The case for a staycation is simple: you live twenty minutes from one of the best boutique hotels in Texas, and you’ve never actually stayed there. Hotel ZaZa has been on the Uptown Dallas skyline at 2332 Leonard Street since 2000, pulling in a two-time Michelin Key recognition for 2024 and 2025, and it remains the most personality-forward hotel in the city. The rooms alone justify the trip. Everything else is a bonus.
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by Steven Doyle
A visit to Max’s Wine Dive will often net you a chance to embrace the inner oenophile, but they also have their bad boy side which serves up some interesting, if not bawdy, menu items. There is certainly that late night rendezvous with fried chicken and Dom Perignon by the glass that gives Max’s a bit of the bad boy impression. But this makes perfect sense; bubbles are meant to make you smile.
Max’s has no pretention of staying classy as evidenced by their over-the-top brunch menu, and we set out to tackle a few of the more interesting items. Continue reading
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