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by | October 9, 2026 · 4:41 pm

Brunch at Mercat Bistro

Weekend brunch at Mercat Bistro feels a lot like a long Saturday in Paris, only with valet parking. It is a European-style bistro in the Harwood District, and Michelin recommended the place and brunch is one of the easiest ways to see why.

Before you order, know one thing that sets this kitchen apart. Mercat cooks only with beef tallow, rendered in-house from the Harwood District’s own premium beef program, and it uses no nut or seed oils at all. The restaurant calls it a whole-animal, zero-waste approach. It matters most with anything fried, so pay attention to the potato galette and the frites.

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by | October 9, 2026 · 11:14 am

The Best Chicken Fried Steak on Greenville Avenue Comes from an Italian Kitchen

Some of the best chicken fried steak in Dallas comes out of an Italian kitchen. That sounds like a setup for a joke, but anyone who has eaten at Prego Pasta House on Lower Greenville knows it is simply true.

Prego has been a Greenville Avenue fixture since September. The roots go back even further. In 1956, Joe Barraco Sr. opened a grocery store at 2919 Bryan St., part of the stretch of bakeries, markets and shops that once made up Dallas’ Little Italy. When the family moved into the restaurant business, Joe’s wife, Rose, brought her recipes with her, and many of them are still on the menu more than four decades later. It is a red-sauce house in the best sense, with garlic bread, crab claws, veal, steak pizzaiola and pastas served with a salad, the way they have been for generations.

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by | October 8, 2026 · 6:24 pm

What Actually Happened in the 2026 Michelin Guide for Dallas and Fort Worth

Fort Worth finally has its Michelin star, and it went to a barbecue joint on Dick Price Road. Anyone who has stood in that line on a Saturday morning will tell you it was only a matter of time.

The 2026 Michelin Guide Texas arrived this morning with no ceremony and no red carpet, just a list posted online. North Texas came away with a modest but meaningful update. Here is what actually happened, straight from Michelin’s own selections, and what we make of it.

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by | October 7, 2026 · 2:45 pm

Nuri Steakhouse Names Kyungwon Kim Executive Chef, Deepening Its Korean Identity

Nuri Steakhouse has a new chef, and the Uptown restaurant is leaning harder into its Korean roots because of it. Kyungwon Kim, who goes by Ky, has been named executive chef at the Cedar Springs steakhouse, and his first menu is already on the tables.

Kim was born in Korea and comes to Dallas from New York, where he spent three years at Daniel, Daniel Boulud’s flagship on the Upper East Side. He started on the line there and worked his way up to executive sous chef. Before that he was sous chef at Oiji Mi, the Michelin-starred Korean restaurant in the Flatiron District, after years spent cooking in New York’s Korean kitchens.

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by | October 5, 2026 · 4:38 pm

La Rioja Alta and Catch Dallas Make the Case for Rioja With Seafood

A traditional Rioja dinner usually calls to mind roast lamb, Manchego and Ibérico ham. The menu Catch Dallas built for its recent wine dinner with La Rioja Alta took a different approach, pairing one of Spain’s most classic producers, La Rioja Alta, with hamachi crudo, miso-glazed sea bass and a center-cut filet. The evening made a persuasive case that long-aged Rioja is far more versatile at the table than its reputation suggests.

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by | October 5, 2026 · 11:19 am

Caviar, Truffles and Foie Gras: Avner Samuel Is Cooking at La Stella

Avner Samuel is cooking in Addison now, at La Stella Italian Steakhouse and Music Lounge, and his latest tasting menu reads a lot like the old days on Oak Lawn. There’s live scallop with osetra caviar, scrambled eggs under black truffles, foie gras on Wagyu. The six courses he recently served are headed for the regular menu soon.

If you dined at Aurora, you’ll see it right away. If you didn’t, some background helps.

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by | September 24, 2026 · 1:08 pm

Isaac Rousso Brings Fair Park’s Old Mill Inn Back to Life

The paddlewheel is turning again at Fair Park.

If you grew up going to the State Fair, you know the Old Mill Inn by sight. It’s the timber-and-stone building on Grand Avenue with the big water wheel out front. After the pandemic it went dark and stayed that way for years. This fair season it’s open again as a full-service restaurant and bar, and when the gates open on Friday, September 25, it will be feeding anyone who needs a break from the Midway.

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by | September 23, 2026 · 11:15 am

A Luxurious Stay in Torres del Paine: Where to Sleep, Eat and Hike in Chilean Patagonia

The wind shows up before the mountains do. It comes off the Southern Patagonian Ice Field with nothing to slow it down, flattens the tall grass across the steppe, and leans on the car door hard enough that you have to push back. Then the clouds pull apart for a minute and the towers appear, three gray granite spires standing over Torres del Paine National Park, close enough that you forget how cold your hands are.

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