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Eddie’s Diner Is the Last Real Diner Left Standing in Plano

Plano has spent the last decade filling in with glass towers and corporate headquarters, and somewhere in the middle of that, a small family-run diner on Parker Road kept doing exactly what it has always done. Eddie’s Diner is not trying to be part of the city’s reinvention. It is the thing that reinvention tends to erase, and the fact that it is still standing at 4709 W Parker Road, packed most mornings with regulars who have been coming since their kids were in diapers, says something about what people actually want on a Saturday morning.

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Hot Pancakes Does Exactly What the Name Promises, and Then Some

Hot Pancakes is one of those restaurants that names itself exactly what it does and then somehow still manages to under promise. Yes, there are pancakes, hot ones, and they’re the reason the place has built a genuine following on North Jupiter Road in Richardson. But the menu goes well past the griddle, and that’s what turns a quick breakfast stop into a full-on regular’s diner.

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Crossroads Diner Sticky Bun Goes Viral

Tom Fleming has news worth building a whole morning around. His sticky buns at Crossroads Diner in Plano are now on the menu six days a week instead of a rotating schedule, which means the thing regulars have been driving across town for no longer requires calling ahead to check.

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Pancakes, Pot Roast, and Staying Power at The Heights in Lakewood

Legal Grounds closed in 2015 and half of Lakewood acted like the world was ending. That was the coffeehouse at Abrams and Gaston where you could get a latte and free legal advice, a combination that made no sense anywhere but East Dallas. When word got out that a restaurant was going in, the neighbors did what neighbors do. They complained. Then The Heights opened, the pancakes survived the transition, and the complaining stopped almost overnight.

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 Little Daisy Turns Breakfast Into an Event and Dinner Into a Reason to Stay

Little Daisy sits on the ninth floor of the Thompson Dallas, inside The National, and the elevator ride up is doing some of the work before you’ve ordered a single thing. Step off and the room opens into hand-drawn wallpaper covering the ceiling, martinis and bow-tied garçons sketched out in a style that leans straight into a Toulouse-Lautrec print. A baby grand piano sits ready to play itself on quiet nights and gets taken over by a live musician on the weekends. Every table gets a candle and one single daisy in a small vase, nothing fussier than that, which is exactly the point of a place trying to feel like a Paris café rather than a hotel restaurant.

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Alebrijes Cafe Is the Breakfast Secret Dallas Has Been Keeping to Itself

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An alebrije is a fantastical creature from Oaxacan folk art — part jaguar, part butterfly, part something that exists nowhere in nature, painted in colors that have no business working together and somehow do. The name is a good one for a cafe that looks like nothing else on West Clarendon Drive, because nothing else on West Clarendon Drive looks like it either. Alebrijes Cafe sits at 1323 W. Clarendon Drive in Oak Cliff, a few blocks from the Dallas Zoo, in a room decorated with the colorful folk art the name promises, run by a couple who greet regulars by name and first-timers like they’ve been expected.

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Norma’s Cafe Turns 70; Dallas Should Make a Plan for June 24th

Most restaurants don’t make it to ten years. Norma’s Cafe opened in Oak Cliff in 1956 and has been at it ever since. That original location has never moved. The biscuits and gravy are still on the menu. The Mile-High Pies still require you to plan around them. On Wednesday, June 24, Norma’s turns 70 and all five traditional locations are marking it the way the restaurant always has — by feeding people and keeping the price where it belongs.

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Angela’s Cafe Has Been Feeding This Neighborhood for 25 Years

There’s a category of restaurant that exists in every city — the place that’s been quietly doing the same thing well for a quarter century, sitting behind a strip center where even Uber drivers occasionally lose the plot trying to find it, serving a neighborhood that has long since stopped needing directions. Angela’s Cafe, at 7979 Inwood Road near Lovers Lane, is exactly that kind of place. Twenty-five years in, it’s still mostly known to the people who live within a mile of it, and that’s a shame, because the food is better than a strip-center breakfast spot has any obligation to be.

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