This Week's Hot Headlines

Good and bad Dallas dining news feeds this week's 5 most popular stories

Editor’s note: Another week has come and gone, and there’s a lot we all probably missed. But we’re looking out for you, kid. Here are the most popular stories from this past week:

1. The 12 best restaurants in Dallas to take out-of-town guests. When the holidays come, so do out-of-town guests. At some point during their visit, you will inevitably be eating out. Choosing the right restaurant is key. For inspiration, we turned to our Top 100 list of the very best restaurants in Dallas and pulled out 12.

2. Burger joint with a view pops up in unexpected Dallas-area location. A new restaurant in Grand Prairie offers views from here to the horizon with its burgers. Called Radial Cafe, it's located at the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport, giving diners a bird's-eye view of aircraft in the sky.

3. Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 top restaurants with cozy fireplaces. When the temperature drops below 50, it's imperative to take advantage and find a cozy spot to sup. Fire's what you need — a blazing fireplace you can gaze at while dining on casseroles and other wintry foods. Here are 10 options.

4. Nationally recognized hot dog joint quits Deep Ellum. Luscher's Red Hots, the Deep Ellum hot dog joint from Dallas chef Brian Luscher, served its last meal earlier this week, after two years in business. In 2015, it was a contender for Bon Appetit's best new restaurants in America.

5. Master list of Hawaiian poke restaurants flooding Dallas. If you like seafood and fiendishly follow dining trends, you already know about poke, the raw fish sensation from Hawaii. If you do not, then get ready for the invasion of the poke bar, which will hit Dallas hard in 2017.

This is the unusual view at a new burger joint.

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Thanksgiving News

Dallas steak frites restaurant will fry your turkey for free

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Fried turkey

A restaurant on Lower Greenville is ready and willing to fry your turkey for free: Medium Rare, the upscale prix fixe steak frites chain with locations in nine cities including Dallas at 5631 Alta Ave., is expanding its Free Turkey Fry event to its restaurant in Dallas.

The chain has been hosting this event at its original location in Washington DC for 18 years. According to a release, for the first time, this holiday season they will host the turkey fry at other locations.

The Medium Rare Free Turkey Fry event was founded in 2008, by the restaurant’s co-founder Mark Bucher, who is a passionate voice on hunger, food insecurity, and real-world, scalable solutions.

He launched the event as a way to help those who wanted to avoid the hassles and potential dangers of turkey frying. Many who took advantage of the event were recipients of free turkeys but lacked the skill, confidence, or tools to cook them.

The expansion of this year’s Free Turkey Fry into Dallas, as well as into two additional cities (Houston and Boston), reflects both the program’s growth and the increasing need for community support surrounding the growing issue of food insecurity in the current economic and political climate.

“We’ve seen the growing need to expand the Free Turkey Fry event year after year,” Bucher says. “It’s great to provide food to those that are struggling to make ends meet, but we often don’t think about how they are going to cook the food."

As an offshoot of the Free Turkey Fry program, they launched "Feed the Fridge" during the pandemic, placing community refrigerators across DC, and paying local restaurants to fill them with ready-to-eat chef-prepared meals. That program has provided more than one million free meals and injected more than $2 million back into neighborhood restaurants.

Dallas’ Medium Rare Free Turkey Fry will take place on Thanksgiving Day from 11 am-4 pm, and is open to anyone who brings a fully thawed turkey, up to 10 pounds.

The event will operate on a first-come, first-serve basis, but Bucher says they will try to get to everyone. They're expecting to fry hundreds of turkeys in Dallas and encourage people to arrive early; at their DC events, lines begin forming around 8 am.

This year’s national expansion underscores both the scalability of community-driven solutions and Medium Rare’s long-standing mission to fight hunger and food insecurity with creativity, compassion, and action.

"If we can help a family enjoy Thanksgiving safely, and at the same time help another family eat with dignity through Feed the Fridge, then we’re doing what Medium Rare was built to do," Bucher says.

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