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The 1982 Dallas tennis shoe reborn Italian — Medalist retro-court leather of vintage Americana.
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Visit official site ↗Oak Cliff, Dallas
Founded in 2009 by Jonathan Meadows and Nathan Shelton, this Dallas roastery didn't open its own café until 2016, in Oak Cliff. It sources Cup of Excellence lots from Peru, Mexico, Honduras and Ethiopia.
Best for Dallas-roasted specialty coffee from a 2009 roastery founded by a US Barista
Cultivar Coffee was founded in 2009 by Jonathan Meadows and Nathan Shelton, who met working the bar at Dallas's White Rock Coffee and Pearl Cup before striking out on their own. Meadows went on to become the first Dallas-based barista to compete on the United States Barista Championship stage, in 2010 — a credential that shaped the roastery's early identity as a serious, competition-literate operation rather than a casual coffee shop.
The company built slowly: an East Dallas roastery storefront in early 2011, a first retail foothold inside the Good 2 Go Taco restaurant that same year, then a second location in 2014 inside Denton's Hypnotic Donuts doughnut shop. It wasn't until 2016 that Cultivar opened its first standalone café, at 313 W. Jefferson Boulevard in Dallas's Oak Cliff neighborhood — seven years after the roastery itself began.
Today the roastery sources coffee from Peru, Mexico, Honduras and Ethiopia, including Cup of Excellence competition-winning lots, and runs a subscription program alongside wholesale and catering accounts. The Oak Cliff café remains the clearest expression of the roastery's slow-build approach: rather than opening a flagship first and building sourcing credibility after, Cultivar spent seven years proving the coffee inside other people's businesses before opening a room of its own.
Visit official site ↗Deep Ellum, Dallas
A nonprofit literary organization and publisher in Deep Ellum whose storefront bookshop specializes in translated and independent-press literature. Its publishing arm includes the Dalkey Archive Press imprint devoted to international and experimental fiction.
Best for Literature in translation and small-press titles
Deep Vellum Books is the storefront and headquarters of Deep Vellum Books & Publishing, a nonprofit literary arts organization at 3000 Commerce Street in Deep Ellum, Dallas. Will Evans founded Deep Vellum in 2013. He had found that Dallas readers had few places to talk about books and global literature. The name plays on the historic district Deep Ellum and on vellum, the thick parchment once used for fine books. In its first five years the press published 90 works in translation and hosted dozens of literary events. It has since become the largest publisher of translated literature in the United States. Seven imprints include Dalkey Archive Press, acquired in 2020, and the backlist holds more than 1,500 titles from over 100 countries. The shop stocks everything the press publishes together with a selection of literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry from independent publishers. It calls itself Texas's normalest bookstore and welcomes anyone who would like to read. The Dallas Morning News reported in 2026 on a listing by Condé Nast Traveler. That magazine had included the store on its list of independent bookstores in America. The same report noted that Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid, a Deep Vellum title, reached the International Booker Prize longlist in 2025.
Visit official site ↗Bishop Arts, Dallas
A chef-driven chocolate maker in the Bishop Arts district turning out handcrafted truffles, fudges, barks and spreads on an ever-changing menu. The West Eighth Street shop leans into unexpected flavor combinations.
Best for Handcrafted truffles and fudge
Visit official site ↗Flea Style
Hidden Gem902 S Pearl Expy, Dallas Farmers Market / Online
Dallas-based Flea Style combines Western-boho clothing, vintage finds, gifts and its Original Hat Bar. The current Dallas boutique is at 902 S Pearl Expy inside Dallas Farmers Market.
Best for Western-boho fashion, vintage finds, gifts, and custom hats
Flea Style grew from an event business into a retail company with hat-making experiences at its centre. Brittany Cobb launched The Dallas Flea in 2009 as a quarterly market for selected vendors and small businesses. The project adopted the Flea Style name in 2015, then opened its first flagship and headquarters in a renovated 5,000-square-foot Deep Ellum building in 2018. A second shop followed at The Star in Frisco. In 2020 the Frisco location introduced the company's first official hat bar, turning customization into a defined part of the format. Expansion continued through Fort Worth, Louisville and a mobile boutique built into a 20-foot truck. The current offer joins vintage pieces with Western clothing and gifts, together with hat appointments. That history explains why the business does not read like a standard apparel chain. Its retail model developed from markets and vendor discovery, with live customization. The Dallas Farmers Market location carries that sequence forward, combining a permanent shop with the participatory Original Hat Bar concept.
Visit official site ↗Dallas
A Dallas coffee roasting studio selling freshly roasted beans direct through its online store. The small operation focuses on roasting rather than a large cafe footprint.
Best for Small-batch Yemen and Laos coffees from Dallas
Full City Rooster was founded in 2013 by brothers Michael and Chris Wyatt in the Cedars neighborhood of South Dallas, opening as an appointment-only roastery among the area's small brick studios and warehouses before slowly adding café hours as demand grew. Michael roasts on a Loring machine but configures every batch by hand rather than relying on the roaster's automation, trusting his own read of the beans over the equipment's presets. He was among the first roasters in Dallas to bring in single-origin lots from less common coffee-growing regions such as Yemen and Laos, alongside more familiar origins. The roastery has since expanded into a studio with proper café seating, a back patio and a performance area, and opened an outpost in Portland in 2020. Full City Rooster sells its roasted beans direct through its own online store, with the roasting studio itself remaining the center of the operation rather than a large café footprint.
