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by | May 19, 2026 · 9:53 am

The Village Beach Club Marks the Start of Summer 2026 

The Village Dallas announces the Village Beach Club’s Summer 2026 season, featuring an expanded full season of programming that spans music, sports, wellness and major holiday celebrations. Back with a fresh lineup and more ways to experience it than ever before, Village Beach Club is set to be one of Dallas’ most sought-after summer destinations.

Set within The Village’s expansive lifestyle community, Village Beach Club offers a resort-style environment that is unmatched in Dallas. As the only destination in the city combining large-scale pool parties with this level of entertainment programming, it delivers a unique blend of music, hospitality and community-driven experiences.

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by | May 18, 2026 · 2:08 pm

Five Dallas Restaurants That Deserve a Michelin Star and Don’t Have One

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Dallas has two Michelin-starred restaurants right now — Tatsu in Deep Ellum and Mamani in Uptown. Both earned it. But the guide has been in Texas for two years and the inspectors have a lot of ground left to cover. These six restaurants are doing the kind of work that should have them on that list already.

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by | May 18, 2026 · 11:56 am

Monarch Is Turning Five and Throwing a Dinner Worth Showing Up For

Chef Danny Grant

Monarch turns five this month, and the wood-fired Italian restaurant on the 49th floor of The National is marking it with a five-course dinner on Thursday, May 28 at 6 p.m. The evening runs $250 per person for dinner alone, $300 if you want to stay for the after-party upstairs at Kessaku on the 50th floor. The after-party is also available on its own for $125.

The menu was built around the five senses, which sounds like a concept that could go sideways fast but reads like it was thought through. Chef Danny Grant and Monarch’s executive chef Jason Rohan put it together alongside pastry chef Mariella Bueza Tello. The evening opens with passed bites, a seafood display, and charcuterie before moving into the courses proper.

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by | May 18, 2026 · 11:34 am

Punk Noir Opens in the Design District June 2 — 20 Courses, 26 Seats

A new tasting menu restaurant called Punk Noir opens June 2 in Dallas’ Design District at 139 Turtle Creek Blvd. The concept is owned by Dallas natives John McKeel and his sons Cole and Clay, and it’s being run in the kitchen by James Beard Award–winning Chef RJ Cooper, who built his reputation at Rogue 24 in Washington, D.C. and a handful of acclaimed Nashville projects before landing here.

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by | May 18, 2026 · 10:22 am

Crossroads Diner is Better Than Ever

Tom Fleming has been cooking professionally since 1990. He spent decades in fine dining — the kind of kitchens where you don’t leave until midnight and the pressure never really lets up. At some point he decided he wanted to tuck his daughters into bed at night. So, he opened a breakfast place.

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by | May 15, 2026 · 7:00 pm

Salt & Straw Is Open in Dallas Today, and the Timing Could Not Be Better

Salt & Straw opened this morning on Henderson Avenue. If you’ve heard the name and wondered what the fuss was about, today is a good day to find out.

The Portland-based ice cream company set up at 2323 N. Henderson Ave., Suite 107 — right next door to Gemma, open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The phone is (214) 716-2440. You can walk up or order ahead at order.thanx.com/saltandstraw.

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by | May 15, 2026 · 6:29 pm

The Kouign-Amann at Sugar and Sage is the Best Reason to Visit Lovers Lane

There is a pastry that launched a bakery. Not a concept, not a business plan — a single bite of kouign-amann at a New York patisserie that Alison Weinstein and her teenage daughter Ashley shared years ago, looked at each other across the table, and decided that Dallas needed one. That moment is how Sugar and Sage Bakery came to exist at 4314 Lovers Lane in University Park, and the kouign-amann is still the reason to go.

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by | May 15, 2026 · 6:10 pm

Alára Is the Quietest Opening in the Design District This Year

The Design District keeps stacking up new restaurants like it has something to prove, and at this point it basically does. Carbone, Delilah, Ospi, Maroma — the neighborhood has become its own dining destination in a way that would have been hard to predict five years ago. Alára, the new modern Mediterranean from Turkish-born chef Onur Akan, opened quietly into all of that noise about three weeks ago, and it may be the most personal restaurant in the bunch.

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