📍 Old East Dallas, Dallas

St. Martin's Wine Bistro has served Dallas since 1980, when it was opened by Scott Fickling and Phil Patterson — educators and Vietnam veterans with no prior restaurant experience ...

The Peak Inn is a dimly lit neighborhood bar in Old East Dallas built around a comfy back room with a faux fireplace, a CD jukebox, and a pool table, plus a patio out front. The ki...

Lemmon Drop is a Dallas-based coffee roaster that fire-roasts its own beans and rotates through different origins and blends rather than sticking to one house roast. Beyond the sho...

CoffeEmos is an emo-themed coffee shop that opened in the former Urban Venue space on Swiss Avenue, the project of longtime emo fan Francisco Gonzalez. Instead of a typical café pl...

A family-run Mexico City-style taqueria that has quietly achieved institution status in Old East Dallas since 2013. Counter service, big projectors for soccer, and a bathroom hallw...

HOPE Coffee DTS is the original location of the HOPE Coffee chain, opened in 2014 inside the Bailey Student Center and Chafer Chapel on the Dallas Theological Seminary campus. The ...

Tacos La Banqueta (full name Tacos La Banqueta Puro DF) works the N Carroll corner in Old East Dallas with doubled corn tortillas griddled to a chewy-crisp edge. The suadero — brai...

A family-run counter in Old East Dallas doing two things that have no business sharing a kitchen: sushi and wagyu burgers. The patties are ground in-house and the buns are baked ev...

A taqueria tucked inside a Shell station at Fitzhugh in Old East Dallas, near the Knox-Henderson edge. The draw is a cheap, oversized breakfast burrito, with al pastor tacos pullin...