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The Center presents a variety of programs year-round in its indoor and outdoor performance venues, including the Lexus Broadway Series and, in association with TITAS, contemporary dance and music, as well as other touring and community performances. The Center also provides performance space for local performing arts organizations, including The Dallas Opera, Dallas Theater Center, […]
In sorry-not-sorry news, we’re spilling the beans on hard-to-find Atwater Alley: Go past the door of Henry’s Majestic, toward the alley, then hang a right after the sidewalk ends and look for the door with an upside-down A over a right-side-up A. Once inside, Atwater doesn’t have QR codes or paper for menus, just tell […]
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Avalon Salon first opened its doors to Dallas patrons on February 22, 1990 in Snider Plaza, a Highland Park retail center adjacent to the SMU law school. This Aveda Concept Salon was co-founded by business partners and close friends, Ric Bowden and Lawrence Bonanno. To create the Avalon culture, they cultivated an atmosphere based on […]
It is a return to elegance – Belle Epoque with a modern twist. A big influence was the graciously scaled libraries of the great houses of Europe. These libraries were often storehouses of not only great literature but also wonderful objects d’art which often served as the background for wonderful floral decorations and the setting […]
Owner Jack Ekhtiar’s small restaurant is a place where hip meets classic. Dark wood frames live jazz. Rustic Mediterranean fare, predominately Northern and Southern Italian, is presented elegantly. Among the examples are farfalle carbonara, a 6-ounce Brazilian lobster tail over spinach linguini alfredo and shrimp as well as carpaccio Avanti with white truffle oil. On […]
The Avila family continues to serve classic Tex-Mex dishes to legions of rabid fans. They’ve been doing so since 1985 with tweaked family recipes of enchiladas, muchas enchiladas and chile relleno, which is a house specialty. Among the other signature dishes are the Anna Maria Plate (one soft cheese taco, one cheese enchilada and one […]
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For cold appetizers, a popular choice is the spicy and sour fern starch noodles. It looks like squid-ink noodles and is topped with chiles, sesame seeds and their signature sour sauce. For hot appetizers, you can’t go wrong with the fried Chinese doughnuts, fried milk custard or fried chicken wings. The fried Chinese doughnuts are […]
The small menu here reflects the predominantly fried All-Stars of Texan and Southern cuisine. There’s fried chicken and chicken-fried steak, natch. There’s fried catfish and pot roast. There’s fried chicken tenders and smoked chicken. That’s the entire selection of main dishes at Babe’s Chicken Dinner House. No joke. And that’s a relief to see in […]
This Snider Plaza shop is a mainstay of the chic mom set. Owner Carrie Barnard originally set out to open a little shop filled with things she couldn’t find in town for her own children. Cut to present day and she has added an adjoining sister store, miniME, aimed at older kids and a thriving […]
Years ago, Baby Dolls Saloon moved locations and began boasting “The Legend Lives On.” The 37-year-old institution backs up the claim with a roster of more than 200 dancers on any given night. The grand staircase opens onto a bar that sits in the center of the club. The main stage is enormous, and off […]
The world would be all the better if it were filled with more trompo taco fans. To make a great trompo taco, the vertical spit has to spin, but at many places business isn’t steady enough to keep the contraption in motion. Not so at Bachman Tacos and Grill, where tacos are a necessary add […]
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Originally a local Houston phenomenon, Bamboo House opened the doors to its first North Texas location. Hungry families have since piled in the Plano joint to get a taste of what the chain claims to be the ‘best Peking duck in town.’ The platter’s arrival is almost a royal event; it’s trolleyed in on a […]