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Inside Wu Wei Din, Where the Soup Dumplings Come with a History Lesson

Wu Wei Din Chinese Cuisine started in a tiny Plano storefront around 2016, opened by Taiwan native Todd Hung with a singular focus: bring the wontons, noodles, and dumplings of his home island to North Texas the way they’re actually made there, not the Americanized version most diners had come to expect from Chinese food in the suburbs.

It worked well enough that the original location outgrew itself. Wu Wei Din has since expanded to Lewisville, with a Fort Worth location set to open in July 2026, evidence that Hung’s bet on serving genuinely authentic Taiwanese and Shanghainese cooking paid off far beyond that first small dining room.

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Uchiko Plano’s DFW Restaurant Week Menu is an Eight-Course Deal Worth Booking Early

Uchiko Plano is running an eight-course prix fixe for DFW Restaurant Week, August 10 through September 7, and at $99 a person it’s one of the stronger values on this year’s list given what’s actually on the menu. Uchiko is chef Tyson Cole’s fire-and-smoke offshoot of Uchi, the James Beard-winning sushi restaurant that’s been anchoring Austin’s dining scene since 2003, and the Plano location at Legacy West has built its own following since opening in 2024 without losing the technique that made the original worth the drive.

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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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Legacy Hall Welcomes Cheese Lab to Its Eatery Lineup

Legacy Hall has added a new tenant, and the timing could not be better. Cheese Lab, the Nashville concept built entirely around grilled cheese, is now open inside the Plano food hall, and its arrival happens to land on National Mac and Cheese Day. Consider that a sign.

This is the second location for Cheese Lab, which got its start inside Assembly Food Hall at Fifth + Broadway in downtown Nashville. Founder and CEO Youssef Koutout built the menu on a simple premise: take the most familiar sandwich in America and refuse to leave it alone.

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The Hot Pot at Yoshi Shabu Shabu in Plano Has Been Perfected Over 140 Years

The Itoyama family has been making shabu shabu in Osaka for five generations. That is approximately 140 years of one family doing one thing, refining the same dipping sauces, sourcing the same quality of meat, and understanding something that most restaurants never figure out: that the cook at the table should be the guest, not the chef. When the family brought that tradition to DFW — first to Richardson in 2014, then to Plano in 2018 — they introduced a style of dining that most of this city had never encountered. A decade later, Yoshi Shabu Shabu is the standard by which every hot pot experience in North Texas gets measured.

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Flamant in Plano Deals an Adventurous Menu with a Wild Brunch Option

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.

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Assembly Icehouse Is Adding an Adults-Only Lounge in Plano

Assembly Icehouse opened in Plano’s Assembly Park last November and has spent seven months becoming exactly the kind of neighborhood anchor that most new restaurants spend years trying to be. The family-friendly atmosphere, the comfort food, the Tejas Philly and double-fried wings and smashburgers, the 30-plus televisions and covered patio overlooking the central lawn — it connected quickly and the neighborhood showed up for it. Now Blender Brands is building on that with something pointed in a completely different direction.

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The Plano Dining Guide

Plano has spent the last decade building a dining scene that surprises people who haven’t been lately. The Legacy West and Legacy Park corridors have drawn serious national and regional concepts. Downtown Plano has its own thing happening around the historic square. And the restaurants that predate all of it — the diners, the neighborhood spots — are still there, still packed, still worth knowing about. This guide covers the full range.

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