Imperial Cuisine

The specialty here is extraordinary noodles, handmade to order. Place an order for beef noodle soup or minced pork noodles and the chef appears at a long, prominently placed counter, forming dough and flamboyantly teasing it out to great length. He slams the dough against the counter, spins it out mid-air and tugs it all […]

Ino Japanese Bistro

Delicious, exotic, startlingly good food is served in this stark but tasteful little suburban Japanese dining room.

Kirin Court

Whatever the explanation, this Richardson institution isn’t living up to its outsize reputation. Superior dumplings – at places such as Imperial Cuisine or Jeng Chi – aren’t too far away. Even First Emperor, right across the street, has its merits.

La Casita Bakeshop

Owner and pastry chef Maricsa Trejo cut her pastry teeth at Oak in Dallas and then alongside famed pastry chef Stephen Collucci in New York City before branching out on her own. During the week, you’ll find her lovely pastries, including croissants, cruffins and kouign amanns at coffee shops around the city. Then on the […]

Madras Pavilion

This South Indian vegetarian kosher restaurant offers an extensive menu of vegetable dishes and even Indian pizza. But novices can get a sampler with the lunch buffet, which is two-sided and so long it takes up the width of the spacious dining room. Favorites included the naan stuffed with vegetables and spices, curried vegetables, chickpeas […]

Masala Wok

This is where South Asian meets the rest of the East, resulting in Indo-Chinese hybrid dishes like the rice n noodles, a combination of masala noodles and fried rice with a choice of chicken, paneer or shrimp. For those who prefer to keep their cuisines geographically separated by, say, the Himalayas, three expected options are […]

Maxim’s Chinese Restaurant

Got a couple of hours to kill on a Sunday morning? (Or any other day of the week, for that matter?) Try this Chinatown wonderland off Greenville Avenue and Main Street in Richardson, where the waitstaff strolls through this gargantuan restaurant with wagons full of goodies familiar (shrimp-and-scallion dumplings, fried rice, saut

Old 75 Beer Garden

Old 75 Beer Garden is on the southbound side of Central Expressway and is 20,000 square feet of picnic tables, oak trees, as well as two separate bars if you’d prefer to do your drinking under a roof. There’s a stage for live music that will be on hand most nights of the week. And […]

Pizza Villa

Located in an old Richardson strip mall for over 40 years, Pizza Villa retains its fabulously retro neon sign that dates back to the mid-60s. The pies here boast a super-thin, crackery crust with generous amounts of fresh toppings, but you won’t find barbecue chicken or artichokes here — Pizza Villa sticks to the classics, […]