Plano has spent the last decade building a dining scene that surprises people who haven’t been lately. The Legacy West and Legacy Park corridors have drawn serious national and regional concepts. Downtown Plano has its own thing happening around the historic square. And the restaurants that predate all of it — the diners, the neighborhood spots — are still there, still packed, still worth knowing about. This guide covers the full range.
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When Joseph Palladino co-founded Nick & Sam’s in 1999, he helped establish the template for what a Dallas steakhouse could be — loud, celebratory, thick with regulars, the kind of room that feeds off its own energy. He eventually moved on from that partnership, spent years building other concepts including the Coal Vines pizza chain, and then did something unexpected: he went to New York and opened a steakhouse at Grand Central Terminal. Palladino’s Steak & Seafood launched in September at the historic Grand Central space that last housed Michael Jordan’s restaurant, and it became one of the year’s most talked-about New York openings almost immediately. Now it’s coming home.
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Two years ago, Kirk Oldham started Meals with Meaning with a simple premise: chef-prepared meals for people who are food insecure, distributed through a network of Fort Worth chefs, volunteers, and community partners who believe that food dignity matters as much as food access. On July 12, the nonprofit celebrates its second anniversary and a milestone that took some effort to reach — 50,000 meals donated throughout Tarrant County.
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Chef Belal Kattan grew up in Syria and came to Dallas by way of some of the most demanding kitchens in the city — Cry Wolf on Gaston Avenue, which closed in 2023 and whose absence is still felt, and then Georgie in Knox-Henderson, where Michelin inspectors took notice. What he carries from those years is a precise technique, a pasta obsession so deep that he has invented his own shape, and a culinary identity that he describes as “Syria meets everything.” In 2025 he launched Bazaar — a traveling pop-up that has been hosted at Encina, Mot Hai Ba, Meridian, and Restaurant Beatrice — and built one of the most attentive followings of any young chef in this city.
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The stretch of North Texas running east from US-75 through Richardson and into Garland is one of the most genuinely diverse dining corridors in the country. This is not a marketing phrase. Richardson has one of the highest concentrations of Middle Eastern, Persian, and Central Asian restaurants outside of a major metro hub, a thriving Chinese-American commercial district that anchors its own miniature Chinatown, and an Ethiopian restaurant that opened last year because the owner wanted to share something from home.
Garland, just east, has the 14th-largest Vietnamese population in the United States and a North Jupiter Road corridor that runs Vietnamese pho houses, Korean BBQ joints, Chinese dim sum parlors, and Filipino kitchens for blocks. Between the two cities, you can eat your way around the world without leaving the Dallas suburbs.
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Sea Breeze Fish Market & Grill, North Texas’ most beloved family-owned seafood restaurant, will host French winemaker Gérard Bertrand for an elegant culinary evening with a French flair on Monday, June 29.
Gérard Bertrand, now in its fourth generation of winegrowers, is known for its commitment to excellence, sustainability and its passion for wine. The winemaker is the world leader in biodynamic viticulture, which strengthens the balance between the vines and their environment.
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June is a good month to leave the house. Three Dallas-area hotels have programming worth circling on the calendar — a Route 66 celebration in Grapevine, an elevated happy hour in Westlake that makes oysters and caviar feel entirely reasonable on a Tuesday, and a Beyoncé-themed evening in Dallas that is exactly what it sounds like and better than you’d expect.
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55 Seventy, the Park Cities dining destination quietly earning a reputation as one of Dallas’ most exceptional culinary experiences led by acclaimed Executive Chef Josh Sutcliff, has launched Sunday brunch.
Now served every Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., brunch at 55 Seventy brings together refined comfort food, seasonal ingredients, thoughtful wine selections and expertly crafted cocktails in an inviting setting.
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