Chefs For Farmers Early Bird Pricing Ends Friday, and BMW Is Giving Away a Festival Weekend

Crave DFW 10/14 8:23A Steven Doyle

If you ve been planning to buy Chefs For Farmers tickets, do it this week. Early bird pricing for the Dallas festival ends Friday, Oct. 16, and some of the VIP options have already sold out. This is...

What Dallas Should Put on the Flag: A Signature Dish Debate

Crave DFW 10/14 6:08A Steven Doyle

Ask someone from Philadelphia what to eat and you ll have an answer before you finish the question. Same in Buffalo. Same in Louisville. Ask someone in Dallas and you get a pause, then a list, then an...

Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day Is October 26. Here Is Where to Start

Crave DFW 10/7 6:12A Steven Doyle

Monday, October 26, is Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day , and yes, it is official. In 2011 the Texas House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1419 , sponsored by state Rep. Ralph Sheffield of...

Oktoberfests, Idina Menzel and the State Fair: Your Big DFW Weekend Guide

Crave DFW 9/25 9:45P Steven Doyle

North Texas doesn t do quiet weekends in late September, and this one might be the busiest of the fall. The State Fair opens Friday. There s a German festival in McKinney, a Broadway legend at the...

Six DFW Roasters Worth a Detour This National Coffee Day

Crave DFW 9/24 7:06A Steven Doyle

Cultivar National Coffee Day lands on Tuesday, September 29, and the chains will spend it handing out free cups with an app download. Fine. Take the freebie if it s on your way. Then spend the rest of...

A Perfect Sunday Afternoon in Bishop Arts: Where to Eat, Shop and Drink

Crave DFW 9/23 7:17A Steven Doyle

Sunday in Bishop Arts moves at its own speed. Dogs outnumber cars on some blocks, every patio seems to have a spritz on it, and around 2 o clock you can hear a brass band before you can see it. Nobody is in a hurry, and that is exactly the right...

10 Dallas-Fort Worth Dishes That Are Older Than You

Crave DFW 9/23 6:46A Steven Doyle

Ask a room full of Dallas people where they ate as kids and you will hear the same dozen names. Some of those places are gone. A surprising number are not. Your grandparents may have ordered these...

Mercado369 and the Restaurants That Surround It Are Oak Cliff’s Real Hispanic Heritage Month

Crave DFW 9/16 6:24A Steven Doyle

Hispanic Heritage Month began yesterday, and today, September 16, is Mexican Independence Day . Dallas will mark it with parades and festival stages across the city. Oak Cliff has been marking it...

Where Dallas Eats Brunch When Nobody’s Trying to Impress Anyone

Crave DFW 9/4 10:40A Steven Doyle

Brunch here has drifted toward the reservation, the bottomless carafe and the seventy-dollar table for two. Some mornings do not call for any of that. Five Dallas rooms where the coffee keeps coming,...

Kuluntu Bakery’s New Home is Still Built Around One Word: Community

Crave DFW 8/21 7:42A Steven Doyle

For eight years, the only way to get a loaf from Kuluntu Bakery was to order ahead and pick it up from a house in North Oak Cliff, sometimes off a basket lowered from a second-story balcony so nobody...