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Zepeda Vineyard & Winery: Muscadines, Memories, and Great East Texas Hospitality

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:12:10 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Discover Zepeda Vineyard Winery located in Pittsburg, Texas. The family-run winery is led by Mary and Julio Zepeda. Read More

Why Certain Wines Keep Appearing at Casino Tables

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:34:01 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Find out what dictates wine at casino tables, focusing on practicality over marketing in casino beverage selections. Read More

Dallas Families Invited to Free Back-to-School Event with Backpacks, School Supplies and Shoes

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:40:17 Z

(Park Cities BubbleLife iReporter) As families across North Texas prepare for the first day of school, Dream Center Dallas is inviting the community to a morning focused on helping local children start the year with confidence. On Saturday, August 1, beginning at 10 a.m., Dream Center...

The Dallas World Aquarium Is Downtown’s Best-Kept Secret, and It’s Not Really an Aquarium

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:02:42 Z

(Crave DFW) The name undersells the place. The Dallas World Aquarium , tucked into the West End Historic District, has sharks and rays and reef tanks, sure, but it s also home to a jaguar, a family of penguins, giant anteaters, orangutans, and a manatee who will...

Lavendou Has Won a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence Every Year Since 2015

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:31:29 Z

(Crave DFW) Lavendou Bistro Provençal has just picked up its Wine Spectator Award of Excellence again, and the number worth sitting with is the streak behind it. This is the eleventh year in a row the North Dallas restaurant has earned the recognition, a run...

Six Flags Over Texas New Coaster Just Broke Six World Records

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:09:12 Z

(Crave DFW) Six Flags Over Texas turns 65 this year, and it was never supposed to last this long. Developer Angus G. Wynne Jr. built it in 1961 as a short-term moneymaker, a way to squeeze cash out of a parcel of land before turning it into an industrial...

Why Poipu, Kauai is the Hawaiian Island Town Worth Building a Trip Around

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:03:17 Z

(Crave DFW) The sun hits Poipu Beach before it hits almost anywhere else in Hawaii. Kauai s south shore sits in what locals call the island s dry side, sheltered from the trade wind clouds that dump rain on the north shore most afternoons, which means the town...

TJ’s Seafood Market Does Brunch the Way It Does Everything Else: With a Fish Counter Right There

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:26:27 Z

(Crave DFW) TJ s Seafood Market has been selling fresh fish out of the same stretch of North Dallas since 1989, and the restaurant part came second. Jon Alexis took the shop over from his parents, relocated the original location, and eventually turned both the...

Retro Movie Review: The King and I (1956)

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:39:02 Z

(Crave DFW) There s a moment in the King and I when Yul Brynner , playing a king who s just been told by a schoolteacher that he s wrong about something, doesn t yell. He goes still. You watch a man who s never once been contradicted try to figure out what to do...

THE RICH RED TREND THAT’S CARRYING SUMMER STRAIGHT TO FALL

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:40:59 Z

(The Middle Page) The Rich Red Trend That s Carrying Summer Straight Into Fall If you re already dreaming about fall fashion—but you re still melting in 100-degree weather—you don t have to choose. Rich berry tones and tangy reds are one of the biggest color trends of...

Tickets for Fredericksburg Food & Wine Festival Now on Sale

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:44:09 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Get your early bird ticket prices now for the Fredericksburg Wine Festival that will be held October 22-25. Enjoy four days of food and wine in the Texas Hill Country. Read More

Your Complete Guide to a Wimberley and San Marcos Getaway

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:56:00 Z

(Crave DFW) The Blanco River runs low and green past Wimberley Square on a Friday afternoon, cypress roots gripping the bank like they ve been holding on since before the town had a name. Ninety minutes south of Austin, an hour past the last billboard for...

Inside Strouderosa BBQ, East Dallas’s Quiet Barbecue Standout

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:43:55 Z

(Crave DFW) Strouderosa BBQ started with a salsa recipe, not a smoker. Back in 2018, the founder was helping a friend run the iBBQ 4U food truck when he started experimenting with a Texas barbecue sauce that had a little more kick than what he d grown up on. The...

