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by | June 23, 2026 · 10:57 am

Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery Has Been on Blackwell Street for Over 50 Years

There is a small building on Blackwell Street, just off Northwest Highway by the Half Price Books, that has been quietly doing things the right way for over fifty years. Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery was founded by a Dutch immigrant named Henk, and his sons and daughter — Hanneke, who has been described by more than one regular as one of the finest servers in Dallas — still run it today. The tagline on the website says “A little bit of Amsterdam in Dallas.” That is not a stretch.

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by | June 22, 2026 · 4:03 pm

The Old Warsaw Has Been on Maple Avenue Since 1948

Ask the right people in Dallas where to go for a genuinely special dinner and eventually someone mentions The Old Warsaw. They say it quietly, the way people mention things they half-want to keep to themselves. It has been at 2512 Maple Avenue in Uptown since 1948 — 77 years, same French Continental menu, same candlelit room, same pianist — and it remains one of the least-known great restaurants in a city that somehow keeps missing it.

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by | June 22, 2026 · 12:37 pm

Seven Dallas Restaurants You Probably Haven’t Heard of and You Should

Dallas food media chases the same story over and over. The new opening. The James Beard nomination. The celebrity chef. The hospitality group with four other restaurants already running. Those stories are worth telling, and we tell them. But the restaurants that actually hold a city together are almost never the ones making noise.

They’re the ones that have been open for ten or fifteen or twenty years, that are owned by a single person or a family, that don’t have a PR firm sending press releases, that don’t show up in the usual roundups — and that are quietly, consistently, night after night, making food that earns the loyalty of the people who have found them.

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by | June 22, 2026 · 10:51 am

Genet Mulugeta Opened Lalibela Because Her Friends Wouldn’t Stop Coming to Dinner

Genet Mulugeta’s friends were the problem. She had moved to Dallas from Lalibela — a city in northern Ethiopia so old that pilgrims have been walking to it for eight hundred years to see the eleven churches carved from a single mountain of stone — and she had opened a grocery store, and somehow people kept ending up at her house for dinner. They kept eating everything. They kept telling her she needed to open a restaurant.

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by | June 19, 2026 · 4:35 pm

Happiest Hour Is Dallas’s Best Argument for Day Drinking Done Right

Most bars that call themselves the largest patio bar in Dallas are overstating the case. Happiest Hour is not. The numbers are what they are: 12,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space spread across four full-service bars, a rooftop deck with a downtown Dallas skyline view that stops people mid-sentence, and a beverage program running more than 50 beers, wines on tap, and enough signature cocktails to fill a Saturday afternoon without repeating yourself. It sits at 2616 Olive Street in the Harwood District, steps from American Airlines Center, and on a Saturday it opens at 11 a.m. — which is the correct time to start if the plan is to make a day of it.

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by | June 19, 2026 · 3:54 pm

Alebrijes Cafe Is the Breakfast Secret Dallas Has Been Keeping to Itself

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An alebrije is a fantastical creature from Oaxacan folk art — part jaguar, part butterfly, part something that exists nowhere in nature, painted in colors that have no business working together and somehow do. The name is a good one for a cafe that looks like nothing else on West Clarendon Drive, because nothing else on West Clarendon Drive looks like it either. Alebrijes Cafe sits at 1323 W. Clarendon Drive in Oak Cliff, a few blocks from the Dallas Zoo, in a room decorated with the colorful folk art the name promises, run by a couple who greet regulars by name and first-timers like they’ve been expected.

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by | June 19, 2026 · 10:19 am

Your Dallas Weekend Guide: June 19-21

This is one of those weekends where Dallas stacks everything on top of itself. Father’s Day, Juneteenth, the World Cup still running, a free block party in the Arts District, and a music calendar that goes from Randy Rogers to Killswitch Engage to the Dallas Symphony in a single Friday night. Pick your lane and go.

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by | June 18, 2026 · 3:15 pm

Zaguán Has Been Feeding Oak Lawn Since 2002

Before Carlos Branger opened a restaurant, he threw dinner parties. He’d moved to Texas from the Andean region of Venezuela, near the Colombian border, and when friends came over he cooked the things he grew up eating — arepas stuffed with shredded beef, cachapas rolled off the griddle, queso blanco, the family recipes he’d carried north like a piece of luggage. The food disappeared before the evening did, and people kept asking where they could get more of it.

Dallas had Tex-Mex on every corner and excellent taquerias in every neighborhood, but the food of Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, and the Caribbean islands was essentially nowhere. On May 9, 2002, Branger opened Zaguán Latin Café and Bakery at 2604 Oak Lawn Avenue, and the dinner party never really stopped.

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