Foodies rejoice! DFW Restaurant Week , the largest culinary event in North Texas, is underway.

The name is deceiving, because instead of a week, you’ll have the whole month to explore a variety of dining experiences when 125 participating restaurants and bars throughout North Texas offer diners a peek at their establishments with prix-fixe menu options.

We wanted to know more, so we enlisted the help of D Magazine’s dining critic, Brian Reinhart, who has been writing about food in North Texas for nine years. He, told us DFW Restaurant Week started back in 1997 as a way to get people through the doors during the slow part of the year.

“August is historically one of the quietest times in the restaurant's calendar,” Reinhart said. “People are on their summer vacations, they're going

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