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State Fair of Texas Creative Arts Contests Close July 27

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By Mike Hiller Verified
| EscapeHatchDallas
A blue ribbon at the State Fair of Texas carries a certain weight in this state, the kind that gets a canning jar or a quilt square handed down alongside the recipe or the pattern. Entries for the 2026 Creative Arts Contests close Monday, July 27, and with fewer than four weeks left, the Fair Park judging rooms are about to fill up fast with the state’s quilters, canners, painters and home cooks.
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Cotton Patch Cafe Returns to Texas Ownership Under Local Favorite Restaurants

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By Mike Hiller Verified
| EscapeHatchDallas
spent the last decade under California private equity. As of June 29, it belongs to Dallas. Local Favorite Restaurants, the Dallas-based group behind El Fenix Mexican Restaurant, Snuffer’s Restaurant & Bar, Meso Maya, and six other Texas concepts, has acquired Cotton Patch from Altamont Capital Partners, the Palo Alto firm that owned the brand since 2016. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Rita’s Italian Ice Opens First of Four DFW Shops

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By Mike Hiller Verified
| EscapeHatchDallas
North Texas heat doesn’t take a season off, and Rita’s Italian Ice is building its whole DFW strategy around that fact. The chain opens its first North Richland Hills shop on July 1, a drive-thru location at 8900 N Tarrant Pkwy, and it won’t be the last. Three more DFW shops are already under construction, in Flower Mound, Carrollton, and Farmers Branch, the company’s biggest single push into one metro area in years.
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