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Teresa Gubbins

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New England native Teresa Gubbins began her career in Dallas as a pastry chef for the Buffalo Club, Cafe Society and the Mansion on Turtle Creek. In 1992, she joined the Dallas Morning News as a reporter, and she’s been covering the food and dining scene here ever since, for publications such as D Magazine, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Gayot.com and Pegasus News. She co-authored the first Zagat Survey of Texas Restaurants and has written for Edible Dallas/Fort Worth, American Way Custom Publishing and Nation's Restaurant News.

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Walks Getting Canceled

Susan G. Komen for the Cure replaces Nancy Brinker with new CEO

By Teresa Gubbins

06.17.13 | 1:26 pm

Nearly a year after promised, Dallas-based breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure has replaced Nancy Brinker as CEO. Stepping into the pink shoes is Judith Salerno, executive ...


News You Can Eat

Coffee, Cane Rosso and Restaurant Week perk up Dallas food news

By Teresa Gubbins

06.17.13 | 9:50 am

Coffee, there is never enough. Brunch, there's a bunch. And now that summer is practically here, we can already start thinking about the annual Restaurant Week, which this year ...


Adult Onesies, Anyone?

One Direction's 1D World pops up in Dallas at Shops at Park Lane

By Teresa Gubbins

06.17.13 | 8:52 am

At long last, you have a chance to buy your own adult onesie when a pop-up retail store dedicated to boy band One Direction opens at the the Shops at ...


Musical Feeding Frenzy

Book of Mormon tickets in Dallas already in dangerously short supply

By Teresa Gubbins

06.16.13 | 1:24 pm

Tickets for The Book of Mormon, coming to the Winspear Opera House in Dallas August 21-September 1, go on sale to the public June 17 at 10 am. But two ...


Food Truck Alert

City View Tacos now doling out fajitas at West Dallas RV Park

By Teresa Gubbins

06.14.13 | 11:04 am

If you salivate over the words "tacos," "food trucks" and "temporary pop-up," then you're surely headed over to 400 West Commerce St., just past Chicken Scratch, where three food ...


Chicken and Waffles on Saturdays

Sweet Rose Coffee and Wine Bar in Arlington ladles out Southern charm

By Teresa Gubbins

06.13.13 | 4:10 pm

With a name like Sweet Rose Coffee and Wine Bar, you just know there has to be a Rose involved. There is. She's the grandmother of Monica Richardson, who ...


Media Deals

USA Today parent Gannett buys Dallas-based Belo Corporation

By Teresa Gubbins

06.13.13 | 10:22 am

The Gannett Company, owner of USA Today, Detroit Free Press and Arizona Republic, will now have a stake in local news. The Virginia-based publisher announced that it will acquire Dallas-based ...


Sugary Bites

Who needs cronuts? Dallas restaurants do fancy doughnuts

By Teresa Gubbins

06.12.13 | 11:10 am

Never mind cronuts. Dallas restaurants have been all over the doughnuts-as-dessert trend for a while now. These are the newest and greatest.


From Ballpark to Pizza Joint

Former baseball player jumps into restaurant game with Soulfire Pizza in Frisco

By Teresa Gubbins

06.11.13 | 11:36 am

Steve Hecht, a performance coach for major league baseball and a former professional athlete, is going to batter up in another field: restaurants. He opens Soulfire Pizza this week in ...


Heard It Through the Grapevine

Main Street Bread Baking Company revamps concept to Bistro M

By Teresa Gubbins

06.11.13 | 9:02 am

A new branch of Main Street Bread Baking Company opens soon in Coppell, but this one has a new name: Bistro M. This location, the fourth, leads the charge in ...


Going to the Hot Dogs

Mutt's Cantina set to open in Uptown with hot dogs and dog park

By Teresa Gubbins

06.10.13 | 1:40 pm

Uptown Dallas gets another hot, happening, groovy spot on June 19 when Mutt's, a restaurant-bar with adjacent dog park, opens across from West Village. Mutt's takes over the ...


French Wave

Mercat French bistro opens in Dallas with a certain je ne sais quoi

By Teresa Gubbins

06.10.13 | 8:53 am

Opening night finally arrived on June 8 for Mercat, the new French bistro on the edge of downtown Dallas. The restaurant is the more sophisticated sibling to neighboring Saint Ann ...


Paging Dr. Frosty

What's da Scoop food truck brings a different kind of ice cream to Dallas

By Teresa Gubbins

06.09.13 | 1:07 pm

Arriving in the nick of time for summer, What's da Scoop? is a new ice cream-themed food truck with a lineup of flavors, cones and toppings that goes beyond ...


Shoe Gazer Rock

My Bloody Valentine to launch mini-American concert tour in Texas

By Teresa Gubbins

06.09.13 | 11:03 am

Big news in the shoe-gazer rock world: My Bloody Valentine has announced a baby tour through the United States this summer. It will begin in Austin and stop in Dallas ...


Movie Time in Roanoke

Cinemark buys up 10 acres in Roanoke for new movie theater

By Teresa Gubbins

06.07.13 | 10:22 am

Cinemark has announced a new multiplex coming to Roanoke, with a 14-screen, all-digital movie theater as the centerpiece. The complex will also include a Cotton Patch Cafe. Scheduled to open ...


Stealth Beer Marketing

Indio beer defaces Dallas sidewalks with insidious graffiti campaign

By Teresa Gubbins

06.06.13 | 4:11 pm

Since its introduction to Texas in 2012, Indio beer — a Mexican dark beer that is part of the Heineken portfolio — hasn't yet made waves, other than a massively financed ...


Restaurant Shakeup

Del Frisco's founder Dee Lincoln takes over JoJo Eating House & Bar

By Teresa Gubbins

06.05.13 | 3:20 pm

The clock is ticking – or should we say, le temps est compté? –  for JoJo Eating House & Bar. The Uptown restaurant starring French chef Laurent Poupart has been taken over by ...


Lights Out for Longtime Restaurant

Humperdinks shuts down Richardson restaurant after 23 years

By Teresa Gubbins

06.05.13 | 5:55 am

Humperdinks, the sports bar-restaurant chain with five locations around Dallas, now has only four. The Richardson location off US 75 closed May 30 after more than 20 years at that ...


This Month's Must-Eats

Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 hot restaurants for June

By Teresa Gubbins

06.04.13 | 9:01 am

After a busy April, restaurant openings around Dallas-Fort Worth died down in May. If something new is what you want, your choices are few. But if you're willing to ...


Plot in the City

Deep Ellum Urban Gardens celebrates grass-roots success

By Teresa Gubbins

06.03.13 | 9:34 am

After years of plotting and hard labor, Deep Ellum Urban Gardens, a community garden on the edge of Deep Ellum, has finally arrived. On June 1, a ceremony saluted the ...


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