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Two things to check before Thanksgiving week. Costco is pulling one batch of its Kirkland whipped cream because it may have a cleaning chemical in it, and a canned yellow peach sold mostly at Asian grocery stores is being recalled for elevated lead. Both are the kind of thing sitting in a pantry right now, so check the codes before you cook with them. Kirkland Signature Real Heavy Whipped Cream — cleaning chemical, 12 states. Alamance Foods, the company that makes the whipped

North Texas has another Hawaiian plate lunch spot. Mo' Bettahs Hawaiian Style Food opened its newest restaurant in Euless on Friday, November 13, at 2701 Hwy. 121, Suite 100, continuing the brand's North Texas expansion. The chain was founded in Bountiful, Utah, in 2008 by brothers Kimo and Kalani Mack, and it built its name on Hawaiian-style plate lunches — generous portions, island flavors, and the kind of comfort food that travels well from a lunch counter to a family tabl

Fort Worth's restaurant scene is shifting again, with new spots opening and a few longtime favorites closing their doors. Yindee Thai Eatery opens November 19 in the H Mart Plaza at 3950 NE Loop 820, Suite 100 in Haltom City, serving coastal Thai and street-food favorites like Sam's fried chicken with sticky rice, Tom Yum hot pot cooked at the table, spicy seafood spaghetti, whole Golden Garlic Snapper, and lobster with Pad Thai or Panang curry — the first 100 customers on op

Krispy Kreme turned Thanksgiving dessert into doughnuts, and yesterday was the cheapest dozen of the year. On Wednesday, November 11, the chain unveiled a new Thanksgiving collection that reimagines holiday desserts as doughnuts: a Berry Cobbler doughnut filled with raspberry and dipped in mixed berry icing with oat crumble, a Caramel Pumpkin doughnut dipped in caramel icing and pumpkin spice cookies with pumpkin cream frosting, a Double Chocolate Crumble doughnut filled with

North Dallas is getting another serious sushi room. Kyo Omakase just signed a lease at the Village at Preston Hollow, 4343 W. Northwest Highway, and plans to open in 2027. If you haven't done omakase, here's the deal: you sit at the counter, there's no menu to order off of, and the chef serves you piece by piece — whatever's freshest that day, in the order he thinks it should be eaten. It's the most chef-driven way to eat sushi there is, and it's been one of the hottest forma

Here's a shift worth paying attention to: the grocery store is quietly taking over dinner. New research from McKinsey says about one in four Americans now buy prepared food at the grocery store instead of ordering from a restaurant, and for 18- to 29-year-olds it's closer to one in three. It's not just about saving money — 74 percent say convenience is the reason, and 68 percent say it saves time. The Food Industry Association found that 56 percent of households now mix home

Here's what's moving around the DFW food scene this week. In Frisco, the Imperial Room just opened at The Star — a new cocktail lounge from PILF Restaurant Group, the team behind Cane Rosso and Zoli's, with shareable plates like focaccia and cheesy Caesar salad. At DFW Airport, the Peach Cobbler Factory inside Terminal D is closing, and Cinnabon is taking the spot near Gate D12 — the airport board approved the swap on November 5, though there's no opening date yet. Doner Shac

Fort Worth has a new lunch spot, and it's sitting inside one of the prettiest places in the city. Flora House Cafe just opened at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, run by local group Westland Hospitality — the folks behind Margie's Italian Gardens, Pulido's, JD's Hamburgers and Curly's Frozen Custard. It took over the old Rock Springs Cafe space, opened quietly in early November, and had its official ribbon cutting on Wednesday, November 11. The menu is garden food done right: a

Dallas never settled on one kind of pizza, and that turns out to be the best thing about it. In Plano, Heirloom Pizza is a two-stool takeout counter where a self-taught cook named Justin folds a proper New York slice — get The Author, pepperoni and ricotta — and his Detroit Deep Dish Square pushes Wisconsin brick cheese to the edges until it caramelizes. Lewisville has the real Detroit thing at Motor City Pizza, where owner Greg Tierney, a Detroit native, serves The Longacre

Sam and Gabby Lopez drove their food trailer to Graham in 2024 with $28 in the bank — by the next morning an automatic payment had them at negative $361 — and they cooked anyway. Their Shaved Prime Rib Sandwich won Grand Champion at the Food Truck Championship of Texas and a $10,000 check. Now that sandwich has a permanent address: Insurgent opens Saturday, November 21 as a walk-up counter inside The Market building at the Dallas Farmers Market, 920 S. Harwood St., Suite 174,

Two more sprout recalls landed in the FDA's enforcement report, and both are Class I — the highest risk level the FDA gives. Country Creek Acres alfalfa sprout seeds sold online nationwide may carry E. coli or Salmonella from a recalled seed supplier, and Francisco Family Foods alfalfa sprouts sold in Montana carry the same risk. Both tie back to the sprout outbreak the CDC just declared over on November 9, though the FDA hasn't said for sure whether these two are part of it.