Everything to Know About the BBQ at Feels Like Home Festival 2026

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:15:46 Z

(Crave DFW) Roy Hutchins Brownwood isn t a place most Dallas or Fort Worth diners think to plan a trip around, but come October, it might be worth the three-hour drive. Feels Like Home Festival has announced the first wave of barbecue joints joining its third...

Why Empire Baking Company Is Still Dallas’s Longest-Running Craft Bakery

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:56:45 Z

(Crave DFW) Empire Baking Company started with a complaint. Meaders Ozarow and her husband, Robert , couldn t find a real bakery in Dallas in the early 1990s, the kind that made bread the slow way instead of trucking it in from somewhere else, so in 1992 they...

Inside the Recipe and History of Perry’s Legendary Pork Chop

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:22:43 Z

(Crave DFW) There s a version of the Perry s story that most diners never hear, and it starts with a meat counter, not a dining room. In 1979, Bob Perry opened a small butcher shop on the south side of Houston called Perry s Butcher Shop and Deli . It was a...

Cocktails, Wine, and Sunday Supper: Radici’s Summer Lineup

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:21:35 Z

(Crave DFW) Radici opened in Farmers Branch in May of 2024, and it did not take long for people to notice. Within a year, Radici Wood Fired Grill was named the No. 2 restaurant in the entire state of Texas by Texas Monthly, a wild jump for a restaurant that...

This Richardson Family Has Been Feeding the Same Regulars for 25 Years

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:37:33 Z

(Crave DFW) There is a strip of North Plano Road in Richardson that most people drive past without a second look, and somewhere in that stretch is a restaurant that has been quietly feeding the same families for close to three decades. Grand Café doesn t have a...

DART expected to announce CEO as agency looks to future

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:45:41 Z

(NBC DFW) Dallas Area Rapid Transit is expected to announce the finalist for its president and chief executive officer position on Tuesday afternoon. It marks a major step in the agency s search for its next leader as it works to address regional challenges...

Terra and Sugar & Sage Team Up for a Five-Week Brunch Collaboration

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:24:44 Z

(Crave DFW) Terra , the restaurant inside Eataly Dallas at NorthPark Center, is bringing back its Terra Takeover series, and this round pairs the Italian marketplace s kitchen with one of Dallas s most respected pastry programs. From July 25 through August 23,...

Victor Hugo Is Back Behind His Own Kitchen, This Time in a Rescued 1899 Bank

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:11:05 Z

(Crave DFW) The building at 600 S. Harwood St. has been saved from the wrecking ball once already, and that alone makes Bucket & Rope worth knowing the backstory of before ever getting to the food. The structure started life in 1899 as the original Liberty Bank...

Head to Class: Legacy West University Releases Class Schedule

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:55:00 Z

(Park Cities BubbleLife iReporter) Legacy West is going back to school in style this season by introducing "Legacy West University, a playful and immersive way to celebrate this special time of year. Launching on July 27 with events for adults and children throughout August, school...

Hot Pancakes Does Exactly What the Name Promises, and Then Some

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:40:22 Z

(Crave DFW) Hot Pancakes is one of those restaurants that names itself exactly what it does and then somehow still manages to under promise. Yes, there are pancakes, hot ones, and they re the reason the place has built a genuine following on North Jupiter Road...

Forty-Three Years In, Paula Lambert Is Still Making Cheese by Hand

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:51:24 Z

(Crave DFW) Long before Dallas had a Michelin star or a James Beard semifinalist list to argue about, it had Paula Lambert making mozzarella by hand in a small Deep Ellum storefront, and most of the food world thought she was out of her mind for trying. Lambert...

The State of DFW Dining at the Midyear Mark

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:17:50 Z

(Crave DFW) Halfway through 2026, the honest read on Dallas-Fort Worth dining is that it s been a year of real losses sitting right next to real momentum. Rent, insurance, and food costs have pushed several genuinely loved restaurants out the door, while new...

Dallasites Embrace the Ultimate Downtown Summer Staycation

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:54:36 Z

(Crave DFW) The whole idea behind a staycation is that you shouldn t need the car. Headington Companies has spent over a decade proving that s possible in one specific stretch of downtown Dallas, and this summer the company is pulling its own properties into one...

