📍 Lakewood, Dallas

A Lakewood strip-mall spot on Gaston Avenue running three kitchens at once — Chinese, Thai, and a sushi bar — under one roof. The menu wanders from wok-fired crispy beef in sweet b...

A neighborhood pub on Gaston Avenue in Dallas's Lakewood stretch, the kind of low-key East Dallas bar built around regulars and a full bar rather than a scene. Expect casual pub fa...

The Lakewood bagel staple that boils its New York-style bagels by hand and bakes them on a hearth every morning. The bacon, egg & cheese on a jalapeño-cheddar bagel is the orde...

An all-day neighborhood American spot in Lakewood on Abrams, running breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, coffee, and dessert out of one kitchen. Dinner is served nightly, with weeken...

Across Peavy Rd from the Goodfriend Beer Garden, same owners run this White Rock bottle shop that doubles as one of the better sandwich counters in East Dallas. The Brooklyn Zoo is...

A retro Lakewood dive bar that opened in 2000 with vintage furniture, groovy lights, and an unapologetic 1970s streak. What sets it apart is the kitchen: Jackson Tran folded his fa...

Chef Kelly Ball opened Leila Bakery & Cafe in Lakewood in February 2020, naming it for her husband's aunt after building the business through farmers markets and wholesale baki...

A British pub that has quietly grown into a four-spot DFW operation, with the Dallas room tucked off Mockingbird Lane near SMU. The draw is soccer on the screens and proper pub foo...

The Lakewood TCBY on E Mockingbird is the Dallas-proper outpost of the soft-serve frozen-yogurt chain — self-serve swirls, a wall of toppings, pay by the ounce. It's the predictabl...