Most bars at Mockingbird Station are built for convenience — you go because it’s there and the evening is already in motion. The People’s Last Stand is a different proposition. The craft cocktail bar at 5319 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 210 opened in 2010 with a single guiding principle — provide Dallas with a place for cocktail enthusiasts who care about what’s actually in the glass — and fifteen years later that principle is still running the operation.
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Delilah Dallas has rolled out a new summer menu this week, and it’s worth knowing about. The Design District supper club at 1616 Hi Line Drive is leaning into the season with peak produce, premium seafood, and a few dishes that should make the reservation easier to justify.
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Dallas has never needed an excuse to argue about burgers. The city has old-school drive-ins that haven’t changed a thing in decades, craft burger spots with rotating monthly specials, and a handful of proper restaurants where the beef program is serious enough to anchor an entire evening. What follows is a working list of the places worth knowing, organized roughly by part of town.
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Most people have never heard of a banya. That’s worth fixing. The Russian Banya of Dallas has been open for nearly two decades in a shopping center on East Rosemeade Parkway in Carrollton, doing something that no other public facility in Texas does — running a traditional wood-fired Russian bathhouse alongside a full kitchen serving the kind of food you don’t find anywhere else in the Metroplex. Andrew Zimmern put it on his top five list when he came through Dallas filming for the Travel Channel. The regulars who fill the place on weekends already knew.
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Most people drive past Gilgamesh Restaurant & Bakery without a second thought. It sits in a shopping center on Terrace Drive in Richardson, the kind of address that doesn’t announce itself. That’s a mistake worth correcting, because what’s happening inside that kitchen is some of the most authentic Iraqi cooking in the Dallas area.
The menu is rooted in Mesopotamian tradition — the kind of food that gets passed down through generations, not invented for a trend. Bread baked fresh daily comes to the table first, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.
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Dee Lincoln Prime in Frisco is hosting a wine dinner with Tusk Estate on Tuesday, June 16, and it’s worth putting on the radar if you have a serious interest in what Napa Valley is producing right now.
The evening starts with a reception at 6:30 p.m., with dinner following at 7. Tusk Estate partner Tim Martin and winemaker Maayan Koschizky will both be there, which makes it a real conversation rather than just bottles on a table.
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Kent Rathbun has been one of the defining names in Dallas dining for the better part of three decades. He opened Abacus in 1999, followed it with Jasper’s in 2003, cooked for Queen Elizabeth and the Bush inaugural ball, beat Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America in 2008, and built a reputation that still carries weight in a city that moves on fast. These days he runs a catering operation and a BBQ venture with his wife Tracy, consults for a growing number of clients, and is in the early stages of a new restaurant project in Burleson that has his fingerprints all over it.
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There’s a formula a lot of neighborhood bars follow: pour the drinks cold, keep the food simple, and don’t try too hard. Hillside Tavern, parked in the Hillside Village shopping center at 6465 E. Mockingbird Lane in East Dallas, mostly ignores that formula. The bar food here is better than it has any obligation to be, and the wine list is legitimately good — not the two token bottles on a chalkboard you’d expect from a sports bar with eight televisions.
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