Retro Movie Review: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:00:34 Z

(Crave DFW) The Philadelphia Story opens with one of the great silent gags in American film. Cary Grant , playing the newly ex-husband of Katharine Hepburn , storms out of their house carrying golf clubs while she trails behind hurling his belongings after him....

Inside Seared, Fort Worth’s New Steakhouse That Won’t Stop for Anything

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:53:11 Z

(Crave DFW) Three days after Chris Jordan and his partners signed the lease on their new steakhouse, a Dodge Challenger ran off White Settlement Road and drove straight through the storefront. The explosion made the local news. A few months later, once repairs...

Café Momentum Receives Grant from the Jacques Pépin Foundation

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:21:35 Z

(Crave DFW) Café Momentum just picked up a $10,000 grant from the Jacques Pépin Foundation , one of ten organizations nationwide chosen for the foundation s Summer 2026 round of funding. The Dallas restaurant is the only Texas recipient on the list this time...

Ridge Creek Ranch Wine Bar: Twenty-Five Years in the Making

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:20:57 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Discover Ridge Creek Ranch Winery, a dream realized over 25 years in the making, located near Cedar Creek Lake and owned by Tony and Lisa Alexander Read More

FBI agent on human trafficking: “It can happen to anybody.”

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:47:22 Z

(NBC DFW) The Federal Bureau of Investigation Dallas Field Office is spreading awareness about human trafficking ahead of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30. FBI investigators say this criminal activity poses a real threat across the region...

Make Your Plans for Messina Hof Winery’s 49th Annual Harvest Festival

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:05:45 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Messina Hof's 49th annual Harvest Festival is taking place in July and August at two locations. See all the events that are taking place and sign up for one or more! Read More

The MacKenzie-Childs Barn Sale is Here!

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:49 Z

(Tanya Foster) Happy Thursday! Let's kick off the weekend with one of the biggest home sales of the year. The MacKenzie-Childs Barn Sale is going on now through July 20 , with up to 60% OFF thousands of their most-loved pieces. If you've been waiting to add a few...

Riscky’s BBQ 20th Annual Rib-Eating Contest

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:41:58 Z

(Crave DFW) Fort Worth’s ultimate test of appetite and speed is back for a historic milestone. Riscky’s Barbeque —the legendary 99-year-old smokehouse staple—will host its landmark 20th annual Rib-Eating Competition at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 25, at its...

Villa Brazil for that Authentic Brazilian Steakhouse Experience

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:35:06 Z

(Crave DFW) For anyone who appreciates exceptional grilled meats, warm hospitality, and a dining experience that feels like an event, Villa Brazil has earned its reputation as one of the Dallas area s standout Brazilian steakhouses. Rather than rushing guests...

Dallas’ Coolest Summer Escape: The Pittman Hotel

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:12:19 Z

(Crave DFW) Every neighborhood should be so lucky as to have its history hold the best corner. In Deep Ellum, that corner is 2551 Elm Street, where the Knights of Pythias Temple has stood since 1916, designed by William Sidney Pittman, Texas first Black...

8th Fort Worth Burger Week is Aug. 17-23; Burgers Are $8 – Dallas Added

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:35:18 Z

(Crave DFW) Fort Worth has kept a good thing mostly to itself for seven years. That ends this August, when the eighth annual Fort Worth Burger Week runs August 17 through 23 and Dallas finally gets a Burger Week of its own, held the same week, with the same...

Restaurant Week Reservation Day is Tomorrow July 16th

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:24:42 Z

(Crave DFW) Set your alarms. The 30th annual DFW Restaurant Week reveals its full restaurant lineup tomorrow, Thursday, July 16, and reservations open the same day for what has grown into the region s largest dining event and the second longest running...

Texas Fine Wine Gives a 2026 Harvest Outlook

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:22:06 Z

(Texas Wine Lover) Texas Fine Wine tells the stories behind the Texas harvest of 2026 and the resilience of their wineries amid challenging weather conditions Read More