📍 Oak Cliff, Dallas

Clandestine speakeasy hidden behind Xaman Cafe on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff from Mexico natives Gerardo Barrera and Mauricio Gallegos (also behind Puerto Cocina). Enter thro...

Chef Michelle Carpenter's contemporary Cajun and Creole restaurant set in a renovated Craftsman home in Bishop Arts. Seasonal menu built on heirloom family recipes with nearly ever...

Oldest and largest zoological park in Texas (1888), on 106 acres just south of downtown. The Giants of the Savanna habitat co-houses elephants, giraffes, and zebras in the same enc...

Oak Cliff taco stand institution since the late 1990s -- owner Jose Gaytan worked a taco cart before buying the 80 sq ft Davis Street building that still houses it. Cash only, walk...

Oak Cliff pizza and Italian deli from owner Vinnie Sherman and partner Chad Dolezal, opened December 2023 in a historic 1930s Tudor building (formerly a gas station, then a laundro...

Dallas institution serving classic American comfort food since 1956, when it opened as a roadside diner on old Highway 80 in Oak Cliff. Famous for chicken fried steak, breakfast al...

Small upscale soul food spot in South Dallas from Kevin Winston and family, named after his two sons -- started in 2011 and opened its storefront in 2019. Black-owned, praised for ...

Brothers Ivan and Mario Urtecho bring their family's Yucatán-inspired Tex-Mex back to the Oak Cliff neighborhood they called home in the '90s. Elevated classics meet Yucatecan spec...

Oak Cliff pizza shop with a punk rock attitude and pies that back up the swagger. The hand-tossed crusts have great char, the topping combinations are creative without being gimmic...

Open since 1985 out of a converted gas station walk-up window on S R L Thornton Freeway, founded by Joe Melton and Kenneth Manning. Now run by second-generation pitmaster Kenneth M...