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  Fearing’s Offers Reliable Comfort in Sea of Mediocre Brunches

  July 12 at 4 a.m.

  Every so often, it’s good to revisit a place you know, an established place that you know will be reliable. Go to enough consecutive bad brunches, and this is a nice break. That break came recently at Fearing’s Restaurant in Uptown’s Ritz-Carlton. It’s a little snazzy and pricey, but it...

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  The Decline of Brunch in Dallas

  July 10 at 4 a.m.

  Brunch is more than a common practice for the people of Dallas. It’s a way of life, a religious ceremony in which we eat the Benedict eggs and drink the Blood of Mary, and fall into a seemingly eternal, daylong state of oblivion. From mimosas at Public School 214 to...

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  Kozy Kitchen’s Brunch Offers a Decent Menu With Inconsistent Results

  July 4 at 4 a.m.

  Many of us in East Dallas remember Dixie House, which filled that large restaurant space at the corner of Gaston Avenue near Abrams Road with the smell of delicious rolls that constantly came out of the kitchen. Plenty of people were bummed when it closed, and the short-lived Sugarbacon Proper...

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  Decent Fried Chicken Can’t Save the Brunch at Elm Street Cask and Kitchen

  June 20 at 4 a.m.

  If you have a mediocre meal with fantastic service, there’s a good chance you’ll walk away feeling generally well about the experience. But when you have a subpar meal with service that seemed to have a goal of making you wait, and you'll walk out wanting your money back. At...

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  Flora Street Cafe’s New Brunch Is a Bit More Casual But a Little Awkward

  June 6 at 4 a.m.

  We can't say we ever expected to eat doughnuts at Flora Street Cafe on a Sunday morning.

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  The Perils of Pizza-Brunch

  May 17 at 4 a.m.

  Lots of people love Cane Rosso: The local franchize uses quality ingredients on pizza cooked in a wood-burning oven. But at the Deep Ellum location, where pizza shines at dinner, brunch currently yields a pizza topped with unsalted eggs and a flavorless frittata. [related stories] The redeeming factor is the bloody...