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by | May 20, 2026 · 10:59 am

St. Martin’s Wine Bistro is Back and Here’s What to Know

St. Martin’s Wine Bistro opened in Dallas in 1980. It sat on Greenville Avenue for 46 years. When the lease ran out in 2023, it went dark — no drama, no announcement, just gone. A lot of people who loved that room assumed it was over for good.

It wasn’t. St. Martin’s reopened March 11 at 4223 Bryan Street in Old East Dallas, in what used to be the L&B Antiques building. The piano came with it. So did the chandeliers, the white tablecloths, the dark wood, and the room’s instinct that dinner is an occasion rather than a transaction.

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by | May 20, 2026 · 10:13 am

Why Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Belongs in Your Glass Right Now

Oregon Pinot Noir spent decades being underestimated. It wasn’t California, it wasn’t Burgundy, and the people making it were largely outsiders who drove north from the Bay Area in the late 1960s, looked at the Willamette Valley, and planted anyway. What they built took time to be taken seriously. VinePair named the valley the top wine destination in the world for 2025. Decanter awarded its first 100-point wine from Oregon last year. The underestimation is over.

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by | May 19, 2026 · 4:04 pm

Norman’s Japanese Grill Is Hosting a One-Night Dumpling Dinner with New York’s Mimi Cheng’s

If you’ve spent any time eating in New York’s East Village, you probably know Mimi Cheng’s. If you haven’t, June 7 is a reasonable introduction.

The dumpling shop at 179 Second Avenue has been one of those quietly essential New York addresses since sisters Hannah and Marian Cheng opened it in 2014. Hannah left a Wall Street career to do it. The idea was simple: their mother Mimi made Taiwanese-style dumplings at home, the sisters couldn’t find anything close to them in the city, so they started making their own. Pasture-raised pork, family-raised chicken, farm vegetables, wrappers spread thin and folded by hand. Whole Foods just named the brand one of its top food trends for 2026. It has that kind of following.

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by | May 19, 2026 · 11:11 am

Avra Introduces Elevated New Lunch Experience

Avra Estiatorio, the acclaimed Greek dining destination celebrated for its pristine seafood and refined Mediterranean cuisine, is pleased to announce the launch of its new lunch experience, now available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Designed to offer guests an elevated yet approachable midday dining option, Avra’s expanded lunch service features a new three-course prix fixe menu for $39.50 alongside the restaurant’s full all-day menu, allowing diners to enjoy everything from light Mediterranean fare to premium seafood and signature specialties.

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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 · 1:27 pm

The Mexican Is Pouring Mexican Wine on National Wine Day

Most restaurants treat National Wine Day as an excuse to discount a bottle of house red. The Mexican is doing something more interesting.

On Monday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m., the Design District restaurant at 1401 Turtle Creek Blvd. is hosting a wine dinner built entirely around Mexican wines — three courses, boutique producers, $125 per person. Seating is limited and reservations require payment to confirm.

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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 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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