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Cuisine

Beef is widely featured – this being cattle country – but there is also a great variety of international cuisine including Chinese, French, Italian, Mexican and Spanish.

Regional specialties:
• Steak.
• Tex-Mex dishes.
• Barbequed ribs.

Nightlife

Dallas has clubs, cabarets, discos, singles bars and corner pubs, with music ranging from classical to jazz and from country to contemporary rock. Some clubs are listed as ‘private' - they are located in a ‘dry' area and membership (usually available for a nominal fee) is required to be served alcohol.

There are also some comedy clubs sprinkled throughout the city and others offer comedy and drama while customers dine. Fort Worth also has a number of nightclubs, but the musical emphasis here is on country & western music. Billy Bob's Texas (www.billybobstexas.com), the world's largest honky-tonk nightclub, with a 6,000-person capacity, plays host to some of the biggest names in country music in addition to having live bull riding.

Houston's many nightspots range from big-name entertainment to supper club revues, pavement cafés, discos and singles bars. Austin is noted for its nightly live music venues. Historic 6th Street takes on a lively atmosphere in the evenings as people go pub-crawling between venues catering for country & western, soul, R & B, rock 'n' roll and jazz music. San Antonio offers all sorts of musical entertainment, including traditional ‘Tejano' sounds, Dixieland jazz, symphony concerts, country & western and college music.