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    Tastemaker Awards

    These top 10 restaurants in Dallas are the city's tastemakers in 2022

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 6, 2022 | 4:19 pm
    Davio's Italian steakhouse
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    We've reached the summit of our 2022 CultureMap Dallas Tastemaker Awards, an annual celebration shining a light on the city's top culinary talent. And by summit, we're referring to Restaurant of the Year.

     

    It's one in a series of categories honoring Dallas' best food & beverage professionals and institutions, nominated by a panel of judges consisting of former CultureMap Tastemaker Award winners and local F&B experts, alongside Neighborhood Restaurant of the Year, Bar of the Year, Best New Pizza, Best Wine Program, Bartender of the Year, Brewery of the Year, Pastry Chef, and Rising Star Chef.

     

    Winners will be revealed at our Tastemaker Awards party on May 12 at Fashion Industry Gallery, emceed by comedian CJ Starr, when attendees get to dine on bites from nominated restaurants and find out what the buzz is all about. (Tickets are on sale here.)

     

    Restaurant of the Year is about the restaurants that showed themselves at their very best in 2022. They include everything from national award winners to chef-driven gems, and represent Dallas 2022 at its finest.

     

    Here are our nominees for 2022 Restaurant of the Year:

     

     Roots Southern Table
    Southern restaurant in Farmers Branch by Dallas celebrity chef Tiffany Derry has brought more attention in the past year to Dallas than any other restaurant, with lots of national nods and acclaim. The menu and theme are inspired by her upbringing on her family's Southern farm. The centerpiece is Duck Fat Fried Chicken served family-style with drop biscuits, watermelon rind preserves, and house-made sauces.

     

     Petra & The Beast
    Highly acclaimed restaurant in a former 1930s gas station is award-winning chef Misti Norris' ode to foraging, fermenting, and whole-animal cookery. Norris is doing smart, creative dishes with loads of heart and soul, such as fried chicken hearts wrapped in a pale-green garlic crepe. The restaurant is small and highly personal, with new creations being rolled out all the time.

     

     Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse
    Northern Italian steakhouse from the Northeast has gifted The Colony with a bountiful menu featuring pasta, steak, seafood, cocktails and 300-plus bottles of wine. Handmade pasta such as potato gnocchi and tagliatelle Bolognese plays an integral role. Their schtick is spring rolls in a variety of options including their signature Philly Cheese Steak Spring Rolls.

     

     Beverley's
    Upscale bistro on transitioning Fitzhugh Avenue from longtime food & beverage professional Greg Katz is where all the cool guys go. Named after Katz' mother, Beverley's has a menu that crosses Jewish with Texas, Mexico, and beyond, with ceviche tacos side by side with chicken schnitzel and matzo ball soup. Service is smooth, and the atmosphere is glitzy, with black woods, brass accents, and a marble bar.

     

     The Exchange/AT&T Discovery District
    Downtown Dallas complex remains a consistently top-quality and fun dining experience with a variety of choices, from frozen drinks at Jaxon to avocado toast at Rise + Thyme to refreshing Dole Whip at Bobbers. More than a dozen restaurants are there to satisfy a variety of tastes, and there's also the Discovery District of which it's a part, a pleasant outdoor oasis in downtown with immersive exhibits and entertainment.

     

     Monarch
    Downtown restaurant at The National, a residences-plus-hotel in downtown Dallas, from gregarious Chicago chef Danny Grant, has become one of Dallas' top destination restaurants. It's pricey, with $55 lasagna and a $12 side of charred asparagus, but good, and its skytop perch with amazing views make it a popular special-occasion choice.

     

     Homewood
    Official cuisine at this restaurant from acclaimed chef Matt McCallister is upscale comfort food, with entrees such as half chicken, grass-fed sirloin, and Wagyu rib eye, and there's a raw bar with oysters, bluefin tuna, and dry-aged beef tartare. Dishes like the signature Parker House rolls, served with a dipping sauce made of parmesan mornay and chicken drippings, really hit the spot.

     

     Sloane's Corner
    American bistro from veteran restaurateur Tim McEneny is sweetly named for his daughter. It's a cosmopolitan spot located on a key downtown corner in the Trammell Crow Center near Nasher Sculpture Center, where it very accommodatingly serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus a daily Happy Hour from 2-6 pm, as well as a coffee bar and takeout corner with food and beverage to go.

     

     Mike's Chicken
    Family run fried-chicken restaurant in a laundromat is a phenomenon, earning raves from publications that include USA Today and Insider.com. They offer tenders as well as a half chicken, plus combos such as white meat with breast & wing, or dark meat with leg & thigh. The chicken has a distinctive spice blend that includes sage, turmeric, lemon, and ghost peppers. They make everything from scratch including cooking to order.

     

     Meridian
    Modern Brazilian cuisine from chef Junior Borges is the fine-dining spot that's part of an entire slate of restaurants rolled out at The Village, the massive residential apartment community in the middle of Dallas, which executed a mixed-use lifestyle project with food and entertainment in early 2021. The restaurant features Brazilian-inspired dishes, with snacks, cocktails, salads, brioche, or a family-style feast from a live-fire hearth.

     
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    Empanada News

    Family-owned cafe to serve empanadas and Argentinian food in McKinney

    Luciana Gomez
    Jul 15, 2025 | 12:11 pm
    Stefania's Empanadas Argentina Café
    Stefania's
    Stefania's Empanadas Argentina Café

    Award-winning empanadas are coming to McKinney via a new spot called Stefania's Empanadas Argentina Café, opening in August on the border of McKinney and Frisco in a former doughnut shop at 1800 S. Independence Pkwy. #1100.

    The cafe is from Stefania DiStefano, born in Baltimore to Argentinian parents and Italian grandparents, with a lifelong love for good food and cooking. “I always wanted to be by my mom and my nonnas, cooking," she says.

    She graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management, and began working in the hospitality industry from a young age — first in management, then later taking culinary classes. She began baking empanadas while working at the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore hotel, which had temporarily closed during COVID.

    She moved to Frisco in 2022, then started a ghost kitchen out of Cibo Kitchens, offering empanadas daily plus a full menu of Argentinian dishes on weekends, as well as pop-up dinners twice a month.

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    The road led to this brick-and-mortar store, where she will sell 14 flavors of savory empanadas, including her award-winning Gaucho Empanada, which she describes as "Texas barbecue meets Argentinian asado," with brisket, onion, green pepper, jalapeño, and a mix of chimichurri and barbecue sauce, which won an award for "Best Appetizer" at the city of Frisco's 2023 Freedom Fest.

    Other empanada options include spinach & portabella mushroom; Argentine ground beef with onion, pepper, green olives, and hard boiled egg; and another Argentine favorite, the "humita," with sweet corn folded in a creamy béchamel sauce.

    In addition to empanadas, the café will serve Argentinian dishes like lomo (sirloin) sandwiches, choripán (a grilled sausage sandwich), pastel del papa (a meat and mashed potatoes dish, similar to shepherd’s pie), and locro (stew). There'll be a selection of sweets as well including cakes, alfajores, and churros.

    Beverages will include traditional mate, a caffeinated herbal drink served in a gourd with a metal straw, and a mate cocido version, which is served in a cup like a regular tea. They will also have a coffee bar, as well as a mini market with items such as dulce de leche, cookies, and yerba for mate for sale.

    The café will have seating for 20 inside, with a small outdoor seating area as well. DiStefano will continue her tradition of private dinners, starring empanadas as a starter, with a couple of savory items and dessert.

    “I think Argentinian food is simple but it gathers people together and makes you feel like family," she says.

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