Best of Dallas

Dallas has long been the home of reality TV shows: Real Housewives, Most Eligible, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team and the Pokes in Hard Knocks.

And then there’s that unreal show from the last century, Dallas, that some European fans love and confuse fiction with fact.

The thing these shows have in common is that none of them captures the real Dallas, an ever-changing multicultural city where you very rarely see men wearing Stetsons, outside the occasional trial lawyer or cattleman paying a visit.

If you want to get to know Dallas, there’s no better guide than our annual Best of Dallas® issue. Our writers and editors take you to the hot spots and hidden corners of the city and show you the tops in shops, nightlife and culture. We highlight the creative people who write Dallas’ true biography every day.

Dallas is a collage, filled with unique, imaginative bits drawn from across the globe, and we help tease them out and lay them out for our readers, giving you the big picture of Big D.

Turn to Best of Dallas for the real reality. We should know it, after all. We’ve been putting together this special issue for more than four decades. And we live here. That helps.