Dallas TX

After months of buildup, the best restaurants, chefs, and bars of the year were revealed and celebrated at our 2026 CultureMap Dallas Tastemaker Awards. On May 7, the winners were crowned at a tasting event and awards ceremony, hosted by NBC5 Texas Today host Cleo Greene, at Astoria Event Venue in Irving.

Diners may not immediately associate great Mexican food with Utah, but an expanding chain is setting out to challenge preconceived notions. Costa Vida, founded in Layton, Utah, is getting ready to do just that in the DFW, with a new location planned for Forney. The restaurant will be bringing a...

Combining America’s hottest new sport with dining and socializing, Serve & Sip Pickleball Club is set to open in Dallas in late May. Located at 11250 N. Central Expy. off Royal Lane, the 200-plus capacity club offers climate-controlled courts and a full-service restaurant and bar. The brand’s founder, SMU...

State higher education regulators have told a Dallas-area outfit calling itself Texas American Muslim University, or TexAM, to shut it down for now. Acting at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board issued a cease-and-desist letter today, ordering the group to stop offering classes, advertising programs, and enrolling students or risk prosecution and other penalties.

After more than two decades in the Crow family, a Mediterranean-style mansion at 4612 Watauga Road in Bluffview has hit the market with an asking price just shy of $10 million. The two-story home sits on about 1.3 acres and comes with a guest house, heated pool, and a mix of indoor and outdoor entertaining spaces. Sellers Itzel and Nathan Crow say...

DALLAS, Texas — An 8-year-old child kidnapped in 1991 in Plano, Texas, and a similar case in Dallas have been solved through forensic investigative genetic genealogy. On August 15, 1991, an 8-year-old child was abducted by a stranger while walking to a community pool in Plano, Texas, and was sexually abused before being released 20 miles away, according to the Dallas...

A suspect injured four people at a Richardson bar on Wednesday night before being shot and killed by police. FOX 4's Lori Brown has more on what the suspect told police before the incident.

It's tough to find cheap gas these days, but Circle K is offering a discount at the pump for customers on Thursday.

With the rate of local restaurants closing in Dallas and big-city imports opening, the future of our dining choices was looking a little bleak. But this spring brought some fresh, mostly local openings that give us hope. Could this new award-winning bagel shop rival Dallas’ favorite bagels? Is it true...

At a time when Dallas restaurants are increasingly defined by spectacle, scale and celebrity, Uptown’s newest dining entry is leaning into legacy, craft and a sense of place. That vision now arrives at The Stoneleigh , where Michelin-starred chef Michael White is making his Dallas debut with two original concepts — Lions Den and Bar Leonessa — both created exclusively for the historic property as part...