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Restaurant : Smoke

Located in the Belmont Hotel in Dallas, the Smoke restaurant serves up regional southen food described as “honest, genuine, and real.” Smoke provides its customers with superb Texas cooking, creating tasty dishes from the Foie Gras & Chicken Liver Pate, to the Texas BBQ Coffee Cured Beef Brisket, to the Pulled All Natural Whole Hog. [...]
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Restaurant : Mi Cocina Lakewood

Move over, Matt’s! Mi Cocina, a Dallas staple for years, opened its first restaurant in 1991 in the Preston Forest neighborhood. With nearly 20 Mi Cocina restaurants in Texas and Oklahoma, the newest location is coming to a new Lakewood location, and we couldn’t be more excited! According to Advocate Magazine, Luis Sottil, an artist [...]
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Restaurant : Acme F&B

Acme F&B, a new dining concept from the ladies behind Good To Go Tacos and Barcadia, opened at the beginning of June at 4900 McKinney Ave. The restaurant touts itself as “come as you are fine dining.” Its interior is woody and recycled, but very well put-together, reminiscent a more masculine Sissy’s. Rust, wood and [...]
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Restaurant : La Fiorentina

The latest creation by Alberto Lombardi transports you to a timeless Tuscany. Located in an iconic Church dating back to the 1800s, La Fiorentina unveils a warmly authentic Tuscan Steakhouse menu. In this ideal setting recalling the atmosphere of a small Tuscan Village, their attentive staff will make you feel at home while their Italian [...]
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Restaurant : Chicken Scratch

Chicken Scratch is a handsome new roadhouse from Chef Tim Byres, the man behind Smoke, which is now open in the middle of the Foundry.The Foundry, which opened a couple months ago in the building that used to be Jack’s Backyard. Chicken Scratch and The Foundry share a huge courtyard located in a sort of [...]
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Restaurant : The Mason Bar

Making good on whispered rumors that he’d soon go brick-and-mortar, David Anthony Temple, the chef who developed a following with his nomadic Underground Dinners, now has a professional kitchen to call home: The Mason Bar. The building served as a church in the 1920′s before being used as a meeting hall for Freemasons. Known as [...]
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Restaurant : Oak

The restaurant embodies the idea of the Dallas Design District. It has a cool mid-century modern look to it which is so in fashion right now. The moment you walk in you’re impressed. There’s a projected art image of an oak tree on the far wall that moves with the non-existent wind. The booths are [...]
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Restaurant : Baboush

The posh new Lebanese-Moroccan tapas spot brings a welcome bit of exotic spice to West Village for a change. The atmosphere is Moroccan chic, the cocktails are to die for, and the small plates — like a perfect meze platter. The menu’s divided into salads, kebabs and street plates, but the distinction isn’t important, just [...]
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Restaurant : Company Cafe

You may not have notice, but in 2011 a small restaurant on Greenville Avenue popped up. Company Cafe is one of the few spots in the city that delivers sustainable, organic, locally grown, grass-fed, gluten-free dining. Their success has been so strong they even opened up a new location on the Katy Trail last month. [...]
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