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In 2016, I wrote my first long-form restaurant review for the Observer and, naturally, it was about barbecue. Matt Dallman had written a love letter to his hometown, Kansas City, with his restaurant 18th and Vine…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us picked up hobbies. We rode bikes, learned the guitar or made so much sourdough that yeast became as hard to find as toilet paper…

At long last, Ten50 Barbecue has opened its second location in the Devonshire neighborhood in Dallas (the original is in Richardson). Nick Reynolds first reported on Ten50’s plans back in 2023, when we believed the opening would be a few months away…