Travel during the holidays is sometimes motivated by guilt: “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go,” and all that. Our To-Do Lists are filled with holiday-related errands and tasks, so the fun kind of travel, the day trips and staycations, don’t happen like they do the other 47 weeks of...Read More

The Tex-Mex segment in Dallas is en fuego. Within the circulation boundaries of Preston Hollow People and Park Cities People alone, there are at least 12 Tex-Mex restaurants including Rafa’s, Mesero (2), Odelay, Mi Cocina (2), Fernando’s, El Fenix, Muchacho, and Jalisco Norte. That doesn’t include two Chipotles, one Taco Joint, a Velvet Taco and two upscale predominantly Mexican,...Read More

Wade Nicolas, a Highland Park grad and dad of two Highland Park grads, likes to fish, bird hunt, and travel. The semi-retired tech guy had been preparing for a nine-day solo backpacking trip in Patagonia. Then Russia invaded Ukraine.  Feeling compelled to help, Wade canceled his trip to the southern tip of South America and...Read More

Nikky Phinyawatana, Chef/Owner of Asian Mint, is on a mission to Thai-ify kitchens throughout Preston Hollow and the Park Cities. The Hockaday grad launched a line of Thai seasonings and sauces and is using them as tools to broaden the culinary horizons of home cooks. In her online Thai Takeover series, Nikky comes into local home kitchens,...Read More

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this is a feeling That no one can ever reprise   -Yip Harberg  If you can’t make it to Paris in April, the next best thing might just be to visit Parigi, the Oak Lawn Avenue restaurant named after the City of Light. Parigi, the...Read More

Food and romance are inextricably linked.  Unless you get food poisoning, that is, then romance is dead. Robin and Norm Bagwell circa 1984PHOTO: Robin Bagwell Restaurants are the setting for so many first looks, first dates, so many romantic gestures and proposals. In fact, quite a few romances in Preston Hollow and the Park Cities...Read More

Shannon Wynne has been called many things over the years, most notably “successful restauranteur” and perennial “cool kid.” Raised in Highland Park, Shannon is known for creating some of Dallas’ most vibrant clubs of the ‘80s and ‘90s – now just memories without landmarks as most of the buildings that housed his ventures have been...Read More

‘Tis the Season for hunters who enjoy one of the great outdoor activities this time of year: whitetail deer hunting, which is in full swing until Jan. 2 in northern Texas and until Jan. 16 in the southern part of the state. And, while hunters are hanging out in the deer stand, they might encounter...Read More

Sitting on a sparse chair beside the eight-year-old’s bed, Chef Miguel Blasini was covered in a ubiquitous blue mask, gloves, and gown, trying to connect with the boy who was recuperating from a bone marrow transplant. Blasini was asked by one of the boy’s physicians to “round the patient,” meaning visit the patient, in this...Read More

When is a restaurant so much more than a restaurant? When the owner brings vanilla custard and chocolate sauce to the hospital where you’ve just delivered your first child. When you and your boyfriend go on so many dates there, he proposes to you at that restaurant and your engagement photos are taken there. When...Read More