Tanner Agar describes Flamant as the restaurant where you can have a European vacation without leaving Plano. That sounds like marketing copy until you sit down at a table on the waterfront patio at Granite Park, order the wood-fired bread with Spanish tomato spread and chive butter, and realize that for the next two hours, the North Dallas Tollway genuinely could be anywhere else. The place earns its premise.
Flamant is the third concept from Walkabout Hospitality Group — the team behind Rye on Lower Greenville and Apothecary, both of which have earned Michelin and James Beard recognition for their cocktail programs and kitchen. Walkabout originally built Rye in McKinney, which burned down in August 2022. They came back with the Lower Greenville outpost and Apothecary, and then moved north again with Flamant, which opened at 5880 State Highway 121, Suite 103b on the Boardwalk at Granite Park in July 2025. Agar’s background draws on time cooking and eating in Spain and France, and Flamant is the most personal expression of that — a bistro that covers Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy simultaneously without identity crisis, held together by a wood-burning grill that runs through most of the menu.
The room seats 52 inside and 68 on the patio, with an open kitchen, a red stone bar top, and a 315-square-foot mural painted by local artist Jennifer Kindert covering one interior wall. It is, as Agar has said, more casual and more laid-back than either Rye or Apothecary — which is the point. “Rye and Apothecary are intense restaurants,” Agar said at opening. “We wanted a place where you could hang out, go to happy hour, have brunch — something comfortable for guests and for us.” The result is a room that feels easier than the pedigree suggests, which is the hardest thing to pull off.
The dinner menu is built around smaller plates designed for sharing and larger plates anchored by the grill. Start with the coal-embered mussels — wood-fired in white wine with chorizo, embered onion, and sea salt, served with wood-fired bread for the broth — or the grilled octopus, a marinated and wood-fired tentacle over crushed chickpeas, charred broccolini, piri piri sauce, and fried basil. The steak tartare runs Wagyu filet mignon, egg emulsion, smoked olive oil, chervil, and focaccia crackers — a dish that tells you how seriously the kitchen is taking what appears to be a simple menu.
The Spanish meatballs with beef cheek and ground pork in kalimotxo sauce, and the whipped croquettes with aged parmesan and a dirty martini dipping sauce, are the two dishes that reviewers consistently mention finishing before anything else arrives.
The pasta program is the section worth reading carefully. The spicy crab pasta runs campanelle in white wine and Calabrian chili cream sauce with butter-poached crab claw meat — the kind of dish that earns a return visit on its own. The ragu bianco — ricotta gnocchi, ground pork, white ragu, fennel, pecorino, aleppo pepper — is the Italian benchmark done with actual technique. The chicken pesto pasta, with wood-fired chicken thighs, sunflower-pepita-almond pesto, and charred broccolini, is the one that surprises people who ordered it expecting something simple. The truffle risotto with mixed wood-fired mushrooms, white and black truffle, arborio rice, aged parmesan, and flower petals is the dish for the table that can’t agree on anything else.
For the protein-forward order, the wood-fired Wagyu steaks run from an 8oz ribeye at $46 to a 12oz dry-aged strip at $72 and a 16oz spinalis — ribeye cap — at $96, all finished with truffle-tallow butter, beurre rouge, and chives. The charred salmon with farro, local greens, Italian herbs, citrus, and grilled lemon is the fish program in a single dish, and the pepperoncini chicken with wood-fired thighs, roasted vegetables, and smashed croquettes is the sleeper on the menu — the one that sounds like a supporting player and earns its own spot in the conversation.
The cocktail program is where the Walkabout DNA is most visible. The espresso martini menu runs three variations — the I Love You, Madeira with agricole rhum, salted honey, and malted molasses cream; the Turin For The Night with Grey Goose, chocolate, and Frangelico (“it’s giving Ferrero Rocher,” reads the menu, and it delivers on that promise); and Breakfast in Marseille with Engine Organic vodka, croissant, and orange marmalade, which is the most Flamant drink on the list and the one to order first. A flight of all three runs $45. The Salt & Pepperoncini — a Cazadores Reposado margarita with pepperoncini brine and herbal French liqueur — is the bar’s most original signature.
The Black Sangria with brandy, black currant, pomegranate, balsamic, and Lambrusco is the table wine play. The Smoked Peach Old Fashioned with private barrel Knob Creek rye, peach, and tobacco bitters is the spirit-forward option that earns the premium on a good night. Happy hour runs Wednesday through Friday 3 to 6 p.m. — $10 cocktails, $8 wines, discounted food.
Desserts close the meal properly. The champagne cheesecake — crème fraîche cheesecake on an almond flour and oat crust, strawberry sauce, diplomat cream, champagne foam — is the one that tables split and finish anyway. The deconstructed chocolate cake with white truffle, hazelnut and almond meringue, mixed-nut praline, chocolate mousse, and salted chocolate sauce is the more indulgent close. The citrus olive oil cake, dairy-free and built on rice flour with spent citrus and bitter orange marmalade, is the one that serves guests who want something lighter without making them feel like they compromised.
Now about that brunch. The $40 all-you-can-eat weekend brunch is one of the better deals in North Texas, and it works differently than the word “buffet” might suggest. There is no buffet. Guests sit at their table for a 90-minute seating, order two dishes at a time, and the kitchen keeps bringing food until they stop asking.
“We think the ultimate brunch should feel like being at a resort,” Agar says. “Everything’s cooked fresh, and we just bring it out until you’re done eating. It’s indulgent, it’s exciting and you can literally have one of everything.” Children under 13 eat for $20. Portions are intentionally smaller — this is a grazing format, not a finishing-the-plate format — and the design rewards people who order adventurously rather than safe.
The brunch menu runs 14 dishes alongside four soups and salads and two handhelds, all of which are included in the $40. The croissant Benedict with hollandaise on mini croissants changes weekly. The cannoli French toast uses wood-grilled sourdough, custard, whipped ricotta, lemon curd, and cannoli shell crumble — the dish that gets photographed the most. The skillet pancakes arrive in a Le Creuset baking dish, baked with warming spices and smoked honey butter, and are the plate that makes the table go quiet. The avocado toast runs wood-fired sourdough with avocado purée, pepperoncini sauce, two fried eggs, and aleppo pepper — a better version of the dish than it has any obligation to be.
The frittata with vegetables, greens, and cheese is the vegetable option that holds its own. The breakfast sandwich on wood-fired ciabatta with fried egg, bacon, greens, Spanish tomato spread, and whipped garlic is the handheld that tables order when they want something substantial in the middle of the run. Add $20 bottomless mimosas and the total is $60 for an unlimited two hours of European-inflected brunch with a waterfront patio view. That number is harder to argue with than most things in Plano dining right now.
Flamant is at 5880 State Highway 121, Suite 103b, on the Boardwalk at Granite Park in Plano. Open Wednesday and Thursday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. (Sunday until 10 p.m.). Closed Monday and Tuesday. Reservations on OpenTable. (469) 422-6784.
