If you haven't tried the cookie butter. Do it!! It's amazing. And if you don't want the whole jar grab a dark chocolate bar filled with cookie butter in the checkout line.
Drink a Lakewood Temptress, since you know...you're in Lakewood. The burgers and fries are good too.
Pookie's Donuts is two kinds of crazy. One because of a hot pink mechanical gorilla Alice Laussade wrote about last year, and also because, in addition to doughnuts, they serve Philly cheesesteaks.
High heels with bathing suits is not a thing I readily encourage, but if you were ever going to indulge ladies, this is the pool.
Shannon Wynne's newest spot gives a new meaning to drinking in the park. Sip on creative cocktails like The Horned Lark (Absolut vodka, yellow Chartreuse, Lillet Blanc, grapefruit bitters).
Equinox gym gives a bit of New York in Texas. The huge gym is known for its cleanliness, facilities, classes and "Dallas" and "John Tucker Must Die" actor, Jesse Metcalfe works out there.
Dedicate a day to shopping, dining and people watching in Highland Park Village, America’s first independent shopping center. It also houses a quaint movie theater and cheese shop.
Lucky's chicken fried chicken waffle is one of the best kept secrets in all of Dallas. Get it fully loaded (butter, syrup, gravy, etc). Seriously! You will not be disappointed.
JD's serves fresh-baked cookies—the semi-sweet chocolate with nuts is particularly good—as well as 15 kinds of warm muffins.
Since 2011, Tate's has brought class to the Uptown scene. Barman J.W. Tate shakes up fine beverages in an old house-turned-bar with a clean, classic feel. Gin fans shouldn't miss the housemade tonic.
