Reader’s Best Travel Tips for Dallas

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This week, Hack Your City has been in Dallas and Fort Worth, and in and around the surrounding area. As reader Christina Rowe noted, DFW Metroplex is physically larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, and more populous than most US states. And so we ate it in one go. Check out all the great comments on the Staff tab, or read a few tips below.

See and do

  • “ Take the kids to Cidercade in the Design District to play old school arcade games. $ 10. “- Hoops
  • “FOR GEEKS: QuakeCon is taking place at DFW. ID Software offices are located in DFW. MicroCenter is better than Fry. “- cmdshift3
  • “If you have kids, they’ll probably enjoy the free Dallas Museum of Art, Clyde Warren Park, and the Perot Museum (check reciprocity for local museum memberships). The Nasher Sculpture Museum is pretty good too. It’s all within 2 blocks of each other. ”- AMReynolds
  • “The Dallas Museum of Art has over 20,000 works in its free permanent collection. I would head straight to the 4th floor, where they recreated the home of a wealthy 1950s couple in Paris. ”- Christina Rowe
  • “Glen Rose, 55 miles southwest of Fort Worth, offers the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Dinosaur Valley State Park, Creation Evidence Museum, Dinosaur World, Squaw Valley Golf Club, and more.” Bongo
  • “In Fort Worth, visit the Botanical Gardens, the Fort Worth Zoo, or any of the sweet museums they’ve tucked away in Funkytown.” – BMICK
  • “Fort Worth is a village within a city. Visit Billy Bob’s Bar at Stockyards for country music concerts, bull riding at the bar. The Bass Performance Hall annually hosts the world’s best international piano competition. Do not forget to take the children to the “herd” where cowboys graze cattle on the streets twice a day ”- # 1215
  • “ The Perot Museum of Natural Sciences is great. It is relatively new, therefore, relatively modern technologies are used in all exhibits. Underestimated: Ft. There is a water garden . In fact, this is a collection of fountains with water, but they are all quite complex, and the main one is just a really interesting and picturesque place. “- stickto
  • “Dallas has one of my favorite museums: the Nasher Sculpture Center . It is right in downtown Dallas and has an amazing walled sculpture garden with absolutely impeccable landscaping. The indoor displays are pretty good too, but I could spend hours in this garden. I really hoped to get there once a month, because they open in the evenings and the stretched lights come on. “- banana
  • “Anything related to Texas should be absolutely avoided. Dallas is NOT a rural and western town with cowboys and spurs. Prices for such establishments will be greatly inflated. “- The Knitigator

Eat and drink

  • “Dallas has one of my favorite foods. Maple & Motor has the best burger I’ve found. Pecan Lodge is a typical barbecue offer, but Slow Bone has some of the best ribs I’ve ever eaten. “- Moose Knuckle
  • Pecan Lodge has better meat; Lockhart has a better side. ” – TexpatNY
  • “Velvet Taco: it would be nice to try the chicken tikka tacos once” – kindrudekid
  • “Sarawana Bhavan, Indian Vegan.” – Sinkole.
  • “Go to Wabi House for ramen. Forget ramen in Austin and elsewhere. GO TO WABI’S HOUSE! “- PaulCypert
  • Riscky’s Barnyard Steak House for lunch is the best / cheapest steak you can find anywhere – Ryan Rife
  • “In Park Cities near SMU, there’s a Snider Plaza that I’m partial to – mainly because of Kuby’s, which has such delicious smoked pork chops that I can’t stop thinking about them. Belongs to a generation of a German family, one of them who comes to the children and gives them little packs of Haribo golden bears when you eat there. ” – AMReynolds
  • “If you go to Deep Ellum / Downtown, dine at The Monkey King. These are magic noodles that will change your life. “- FreeCharlie
  • “Drop whatever you are doing and go to Ooty. It looks like the best sushi bar you’ve ever been to, but it’s so much more. And they have all kinds of funny sake that you won’t find anywhere else. “- rockympls
  • “Join the Metroplex Foodies Facebook group created by Jennifer Hurley. So the locals will recommend a variety of dishes for you. ”- Blind Willie.

Bypass

  • “Dallas is a city more for locals than tourists. There are all the conveniences for living there; every restaurant, every bar, every store, every shopping center, every concert or event. One of the best ways to visit Dallas is to host some kind of event and then squeeze into a selection of those services. Just get ready to drive. ”- Regex
  • “If you are staying in Dallas itself, fly southwest to DAL (Field of Love) instead of DFW. It’s much nicer, smaller and easier to navigate, ”- Miss Scarlett.
  • “NEVER come here at the height of summer. Unless you’re from the south. You northerners will come to Texas during the height of summer and will likely faint from heatstroke. Summer is no joke here, 100+ in the daytime at 80% humidity “- liffie420
  • “Rent a bike (Dallas Bike Works is good) and ride all the ‘neighborhoods’ along the route system (Santa Fe, Trinity, Katy, White Rock). You will pass through Lakewood, Deep Ellum, Downtown, Trinity Groves, Uptown and SMU. Place a padlock so you can stop along the way and grab food. “- Badger Syrup
  • “If you are in the uptown or downtown area, take the McKinney Ave tram in between! It’s free, comes in every 15 minutes, and has little use. However, you have to ride scooters at your own risk, ”- TexpatNY.
  • “It might all look up close on a map, but it’s best to think of the DFW area as two separate cities to visit that are just by chance nearby. (Three cities if you include Arlington in between with everything it has to offer) “- TGAPGeorge

For more advice, read the original comment thread . Leave your own DFW tips and tricks below and come back in a couple of weeks when we are in China.

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