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Dining in Frisco: The Star District and Beyond

Frisco has grown faster than almost any city in the United States over the last two decades, and its restaurant scene has kept pace in ways that people who haven’t been recently would not expect. The Star — the 91-acre mixed-use development built around the Dallas Cowboys’ world headquarters and practice facility — anchors the dining conversation, but the city around it has its own story. This is a guide to eating well in Frisco, from the most formal room in the district to the taco counter that opens at 7 a.m.

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Where to Watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Dallas — Every Bar, Pub, Fan Zone, and Free Screen in North Texas

Dallas is hosting nine World Cup matches — more than any other city in the tournament. Most people watching those matches won’t be inside AT&T Stadium. Tickets are expensive, parking in Arlington is a commitment, and frankly some of the best World Cup viewing in North Texas happens nowhere near the stadium. The city has been building toward this summer for years, and the watch party scene that has developed around it is genuinely impressive. Here is every option, organized by neighborhood and type, so you can find your spot before June 12.

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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: North Dallas & Addison

Addison has more restaurants per capita than any city in Texas and consistently ranks among the highest restaurant-dense cities in the entire country. That statistic surprises people who think of it as a suburb on the way to somewhere else. The Belt Line Road corridor alone packs more serious food — steakhouses, Italian, Southern, Japanese, Mediterranean, Pan-Asian — into a walkable strip than most full cities manage. North Dallas runs alongside it with its own deep roster of neighborhood restaurants that have been feeding Preston Hollow, Park Cities, and the Preston Forest corridor for decades. Together they form one of the most underestimated dining destinations in the Metroplex, and during the World Cup they’ll be well positioned to serve visitors staying at the Addison hotel cluster and the North Dallas hotel corridor along the Dallas Tollway.

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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Oak Lawn & Cedar Springs

Cedar Springs Road in Oak Lawn is Dallas’s LGBTQ+ district, and it has been since the 1970s. The half-mile stretch between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue — known locally as The Strip — packs more bars, restaurants, and community institutions into a walkable corridor than any comparable neighborhood in the American South. It earned official state recognition as an LGBT neighborhood in 2018, the first in Texas. During the World Cup, when visitors arrive from countries where LGBTQ+ life ranges from restricted to illegal, Cedar Springs is the kind of neighborhood that reminds people what a city can choose to be. Everyone is welcome here. That is not a slogan. It is the operating condition of the place.

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The World Is Coming to Dallas This Summer — Here’s Where to Feed It

Dallas is hosting more FIFA World Cup matches than any other city in the tournament — nine games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington starting June 14, including a semifinal on July 14. That means fans from Argentina, England, Japan, the Netherlands, Croatia, Jordan, Austria, and Sweden are all coming here, many of them for the first time. They are going to eat. The question is where you point them, and more importantly, where you go yourself when you want to eat in the spirit of what is happening.

Here is what to eat for each nation playing in Dallas this summer — and where to find it.

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