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  Couple Behind Beer Fest Taps Relationships and Creativity to Keep Business Running

  August 11 at 4 a.m.

  Just two weeks before the ninth annual Big Texas Beer Fest’s scheduled date of March 27, Chad and Nellie Montgomery, the husband-and-wife team who founded the event, postponed it until July. They didn’t know at the time that it was the first of many challenges they’d face trying to run...

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  White Rock Coffee Wants to Offer a Cup of Normalcy

  June 30 at 4 a.m.

  The novel coronavirus may have shifted the way we work out, eat and live, but it didn’t change the need some of us have for coffee. That’s evident based on the line of cars and people at White Rock Coffee in the Hillside neighborhood of East Dallas. The Lake Highlands-based...

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  Good to Go: West Dallas Has Quick and Safe Coffee with Houndstooth

  June 10 at 4 a.m.

  Working from home means plenty of changes: more time with your dog, kids and/or partner, running the dishwasher more and making sure that cup of coffee hits the perfect note in the morning. Of course, if you use the last of your beans on Saturday, you’ll wake up to a...

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  Our 10 Favorite Coffee Shops in Dallas

  January 31 at 4 a.m.

  Whether you’re your own boss who can work where you want, you like to meet people over a small two-top with your hands around large mugs or you’re plainly addicted to caffeine, coffee shops call to many of us. Last year, we lost two great destinations in Crooked Tree and...

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  From Dallas to Flower Mound — and Across the Globe — Novel Coffee Roasters Just Wants to Know Your Story

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  It would seem as though a devoted college student with a full load of intense classes would be as certain in what his future held for him as just about anyone in the undergrad phase of their life can be. Just a few years ago, Novel Coffee Roasters co-owner Kevin...

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  Don't Wait for Valentine’s Day to Indulge in This Chocolate

  January 10 at 4 a.m.

  Spend a month in Vietnam, and you’ll fall in love with the people, the food and the landscape. The country will call you to return years later. At least, that’s how I feel about it. While that explains why I’m at places such as Sandwich Hag (and Mot Hai Ba...