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  Why Did Anybody Think Circo TX Was a Good Idea for a Restaurant?

  January 15 at 4 a.m.

  When I visit a restaurant, I sometimes imagine the conversations its creators had. What were they thinking? Why did they invest money in this concept? How did they miss the flashing neon orange warning signs that their business plan was doomed? My newest morbid fascination is Circo TX, a 25,000-square-foot...

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  Izkina Slings First-Class Spanish Tapas in a Stylish Deep Ellum Hostel

  January 2 at 4 a.m.

  “A farm-to-table Spanish tapas bar led by big-time culinary talents opens its doors inside a style-conscious youth hostel.” The summary sounds like a joke about those crazy foodies down in Austin finding yet another way to out-weird the rest of Texas. But it’s not a news alert from Austin. Deep...

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  Meet Little Kaiping, Richardson's New Peking Duck Champion

  Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Few are the foods with such power over the imagination that just hearing their names can stop your stream of thoughts and send you off to the internet to look at restaurant menus. They tend to be celebration dishes — whether eaten at a celebration or cause for one. When...

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  City Hall Bistro Reinvents Itself as Downtown Dallas' Under-the-Radar Neighborhood Restaurant

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  For most diners these days, City Hall Bistro is a likable neighborhood restaurant. For many of the bistro’s employees, it’s a redemption story. City Hall Bistro opened in summer 2017 to little fanfare — or at least, to less fanfare than the other restaurant in the Adolphus Hotel’s front lobby,...

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  With Billy Can Can, Dallas Gets a Fun, Merrily Inauthentic Wild West Saloon

  Monday, November 5, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Saloons just aren’t what they used to be. In his recent, wildly entertaining book A Short History of Drunkenness, Mark Forsyth traced the history of the saloon beyond the Hollywood myth, to a time when the word denoted a tent with a couple of barrels of whiskey inside. Saloons of...

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  With Italian-Inspired Fare, The Charles is the Design District’s Latest Over-the-Top Splurge

  Monday, October 22, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The Charles is something special, in both the traditional and slang senses of the word, with stellar people-watching and dainty but well-crafted small plates in a dining room that defies description.