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The Richardson and Garland Dining Guide: Where to Dine in Dallas’s Most Diverse Corridor

The stretch of North Texas running east from US-75 through Richardson and into Garland is one of the most genuinely diverse dining corridors in the country. This is not a marketing phrase. Richardson has one of the highest concentrations of Middle Eastern, Persian, and Central Asian restaurants outside of a major metro hub, a thriving Chinese-American commercial district that anchors its own miniature Chinatown, and an Ethiopian restaurant that opened last year because the owner wanted to share something from home.

Garland, just east, has the 14th-largest Vietnamese population in the United States and a North Jupiter Road corridor that runs Vietnamese pho houses, Korean BBQ joints, Chinese dim sum parlors, and Filipino kitchens for blocks. Between the two cities, you can eat your way around the world without leaving the Dallas suburbs.

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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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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: Uptown

Uptown Dallas is the neighborhood that runs north from downtown along McKinney Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, and it is the most densely restaurant-packed corridor in the city. The McKinney Avenue Trolley runs free through the middle of it. Most of the major World Cup hotels sit on its southern edge. For visitors who want to stay in one neighborhood and eat well for three days without repeating themselves, Uptown is the answer. It has everything from a Gulf Coast seafood institution that opened the year Gerald Ford was president to a Michelin-starred French bistro that earned its star 48 days after opening. Both are worth your time.

Be mindful that lunch spots may also be great for dinner as well.

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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Knox-Henderson

Knox-Henderson runs roughly from the Katy Trail east along Knox Street and down Henderson Avenue, and on a good evening it is one of the most concentrated stretches of good food and drink in Texas. The neighborhood sits three miles north of downtown, bordered by Highland Park to the west and Uptown to the south, and for World Cup visitors it offers something the other Dallas neighborhoods don’t: the full range from a dive bar that’s been there since 1987 to a Michelin-recognized steakhouse, all within comfortable walking distance of each other. Park once. Stay all night.

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FIFA World Cup Dallas Dining Guide: Bishop Arts District

The FIFA World Cup comes to North Texas on June 12, with matches running through July at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from dozens of countries will be in Dallas for days at a time, and most of them will be hungry. CraveDFW is building the most comprehensive neighborhood-by-neighborhood dining guide for World Cup visitors and locals alike — covering Bishop Arts, Deep Ellum, Uptown, the Design District, Downtown Dallas, Addison, and the stadium corridor in Arlington.

Whether you’re looking for a pre-match lunch, a long dinner after the final whistle, or a late-night spot that stays open when everything else closes, this is where you start.

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