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Zalat Pizza Opens Its 30th Location Today in Duncanville

Crave DFW 10/12 10:39A Steven Doyle

Zalat Pizza opens in Duncanville today, Monday, October 12, and it is a milestone. The new shop at 325 S. Cedar Ridge Drive, in the Cedar Park Shopping Center near Wheatland Road, is the 30th Zalat in...

The Best Haunted Houses in Dallas-Fort Worth for Halloween 2026

Crave DFW 10/12 10:31A Steven Doyle

Cutting Edge Every October, a handful of North Texas buildings stop pretending to be warehouses and meatpacking plants and go back to what they apparently always wanted to be, which is terrifying. Dallas-Fort Worth has one of the strongest...

Plano’s Jashan Is the First Indian Restaurant in DFW to Make the Michelin Guide

Crave DFW 10/12 10:00A Steven Doyle

photos by Joey Stewart Collin County has become one of the best places in Texas to eat Indian food. For three years, the Michelin Guide did not seem to notice any of it. This month that changed....

Empower Ride App Pays Drivers 100%, Here’s How

Crave DFW 10/12 7:42A Steven Doyle

There is a newer way to get around Dallas-Fort Worth, and in our experience it has been cheaper than every other rideshare app we use. It is called Empower, and it arrived in North Texas this spring....

The State Fair Spent a Year Trying to Win You Back. Here’s How to Spend Its Final Week

Crave DFW 10/12 7:22A Steven Doyle

The State Fair of Texas is down to its last week, and this year it has something to prove. Last fall was rough. The 2025 Fair drew 2,020,064 people, roughly 400,000 fewer than the year before, and...

Alex Fletcher’s Rising Tides Is the Best Kind of East Dallas Dive

Crave DFW 10/12 7:02A Steven Doyle

If you have had a good cocktail in Dallas any time in the last 15 years, there is a decent chance Alex Fletcher had a hand in it. He started as a barback at The Quarter Bar, then ran the bar programs...

Texas Mead & Music Festival Makes Its North Texas Debut at Scarborough Faire

Texas Wine Lover 10/9 10:47A Neal Addy

The Texas Mead Music Festival made its North Texas debut at Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie, drawing nearly 3,000 visitors for a day of Texas mead tastings, live music, medieval entertainment, and more. Read More

Rolling Vineyards Launches Mobile Tasting Room

Texas Wine Lover 10/7 7:07A Jeff Cope

Experience rolling vineyards like never before with Rolling Vineyards, a mobile bar serving curated Texas wines. Their first event is at the Round Top Antiques Fair. Read More

The Brisket-Stuffed Jalapeño That Made Hutchins BBQ Famous

Crave DFW 10/6 7:39A Steven Doyle

At this very moment, somebody in a Hutchins BBQ kitchen is probably hollowing out a very large jalapeño. That pepper has a big day ahead. It s about to be stuffed with chopped brisket and cream cheese, wrapped in thick-cut bacon and sent to the...

What to Watch When Michelin Reveals Its 2026 Texas List Thursday

Crave DFW 10/6 7:21A Steven Doyle

Come Thursday morning, a lot of chefs in Dallas and Fort Worth will be hitting refresh on their email. The Michelin Guide will release its third Texas selection on Thursday, October 8. This time there...

Where to Drink with Ghosts in Dallas and Fort Worth

Crave DFW 10/6 7:05A Steven Doyle

Ask a bartender who has worked a few closing shifts in an old building, and sooner or later you ll hear about the door that swings shut by itself, or the footsteps upstairs after everyone has gone...

Docent Steak Opens in the Harwood District with Certified Kobe and Samurai Art

Crave DFW 10/6 6:42A Steven Doyle

Dallas has no shortage of steakhouses, and Harwood Hospitality Group knows it. Maybe that s why it took more than two years to open the newest one. Docent Steak finally opened its doors October 1 in...

The Zodiac Room Lives On: Neiman’s Popovers Move to NorthPark November 20

Crave DFW 10/5 7:00A Steven Doyle

The lights went out at the downtown Neiman Marcus on Wednesday, September 30. After more than a century on Main Street, the flagship store closed for good, and the Zodiac Room on the sixth floor closed with it. Some longtime customers showed up...

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

Crave DFW 10/5 6:19A Steven Doyle

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...