Ask restaurateurs in Dallas-Fort Value proper now, and most are cautiously contemplating what 2023 will carry. How will inflated meals costs have an effect on their companies, and can we hit a recession? However take a look at the listing of most fun new eating places and bars opening in North Texas in 2023, and we’re in for a 12 months of artistic delicacies that, almost all over the place, begins with a celebratory martini.
Martinis by no means went out of favor, however they’re going to have an ice-hot second in 2023.
Italian restaurant By way of Triozzi has been within the works on Greenville Avenue in Dallas for years. Proprietor Leigh Hutchinson plans to open the restaurant in mid-2023, serving meals she fell in love with whereas studying to cook dinner in Italy. (Rebecca Slezak / Employees Photographer)
We’re keen to look at the reinventions of three notable eating places: luxurious downtown place Mirador, homey Italian joint Carbone’s and kid-friendly hangout Slider and Blues. We’re thrilled that East Dallas will get an Austin-style beer backyard in an previous Luby’s house and an genuine Italian restaurant on Lowest Greenville.
Knox Avenue in Dallas would be the hottest block for meals, with Deep Ellum and the Dallas Design District scorching on its heels.
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And this summer season, our focus can be on Fort Value, the place the area’s first vegan tasting menu will debut in a brand-new constructing in a historic a part of Cowtown. Able to get goose bumps?
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“Since we can be one of many first ideas like this in D-FW, when you’re vegan and also you’ve lived in D-FW your total life, this might be your first positive eating expertise ever,” says Amy McNutt, proprietor of vegan tasting restaurant Maiden. “The servers can be there to reply all questions, to stroll everybody by means of it, so that you gained’t be left questioning, ‘Oh, what’s this merchandise I’ve by no means had earlier than?’”
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How pretty, to pioneer a restaurant in such a pleasant means.
Right here’s a take a look at all of the eating places we’re trying ahead to in 2023.
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Eating places are listed so as of approximate opening date.
Portillo’s
in The Colony
Portillo’s opened in The Colony on Jan. 9, 2023. We are able to hear the collective gasps from Chicago ex-pats and Texans who love scorching canines and Italian beef sandwiches.
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Chicago restaurant Portillo’s would possibly simply be essentially the most anticipated new restaurant of the 12 months. It’s serving up Italian beef sandwiches, scorching canines, burgers and chocolate cake in Grandscape, the mega growth in The Colony, as of Jan. 9, 2023. Regardless that the restaurant is sort of 8,000 sq. ft — that’s huge for an order-at-the-counter place — we anticipate it to be packed inside, exterior and within the drive-through for weeks to return.
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Opening date: Jan. 9, 2023 [ Jan. 9, 2023 [ learn extra about it right here
Delicacies: Italian beef sandwiches and scorching canines
Handle: 4560 Vacation spot Drive (at Grandscape), The Colony
Tina’s Continental
in Deep Ellum
Tina’s Continental is a martini bar in Deep Ellum. (Kathy Tran)
Tina’s is teeny: It’s an 800-square-foot martini bar that may share a vestibule with Tatsu, an intimate omakase restaurant. Tina’s co-creator Elias Pope describes the place as each traditional and trendy, with cocktails which might be batched upfront and stored ice-cold within the freezer. The house is already teeming with character, because it’s situated within the Continental Gin constructing, which has been round since 1888.
Opening date: April 2023 [ April 2023 [ learn extra about it right here
Delicacies: Martinis
Handle: 3309 Elm St., Dallas (contained in the Continental Gin constructing)
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Crown Block
in downtown Dallas
Elizabeth Blau and chef Kim Canteenwalla, a pair from Las Vegas, opened high-in-the-sky restaurant Crown Block in Dallas’ Reunion Tower in spring 2023. (Courtesy of Blau + Associates)
A pair with eating places in Las Vegas and Vancouver, British Columbia, have opened a good-looking place on the 18th flooring named Crown Block. “Regardless of the place you might be at evening, there’s a spectacular view,” says co-owner Elizabeth Blau. She and her husband, Kim Canteenwalla, have determined the primary eating room is not going to spin 360 levels just like the earlier restaurant, chef Wolfgang Puck’s 5 Sixty. “Consider me, it was an actual emotional tug of battle,” Blau says. However she believes the view from the host stand — after a straight shot up on the elevators — is pivotal to the beginning of a beautiful dinner expertise. If the restaurant had been to spin, that view would change by the minute, Blau says.
