Norman's is Duro Hospitality's playful Oak Lawn entry — the Dallas group behind The Charles, Sister, Mister Charles, and El Carlos Elegante — built in the former Homewood space on a Wes-Anderson-tinged backstory about a Texas WWII veteran who fell for Japan during the postwar occupation. Chef Benjamin Norton, whose résumé runs through Sean Brock's Nashville kitchens, drives a genre-crossing menu off an Argentine-style wood-fired grill and a Japanese charcoal robata: bluefin otoro crudo, Rosewood NY strip skewers, duck-and-pork meatballs, udon carbonara, Korean fried chicken from his mother's gochujang. See's Design dressed the 3,100-square-foot room in bone, tobacco, and oxblood — Kyoto ryokan by way of Marfa bunkhouse. A 2026 CultureMap Tastemaker nominee for Best New Restaurant. Come for fusion that flaunts the rules without losing its craft.