The stretch of North Texas running east from US-75 through Richardson and into Garland is one of the most genuinely diverse dining corridors in the country. This is not a marketing phrase. Richardson has one of the highest concentrations of Middle Eastern, Persian, and Central Asian restaurants outside of a major metro hub, a thriving Chinese-American commercial district that anchors its own miniature Chinatown, and an Ethiopian restaurant that opened last year because the owner wanted to share something from home.
Garland, just east, has the 14th-largest Vietnamese population in the United States and a North Jupiter Road corridor that runs Vietnamese pho houses, Korean BBQ joints, Chinese dim sum parlors, and Filipino kitchens for blocks. Between the two cities, you can eat your way around the world without leaving the Dallas suburbs.
This guide covers both cities, in no particular order of importance, because there isn’t one…