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1 month ago | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
Cleaver and Co., a food hall concept with locations previously only in Colorado and Georgia, has since dropped into Dallas with its first stand-alone establishment. Founded by Pat Garza and Pardeep Sharma (of Roti Grill and India Palace), Cleaver and Co. debuted its McKinney Avenue Dallas location in mid-February with a focus on elevated burgers, chicken sandwiches and hand-spun milkshakes. The space and vibe can be described as casual butcher shop meets sports bar.
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2 months ago | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
Over a century ago, you could walk to the front of the State Capitol in Austin and find a young man behind a pushcart selling homemade tamales and pralines. That young man was Delfino Martinez.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
We never knew we needed a-themed bagel shop in our lives, but you know what — we’re here for it. Saved by the Bagel , a bagel shop specializing in hand-rolled bagels and sandwiches, debuted in late 2024 near the corner of Independence and Legacy in Plano.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds |Lauren Drewes Daniels |Desiree Gutierrez |Hank Vaughn
We eat a lot. So when we get excited about something, it's usually for good reason. February was no exception with pizza, chicken fried steak, Rasta Pasta and smoky mozzarella.We’re simple people. When we hear about a good chicken-fried steak, we go eat it. In February, thanks to a reader tip, we discovered a chicken-fried steak for the ages.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
Ah, Grand Prairie's Asia Times Square . A wondrous mecca of shops and vendors spanning the pan-Asian spectrum, offering seemingly everything in existence under the Far Eastern sun. It feels 8,000 miles away (ignore the Captain D’s across the street), but it’s right here in our backyard.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
Any HGTV viewer understsands the concept of feng shui: harmony of space and spiritual forces.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
We're simple people. We hear about a good chicken-fried steak, and we eat said chicken-fried steak.Simple.After receiving a tip from one of our readers about a can't-miss chicken-fried steak in The Colony, we decided to make the 35-minute jaunt up the Dallas North Tollway to experience it for ourselves. See what we mean?
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
When the Newsom family first arrived in Richardson, their eventual neighborhood, Richardson Heights, was in its infancy. Seven decades later, the Newsoms are still here: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, all Richardson through and through.So, when executive chef and owner Hunter Newsom opened his dream pizza shop in 2019, Industrial Pizza + Brew , it was only right that Richardson would serve as its home.The focus here is simple: creative craft pies and local-only brews.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds |Chris Wolfgang |Desiree Gutierrez |Lauren Drewes Daniels
Finally. It's over. No more January Mondays. Not that February has much more to offer.Despite our better judgment, we continued to try new spots and revisit old favorites all month long. We asked our writers for their favorite dishes in the past month, and here are their responses.Our Top 100 Restaurants was just updated with 18 new entries to our list, but throughout the year, we also stop by spots we've already recognized to make sure things are still up to par. Research, you know.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
dallasobserver.com | Nick Reynolds
Ask anyone from Michigan about Koegel’s , and their eyes will light up. They may even start to sweat a bit.Since the early 1900s, The Koegel Meat Company has ingrained itself into Michigan’s culture. The meat products, from Polish sausages to the notoriously polarizing pickled bologna, are found in refrigerators all over The Wolverine State.The man who started it all was Albert Koegel, a German immigrant who mastered the art of the cased meat before arriving in Flint, Michigan, in 1916.
