GrapeFest Celebrates Milestone Event with New Experiences, Wine Traditions, and Four Days of...

Texas Wine Lover 8/27 3:42A Jeff Cope

GrapeFest invites you to celebrate its 40th anniversary with wine tastings, great food, shopping, and unforgettable memories. This year there are new experiences for everyone to enjoy. Read More

Burrito Bellas in Uptown Dallas with a Creative Twist on Mexican and Italian

Crave DFW 8/26 6:18A Steven Doyle

Burrito Bellas just opened on McKinney Avenue, and it s doing something Uptown hasn t quite seen before: putting Mexican and Italian food in the same burrito instead of picking a lane. Shawn Horne is...

Oak & Stone Launches OAKtoberfest Menu Special for Fall

Crave DFW 8/25 6:36A Steven Doyle

Oak & Stone is getting into the Oktoberfest spirit a little early this year, and it s doing it with beer cheese in nearly everything. Starting September 15 and running through October 31, the McKinney...

Texas Mead & Music Festival to Be Held in North Texas – Buy Tickets Now!

Texas Wine Lover 8/25 12:18A Jeff Cope

The Texas Mead Music Festival, to be held on September 19, is moving to North Texas this year at the Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie. Tickets are now on sale. Read More

Yang’s Smokehouse Is Cooking Guizhou Province in a Plano Strip Mall

Crave DFW 8/21 8:19A Steven Doyle

In 1980, in the city of Guiyang in southwestern China, a widow named Yang lost her husband at 30 years old. She had five children to raise. She started with one charcoal stall. That stall became Yang...

A Glass with the Duke: Visiting Noblemen Wines Texas Cellar

Texas Wine Lover 8/19 12:56A Neal Addy

Noblemen Wines Texas Cellar brings a true taste of Texas to downtown Glen Rose, with Noblemen wines, selections from producers across the state, a historic tasting room, and even a 10-foot John Wayne watching over it all. Read More

Remi Gregory Winemaker Profile

Texas Wine Lover 8/18 1:59A Jeff Cope

This month's featured Winemaker Profile is Remi Gregory. Remi started winemaking with her own winery of The Burg Wine Company, but is now the head winemaker at Becker Vineyards Read More

Zalat Pizza Puts Butter Chicken on a Crust, and It Actually Works

Crave DFW 8/14 8:54A Steven Doyle

Zalat Pizza has never been shy about mashing up flavors that have no business working together until they do, and the newest one might be the boldest swing yet. Starting August 17, every Zalat Pizza location in Texas will start slinging a Butter...

Eddie’s Diner Is the Last Real Diner Left Standing in Plano

Crave DFW 8/14 7:10A Steven Doyle

Plano has spent the last decade filling in with glass towers and corporate headquarters, and somewhere in the middle of that, a small family-run diner on Parker Road kept doing exactly what it has...

Dallas-Fort Worth’s Next Six Weeks Are Loud, Then a Little Louder

Crave DFW 8/14 6:25A Steven Doyle

Dallas-Fort Worth is about to get loud. The next six weeks bring a run of arena rock, honky-tonk legends, and a few genuine bucket-list pairings, and the calendar only gets busier once the theaters...

Review: Vinxper Expert Adjustable Electric Wine Aerator

Texas Wine Lover 8/13 1:45A Jeff Cope

The Vinxper Expert takes electric wine aeration a step further with adjustable decanting from 0 to 240 minutes. I put it to the test to see how it compares with other electric aerators I have used. Read More

Old Vine Texas and Burning Daylight Estate Winery in Mansfield

Texas Wine Lover 8/12 1:51A Jeff Cope

Old Vine Texas in Mansfield offers Texas wines, food, and featured tastings, including wines from nearby Burning Daylight Estate Winery. We stopped in to experience both in one visit. Read More

Five Dallas Restaurants Worth Booking During DFW Restaurant Week

Crave DFW 8/11 9:10A Steven Doyle

Every August, Dallas hands you a reason to finally book the table you ve been putting off. DFW Restaurant Week turns 30 this year, running from Preview Weekend on August 6 through the final stretch on September 7, and more than 150 restaurants...

Chaparral Vin

Texas Wine Lover 8/11 12:10A Jeff Cope

Chaparral Vin is a new winery on US 290 with owners who already have plenty of experience in the Texas wine industry. We visited recently to learn more about the winery, its wines, and what’s still to come. Read More

Four Locations, One Format: The Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers Story

Crave DFW 8/10 11:48A Steven Doyle

Bill and Lynn Gross opened their first hamburger stand in a converted fire station on Central Expressway in the early 1980s. That detail tends to get mentioned in passing whenever Chip s Old Fashioned...