Visit official site ↗Preston Hollow, Dallas
An independent bookstore on West Lovers Lane with hand-curated fiction, nonfiction and children's sections and a busy calendar of author events. It runs subscription programs for children's, young-adult and mystery readers alongside fiction and nonfiction book clubs.
Best for Curated new titles and author events
Visit official site ↗Mosaic Makers Collective
Hidden GemBishop Arts District / Dallas Farmers Market District / Online
Mosaic Makers Collective is a retailer in Dallas for goods from Texas women makers across art, jewelry, stationery, apparel and home.
Best for Goods from Texas women makers across art, jewelry, stationery, apparel and home
Visit official site ↗Expo Park, Dallas
Noble Coyote is a national-award-winning micro-roastery and coffee lab in Dallas's Expo Park neighborhood, built around the line "grown by farmers, roasted by us, brewed by you." It hosts public cuppings on the first Saturday of every month alongside a monthly subscription program.
Best for National award-winning single origins and monthly cuppings
Kevin Sprague was roasting coffee at home as a hobby as early as 2003, years before he and his wife Marta left corporate jobs to launch Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters as a professional micro-roastery at the end of 2011. Run out of a coffee lab in Dallas's Expo Park neighborhood, the business keeps its door open to walk-in visitors who want to ask about roasting, grinding and brewing, and holds public cuppings on the first Saturday of every month where visitors taste new offerings and learn about their origins directly from the roasters. The results have been recognized well beyond Dallas: Noble Coyote has won or been a finalist for a national Good Food Award five times running (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024), was named Best Coffee in Texas by Food & Wine magazine in 2018, and has repeatedly taken Dallas Observer honors for Best Cold Brew and Best Coffee Roaster across 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2025, along with a D Magazine award for Best Coffee Education in 2017. It was only the second Dallas roaster, after Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters, to win a Good Food Award, part of a small cluster of serious micro-roasters that has put the city on the specialty-coffee map.
Visit official site ↗Oak Cliff, Dallas
Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters date-stamps every small batch and matches subscribers to beans through a taste quiz rather than expertise. It anchors the CliffMade collective on West Davis Street, alongside 5 Mile Chocolate, Candor Bread and Race Street Coffee.
Best for Small-batch, date-stamped specialty coffee since 2008
Shannon Neffendorf started Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters in 2008 after a business trip to Milan left him unable to settle for what passed as coffee back in Dallas; he began roasting on the side, landed Crooked Tree Coffeehouse as his first wholesale account in January 2009, and quit his job at Blockbuster soon after to roast full time. The company still runs on the freshness discipline that grew out of that decision: coffee is roasted in small batches, sealed into one-way-valve bags as soon as it cools, and each bag is stamped with its actual roast date rather than a generic best-by. In 2016, Oak Cliff became the first Dallas-based roaster to win a Good Food Award, a national recognition for craft food producers, cementing a reputation that has since carried the business into wholesale accounts across Dallas-Fort Worth, including early clients like The Wild Detectives and Whole Foods. On West Davis Street, the roastery now anchors CliffMade, a small collective of Oak Cliff food producers that groups Oak Cliff Coffee alongside 5 Mile Chocolate, Candor Bread, East Kiest Farms, Davis Street Espresso and Race Street Coffee — neighborhood makers sharing a retail footprint rather than a single roastery-café model.
Visit official site ↗Deep Ellum, Dallas
Justin and Diane Fourton smoke brisket, beef ribs and house sausage over Texas oak at this Deep Ellum barbecue joint that grew out of a Dallas Farmers Market stall. The pit-and-tradition kitchen also ships its brisket nationwide and runs a full catering operation.
Best for Central Texas brisket and beef ribs
Visit official site ↗Deep Ellum, Dallas
The Lockhart-rooted Black family opened this Deep Ellum outpost in 2019, serving oak-smoked brisket, ribs and sausage sold by the pound cafeteria-style. The Dallas location is one of five family-run Texas restaurants carrying on generations of Central Texas barbecue.
Best for By-the-pound smoked brisket and ribs
Visit official site ↗Oak Cliff (Bishop Arts), Dallas
The Wild Detectives combines an independent bookstore with a bar in Dallas's Oak Cliff neighbourhood. It opened in 2014 in a converted house, with a selection shaped by literature from different countries. Books share the space with coffee and drinks, making it a place to browse and spend time with a new read.
Best for Literary browsing with coffee or a drink in Oak Cliff
Visit official site ↗Deep Ellum, Dallas
A Dallas cidery making dry, unsweetened craft ciders in a traditional style, now with a taproom and food on Main Street in Deep Ellum. Its house cider is described as sophisticated, complex and deeply dry.
Best for Dry traditional craft cider
Visit official site ↗West End, Dallas
A West End store trading for more than 40 years in cowboy boots, hats, western apparel, belt buckles and handmade turquoise jewelry. It stocks Texas gifts and now ships internationally from its North Market Street shop.
Best for Boots, hats and turquoise jewelry
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