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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Downtown Dallas

Most World Cup visitors staying in Dallas will be staying downtown. The hotels are here — the Omni, the Thompson, the Sheraton, the Adolphus, the Westin — and so is the AT&T Discovery District, the pedestrian zone along Commerce and Main Streets that has become the city’s most active public gathering space. Downtown Dallas is not what it was ten years ago. The restaurant density has grown considerably, the quality has followed, and for visitors without a car it’s entirely possible to eat well for an entire week without leaving the neighborhood on foot.

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The World Is Coming to Dallas This Summer — Here’s Where to Feed It

Dallas is hosting more FIFA World Cup matches than any other city in the tournament — nine games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington starting June 14, including a semifinal on July 14. That means fans from Argentina, England, Japan, the Netherlands, Croatia, Jordan, Austria, and Sweden are all coming here, many of them for the first time. They are going to eat. The question is where you point them, and more importantly, where you go yourself when you want to eat in the spirit of what is happening.

Here is what to eat for each nation playing in Dallas this summer — and where to find it.

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