Stranded in Dallas next week. What to do?

Well, I get to visit the great flood of Dallas starting Sunday late night for a week. What's around the North Dallas/Addison area for a guy to do in the evenings?

My wife and I went 2 weekends ago and had a blast.

We visited : Dealey plaza, Katy Trail, Downtown and a lake outside of Dallas.

We ate: Toulouse (brunch), Taverna, eatzi's, Slow Bone, Whataburger (airport), Mario's Mexican/Salvadorian and one other mex place that I can't remember the name

We drank: Katy Trail Ice house, HG Supply

Had a great time hanging with friends!

Food, tons of it. As far as I can tell, not much else. I'm there for work next week, want to go karting or something?

Addison is the food and booze capitol of Dallas. Enjoy the slightly overpriced restaurants. Dunn Bros. Coffee is the best "local-but-not-a-hipster-hole-in-the-wall" caffeine source.

A touch north on US-75 in Plano is Zenna, a very tasty Thai/sushi place that serves cocktails that around 9 or 10 at night switches the music from stereotypical Asian restaurant music to gangsta rap. I'm not joking. They're respectable during the day and cater towards party-goers at night.

Plano has a number of excellent authentic German restaurants in its older "downtown" section. I highly recommend looking some up.

Since Texas is going through the aftermath of a "taco craze" (American-themed food truck fun tacos), I'd hit up a Torchy's for lunch one day. The best option is "Good 2 Go Taco" but it's a ways.

Um... the symphony is excellent? There's also the Perot Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art (good), the Nasher Sculpture Gallery (better), and an "X" on the road where JFK got shot (great for people watching, since it's an active off-ramp for the Interstate).

GRM-relevant: I-680 will kill you. The drivers will help, but the highway itself does the killing.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Food, tons of it. As far as I can tell, not much else. I'm there for work next week, want to go karting or something?

Sounds fun, I'll be stationed near Addison/plano area attending EMC headquarters

edit: German restaurants? I'm in!

Eat, get drunk, and play golf. that pretty much described every trip I ever did to Dallas for work. Too bad your a couple days late for indy car and the truck series at TMS. I head up tomorrow to work the event.

I was just there yesterday. I second Slow Bone (BBQ) and Maple and Motor (Burguers).

So, I've read four or five Dallas threads and this one seems like a good one. I thought I remembered one where someone recommended an aviation museum. I''ll be in DFW area all week. We went to The Bearded Lady tonight. Whomever said DFW is 98% concrete was pretty spot on. Any other suggestions not already mentioned?

Since you have already found the good food here are some things to help you work off the calories.

Awesome 60+mph go kart racing Dallas Karting Complex

Ruff Porsche Shop Rac porsche

Eagles Canyon Raceway Eagles Canyon Racetrack

If you happen to be there on sat morning they run a fantastic cars n coffee event the first saturday of every month. Crashing Mustangs

In reply to 84FSP:

Thanks. I fly home Friday morning so cars and coffee is out. I may check out RAC though.

http://www.cavflight.org/

Cavanaugh Flight Museum at the Addison airport has quite a collection. Plenty of good food in the area.

My wife suggested a nice ride past the book depository. Even rented me a convertible.

Yesterday I walked around wearing my Seahawks t shirt. If anyone commented, I just told them that I used to hate the Cowboys back in the 70's and the 90's, but since then they have not even been worth hating.

Hopefully, we'll be wrapped up with work early enough today to do something other than get dinner.

In reply to Wall-e:

LOL. I am not looking to stay in Dallas forever. Hopefully leaving tomorrow.

If you're flying out of Love Field, there's aFrontiers of Flight Museum there.

In reply to T.J.:

The Cowboys are always worth hating, even when they suck. (Philadelphia Eagles fan here )

A$$ Monkey

I we t to RAC and Cavenaugh museum today. RAC was strange, but I let myself in and walked around looking at cars and tried my best not to drool on them. Saw not one but two carrera GT's. Saw a nice Cayman GT4. Saw a handful of employees but they all ignored me, so after standing in their lobby for a few mins I walked out and walked into the srevice area to look at cars. Cavenaugh was cool.

T.J. wrote: I we t to RAC and Cavenaugh museum today. RAC was strange, but I let myself in and walked around looking at cars and tried my best not to drool on them. Saw not one but two carrera GT's. Saw a nice Cayman GT4. Saw a handful of employees but they all ignored me, so after standing in their lobby for a few mins I walked out and walked into the srevice area to look at cars. Cavenaugh was cool.

Glad you liked the Cavanaugh Museum. I feel weird stating this but the best funeral I ever attended was held there, it was an open bar and they had all the bbq you could handle.

The best advice I've got is to leave Dallas and head over to Fort Worth. Much cleaner, much nicer, less traffic, better food, better museums, a downtown that actually works. We sometimes get bored at home and go downtown and walk around some to people watch.

I lived in Dallas for 30 years and in FW for 10. People in FW never go to Dallas on purpose!!

I forgot to mention MUSIC. 2 years ago FW passed Austin as the free music capital of Texas. I rarely eat out or go out that I don't have a great band entertaining me for free. Grocery stores, restaurants, clubs, festivals, you name it there's free music. I will listen to good bands 4-5 times a week.