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  Irving’s Po’ Melvin’s Has Been Serving New Orleans Classics for Over 32 Years

  February 21 at 4 a.m.

  New Orleans cuisine has had a home in North Irving for 32 years. Po’ Melvin’s Down Home Cooking is a family-owned and operated restaurant serving Louisiana classics like po’ boys, red beans and rice, gumbo, jalapeño cornbread, and fried shrimp and catfish. The restaurant, at West Walnut Hill Lane and...

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  Come Fly With Us to Pilots’ Favorite ‘$100 Hamburgers’

  February 17 at 4 a.m.

  Five pilots sat around a table over lunch recently, discussing gumbo, cargo flights out of Winnipeg and getting stuck in a holding pattern. They were at Ardmore Municipal Airport in Oklahoma watching planes come and go from the dining room at Jake's Joint. The chef-driven restaurant adjacent to the runway...

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  You’re Missing Out If You Don’t Indulge in Jackson’s Vietnamese Menu at Cosmo’s

  Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  For a lot of us in town, we know about Cosmo’s Restaurant and Bar. It has a solid jukebox, delightfully retro decor and the perfect dive bar vibe. Somehow, many still don’t know that the best part of this place comes from the slip of paper that’s clipped to the...

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  All American: The Greatest Sandwiches in the ’Burbs Are at Patina Green

  Friday, July 19, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Sandwiches are Kaci and Robert Lyford’s second business. Their first was roving the state and country with buckets of paint. He’d been a chef since pre-Y2K, a graduate of ye olde culinary school, and, somehow, they ended up with an interior painting business. A few things happened next that sent...

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  From Car Sales to Restaurateurs, Sky Rocket Burger Owners Tackle a New Field

  Monday, April 2, 2018 at 9 a.m.

  There are four items on the menu at Sky Rocket Burger: A single, double, and triple cheeseburger and a grilled cheese. On Scott and Tio Wagner’s 4-foot griddle, there’s little room for anything else. The restaurant's walls are have little more than a coat of white paint: Photos of their...

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  Sahara Restaurant in North Dallas Serves an Affordable, Traditional Persian Buffet

  Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  In a strip mall in North Dallas, you’ll find an impressive Persian lunch buffet. Sahara Restaurant, owned by Iran native Bahman Derakhshan, offers a $12.99 lunch buffet and traditional dinner menu. Derakhshan opened the restaurant 26 years ago, and Sahara has been in its current space for 17 years. Derakhshan...