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  Quaint Taco Shop Taco Y Vino Adds Eggs to Everything, but Is it Brunch?

  August 20 at 4 a.m.

  Is it lazy, simple or efficient to take your regular menu, throw it over eggs and call it brunch? Let’s talk about that. There’s no doubt that Taco Y Vino offers a tranquil setting in its adorable little house in North Oak Cliff. And there’s probably not much more you...

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  Da Munchies Serves Comfort Food to Vegans and Non-Vegans Alike

  August 16 at 4 a.m.

  Vegan comfort food has made its way to West Dallas. Da Munchies is a hole-in-the-wall, mostly takeout joint that serves comfort food to herbivores and omnivores alike. But it’s Da Munchies’ vegan menu that has people flocking from all over the city. Owned by sisters Elizabeth Anderson and Angela Alexander,...

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  The Food Is the Least Memorable Part of Fachini’s Glamorous Italian-American Time Warp

  August 7 at 4 a.m.

  Fachini feels fancy, but the food doesn't live up to the tuxedos.

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  Fachini Looks More Opulent Than It Tastes (Photos)

  August 7 at 4 a.m.

  Julian Barsotti's latest endeavor, Fachini, brings 1970s Italian-American opulence to Highland Park Village. But even classics like Cesar salad and lasagna ($38 lasagna at that) are disappointing. 

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  The Lavish Vietnamese Fare at Saigon Block Starts with Seven Courses of Beef

  July 24 at 4 a.m.

  There are many good things to eat at Saigon Block, but only one of them is certain to turn every head in the restaurant. No matter how many times it moves past, tucked loosely in the confident arms of a waiter, it can’t help attracting attention. The enormous white platter,...

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  Saigon Block's Family-Style Feasts Can Feed An Army

  July 24 at 4 a.m.

  At the top end of the range, in price and complexity, is Saigon Block, the rare Dallas-area Vietnamese restaurant specializing in big, flashy banquet foods. On Saigon Block’s menu, pho is practically an afterthought. Most of the tables in this dining room, which has been packed with fans since it opened 10 years ago, are ordering roasted quail, deep-fried Cornish hens, butter-basted frog legs, bountiful portions of beef and, of course, enormous slabs of catfish.