Avolta (parent to HMSHost) won a 15-year concession to open Oak & Ocean Food Hall in JAX’s Concourse B, mixing local favorites and national chains when the concourse opens in December 2026.

Liquor-license paperwork filed under Folksy Foods LLC lists Strange-bird at 2114 SE Clinton, suggesting the pop-up could be moving into a tiny Clinton Street storefront.

Eden Center’s Truong Tien is opening a second location at Maryland Live Casino & Hotel in Hanover this May, bringing Hue-style Vietnamese dishes closer to Baltimore.

Huey Magoo’s signed a 15‑store development pact with SMR Capital Group to place restaurants across five Greater Houston counties over the next three years.

Ian Froeb's STL 100 list is out, paired with a TikTok recap that flags debuts and neighborhood trends across St. Louis.

Tompkins Square Bagels, Matchaful and Suram signed 10‑year leases at Independence Plaza, bringing new bagels, matcha and a restaurant to Tribeca's Greenwich Street.

Veteran-owned Frontier Cellars opened March 7 in Smithville, pouring five Texas-grown wines from a tasting room that overlooks a two-acre lake.

Dumont Creamery & Cafe opened March 6 in Southlake, offering rotating global-inspired scoops plus milk teas and coffee at 100 N. Kimball Ave.

The Dispatch, from The Newstand team, opens April 14 inside McCombs Plaza — a small lobby café serving seasonal coffee, matcha, juices and pastries.

Food & Wine’s 2026 Global Tastemakers named Austin a top‑10 foodie city and the No.1 coffee city, with Canje, Birdie’s, Nixta and Austin‑Bergstrom also singled out.

Big Game Sports Bar & Grill on Ralph McGill announced it has closed effective immediately; the message points customers to Bantam Pub and Motorboat nearby.

The NYPD 66th Precinct and local leaders attended a ribbon-cutting for a new Brooklyn restaurant, the precinct posted on X. The post said the shop will “bring new flavor and energy.”

Füm, a showy live-fire Italian from Miami’s Grassfed Culture, has opened in West Midtown with handmade pastas, a flashy bar and checks that can climb into triple digits.