The restaurant will serve trendy American meals like steak and seafood, however Blau can be captivated with plant-based dishes, tequila cocktails and desserts. All of these will discover a fashionable seat on the re-imagined Reunion Tower restaurant.
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Opening date: April 17, 2023 [ April 17, 2023 [ learn extra about it right here
Delicacies: Trendy American steak and seafood
Handle: 300 Reunion Blvd. E., Dallas
Barsotti’s, aka, the previous Carbone’s
in Highland Park
Julian Barsotti’s reinvented restaurant Barsotti’s opened in mid-April 2023. (Daniel Barsotti)
A 12 months in the past, Carbone’s was an incredible neighborhood Italian joint. In the present day, it’s nationally referred to as the little firm that launched a trademark lawsuit in opposition to world Italian restaurant Carbone. The lawsuit ended amicably (and a bit mysteriously). On Jan. 1, 2023, Carbone’s High quality Meals and Wine closed for a renovation and a brand new title — which lots of you helped decide. It reopened in April 2023 with an extended menu, one that features all of the favorites from earlier than. It can little doubt be much more beloved.
Opening date: mid-April 2023 [ mid-April 2023 [ learn extra about it right here
Delicacies: Italian
Handle: 4208 Oak Garden Ave., Dallas
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Maiden
in Fort Value
Maiden is run by ladies: Sam Ofeno, CEO (left); Amy McNutt, proprietor and govt chef (heart); and Chelsie Edmondson, basic supervisor. (Shafkat Anowar / Employees Photographer)
Essentially the most fascinating new restaurant coming in 2023 is vegan fine-dining restaurant Maiden in Fort Value. There’s nothing prefer it in Dallas-Fort Value, says Amy McNutt, additionally the proprietor of certainly one of North Texas’ best-known vegan eating places, Spiral Diner. Maiden may have an eight-course menu that may change seasonally, with a hard and fast value. Cooks will make foams, spheres and emulsions utilizing no animal merchandise. The restaurant, constructed from the bottom up, can be an intimate place with about 12 tables.
The objective is elevated and stylish meals with out being pretentious. “You may present up in denims and a T-shirt,” McNutt says. “You’re additionally welcome to indicate up in a tuxedo and a ball robe.”
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Opening date: June 1, 2023 [ June 1, 2023 [ learn extra about it right here
Delicacies: Vegan
Handle: 1216 Sixth Ave., Fort Value
Bobbie’s Airway Grill
in Preston Hole
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Followers of Il Bracco at Preston Heart have already been buzzing about Bobbie’s Airway Grill, an American restaurant from the identical house owners, coming quickly to Preston Hole. The previous Dougherty’s pharmacy is gone however not forgotten: CEO Robert Fast added the phrase “airway” within the restaurant title in a nod to its greater than 50-year historical past, and he had the pharmacy’s neon “airway” signal refurbished so it could hold exterior. The outside has gotten a significant overhaul, nonetheless, with tall arches encasing the restaurant and a 35-foot-tall oak tree planted on the partially lined patio. The menu can be filled with neighborhood grill classics that Fast and chief working officer Matt Gottlieb are nonetheless fine-tuning. The inside is supposed to evoke the Mad Males and Jackie O period, with out the gimmick.
