Cedar Hill

Expect average barbecue from this smokehouse restaurant. Perhaps it’s because of Christopher’s pellet-smoking method, or perhaps the meat just needs more time on the heat, but we found the majority to be either tough, too rare, or somewhere in between.…

Not your same old butter-and-salt vendor, Uptown Popcorn has flavors with sophisticated profiles from classic to savory to sweet. For a real palate scramble, try the dill pickle, blueberry, and pizza flavors.

Cristiana Ginatta grew up in northern Italy where her grandfather taught her how to master six flavors: chocolate, hazelnut, lemon and strawberry sorbets, coffee, and fiordilatte (a vanilla-based flavor). Now with 44 stores nationwide and over 330 flavors under her…

The motto here is “Texas to the Bone”—in case we couldn’t tell by all the Texas paraphernalia hanging on the walls. The food is good enough, and a steak guide is helpful for those in search of the perfect cut…

Half Price Books was born in Dallas in 1972 in a former laundromat by Ken Gjemre and Pat Anderson, who stocked that first store with 2,000 titles from their own libraries. Today, Half Price Books has locations in 16 states,…