Things to do in Dallas–fort Worth
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Bread Winners Cafe & Bakery
Bread Winners is the perfect combination of upscale dining and casual friendly atmosphere. Whether you have the veggie melt for lunch, the tenderloin Eggs Benedict for brunch or nut-crusted fish for dinner, be sure to save room for cookies.
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Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine
This is totally Texan fine dining, featuring products from local farms and ranches: pepper-crusted buffalo tenderloin, 'oysters Texasfeller' and a local Texas cheese plate grace the interesting menu. Try the tres leches crème brûlée.
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Saint-Emilion
Perfect for capping off a day at the museums, this quaint Cultural District charmer serves rustic French food. The 'menu classique' dinner includes appetizer, main and dessert; try the lamb chops with French herbs and the fresh raspberry tarte.
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Billy Bob's Texas Honky Tonk
Flexible (Departs Fort Worth, Texas)
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Texas! What image does that word conjure up? Rodeo Bull Riders? Country Music? Sizzlin' Steaks? Two Steppin' Cowgirls? This family friendly fun includes a real…Not LP reviewed
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Women's Museum
Fascinating exhibits that share the accomplishments of famous and little-known women throughout history and across cultures are the focus of this museum. Don't miss the 'Funny Women' video, or the poetry and music listening room.
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Meadows Museum
Located on the Southern Methodist University campus, the Meadows Museum exhibits perhaps the best and most comprehensive collection of Spanish art outside of Spain, including masterpieces by Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Picasso and Miró.
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Reata
The proprietors also own their own cattle ranch, so the sizable steaks are worth their weight. But you might also try the Texas specialties such as tenderloin tamales, jalapeño-cheddar grits and the $49.95 billionaire margarita made with vintage 1942 tequila.
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Dallas World Aquarium
Among the flora and fauna of 14 countries, you can explore the watery Mayan world of a Central American jungle.
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Ahab Bowen
Tucked away on a leafy street in Uptown, this green cottage is bliss for vintage-lovers. You'll find an immaculate, well-curated selection of authentic but eminently wearable clothes, accessories and shoes, with cocktail dresses to coax out your inner Audrey Hepburn.
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ML Leddy's
Ah, that smell of leather that unmistakably says 'new boots.' Check out the bank ledgers, which contain the foot measurements of rock stars and presidents. If you still don't feel like kicking up your heels, the selection of hats, buckles and clothes might fit the bill.
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Hattie's
Upscale Southern comfort food with a mod twist? Yes, ma'am. Dig into fried green tomatoes, low-country shrimp and grits, and pecan-crusted catfish. Amid butter-colored walls, glamazons in Louboutins get down and dirty with classic cocktails like grasshoppers and juleps.
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Smoke
A barbecue joint that grows its own veggies and smokes its own meats gets enough street cred to claim the motto 'Raisin' Hell from Scratch.' The Northwoods-cozy dining room, featuring old barn walls and a fireplace nook, proves that ecofriendly can be drop-dead stylish.
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Libertine
Any Austinite hipster who dares to call Dallas uncool should be forced to drink a single beer in this bar. We like how the sophisticated pub food and convivial neighborhood vibe, all wrapped up in a sultry retro setting, make us feel just slightly cooler than we actually are.
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Balcony Club
This mysterious upstairs hideaway feels like a secret even though it's not. Emerald walls, a tiny stage and a cozy nook of a patio above the Landmark Theater draw all ages for nightly live music – mostly jazz – and sassy drinks like moonlight martinis and three-way tropical punch.
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Pioneer Plaza
For a Texas-sized photo op or just a sight of the largest bronze monument on earth, head to Pioneer Plaza near the Convention Center: its showpiece is a collection of 40 bronze larger-than-life longhorns, amassed as if they were on a cattle drive.
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Hunky's Old Fashioned Hamburgers
Reclaim your innocence (or at least get a damn good malt) in this throwback diner that's a far cry from those themed places where waitresses named 'Trixie' snap their gum. No, it's just an authentic neighborhood hangout with great burgers that make us nostalgic for good times in general.
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Tillman's Roadhouse
A mod hunting lodge for stylish cowboys features shotguns for door handles, faux stag heads, antler chandeliers and a gorgeous log bar. With all this offbeat charm, the wink-wink comfort food – chicken-fried hanger steak, white-cheddar mac 'n' cheese, tableside s'mores – is surprisingly good.
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Lonesome Dove Western Bistro
At Tim Love's mod-Western dining experience, even the chefs wear cowboy hats. Start with a jalapeño–cucumber margarita, move on to a lamb-belly BLT or a roasted garlic-stuffed beef tenderloin, and keep your eyes peeled for a Dallas Cowboy or a country star feasting on the seared-ostrich nachos.
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Grace
Yep, even modest Fort Worthians occasionally strut their stuff, and there's no better place to do it than at Grace, where local luminaries hold court (and martinis) on the couch-strewn outdoor patio. In the stunning dining room, a seasonal menu features, say, sweet-corn ravioli and diver scallops on potato cakes.
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Texas Motor Speedway
Have yourself a NASCAR experience at Texas Motor Speedway. The annual stock-car race is in November, but year-round you can ride along at more than 150mph (four laps $125) or go to driving school (10 laps $345) with Team Texas. The speedway is 20 miles north of downtown, on I-35 W.
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Bread Winners
If sipping a peach Bellini in a lush courtyard atrium is the reward for the agony of choosing what to order for brunch, then bring on the pain. Veggie Benedict or breakfast casserole? Bananas Foster waffle or raspberry cream cheese–stuffed French toast? Lunch and dinner offer similar, though less tortuous, conundrums. In a pinch, at least stop in for something decadent from the bakery counter.
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Wild Bill's Western Store
Bill's motto is 'from the affordable to the extravagant,' and we like that you can grab a $15 T-shirt or blow your bonus on a pair of handmade and -measured snakeskin boots just like Eric Clapton's – he is but one of the many celebrities who've made their feet happy here. While you're here, enjoy a cold beer while you shop.
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Billy Bob's Texas
The 100,000-sq-ft building that is now the world’s largest honky-tonk, called Billy Bob’s, was once a barn housing prize cattle during the Fort Worth Stock Show. After the stock show moved to the Will Rogers Memorial Center, the barn became a department store so big that the stock keepers wore roller skates.
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Double Wide
Are these rednecks pretending to be hipsters or hipsters pretending to be rednecks? Live music keeps the irony from killing the fun.
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Stoneleigh P
Stoneleigh P channels the spirit of its original building with black-and-white photographs of medicinal items stocking the antique pharmacy cabinets, Texas memorabilia and two working jukeboxes. As the sun goes down, this restaurant becomes more of a bar, serving 'drugstore drinks', beers and hard liquor at the converted soda counter.
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