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Dallas couple's fancy frat-party wedding marches into this week's 5 hottest headlines

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines.

1. Preschool sweethearts crowd-surf and shoot tequila at fanciest frat-party wedding in Dallas. If frat parties had professional event planners, they might look something like Josh and Courtney Katz's wedding. For their big day on November 17, 2018, the bride and groom envisioned throwing “the fanciest frat party of all time.” Event planner Jeffrey Kollinger delivered with countless details reflecting the couple's playful personalities.

2. 2 acclaimed Dallas restaurants make prestigious list by Bon Appetit magazine. Four Texas restaurants, including two from Dallas — Khao Noodle Shop and Petra and the Beast — are basking in the national spotlight. Bon Appétit has included them in its list of America's 50 best new restaurants. The long list is a prelude to the magazine's annual Hot 10 list, which will be released September 17.

3. Revered Dallas restaurant The Grape on Greenville Avenue is closing. One of Dallas' most revered restaurants is closing. According to a release, The Grape, which has been on Greenville Avenue since 1972, will close on October 10. As of September 11, the restaurant is no longer taking dinner reservations. For those who don't have a reservation, they will have limited first-come first-serve walk-in opportunities.

4. Dallas-Fort Worth dethrones NYC as the nation's No. 1 spot for new apartments. It’s not all in your head. Those new apartments you spotted on your way to work probably did just pop up — and it’s happening in big numbers in DFW and around the state, according to a new study. RentCafe estimates 22,196 new apartments will be built in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area by the end of 2019 — by far the highest number in the country.

5. East Coast-style Dallas restaurant heats up intersection in Lakewood. The Lakewood intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road gets a fancy new restaurant with the opening of Hudson House Restaurant & Raw Bar, opening in what used to be an IHOP. This is the third outpost of this brand, which has become a neighborhood favorite both in Highland Park and Addison.

Courtney Chanon and Josh Katz were married on November 17, 2018.

Photo by John Cain Photography

Courtney Chanon and Josh Katz were married on November 17, 2018.

This Week's Hot Headlines

Guy Fieri visits 7 lucky Dallas restaurants in this week's top stories

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Guy Fieri in Dallas on December 7.

Editor's note: Guy Fieri is back in this week's most popular stories. Plus: the latest Dallas restaurant openings and closings and a peek inside the glamorous 2024 Crystal Charity Ball. Here are the most-read Dallas stories of the week.

Find the best things to do in Dallas this weekend here.

1. Which 7 Dallas restaurants did Guy Fieri visit for Diners Drive-ins & Dives. Celebrity chef Guy Fieri came to Dallas on December 7 — officially on a meet-and-greet in support of Santo Spirits, a tequila brand he owns in partnership with rocker Sammy Hagar. But the visit was also an opportunity for Fieri to spotlight a new round of restaurants in Dallas on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, his massively popular long-running show on the Food Network.

2. 12 restaurants in Dallas that have either just opened or just closed. In the inevitable ebb and flow of Dallas restaurants, openings and closings are part of the deal — often coming at the end of the year, when restaurateurs, like the rest of us, take stock of the future. Here's a roundup of Dallas restaurant openings and closures.

3. Where to drink in Dallas: 7 holiday drink specials for December. Dallas in December is brimming with holiday festivities, and that includes cocktails: from over-the-top pop-up bars to extravagantly priced cocktails to drinks with a festive Christmas theme. This edition of Where to Drink covers all that and more.

4. Glimpse all the gowns and glamour of Dallas' Crystal Charity Ball 2024. Crystal Charity Ball 2024 whisked Dallas patrons away on an opulent "New York Holiday." In choosing to bring the Big Apple to Big D with her theme, ball chairman Cheryl Joyner had imagined “the beauty of fresh snow, peeking into the elaborately decorated windows on Fifth Avenue, and strolling through Central Park with a chill in the air." It was all of that, kicked up a notch with a spectacular Rockettes-style dance show, too.

Dallas Crystal Charity Ball 2024 Crystal Charity Ball 2024 chairman Cheryl Joyner and Richard Joyner. Photo by Ashley Gongora

5. Donatos Pizza totes its unique crust to new location in Flower Mound. A pizza chain with a quirky obsession on its crusts is coming to Flower Mound: Donatos Pizza, the franchise famous for spreading its toppings to the very edge of the pizza, will open a location at 1400 Long Prairie Rd. #160 on December 17.

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