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  Vantina, the Desert Racer Pop-Up on the Desert Racer Patio, Is Open

  June 1 at 4 a.m.

  The patio is shining with colors and studded with cacti. Tidy artificial turf seems to have a pattern painted on it — it’s actually some pleasant shadows from the wood pergola standing above the clean wood benches. It’s all lovely and strange but hopeful when juxtaposed against the effect of...

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  A Dallas Brewery Explains How it Prepared to Reopen in a Health Crisis

  June 1 at 4 a.m.

  As Texas breweries received permission to begin reopening, individual business owners had to grapple with a difficult question: How do you safely open an alcohol-dependent business during a health crisis? Many local breweries delayed their openings to spend more time contemplating that question. Welcoming the public back into a taproom...

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  Good to Go: Commissary Perfects the Takeout Ham and Cheese

  June 1 at 4 a.m.

  Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas' restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. When Commissary opened in downtown Dallas years ago, it was fantastic in that it provided another dining option for nearby residents. Since then, other good places have opened,...

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  Dallas Band Big Story Had a Cinderella Story, but COVID Was a Wicked Stepmother

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  While most bands are struggling to stay afloat amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Dallas’ Big Story is finding success at SiriusXM satellite radio. The band’s new single, “Rabbit,” released in March, has been receiving regular airplay on Octane SiriusXM radio, boosting the four-piece project into the national air waves. Singer Randall...

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  Fine Dining in a Pandemic: Having Dinner Inside

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  It was six minutes until the reservation time. I was exiting North Pearl Street from Woodall Rodgers Expressway, and I was thinking I should change the plans to simply grabbing sushi to go and sit at a park or something. But sushi to go is never as good as in...

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  Restaurants Opening and Closing Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

  May 29 at 4 a.m.

  Since our last update, several iconic Dallas restaurants have permanently closed. May has been a rough month, needless to say. Dakota’s Steakhouse has shuttered for good. Built underground to skirt a clause in the original deed that restricted the sale of alcohol on former church "grounds," the steakhouse, which opened...