Bud Kennedy

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Bud Kennedy

Inside Look stories give Star-Telegram subscribers exclusive sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes reporting. Story suggestion? [email protected]. The landmark Stagecoach Inn Restaurant in Salado, once one of Texas travelers’ favorite restaurants, has been up-and-down lately. But it seems to be on its way up again, with a new owner that has reopened the 165-year-old hotel under its familiar name and restored the menu at the 78-year-old restaurant next door.

1 week ago | star-telegram.com | Bud Kennedy

Bodacious Bar-B-Q, a 34-year-old Arlington restaurant in a 1950s barbecue landmark, will close in August, owner Fran Ruegsegger posted on Facebook. "We've had so many wonderful people come through here - customers who became family," she wrote, announcing the end of the only DFW location for a loose East Texas chain of restaurants with different owners but the same name and similar menus. "We've watched folks grow up, and now they're bringing in their own kids," she wrote.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Bud Kennedy

Bodacious Bar-B-Q, a 34-year-old Arlington restaurant in a 1950s barbecue landmark, will close in August, owner Fran Ruegsegger posted on Facebook. “We’ve had so many wonderful people come through here — customers who became family,” she wrote, announcing the end of the only DFW location for a loose East Texas chain of restaurants with different owners but the same name and similar menus. “We’ve watched folks grow up, and now they’re bringing in their own kids,” she wrote.

1 week ago | star-telegram.com | Bud Kennedy

The current Tarrant County commissioners map, showing a Fort Worth precinct in red and an Arlington precinct in yellow, would be redrawn under a proposal to elect a Republican commissioner in Arlington. Courtesy of WFAA/Channel 8 They're only lines on a map. But to Republicans and Democrats in Tarrant County, they mean everything. To both parties, the arcane redrawing of the county election map poses an existential crisis. To Republicans, it's about control.

1 week ago | star-telegram.com | Bud Kennedy

Fort Worth lost its rank as the barbecue capital of Texas and two local restaurants are ranked among the state's best in the new "Top 50 Best BBQ" list by Texas Monthly magazine. Dayne's Craft Barbecue, a mom-and-pop operation which grew from a residential garage to an all-day Aledo restaurant serving everything from brisket and burgers to kolaches, moved onto the chart at No. 7 on a list that becomes a go-to map for barbecue lovers and tourists from across America.