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There is a version of this country that you cannot see from a highway or a plane window. The Colorado River from inside Glenwood Canyon, where the walls rise 1,300 feet on both sides and the train tracks run so close to the water that you could almost reach out and touch it. The red sandstone formations of the Utah desert, layered and ancient, lit differently at every hou...

Jon Stevens grew up in California and came to Dallas to cook at The Mercury under Chris Ward. He spent years after that working with Avner Samuel at Aurora and Nosh, two of the most serious kitchens Dallas had at the time. When he finally opened his own place in 2014, he picked a gutted old Safety Glass bui...

Dwight Harvey spent 38 years in finance at PepsiCo. When he retired, he started barbecuing in his backyard. Rose, his wife, thought it was a fine hobby. Then it became something else.

In 2008 Dwight and Rose opened Off the Bone Barbeque in The Cedars, in an old service stat...

Danny Shin has been cooking his way toward this restaurant for a long time. He grew up in Korea, launched a Korean-American concept in Toronto in 2018, moved to Texas in 2021, opened a sushi restaurant called Bluefin in 2023, and landed in December at

Dallas on a good weekend is one of the better cities in America to be in with no particular agenda. The food is serious, the weather in late May still has a few comfortable hours on either end of the day, and there is always more happening than most people realize. Here is a weekend that actually delivers — restaurants at different price points, a brunch spot worth planni...