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<\/p>\nAs State Fair of Texas concessionaires heat up their fryers for opening day on Sept. 26, 2025, attendees will find new food stands and lounges throughout Dallas\u2019 Fair Park. Among the newcomers are the fair\u2019s first fully vegan stand, a ramen shop and a bargain booth where all items cost less than $10.<\/p>\n
Food could get more expensive for fairgoers in 2025, because food prices have increased about 3% in the past year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear it in my restaurant, I read about it in the news: Everybody thinks everything is too expensive, and they\u2019re 100% right,\u201d said State Fair concessionaire Abel Gonzales. He\u2019s been a State Fair concessionaire since 2002. He created Deep Fried Butter, the 2009 phenomenon that helped catapult State Fair food to an international audience.<\/p>\n
Gonzales hasn\u2019t lost his love for deep-frying weird things, and his stand on Nimitz will continue to sell fried peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwiches and fried cookie dough.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s choosing to take what he calls \u201ca big, huge risk\u201d on his second stand, now called Cheap Eats and located on the Funway. Cheap Eats is a discount den where consumers can buy hamburgers, French fries and eggrolls for $10 or less. (That\u2019s 10 coupons or less, in State Fair bucks.)<\/p>\n
The State Fair of Texas runs Sept. 26, 2025 through Oct. 19, 2025 in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Chitose Suzuki \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
The lowest-priced item at Cheap Eats will be a hot dog for $3 or $4. Gonzales is still running the numbers.<\/p>\n
Gonzales feels he owes it to State Fair customers, since he also sells the single most expensive food item at the fair: $80 for deep-fried lobster. He created it in 2015 and continues to sell it today. It costs $10 more than last year, and Gonzales is tacking on a third lobster tail to every order.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet this: I\u2019m selling $80 lobster at one of my stands. … And at another stand, we\u2019ll have a $3 or $4 hot dog,\u201d he said. \u201cYou get the best of both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to new food items in 2025 and the Big Tex Choice Awards finalists that are sure to draw lines, fairgoers can expect new menus in some corners of Fair Park.<\/p>\n
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Rousso’s Fat Bacon is a new stand in 2025 at the State Fair of Texas, near the Children’s Aquarium. <\/p>\n
Isaac Rousso<\/p>\n
After Cotton Candy Bacon won \u201cbest taste\u201d at the State Fair in 2024, concessionaire Isaac Rousso went whole hog on the idea for 2025. His new Rousso\u2019s Fat Bacon stand sells bourbon-glazed bacon, bacon bourbon caramel cheesecake, bacon jam cannoli, bacon jam cheese fries and more. <\/p>\n
It will even sell bacon on a stick coated in Dubai chocolate. We\u2019ve seen Dubai chocolate all over Dallas-Fort Worth, but we haven\u2019t seen it on bacon. <\/p>\n
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Introduction to the State Fair of Texas 2025 As State Fair of Texas concessionaires heat up their fryers for opening day on Sept. 26, 2025, attendees will find new food stands and lounges throughout Dallas\u2019 Fair Park. Among the newcomers are the fair\u2019s first fully vegan stand, a ramen shop and a bargain booth where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dining"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dmn-dallas-news-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/WSJ5XDQVEFD2VPFMSN46ZA62LQ.jpg?auth=6c5f51e7a9f17830c87c60376808b6244dd9263ff8c51f4b30e76026caf2b221&quality=80&width=1200&height=630&smart=true","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13386,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions\/13386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citystuff.com\/dallas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}