Opening date: June 2, 2023 [ June 2, 2023 [ learn extra about it right here
Delicacies: American
Handle: 5959 Royal Lane, Dallas
Slider and Blues
in College Park
The operators of Slider and Blues mixed two former restaurant areas on Hillcrest Avenue in College Park: the previous Fortunate’s Scorching Hen and the frozen yogurt store subsequent door. (Courtesy of Vandelay Hospitality)
Lastly, a restaurant the place mother and father can take their youngsters and keep away from embarrassment. That’s the concept behind Slider and Blues, a reboot restaurant from the proprietor of Hudson Home. Slider and Blues was a kid-friendly pizza and wings restaurant with video games that was open in Dallas and a number of other of its suburbs within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s. Dallas restaurateur Hunter Pond’s 2023 model on Hillcrest Avenue, throughout from Southern Methodist College, may have a Sandlot film theme. The menu will embrace pizzas, smash burgers, rooster tenders, Nathan’s Chicago scorching canines and milkshakes.
Opening date: June 3, 2023 [ June 3, 2023 [ learn extra right here
Delicacies: American
Handle: 6309 Hillcrest Ave., Dallas
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Chloe’s Newsstand
in Deep Ellum
Enterprise companions (from left) Hank Keller, former NFL soccer participant Remilekun “Remi” Ayodele and chef Rami Rassas are set to open Chloe’s Newsstand, a news-themed lounge in Deep Ellum, in 2023. (Tom Fox / Employees Photographer)
Bartender Andres Torres pours a Bare and Well-known cocktail that can be served at Chloe’s Newsstand in Deep Ellum. (Tom Fox / Employees Photographer)
What occurs when Tremendous Bowl champion Remilekun “Remi” Ayodele, Lights All Night time music fest entrepreneur Hank Keller and MasterChef contestant Rami Rassas are in the identical room? They dream up an thought to open a newsstand-themed lounge in Deep Ellum with trendy American fusion meals and flashy cocktails. The menu would possibly embrace dishes like Rassas’ Chilean sea bass or a luxurious filet served in a room the founders describe as vibrant and stylish. (“You do wish to look good if you come,” Ayodele says.) Earlier than clients even open the door, they’ll discover an precise newsstand in entrance, the place newspapers, magazines, espresso and scorching canines can be on the market.
Opening date: TBD
Delicacies: Trendy American fusion
Handle: 2540 Elm St., Dallas
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By way of Triozziin East Dallas
Leigh Hutchinson, who grew up in Coppell, plans to open an Italian restaurant named By way of Triozzi on Dallas’ Greenville Avenue. (Rebecca Slezak / Employees Photographer)
Dallasite Leigh Hutchinson spent a 12 months studying to cook dinner in Italy, elbow to elbow with an Italian chef who took Hutchinson underneath her wing as if she had been her nonna. “It was the perfect time of my life,” Hutchinson says. She’s bringing that data, coupled with a 12 months learning Italian gastronomy and tradition, again to Dallas to open her first restaurant, By way of Triozzi. The restaurant is called after the road Hutchinson lived on in Scandicci, a small Italian city surrounded by olive groves, the place she says she discovered to like Italian tradition and meals. Her two-story restaurant on Lowest Greenville is designed to really feel like a trattoria, “like my grandma’s home,” Hutchinson says. Her lasagna is destined to be a star.
Opening date: TBD
Delicacies: Italian
Handle: 1806 Greenville Ave., Dallas
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Bar Sardine
in College Park
Bar Sardine is an oyster bar with a deal with martinis and negronis. (Vandelay Hospitality Group)
Dallas restaurant operator Pond is predicted to have a whopping seven eating places open in or close to Snider Plaza by the top of 2023. The smallest one — and maybe essentially the most charming — is Bar Sardine, named for the New York Metropolis gastropub that closed within the West Village in 2020. It was Pond’s favourite oyster and cocktail bar in New York, so he secured the trademark to reopen it as his personal in Texas. Bar Sardine is Pond’s first straight-ahead bar, as his fleet of eating places is in any other case dominated by American meals: Hudson Home, D.L. Mack’s, Brentwood, the coming-soon Anchor Bar (in Preston Hole and on Knox Avenue) and others. A night at Bar Sardine ought to begin merely, with a martini.
