dining scene that surprises people who haven’t been lately. The Legacy West and Legacy Park corridors have drawn serious national and regional concepts. Downtown Plano has its own thing happening around the historic square. And the restaurants that predate all of it — the diners, the neighborhood spots — are still there, still packed, still worth knowing about. This guide covers the full range.
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When Joseph Palladino co-founded Nick & Sam’s in 1999, he helped establish the template for what a Dallas steakhouse could be — loud, celebratory, thick with regulars, the kind of room that feeds off its own energy. He eventually moved on from that partnership, spent years building other concepts including the Coal Vines pizza chain, and then did something unexpected: he went to New York and opened a steakhouse at Grand Central Terminal. Palladino’s Steak & Seafood launched in September at the historic Grand Central space that last housed Michael Jordan’s restaurant, and it became one of the year’s most talked-about New York openings almost immediately. Now it’s coming home.
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Italy has been exporting two things to the rest of the world with particular success for the last several centuries: its cuisine and the conviction that the way Italians eat is worth understanding. Oscar Farinetti built an entire retail concept around that second point when he opened the first Eataly in Turin in 2007 — a marketplace where the food and the knowledge of the food exist in the same room, where the person buying the flour can watch someone make the pasta and sit down to eat it within thirty feet. The idea spread. There are now more than fifty locations worldwide.
Dallas got one on December 9, 2020, and it occupies 48,000 square feet inside NorthPark Center between Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, which is either a deeply ironic location or a perfectly appropriate one, depending on how you feel about Italy’s relationship with luxury.
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The Campisi family has been feeding Dallas since Carlo and Antonia arrived from Sicily and tossed the city’s first pizza dough at a bar called the Idle Hour on the corner of Knox and McKinney in 1946. They moved to Mockingbird Lane four years later, took over a space that had been the Egyptian Lounge, and couldn’t afford to replace the neon sign — so they just removed the word “Lounge” and added “Restaurant.” That sign has been glowing on Mockingbird ever since, and the restaurant behind it has outlasted everything around it for nearly 80 years.
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