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A Bar Guide to Dallas During the World Cup: Where to Drink in Every Neighborhood

Dallas has always been a drinking city. The bars here range from underground mezcalerías hidden behind bridal boutiques to century-old hotel lounges where the bartenders know the difference between a proper Negroni and a lazy one. With the World Cup arriving in June and hundreds of thousands of visitors coming from every country on earth, the question of where to drink becomes suddenly more interesting. Here is the answer, neighborhood by neighborhood. Remember, this is not a directory but rather our suggestions. We can add to this list.

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Asian Mint Has Been Feeding Dallas for 20 Years

Nikky Phinyawatana grew up between two cities and two ways of thinking about food. Bangkok, where she spent her early years, treated Thai cooking as something worth taking seriously — fresh ingredients, careful preparation, proper seasoning, the kind of attention you gave a thing you respected. Dallas, where she attended The Hockaday School as a boarding student and later made her permanent home, had plenty of Thai restaurants but not quite that. The food was there. The spirit of it was somewhere else.

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What Tex-Mex Actually Is — and Where to Find the Real Thing in Dallas

People from other parts of the country come to Texas and order Tex-Mex expecting Mexican food. That confusion is understandable and also wrong, and it matters because once you understand the difference you stop ordering the wrong things and start eating a lot better.

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Si Tapas on Allen Street Is the Most Spanish Thing in Dallas

Most Americans think tapas means appetizers. Small plates. Overpriced bites you order before the real food arrives. That misunderstanding has been doing a lot of damage to a lot of menus for a long time.

In Spain, tapas are not a course. They are a way of spending an evening. You go to a bar, you order a few things, you drink, you talk, you order a few more things. There is no entrée waiting at the end. There is no defined arc from start to finish. The meal is the conversation, and the food is what you eat while the conversation is happening. You might be at the same table for three hours. You might move to a different bar and start over. The food is almost incidental to the rhythm — and yet the food is also the whole point, because the best tapas are made with the same care as anything else in a serious kitchen, just without the ceremony.

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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: North Dallas & Addison

Addison has more restaurants per capita than any city in Texas and consistently ranks among the highest restaurant-dense cities in the entire country. That statistic surprises people who think of it as a suburb on the way to somewhere else. The Belt Line Road corridor alone packs more serious food — steakhouses, Italian, Southern, Japanese, Mediterranean, Pan-Asian — into a walkable strip than most full cities manage. North Dallas runs alongside it with its own deep roster of neighborhood restaurants that have been feeding Preston Hollow, Park Cities, and the Preston Forest corridor for decades. Together they form one of the most underestimated dining destinations in the Metroplex, and during the World Cup they’ll be well positioned to serve visitors staying at the Addison hotel cluster and the North Dallas hotel corridor along the Dallas Tollway.

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Sueño Opens in Snider Plaza on June 10 Alongside New Tequila Lounge, Alma Agave

Sueño Cocteleria Mexicana, the acclaimed elevated Mexican dining concept from founders Julio Pineda and Cristian Lujano, will officially open its second location in Dallas’ Snider Plaza at 6600 Snider Plaza on Wednesday, June 10. Following the success of its Richardson flagship, the new restaurant introduces an inviting, refined space, a live-fire kitchen, and an intimate tequila lounge, Alma Agave, offering a deeply immersive exploration of Mexican cuisine and culture.

The expansion is in partnership with The Bellomy Group, a local family-owned company behind S&D Oyster Company, Rex’s Seafood, and Caché. Together with Pineda and Lujano, the group continues to evolve Sueño as one of North Texas’ most forward-thinking elevated Mexican concepts.

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Richardson’s Chinatown Is the Most Underrated Food Destination in DFW

Nobody talks about Richardson’s Chinatown the way they should. It doesn’t have the density of Houston’s or the fame of San Francisco’s, but what it has is its own story — and that story happens to be one of the more quietly remarkable things that happened to North Texas in the last 40 years.

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Olōyō Just Opened in East Dallas — It’s Been Worth the Wait

Olivia López and Jonathan Percival started Molino Olōyō in August 2021 out of a commercial kitchen in the Design District, delivering heirloom corn tortillas and tamales to people’s doorsteps. No restaurant, no storefront, no fixed address. They built a following the hard way — through pop-ups, private dinners, and collaborations in other people’s kitchens — until the line of people waiting for them became something the city couldn’t ignore.

The James Beard Foundation noticed. Texas Monthly noticed. And the people who had been standing in those lines for four years had been waiting for this moment since the first delivery.

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