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  The Long-Standing Community Spot That Is Crown Grocery and Deli

  March 10 at 4 a.m.

  Sometimes when I'm feeling adventurous, I’ll pull out my phone and drop a word in Google Maps, like "burger," curious to see what the algorithms want me to discover. Last week, that math/science/Big Brother code knew me better than I know myself. Crown Grocery and Deli popped up. And it...

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  The Cheeseburger at Desert Racer Is a Big Mess

  March 6 at 4 a.m.

  The restaurants of Nick Badovinus have been blessed with meat. There is a burger in all corners of his joints, and each specializes in its own feeling of comfort. Off-Site Kitchen is a summertime backyard utopia (see: peanut butter burger). A hulking cheeseburger nested on shredded lettuce, the red onion...

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  After 20 Years, AllGood Cafe Adds a Cheeseburger. Is It Worth the Wait?

  February 25 at 4 a.m.

  It’s been 20 years since his restaurant opened, and Mike Snider is just now finding the room for a cheeseburger. In 2000, he held a “restaurant shower” — the community showed up with booths and tables and slices of tile that were headed for the dumpster, because Deep Ellum adapts...

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  The Quietly Triumphant Yacht Club Burger at TJ’s Seafood Market

  February 7 at 4 a.m.

  On the first day they threw open their doors after the tornado, patrons of TJ’s Seafood Market and Grill packed into the restaurant. It was Nov. 1, 2019, and Preston Royal Village limped but stood — shards of torn buildings and metal exposed by the tornado still stand. None of the destruction...

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  Pizza’s in Black Jack’s Name, But It’s the Burgers that Earn Top Billing

  Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  We all know southern Dallas could use more restaurants, and it could absolutely use grocery stores selling fast food. I like to think we have people working on it (and I’ll just keep passive aggressively mentioning it in stories until they do). But there are some places serving good food,...

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  Dallas’ Best New Burgers of the Year

  Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  It was around May when the shortage hit Liberty Burger. The demand for plant-based patties at the local burger chain skyrocketed and their cooler of Impossible-brand “meat” was bone dry. The 2.0 Impossible patty, a new formula for the burger that made it not taste like it had been fished...