Bishop Arts gets the press. It gets the food tourists, the Instagram posts, the out-of-town write-ups that call it charming and walkable and full of independent spirit. All of that is true. But a few blocks away, running parallel and older and considerably less interested in your approval, is Jefferson Boulevard — and it has been feeding Oak Cliff longer than most of those Bishop Arts restaurants have been alive.
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The Bugatti name has meant something in Dallas Italian dining for a long time, and now there’s a new chapter. Trattoria Bugatti opens Monday, April 20 at 3850 W Northwest Hwy in Midway Hollow — just down the street from where the original Bugatti Ristorante stood before it moved to Farmers Branch.
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There are food festivals and then there are weekends you actually plan your calendar around. SAVOR, the four-day culinary event at Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa, is making a case for the second category. It runs April 30 through May 3 out at the resort on PGA Parkway in Frisco, and the 2026 edition is bigger than last year’s debut in almost every way.
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Garland doesn’t always get the attention it deserves when people talk about DFW dining. That may be about to change.
Chef Burak Ozcan — the Turkish-born culinary force behind the Ferah family of restaurants — has opened his latest concept, Herb & Ember, inside Firewheel Town Center at 365 Coneflower Drive in Garland. If you know Ozcan’s work at Ferah Tex-Med Kitchen or Ferah Smokehouse & Cantina, you already have a sense of what he’s capable of. Herb & Ember feels like his most polished swing yet.
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Most people come up Grant Avenue. That’s the Chinatown tourists know — painted lanterns, souvenir shops, roast duck hanging in windows. Brandon Jew moved the entrance to his restaurant around the corner before he ever opened it, tucking the door into Waverly Place, a narrow alley that runs parallel to Grant and feels like a completely different city. Quieter. More lived in. The street where old men sit outside in folding chairs and the shops are for people who actually live here, not people passing through. You have to mean it a little to find Mister Jiu’s. That was the idea.
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If you grew up in Dallas, you know Desperados. The original Greenville Avenue location has been there since 1976 — founded by Vietnam War veteran Jorge Levy, who opened the doors with two partners and built something that outlasted trends, recessions, and the rise and fall of a hundred restaurants that came and went around it. A second location followed in Garland in 1994. And now, nearly fifty years after that first tortilla hit the comal on Greenville, Desperados is crossing into Collin County for the first time.
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If you follow the Dallas food scene at all, Tiffany Derry needs no introduction. The Beaumont native has been one of the hardest working chefs in North Texas for going on two decades — a James Beard Award finalist, a MasterChef judge alongside Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich, and the force behind some of the most talked about restaurants in DFW. Her T2D Concepts, built with partner Tom Foley, runs Roots Southern Table in Farmers Branch, Roots Chicken Shak in Plano and Austin, and two locations of Radici Wood Fired Grill — one in Farmers Branch and a second at EpicCentral in Grand Prairie, where Texas Monthly recently named it the number two best restaurant in the state. Today she adds another one to that complex.
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Some evenings just have a built-in story to tell. The Jazz Wine Train in Grapevine is one of those nights — the kind where you arrive slightly dressed up, leave a little flushed, and find yourself already thinking about when you can come back.
The premise is simple and wonderful. You and your person settle into a 100-year-old Victorian rail coach, a glass of Texas wine in hand, live jazz filling the air, the Texas night sliding past the windows. For two hours, nothing needs your attention except the music and what’s in your glass.
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