Opening date: TBD
Delicacies: Oyster bar with cocktails
Handle: 6805 Snider Plaza, Dallas
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Le Margot
in Fort Value
Fort Value restaurant Le Margot is called for CEO and founder Felipe Armenta’s 3-year-old daughter. The restaurant is a French bistro described as “the other of stuffy.” This rendering reveals the daring patterns anticipated on the bar. (Courtesy of Maven Interiors)
Though TV persona Graham Elliott spent 20 years in Chicago, he lived in Dallas within the late ‘90s and cooked with Dean Fearing and Stephan Pyles. He’ll use this assorted background to assist create the menu at Le Margot, a French restaurant close to the Tanglewood space of Fort Value. It’s named after co-owner Felipe Armenta’s 3-year-old daughter. Dishes will doubtless embrace Lyonnaise salad, escargot and tartare, with out the fuss, Elliott says. “With French delicacies, you’ve bought two worlds: the tremendous stuffy server carrying a tuxedo, and then you definately’ve bought French peasant nation meals: pâtés and pigs’ trotters,” he says. Le Margot is aiming for classy and full of life.
Armenta and Elliott additionally plan to open a steakhouse in Fort Value’s Mule Alley named Cowboy Prime and an unnamed Italian restaurant in Benbrook. They hope to open eight eating places inside 20 months.
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Opening date: June 2023; extra particulars coming quickly
Delicacies: French
Handle: 3150 S. Hulen St., Fort Value
F1 Smokehouse
in Fort Value
Fort Value mover and shaker Felipe Armenta has partnered with Iron Chef contestant and MasterChef choose Graham Elliott for a fleet of latest eating places in Fort Value and past. F1 Smokehouse, at the moment closed for the season at Clearfork, will reinvent it in 2023 in Fort Value’s Cultural District, close to the coming-soon Crescent lodge. Armenta desires to raise the service at his reinvented barbecue joint: “Generally I battle at conventional barbecue spots,” he says. “Service is missing, or I actually don’t wish to eat off of a paper plate, with plastic forks.” The two.0 model of F1 will take a smoked-meat menu and “put it in a nicer house,” Elliott says.
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Opening date: TBD
Delicacies: Barbecue
Handle: 517 College Drive, Fort Value
Fortunate Canine Saloon
in Uptown Dallas
From the house owners of Katy Path Ice Home down the road comes a smaller, drinks-focused bar known as Fortunate Canine Saloon. It can transfer into the previous Asel Artwork Provide, in a constructing that bar proprietor Buddy Cramer says has been standing for the reason that Nineteen Twenties. Fortunate Canine can be a no-frills nook bar with shuffleboard. “There’s nothing like that in Uptown anymore, as a result of no person can actually afford to do it,” Cramer says. He purchased the property as a result of he can use the parking zone for Katy Path Ice Home clients. The bar is a bonus.
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Opening date: TBD
Delicacies: Principally cocktails and beer; barbecue sandwiches and bar bites will come from Katy Path Ice Home
Handle: 2701 Cedar Springs Street, Dallas
Kaiyo
in East Dallas
Chef Jimmy Park, pictured right here earlier than his restaurant Shoyo debuted, will open a extra informal Japanese restaurant in the identical neighborhood in 2023. (Vernon Bryant / Employees Photographer)
Jimmy Park, who operates an omakase restaurant named Shoyo and is certainly one of Dallas’ greatest cooks, plans to open an informal izakaya on Lowest Greenville. Kaiyo and Shoyo — say these two names aloud — are sibling eating places about 400 ft aside. Whereas Shoyo is critical and dear (and reservations are tough to return by), Kaiyo can be a freewheeling place, no reservations required, that begins with Japanese cocktails after which strikes on to shareable plates like marinated rooster, takoyaki, sushi and sashimi. Park desires the expertise to be enjoyable.
