Of every city in the country a Canadian dessert chain could have chosen for its American debut, it picked a strip center off the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Carrollton. D-Spot Dessert Café, which has grown to more than 55 locations across five Canadian provinces since launching in 2014, opened its first U.S. shop on July 11 at 3432 E. Hebron Pkwy., and it’s built the kind of menu that doesn’t bother picking a lane between excess and comfort.
The full lineup includes Belgian waffles, made-to-order crepes, milk cakes, croffles (the croissant-waffle hybrid that’s been showing up on dessert menus everywhere the last few years), skillet cookies, and a rotating list of milkshakes that go well past chocolate and vanilla into lotus cookie butter and matcha. For anyone who wants to balance the sugar out, the menu also runs savory, including poutine made the proper way with fries, gravy, and cheese curds, a nod to the chain’s Canadian roots, alongside burgers, pizza, wings, and paninis.
The Carrollton location is run by franchise partners Abdul R. Khan and Faizan Mirza, both coming out of hospitality and retail backgrounds rather than food service specifically, which tracks with how D-Spot has built itself: less a single celebrity-chef vision and more a format built to travel well.
Company leadership has been direct about what this opening actually is, a first step rather than a one-off. D-Spot has Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Nashville locations listed as coming soon on its own site, which makes Carrollton the test case for the entire U.S. expansion rather than an isolated new dessert shop.
The café is open 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, hours that put it solidly in late-night territory alongside the rest of Carrollton’s Hebron Parkway corridor. Free surface parking is available on site, and the full menu, including the savory side, is served throughout the day rather than switching over at a set dessert hour.
