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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Most regional Mexican cooking that makes it to Dallas comes from places with some name recognition attached. Oaxaca, Jalisco, the Yucatán, places people have at least heard of even if they couldn’t point to them on a map. La Laguna doesn’t have that kind of reputation outside northern Mexico, which is part of why Mi Rinconcito Lagunero, spaced into a strip on Vilbig Road in West Dallas, is worth a drive even if you’ve never heard the word “lagunero” in your life.
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Start on Preston Road in North Dallas and drive north for twenty minutes, and you’ll pass through one of the more unexpected food corridors in the metroplex. It doesn’t advertise itself. There’s no sign, no branded district, no banner year hung on it by a chamber of commerce. It’s just four restaurants, spread between North Dallas and Plano, all cooking from the same general stretch of the map: the old Silk Road, where China, Central Asia, and the Middle East blur together on a plate.
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Punk Noir, the immersive fine dining destination in Dallas’ Design District, is introducing two new ways for guests to experience its boundary-pushing culinary and beverage programs. The punk-inspired restaurant will now offer a 7-course dining experience priced at $135 per person, alongside Off the Cuff, a bespoke cocktail experience available in the Noir Lounge.
Since opening in June, Punk Noir has challenged the conventions of traditional fine dining with its signature 20-course tasting menu, transportive multi-room design and provocative culinary storytelling. Led by James Beard Award-winning Chef RJ Cooper, the restaurant combines disciplined, world-class cuisine with irreverent artistry and an energetic, design-forward atmosphere.
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Jonathon’s Forestwood sits at 5337 Forest Lane in North Dallas, and on a Saturday morning the parking lot fills up long before most people are willing to admit they’re awake. Owner Jonathon Erdeljac, known around Dallas as the Gravy King for good reason, has built a real weekend following here since opening in September 2023, and the thing regulars mention before the food is usually the bar setup: a build-your-own Bloody Mary station, house-made mix, a full spread of garnishes, the kind of thing that turns waiting for a table into part of the plan instead of a nuisance.
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Every serious restaurant city has a handful of names that actually run the place, not just cook in it. San Antonio’s list runs deeper than most people outside Texas realize, chefs who took their own name and put it on the door instead of climbing someone else’s ladder, then kept building long after the first restaurant found its footing. Here are five of them, and what they’ve built.
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Lions Den marks chef Michael White’s first restaurant in Texas, and he picked a location with real weight behind it. White has held five Michelin stars at once across his career and earned multiple three-star reviews from The New York Times, credentials that made his Dallas debut genuine news in a city that doesn’t see a chef of his caliber arrive often. The restaurant opened May 7 inside The Stoneleigh, the Uptown Dallas hotel that first opened in 1923 and just came out of a $20 million renovation under Marriott’s Autograph Collection.
White built his name running Altamarea Group and its flagship Marea in New York before launching his own hospitality company, BBianco, in 2020 with partner Bruce Bronster, opening restaurants since in Coral Gables, the Bahamas, San Juan, and New York. Lions Den is the first time that résumé has touched Texas.
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The Oasis on Lake Travis started as a hamburger stand. In 1982, Houston entrepreneur Beau Theriot bought 500 acres of ranch land perched above the lake with no grander plan than a small burger joint to serve the view. More than four decades later, that idea has grown into what’s billed as the largest outdoor restaurant in the country, a sprawling, Tuscan-inspired village of terraced decks built into a cliff 450 feet above the water, with a capacity to seat as many as 2,500 people across more than 40 separate patios and dining levels.
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