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  Anastacia Quinones Is the New Executive Chef at José

  December 10 at 9:52 a.m.

  At the start of this year, Anastacia Quinones took a high-profile position as chef at the Cedars Social, the struggling Cedars restaurant that was to become a haven for Quinones' modern Mexican cooking. Just a few months later, she was out, and she spent the last few months hosting pop-ups...

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  Coming Next Week: The Top 100 Dallas Restaurants

  December 7 at 4 a.m.

  For more than a year, we've been quietly working on something big — something 100 times big. And next week, we're ready to show you. Dallas Observer food critic Brian Reinhart has been compiling a list of the city's 100 best restaurants, the eateries that make Dallas cuisine diverse, thoughtful...

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  Esquire Names a Tiny, BYOB Dallas Eatery One of the U.S.' Best New Restaurants

  November 28 at 11:55 a.m.

  There are a lot — and we do mean a lot — of "best ____ restaurant" lists in the county, ranking everything from breakfast to burgers and anything in between. Hell, we even do a few of them ourselves every year. But one of the biggest such lists in the...

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  Alvin Darrel Plaskoff, Founder of Big Al's Smokehouse Barbecue, Dies

  November 27 at 4 a.m.

  Alvin Darrel Plaskoff, founder of long-running Dallas barbecue joint Big Al's Smokehouse BBQ, died just before Thanksgiving 2018.

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  Owner of Celebration Restaurant Dies in Fall at Big Bend National Park

  November 12 at 10:45 a.m.

  Ed Lowe, founder of Celebration Restaurant, one of Dallas' first farm-to-table eateries, died last week in a fall at Big Bend National Park, the restaurant has confirmed on Facebook. "It is with heavy hearts we share with you that we have lost our beloved friend and servant leader, Ed Lowe,"...

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  This Dallas Company Will Collect Your Compost and Give It to Local Farms

  November 12 at 4 a.m.

  If you live in a major city like Austin, composting is easy. You don't have to buy your own bin and spend weekends turning the compost pile; the city will come pick up your compost from a city-issued bin. While Dallas doesn't offer a similar program, one local company is...