Malai Kitchen is a Thai Paradise

Crave DFW 5/12 7:18A Steven Doyle

Ahi Tacos When Malai Kitchen opened in West Village in January 2011, the landlord pulled Braden and Yasmin Wages aside and told them he didn t think the concept had legs. Thai and Vietnamese food in a...

Cakebread Wine Dinner at Princi Italia | May 20

Crave DFW 5/12 6:32A Steven Doyle

If you ve been looking for a reason to get out on a Wednesday night, Princi Italia on Royal Lane is doing a Cakebread Cellars wine dinner on May 20 that s worth the calendar block. Four courses, four...

Sonny Bryan Sold Everything He Owned to Open a BBQ Joint

Crave DFW 5/12 6:06A Steven Doyle

Before there was a Sonny Bryan s , there was a Thunderbird. A 1955 Ford with a continental kit on the back. There was also a house, and a collection of antique Colt firearms that had taken years to...

North Texas Wine Jam Brings Wine, Music, and Creative Culture to Lost Oak Winery This June

Texas Wine Lover 5/12 1:07A Jeff Cope

A brand-new Texas wine festival is making its debut this summer, and it sounds like one North Texas wine lovers will not want to miss. The inaugural North Texas Wine Jam is coming to Lost Oak Winery on Saturday, June 6, 2026, from 3 p.m. to 9...

Kilmac’s Brought a Smoked Guinness Old Fashioned West Davis Street

Crave DFW 5/11 10:02A Steven Doyle

The building at 814 West Davis Street in Oak Cliff started as an automotive garage. A man named Ron Patterson eventually bought it, spent years turning it into a private room — dark, personal, built...

The Best Burger in McKinney Was Opened by Two Chefs Who Had No Business Making Burgers

Crave DFW 5/11 9:22A Steven Doyle

Lamb Burger on Pita Most people who end up at Square Burger in McKinney did not plan to be there. They were walking around the downtown square, realized they were hungry, and pushed open the door of a...

Wine Review: The Best $20 Wine for a Texas Summer

Crave DFW 5/11 8:23A Steven Doyle

In 1936, a wine merchant named Gabriel Farnet drove through the hills of the Saint-Tropez peninsula and stopped at a 17-acre vineyard overlooking the Gulf. There was a 19th-century château on the...

Everything Worth Eating, Drinking, and Watching at Legacy Hall Right Now

Crave DFW 5/11 7:47A Steven Doyle

Whisk Crepes There is no other building in North Texas quite like Legacy Hall . Three floors, 55,000 square feet, more than 20 food stalls, five bars, a craft brewery on the top floor, and an outdoor...

Oak & Stone to Open McKinney Location Tuesday, May 19

Crave DFW 5/11 5:56A Steven Doyle

Florida has been quietly building something worth paying attention to. Oak & Stone started in St. Petersburg in 2018, spent eight locations proving its concept worked, and then decided Texas was the...

Everything Worth Eating at the Dallas Farmers Market Right Now

Crave DFW 5/11 5:42A Steven Doyle

The Dallas Farmers Market has been at 920 South Harwood Street since 1941, which makes it older than most of the buildings around it and considerably more interesting than any of them. It is two...

The Ultimate Texas Wine Country Road Trip: A Weekend Tour of Some Hill Country Wineries

Texas Wine Lover 5/11 4:18A Gus Hall

Texas is the fifth-largest wine-producing state in the country, and most people still don’t believe that when you tell them. Then you hand them a glass of Pedernales Cellars Tempranillo and watch their face change. The Hill Country deserves a...

At What Point Does Wine Consumption Become a Legal Risk for Drivers?

Texas Wine Lover 5/11 4:08A Gus Hall

Wine has a way of feeling harmless, especially when it is part of something relaxed like dinner, a small gathering, or a quiet evening out. Nothing about it seems rushed or risky, so it is easy to believe you are still in control, even after a...

Are Millennials Saving or Reinventing the Wine Industry?

Texas Wine Lover 5/8 10:44A Gus Hall

A Generation That Pops the Question Instantly The first sip unleashes the question like a cork: are millennials saving wine… or are they slowly drinking it to death? According to the purists, these brunch millennials, natural-wine connoisseurs,...

A Dallas Drive-In That Made National Headlines

Crave DFW 5/7 11:20A Steven Doyle

In February 1940, a teenage girl from Houston named Josephine Powell appeared on the cover of Life magazine. She was wearing a drum majorette outfit with very short shorts, a plumed hat, and boots....

This Restaurant East Dallas is Better Than It Has Ever Been

Crave DFW 5/7 10:37A Steven Doyle

Urbano Cafe should not still be open. Mitch and Kristen Kauffman founded it in 2009 in the century-old building on Fitzhugh that also houses Jimmy s Food Store, ran it for 15 years, and decided they...