The Dallas World Aquarium Is Downtown’s Best-Kept Secret, and It’s Not Really an Aquarium

Crave DFW 7/24 10:02A Steven Doyle

The name undersells the place. The Dallas World Aquarium , tucked into the West End Historic District, has sharks and rays and reef tanks, sure, but it s also home to a jaguar, a family of penguins,...

Lavendou Has Won a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence Every Year Since 2015

Crave DFW 7/24 9:31A Steven Doyle

Lavendou Bistro Provençal has just picked up its Wine Spectator Award of Excellence again, and the number worth sitting with is the streak behind it. This is the eleventh year in a row the North...

Six Flags Over Texas New Coaster Just Broke Six World Records

Crave DFW 7/24 9:09A Steven Doyle

Six Flags Over Texas  turns  65  this year, and it was never supposed to last this long. Developer  Angus G. Wynne Jr.  built it in 1961 as a short-term moneymaker, a way to squeeze cash out of a...

Why Poipu, Kauai is the Hawaiian Island Town Worth Building a Trip Around

Crave DFW 7/24 8:03A Steven Doyle

The sun hits Poipu Beach before it hits almost anywhere else in Hawaii. Kauai s south shore sits in what locals call the island s dry side, sheltered from the trade wind clouds that dump rain on the north shore most afternoons, which means the...

TJ’s Seafood Market Does Brunch the Way It Does Everything Else: With a Fish Counter Right There

Crave DFW 7/24 6:26A Steven Doyle

TJ s Seafood Market has been selling fresh fish out of the same stretch of North Dallas since 1989, and the restaurant part came second. Jon Alexis took the shop over from his parents, relocated the...

Retro Movie Review: The King and I (1956)

Crave DFW 7/24 5:39A Steven Doyle

There s a moment in the King and I when Yul Brynner , playing a king who s just been told by a schoolteacher that he s wrong about something, doesn t yell. He goes still. You watch a man who s never...

Tickets for Fredericksburg Food & Wine Festival Now on Sale

Texas Wine Lover 7/23 3:44A Jeff Cope

Get your early bird ticket prices now for the Fredericksburg Wine Festival that will be held October 22-25. Enjoy four days of food and wine in the Texas Hill Country. Read More

Inside the Recipe and History of Perry’s Legendary Pork Chop

Crave DFW 7/22 5:22A Steven Doyle

There s a version of the Perry s story that most diners never hear, and it starts with a meat counter, not a dining room. In 1979, Bob Perry opened a small butcher shop on the south side of Houston...

Cocktails, Wine, and Sunday Supper: Radici’s Summer Lineup

Crave DFW 7/21 8:21A Steven Doyle

Radici opened in Farmers Branch in May of 2024, and it did not take long for people to notice. Within a year,  Radici Wood Fired Grill  was named the No. 2 restaurant in the entire state of Texas by...

Ridge Creek Ranch Wine Bar: Twenty-Five Years in the Making

Texas Wine Lover 7/17 1:20A Ron Martin

Discover Ridge Creek Ranch Winery, a dream realized over 25 years in the making, located near Cedar Creek Lake and owned by Tony and Lisa Alexander Read More

Make Your Plans for Messina Hof Winery’s 49th Annual Harvest Festival

Texas Wine Lover 7/16 12:05A Jeff Cope

Messina Hof's 49th annual Harvest Festival is taking place in July and August at two locations. See all the events that are taking place and sign up for one or more! Read More

Texas Fine Wine Gives a 2026 Harvest Outlook

Texas Wine Lover 7/14 10:22P Jeff Cope

Texas Fine Wine tells the stories behind the Texas harvest of 2026 and the resilience of their wineries amid challenging weather conditions Read More

Texas Hill Country Wineries Welcomes Three New Member Wineries

Texas Wine Lover 7/13 10:43P Jeff Cope

The Texas Hill Country Wineries has added three new member wineries to their association Read More

Staying Connected to Texas Wine Country from Anywhere

Texas Wine Lover 7/10 9:53P Gus Hall

Wine has aways been about sharing and connecting with other people. These days you can do it even if you are not near each other. Read More

North Texas Uncorked: Six Wineries in Two Days

Texas Wine Lover 7/9 7:15P Ron Martin

Ron discovered how the North Texas Wine Country had exceptional wineries as he spent two days visiting six different wineries Read More