Night Rooster has had several months now to settle into its spot on the ground floor at 1000 N. Riverfront Blvd. in the Design District, on the ground floor below Hooper Hospitality’s Italian steakhouse The Saint. The early buzz has worn off, the reviews have rolled in, and the picture that’s emerged is a restaurant that’s very good at some things and still finding its footing on others.
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Not every piece of Dallas food news needs its own headline, but stacked together, this week’s smaller stories add up to a pretty full picture of where the city’s eating and drinking scene is headed. A few closings, a few openings, and a couple of anniversary parties worth showing up for.
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Every August, Dallas hands you a reason to finally book the table you’ve been putting off. DFW Restaurant Week turns 30 this year, running from Preview Weekend on August 6 through the final stretch on September 7, and more than 150 restaurants across the Metroplex are offering prix fixe menus built specifically for the occasion. Two-course lunches run $29, three-course dinners land at $49 or $59, and a handful of restaurants are offering $99 Signature Experience dinners with an extra course thrown in. About 20 percent of what you spend goes to the North Texas Food Bank or, for restaurants in Tarrant County, Lena Pope.
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Ask most chefs where they learned to cook and you get a story about culinary school, or a mentor, or some line cook who showed them how to hold a knife. Ask Tiffany Derry, and the answer has always been her mother. On August 23, that answer gets a kitchen of its own.
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Thirty years ago, a handful of Dallas restaurants agreed to knock a little off the check in exchange for sending a cut to a food bank. Nobody involved could have guessed it would still be running three decades later, or that it would grow into the second-longest-running restaurant week in the country. This week it did exactly that, officially kicking off its 30th year on August 10, with more than 175 restaurants across five counties taking part.
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Rock Springs Cafe shut its doors for good on June 30. It had sat inside the Rock Springs Building at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden since 2019, pouring coffee and building lunch plates for a steady stream of garden visitors who wanted something to eat between the rose collection and the Japanese Garden. That building has been standing since 1934, when the Botanic Garden first opened as the oldest one in Texas, and for a few months this fall it’s going to sit quiet while a full renovation happens inside it.
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Punk Noir, the immersive fine dining destination in Dallas’ Design District, is introducing two new ways for guests to experience its boundary-pushing culinary and beverage programs. The punk-inspired restaurant will now offer a 7-course dining experience priced at $135 per person, alongside Off the Cuff, a bespoke cocktail experience available in the Noir Lounge.
Since opening in June, Punk Noir has challenged the conventions of traditional fine dining with its signature 20-course tasting menu, transportive multi-room design and provocative culinary storytelling. Led by James Beard Award-winning Chef RJ Cooper, the restaurant combines disciplined, world-class cuisine with irreverent artistry and an energetic, design-forward atmosphere.
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Every serious restaurant city has a handful of names that actually run the place, not just cook in it. San Antonio’s list runs deeper than most people outside Texas realize, chefs who took their own name and put it on the door instead of climbing someone else’s ladder, then kept building long after the first restaurant found its footing. Here are five of them, and what they’ve built.
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