Oak Cliff

In this true-blue neighborhood restaurant, dishes take cues from parts of Texas and California as well as Southern cuisine. Here in the former Bolsa space you’ll find flavor-packed pastrami over pimento cheese, and mushroom gnocchi that’s like a vegetarian kindred…

Both hot and iced coffee—an espresso horchata, perhaps—come in clay cantaritos, a nod to the Mexican origins and culture of coffee drinking. Come for the single-origin espresso, stay for the chilaquiles and coffee cocktails at brunch. This cafe is small…

What started as a roving van doling out to-go cups of cortados and Americanos on weekends has emerged as a winsome, plant-bedecked coffee spot where one might crack open a book—or a magazine!—and chill for a while.

Those who love tacos count Olmy and Ismael Sanchez’s taqueria as a place of pilgrimage, filing in from the truncated parking lot under the insignia with a winged luchador—a symbol of the Sanchezes’ own pilgrimage—for tacos and breakfasts (these involve…

Picolé, Bishop Arts’ Brazilian paleta spot, offers three types of paletas (fruity, creamy, filled). You’ll find fruity flavors like kiwi, guava, and vampy-purple acaí. But the signature is dipped, topped, and filled. Encrust the strawberry-cheesecake paleta with dark chocolate and…

Some kids play with Barbies or Legos, but growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kristen Miller played with paper. “I used to tear up construction paper and make my own little cards,” Miller says. “It was so dorky, but I’ve always…