In Texas, the holiday tamale order goes in before the turkey does, and by mid-November the dozens are already spoken for. Abel Gonzales — the State Fair legend folks know as Fried Jesus, the man behind Fried Coke and fried butter — is still working out of his Harry Hines kitchen making small-batch tamales for the season, and his Original Turkey & Dressing tamale with cranberry salsa folds the whole Thanksgiving plate into a corn husk. Packs run 10 large tamales with hot sauce

Starbucks has quietly pulled the Impossible Breakfast Sandwich off its menu, and regulars are just now noticing. The sandwich — an Impossible Sausage patty, a cage-free fried egg, and aged cheddar on a sesame ciabatta bun — launched in June 2020 and was the chain's main plant-based breakfast option. Customers started posting early this month asking where it went, and a Starbucks spokesperson confirmed this week that it's gone, saying baristas can recommend an alternative. The

A Dallas restaurateur is betting that one small kitchen can run eleven restaurants at once. Oomi Digital Kitchen, a 2,250-square-foot ghost kitchen opening later this month in Dallas, will cook for 11 brands out of a single space — including sandwich chain Which Wich, local chicken sandwich spot Flyrite, and Urban Taco. Co-founder Markus Pineyro has spent 15 years building brick-and-mortar restaurants around East Texas, including spots at DFW Airport, and says the goal is to

One new recall hit the FDA list yesterday, and it's a big one if you keep raw cheddar in the fridge. Family Farmstead Dairy in Worcester, New York is recalling ALL of its raw mild and raw sharp cheddar — every 8 oz plastic-wrapped block with a lot code or best-by date of 10/16/27 or earlier — because it may be contaminated with Listeria. This is the same dairy that recalled one lot of the same cheese for E. coli back on October 15, and now the recall covers both cheddars and

The Colony is getting a new steakhouse this week. Alamo Prime Steakhouse opens Thursday, November 12 at Grandscape, led by executive chef and managing partner Jacob Williamson, who ran The Devonshire Club in Dallas. It's a Texas steakhouse with San Antonio roots — big cuts of beef, Mexican-influenced flavors, and the kind of hospitality the owners are leaning on as the selling point. The opening is part of a busy week for Dallas restaurant news: the long-running Truluck's on

No brand-new recall dropped today, but three from the last few days are still live and worth checking your kitchen for — a biscuit sandwich in Oregon and Washington break rooms, a protein shake with the wrong label, and frozen Dutch snacks hiding allergens. Fresh To You biscuit sandwiches — Listeria. Fresh & Ready Foods is recalling 2,414 Fresh To You Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches (4.6 oz) over possible Listeria. Sold Oct 25–Nov 4 in Oregon and Washington — break r

85°C Bakery Cafe celebrated the grand opening of its newest DFW location Saturday, November 7, at 5720 W. University Dr. #10 in Prosper, minutes from the north end of DFW Airport. The Taiwanese bakery chain is known for fresh-baked breads, cakes and sea salt coffee. It's the latest DFW opening in a busy fall for the chain. Source: https://diningout.com/dallas/inside-dallas-restaurant-news-guest-house-opens-in-uptown-new-fort-worth-debuts-and-holiday-pop-ups-arrive/

The Piehole Project is back for its sixth year — 32 of DFW's best chefs baked 33 one-of-a-kind pies, and bidding runs November 9–19. The lineup includes a foie gras "Snickers" pie, a crab rangoon pie, a smoked duck à l'orange pithivier, and a Frito pie. Winners pick up their pies Monday, November 23 — three days before Thanksgiving — in Dallas or at Cafe Modern in Fort Worth. The auction has raised more than $60,000 since 2020. Source: https://cravedfw.com/2026/11/05/the-pieh

Drive Thru Index tracks menu prices daily, and the direction is still up. In the 7 days to November 10, 2,420 McDonald's locations raised the price of a tracked item and only 50 cut one. The typical Big Mac now runs $6.19, up 1.6% since November 3. Today alone, prices changed at 2,207 restaurants across the big chains — 38,226 individual prices went up and 7,613 went down. Taco Bell, Chipotle, Domino's and KFC all raised prices at 80 or more locations each, with zero cuts. So

KFC International renewed its Pepsi deal on November 9, keeping Pepsi at KFC locations in Australia, India, the UK, Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. That's about 35,000 restaurants — roughly 90% of KFC's business. Meanwhile KFC's US restaurants switch to Coca-Cola starting January 2027, ending a 40-year Pepsi run that started when PepsiCo bought KFC in 1986. Taco Bell, KFC's sister chain, extended its own Pepsi deal two weeks ago through 2036 — so Baja Bla

Musume reopens November 16 inside the Sandman Signature Hotel downtown, after a gas explosion shut it down six months after it opened in June 2023. The Asian-fusion and sushi spot kept its bank-vault dining room — the vault survived the blast untouched — but the lobby bar is rebuilt. Reservations are live on OpenTable. Source: https://fortworthdigitaldiary.com/10-new-restaurant-openings-in-fort-worth-%E2%80%95-heres-what-is-new-whats-next/

Chipotle's "Tatted Like a Chipotle Bag" BOGO is back Friday, November 13, 3–4 p.m. local time. Show a tattoo at a participating Chipotle and get a buy-one-get-one entrée. The promo drove Chipotle's highest single-day sales ever when it returned in March. Wiz Khalifa co-designed limited-edition to-go bags, handed out only at the Pittsburgh Oakland location (3510 Forbes Ave.) during the hour. Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chipotle-brings-back-record-breaking-

Today, November 9, is National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day, and the chains are dealing. Popeyes gives a free Classic, Spicy, or Honey BBQ chicken sandwich with a $10+ app pickup order. McDonald's has the McCrispy for $2 through the app. Whataburger has a $2 chicken sandwich for Rewards members, Wingstop gives Club members a free sandwich with any purchase, and KFC gives Rewards members a free sandwich with a $10+ app order. Buffalo Wild Wings, Krystal, Arby's, and Jollibee hav