Chaparral Vin

Texas Wine Lover 8/11 12:10A Jeff Cope

Chaparral Vin is a new winery on US 290 with owners who already have plenty of experience in the Texas wine industry. We visited recently to learn more about the winery, its wines, and what’s still to come. Read More

Four Locations, One Format: The Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers Story

Crave DFW 8/10 11:48A Steven Doyle

Bill and Lynn Gross opened their first hamburger stand in a converted fire station on Central Expressway in the early 1980s. That detail tends to get mentioned in passing whenever Chip s Old Fashioned...

DFW Restaurant Week Turns 30, and This Year’s Menu of Perks Is Bigger Than the Food

Crave DFW 8/10 10:56A Steven Doyle

Thirty years ago, a handful of Dallas restaurants agreed to knock a little off the check in exchange for sending a cut to a food bank. Nobody involved could have guessed it would still be running...

2027 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition Entries Now Being Accepted!

Texas Wine Lover 8/6 2:34A Jeff Cope

The 2027 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition has announced the Featured Wine Region plus entries are now being accepted for the competition Read More

Pollo Rosa Vineyard and Winery Grower Profile

Texas Wine Lover 8/4 3:39A Jeff Cope

This month's Grower Profile features Duane and Donna Patrick of Pollo Rosa Vineyard and Winery. Besides having a popular winery, the couple grows a vineyard next to the winery and is also working on two other small vineyards. Read More

Blue Goose Cantina Celebrates 24th Annual Hatch Chile Fest

Oak Cliff BubbleLife iReporter (Food & Dining) 7/29 11:36P Kathy Beazley

The arrival of Hatch chile season is one of the Southwest's most anticipated culinary traditions, and Blue Goose Cantina is celebrating the annual harvest with the return of its 24th Annual Hatch...

Graham Elliot’s Fort Worth Restaurant Group Is Finally Coming to Dallas

Crave DFW 7/29 8:58A Steven Doyle

Graham Elliot s first restaurant job in Texas was at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, working the line under Dean Fearing before either of them had a television deal to their name. More than two decades...

Sketches of Spain Just Closed, and The Wild Detectives Is Taking Over the Space

Crave DFW 7/29 8:37A Steven Doyle

Sketches of Spain served its last pintxo on July 19, closing the book on six years as Oak Cliff s only pincho bar. The Bishop Arts spot built its following on Basque-style small plates meant to be...

Inside The Wild Detectives, the Oak Cliff House That Turned Books and Booze into a Dallas...

Crave DFW 7/28 12:21P Steven Doyle

Javier García del Moral and Paco Viqu e met as civil engineers, which is not the résumé line most people would guess for the two men behind Dallas s most quietly influential bookstore. Both are...

Zepeda Vineyard & Winery: Muscadines, Memories, and Great East Texas Hospitality

Texas Wine Lover 7/27 3:12A Ron Martin

Discover Zepeda Vineyard Winery located in Pittsburg, Texas. The family-run winery is led by Mary and Julio Zepeda. Read More

Why Certain Wines Keep Appearing at Casino Tables

Texas Wine Lover 7/25 1:34A Gus Hall

Find out what dictates wine at casino tables, focusing on practicality over marketing in casino beverage selections. Read More

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

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

8th Fort Worth Burger Week is Aug. 17-23; Burgers Are $8 – Dallas Added

Crave DFW 7/15 5:35A Steven Doyle

Fort Worth has kept a good thing mostly to itself for seven years. That ends this August, when the eighth annual Fort Worth Burger Week runs August 17 through 23 and Dallas finally gets a Burger Week of its own, held the same week, with the same...