“I grew up within the ‘90s, listening to Biggie and Nas,” he says. “I wish to play my playlist and I simply need this restaurant to be me.”
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Opening date: summer season 2023
Delicacies: Japanese
Handle: 2014 Greenville Ave., Dallas
Inexperienced Level Seafood and Oyster Bar
within the Knox District
Inexperienced Level Seafood and Oyster Bar, which is able to open on Knox Avenue in Dallas, comes from the proprietor of Beverley’s. (Shafkat Anowar / Employees Photographer)
Restaurateur Greg Katz has mastered the angle behind a brasserie together with his Fitzhugh Avenue restaurant Beverley’s, and he’ll carry an analogous feeling to Dallas’ Knox Avenue when he opens a seafood-focused restaurant named Inexperienced Level. It’s named after the suburb in Cape City, South Africa, the place his grandparents had a flat. Inexperienced Level is designed to be an “all day, every single day” restaurant that’s extra refined than a lobster shack — but in addition not an important day place, Katz says. He envisions a menu that focuses on fish and oysters but in addition gives appetizers like steak carpaccio and entrees like roasted rooster or steak.
Katz believes within the vibrancy of the neighborhood, and it’s straightforward to hitch him. “I can simply image individuals purchasing on a Saturday afternoon and stopping in for oysters and Champagne,” he says. “I’ve been occupied with this for years.”
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Opening date: June 2023
Delicacies: Seafood
Handle: 3219 Knox St., Dallas
A phrase concerning the eating places in Dallas’ Knox District
The Highland Park Soda Fountain on Knox Avenue closed in 2018 after 106 years. A brand new set of restaurateurs plan to open a restaurant instead. (Louis DeLuca / Employees Photographer)
Inexperienced Level is “proper in the course of every thing” on Knox Avenue, Katz says, and as that Dallas strip has been reinvented, it has turn into house to a who’s who of eating places. New restaurant Pizzana opened in fall 2022, becoming a member of the road’s staples like Toulouse and Taverna, Up on Knox, Georgie and Le Bilboquet. Coming quickly in 2023: a restaurant within the former Highland Park Soda Fountain house from the house owners of the Charles and El Carlos and an American restaurant with sushi named Anchor Bar, one other undertaking from Pond. Knox can even get a Berkley’s Market in 2023, and the Foxtrot espresso store and comfort retailer opened in late 2022.
The Knox District would be the busiest meals block in Dallas, and there’s far more to report on what is going to open there subsequent.
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Royal Bastard
within the Dallas Design District
The one restaurant we’ve moved from 2022′s most fun eating places listing to 2023′s is Nick Badovinus’ coming-soon supper membership Royal Bastard. A restaurant must be severely anticipated to make our listing twice, and this one is. Maybe it’s the truth that Badovinus’ “unapologetically premium” restaurant is inside the previous King’s Cabaret strip membership. Perhaps we’re drawn to the flashy synergy that may certainly be created between Royal Bastard and City Fireplace, one other certainly one of Badovinus’ eating places that’s throughout the road. And it might be that Badovinus’ type right here, an “city spoil” inside juxtaposed in opposition to a high-end menu, is simply puzzling sufficient to be alluring. For as soon as, we’ll enable the tease.
Opening date: TBD
Delicacies: Retro continental
Handle: 1602 Market Heart Blvd., Dallas
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Mirador
in downtown Dallas
For a number of years, fashionable restaurant Mirador served lunch and dinner from the penthouse of luxurious boutique Forty 5 Ten in downtown Dallas. It closed in the course of the pandemic, however Mirador will return in 2023. (James Nathan Schroder / Nathan Schroder Pictures)
One in every of Dallas’ loveliest eating places of the previous decade, Mirador is making a comeback in 2023. The restaurant is on the penthouse degree atop designer store Forty 5 Ten in downtown Dallas. Its evolution has the potential to be a spectacular story of Dallas expertise: Dallas chef Junior Borges opened Mirador in late 2016 and ultimately labored with a chef named Travis Wyatt. After Borges moved on to create his personal unrelated restaurant, Meridian, Wyatt turned his govt sous-chef. In 2023, diners will discover Wyatt again at Mirador as its govt chef. He’ll make the Mirador menu his personal, however favorites such because the ricotta toast, rooster paillard and farro bowl will reappear.
