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Editor’s Note, 6/16/2025, 1:12 p.m.: This article has been updated to include a statement from Travis Street Hospitality. R.J. Yoakum, the James Beard-nominated executive chef of Georgie, is no longer with the restaurant, according to Sarah Blaskovich of The Dallas Morning News…

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…