Southern Kitchen ran two locations in Dallas for decades, a West spot at 2356 West Northwest Highway at Harry Hines Boulevard, and an East spot at 6615 East Northwest Highway. Both were confirmed still running side by side as of the 1960s, and at least one diner’s memory places a visit to the Bachman Lake–area location as far back as 1975. The company behind both locations operated under the name Southern Hospitality, Inc.
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The cinnamon roll as we know it is a Scandinavian invention — Sweden’s kanelbulle has been around since the 1920s, and October 4th is still celebrated there as Cinnamon Roll Day. The version that took over American bakeries came later, built on enriched yeasted dough, softened with butter, rolled tight with cinnamon and brown sugar, and finished with enough cream cheese frosting to qualify as a public health concern. Cinnabon turned it into a fast-food category. Home bakers turned it into a weekend ritual. At some point, serious pastry chefs got involved, and that’s when things got interesting.
Dallas has a genuinely good cinnamon roll scene right now, spread across bakeries that range from a decades-old neighborhood institution in Oak Cliff to a brand-new Michelin-adjacent spot in Uptown that opened this past March. The best versions in this city tend to care more about the dough than the frosting. A couple on this list bend the definition of “cinnamon roll” just enough that we felt obligated to say so. We included them anyway.
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