Cafe closures of 2020 best this week’s 5 most-read Dallas tales
Editor’s note: A good deal happened this week, so here is your likelihood to get caught up. Browse on for the week’s most preferred headlines.

1. Master checklist of just about every Dallas cafe and bar that closed in 2020. It truly is a gloomy CultureMap custom to do an yearly record of restaurant closures although it truly is ordinarily framed as a lot more as an homage to what came and went. But the 2020 model was a lot more brutal than standard, given that so several dining places and bars closed because of to COVID-19. Of all the fields to suffer for the duration of the virus, the food items and beverage industry experienced the worst. In alphabetical buy, here’s the record.

2. These Dallas-Fort Really worth houses rescue 2020 with quirky, techy, in excess of-the-prime Christmas lights. These distinctly festive spouse and children households throughout Dallas-Fort Worth have been attracting people with their immersive displays, higher-tech shows, quirky extras, and — in just one case — lights worthy of a reality opposition show. Some will retain their lights on by early January.

3. North Texas philanthropist’s 3 legendary ranches command $340 million list rate. When Fort Well worth rancher, horse aficionado, art collector, arts patron, and philanthropist Anne Marion died in February at age 81, she left powering a Texas ranching empire about a single-third the measurement of Rhode Island. Now, all a few of Marion’s ranches are on the current market for additional than $340 million.

4. Dallas foodie temple Lucia to relocate, sibling restaurant closes for excellent. A large-profile cafe in Dallas’ Bishop Arts announced it was closing: Macellaio, the casual, butcher-driven place from restaurateurs David and Jennifer Uygur, would near at the conclude of 2020, they stated. But the place, positioned at 287 N. Bishop Ave., will turn out to be the new dwelling to Lucia, their nationally acclaimed Italian restaurant.

5. Journey + Leisure heralds North Texas town a top rated put to visit in 2021. A national journey journal has just proclaimed what inhabitants of Fort Worth know to be accurate — that the metropolis will be a fairly terrific location to stop by in 2021. Journey + Leisure journal on December 18 launched its once-a-year, unranked checklist of the 50 greatest U.S. spots to go to in the coming yr. Fort Value is the only key Texas town to make the checklist.
