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by | June 1, 2026 · 3:48 pm

FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Oak Lawn & Cedar Springs

Cedar Springs Road in Oak Lawn is Dallas’s LGBTQ+ district, and it has been since the 1970s. The half-mile stretch between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue — known locally as The Strip — packs more bars, restaurants, and community institutions into a walkable corridor than any comparable neighborhood in the American South. It earned official state recognition as an LGBT neighborhood in 2018, the first in Texas. During the World Cup, when visitors arrive from countries where LGBTQ+ life ranges from restricted to illegal, Cedar Springs is the kind of neighborhood that reminds people what a city can choose to be. Everyone is welcome here. That is not a slogan. It is the operating condition of the place.

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by | June 1, 2026 · 2:42 pm

Meridian Announces June Dinners for “Meridian’s Chef Collective”

Meridian, the modern neighborhood restaurant at The Village Dallas led by Executive Chef Eduardo Osorio, will continue its newly launched Chef Collective dinner series this June with a lineup of one-night-only collaborative dinners featuring Chef Gabe Erales and Chef R.J. Yoakum. Both dinners will bring a different format and point of view, from a lively, come-and-go event with bites, cocktails and live music to an intimate multi-course tasting menu.

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by | June 1, 2026 · 2:22 pm

Private Dining Experience for World Cup

Most people planning to view soccer think of smoky sports bars, greasy food and cheap beer. However, savvy planners for the most elegant way to watch the world’s largest sporting event will instead call III Forks in Addison to utilize one of the restaurant’s two private dining rooms.

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by | June 1, 2026 · 11:24 am

FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Uptown

Uptown Dallas is the neighborhood that runs north from downtown along McKinney Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, and it is the most densely restaurant-packed corridor in the city. The McKinney Avenue Trolley runs free through the middle of it. Most of the major World Cup hotels sit on its southern edge. For visitors who want to stay in one neighborhood and eat well for three days without repeating themselves, Uptown is the answer. It has everything from a Gulf Coast seafood institution that opened the year Gerald Ford was president to a Michelin-starred French bistro that earned its star 48 days after opening. Both are worth your time.

Be mindful that lunch spots may also be great for dinner as well.

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by | May 31, 2026 · 5:39 pm

FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Knox-Henderson

Knox-Henderson runs roughly from the Katy Trail east along Knox Street and down Henderson Avenue, and on a good evening it is one of the most concentrated stretches of good food and drink in Texas. The neighborhood sits three miles north of downtown, bordered by Highland Park to the west and Uptown to the south, and for World Cup visitors it offers something the other Dallas neighborhoods don’t: the full range from a dive bar that’s been there since 1987 to a Michelin-recognized steakhouse, all within comfortable walking distance of each other. Park once. Stay all night.

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by | May 29, 2026 · 3:25 pm

Off the Bone Came Before All of Them

Dwight Harvey spent 38 years in finance at PepsiCo. When he retired, he started barbecuing in his backyard. Rose, his wife, thought it was a fine hobby. Then it became something else.

In 2008 Dwight and Rose opened Off the Bone Barbeque in The Cedars, in an old service station at what is now 1734 Botham Jean Boulevard. Their son Steven came in alongside Dwight to run it. They had about 800 square feet for everything — kitchen, counter, the works. They used the old service bays as a patio. They came in and redid the whole thing themselves. It was a challenge, Dwight will tell you. It turned out pretty good.

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by | May 29, 2026 · 2:33 pm

Jo’Seon Wagyu Omakase Is Dallas’s First Korean Wagyu Experience

Danny Shin has been cooking his way toward this restaurant for a long time. He grew up in Korea, launched a Korean-American concept in Toronto in 2018, moved to Texas in 2021, opened a sushi restaurant called Bluefin in 2023, and landed in December at 1628 Oak Lawn Avenue in the Design District with the most personal thing he’s built yet. Jo’Seon Wagyu Omakase is Dallas’s first Korean Wagyu omakase — and six months after opening, with the initial noise behind it, it’s worth a straight look at what it actually is.

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by | May 29, 2026 · 1:26 pm

A Dallas Weekend That Delivers: Where to Eat, Drink, and Be Somewhere

Dallas on a good weekend is one of the better cities in America to be in with no particular agenda. The food is serious, the weather in late May still has a few comfortable hours on either end of the day, and there is always more happening than most people realize. Here is a weekend that actually delivers — restaurants at different price points, a brunch spot worth planning your Saturday morning around, good drinks, and things worth doing while you’re out.

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