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Opening date: September 2023
Delicacies: Progressive American
Handle: 1608 Elm St., Dallas
Let’s Ask Keith
in Deep Ellum
Elias Pope, of coming-soon martini bar Tina’s Continental, has signed a lease on the reverse finish of the Continental Gin constructing, the place he plans to open an “inexpensive, approachable” steakhouse. Pope (who created HG Sply Co., Commonplace Service and Leela’s Wine Bar) grew up on a ranch in Greenville, Texas. His dad, Keith, is the namesake of this new spot, as a result of he appears to know every thing. (“He’s like my Google,” Pope says.) Let’s Ask Keith may have enjoyable music — “loud Sturgill Simpson,” Pope guesses — and filet for underneath $40.
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With Pope’s two ideas within the Continental Gin constructing, plus present companies Fiction Espresso, Tatsu and the Widespread Desk coworking house, this 135-year-old web site appears to be like like it will likely be an all-day attract Deep Ellum in 2023.
Opening date: September 2023
Delicacies: Steak
Handle: 3309 Elm St., Dallas (contained in the Continental Gin constructing)
Birdie’s Eastside
in East Dallas
The vacant Luby’s on East Mockingbird Lane in East Dallas has been the discuss of East Dallas for nicely over a 12 months. Within the second half of 2023, the proprietor of Dallas eating places TJ’s Seafood and Escondido Tex-Mex Patio plans to open an Austin-style neighborhood restaurant and beer backyard the house previously occupied by the sprawling East Dallas cafeteria. It’ll be huge, with a 7,500-square-foot patio and a ten,000-square-foot indoor restaurant. The menu isn’t obtainable but, however proprietor Jon Alexis says Birdie’s may have “a stable youngsters menu” along with sandwiches, salads and entrees. Grownup drinks, too.
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Opening date: Fall 2023
Delicacies: TBA
Handle: 6221 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas
The meals zone at EpicCentral
in Grand Prairie
In 2023, Loop 9 BBQ, the Finch, Vidorra and different eating places will open at EpicCentral in Grand Prairie. (Juan Figueroa / Employees Photographer)
South of Interstate 30, simply off the Bush Turnpike, town of Grand Prairie is cultivating a 172-acre park that’s not like anything in Dallas-Fort Value. EpicCentral is the title of the yearslong undertaking that may embrace not less than 5 eating places and two resorts. 5 man-made lakes, a mountain climbing park, a water park, a health heart and an leisure advanced known as Hen N Pickle are open now. Imran Sheikh, the restaurateur who invested closely in Deep Ellum together with his eating places Vidorra, Stirr, Harper’s and Severe Pizza in addition to a nightclub named Citizen, is taking inspiration from a few of these ideas with a brand new plan in Grand Prairie’s Epic growth in 2023. Grand Prairie will get his all-day bistro the Finch, brunch spot Poach’d, Mexican restaurant Vidorra, and a meals corridor known as Severe Eats that may promote slices, sliders and shakes. Close to these can be Loop 9 BBQ, a smoked-meat restaurant from Larry Lavine, the co-founder of Chili’s.
Opening date: All through 2023
Delicacies: varied
Handle: In and round 2960 Epic Place, Grand Prairie
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Learn The Dallas Morning Information’ previous tales about thrilling new eating places every year:
The listing for 2022
The listing for 2021
The listing for 2020
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The listing for 2019
Story initially revealed Dec. 26, 2022 and up to date Jan. 9, 2023, April 11, 2023 and June 6, 2023.
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