Women-Owned Businesses in Dallas to Support in 2026

Women-owned is the largest ownership category in our Dallas directory, and it is also the broadest. It runs from Tiffany Derry's Southern cooking to a wrought iron door shop, from two distilleries and a forty-year-old cheese maker to a Native American woman-owned supplier of dental and pharmacy equipment.

Sixty-eight Dallas listings carry the women-owned tag. Roughly two thirds of them serve food, which says something about where a directory's early sources come from and less about the city. The other third is where this guide gets interesting, so it is worth reading past the restaurants.

Quick answer

1. For a destination dinner, Roots Southern Table, chef Tiffany Derry's elevated Southern restaurant in Farmers Branch.
2. For Thai, Asian Mint in North Dallas, chef-driven and New Bangkok style.
3. For Cajun and Creole, Restaurant Beatrice in North Oak Cliff.
4. For tacos, Chimalma Taco Bar downtown, Jalisco style and from scratch.
5. For chocolate, CocoAndré Chocolatier, a Latina mother and daughter team in Oak Cliff.
6. For books and African art, Pan-African Connection in South Dallas.
7. For a bottle, Bendt Distilling Co, Lockwood Distilling Co, or Wondry Wine.
8. For cheese, Mozzarella Company, a Dallas institution.
9. Outside food entirely: Hokte, Freedom Iron Doors, Pressed Roots, and The Plant Project.
10. Our Dallas hub carries the full list.

Which restaurants should I plan a night around?

Three carry a paid tier, which means the owners chose to claim and build out their pages, and all three are worth the trip.

Roots Southern Table is chef Tiffany Derry's restaurant, elevated Southern food built on heritage and hospitality. It is in Farmers Branch rather than Dallas proper, which is worth knowing before you set the navigation. Asian Mint is chef-driven Thai in North Dallas, serving what it calls New Bangkok cuisine. Restaurant Beatrice does scratch-made Louisiana classics in North Oak Cliff and is both Black-owned and women-owned.

Beyond those, the sit-down list is long and genuinely varied: Lucia, Partenope, and Terilli's for Italian, Gemma and Parigi for the neighborhood-institution end of things, Ida Claire for Southern, Dive Coastal Cuisine and Lovers Seafood & Market for fish, and Radici for the wood-fired grill.

For something closer to a diner, Norma's Cafe, Ruthie's Cafe, Dream Cafe, and Oddfellows are the everyday rooms.

Where do I go for coffee and something sweet?

This is one of the deeper benches in the guide.

Where	What it is
Opening Bell Coffee	Coffee shop, also a live music room
Staycation Coffee	Coffee shop
Halcyon	Coffee by day, bar later
Fount Board and Table	Coffee, boards, and table service
The Aussie Grind	Australian-style cafe
Hola Cafe	Coffee shop, also Latino-owned

For pastry and dessert, Emporium Pies is the name most people arrive already knowing. Kate Weiser Chocolate, Dude, Sweet Chocolate, and CocoAndré Chocolatier cover chocolate from three different directions, and CocoAndré is the one to know if you want Mexican flavors in a European truffle.

The bakeries are their own short list: Bird Bakery, Jen's Place Bakery Cafe, La Casita Bakeshop, La Duni Baking Studio, and Cookie Society, which bakes oversized specialty cookies daily and serves the Dallas and Frisco area rather than a single address.

Who is actually making things?

Seven of the sixty-eight are producers rather than places you sit down in, and this is the most underrated section of the directory.

Mozzarella Company has been making cheese in Dallas for decades and supplies restaurants across the region. Amor y Queso works the same aisle in gourmet foods. Molino Oloyo mills masa, which is the sort of supplier a whole city's tortillas quietly depend on.

On the drinks side, Bendt Distilling Co and Lockwood Distilling Co are both women-owned distilleries, and Wondry Wine is a women-owned and Black-owned wine brand. 1890 Marketplace rounds out the specialty foods group.

If you are buying gifts, this is the section to shop. These are the businesses whose products travel.

What is here outside of food?

Four listings, and each one is the only thing like it on the page.

Hokte is a woman-owned Native American business supplying medical and dental equipment, pharmacy automation, and specialty healthcare products to clinical environments. It is the closest thing in this directory to a Dallas women-owned business selling into institutions rather than to consumers.

Freedom Iron Doors makes fully customized wrought iron doors across Dallas and Fort Worth, and is listed as both veteran-owned and women-owned. Pressed Roots is a silk blowout bar built specifically around textured hair. Bey Yoga is the one studio.

In retail, Pan-African Connection is a bookstore, African art gallery, and cultural resource center in South Dallas that describes itself as the shortest trip to Africa without getting on a plane. The Plant Project is a plant and botanical design boutique.

Which of these sit in more than one community?

Most of the interesting ones. Of the sixty-eight women-owned Dallas listings, twenty-six carry a second ownership tag:

• Nine are also Latino-owned, including CocoAndré Chocolatier, Miriam Cocina Latina, Resident Taqueria, and Olmo.
• Seven are also Asian-owned, including Asian Mint, Shinsei, Jia Modern Chinese, and Ngon Viet Kitchen.
• Seven are also Black-owned, including Roots Southern Table, Restaurant Beatrice, Cookie Society, and Pan-African Connection.
• Freedom Iron Doors is also veteran-owned, and Hokte is also listed as minority-owned.

That overlap is the argument for browsing by more than one tag rather than treating these guides as separate lists.

What is not on this list?

Professional services, almost entirely. There is no women-owned attorney, accountant, architect, financial adviser, or real estate agent listed in Dallas in our directory, and Hokte is the only business-to-business supplier of any kind.

Dallas plainly has all of those. What it does not have yet is a record of them here, because the sources this directory was built from were food and retail sources. If you run a women-owned firm in Dallas in any professional category, you would be the first one listed in it, on a page people are already searching. Listings are free to add.

How is ownership determined?

Each listing shows a verification status. Publicly listed means ownership was recorded from a public source such as a chamber directory or the business's own description. Self identified means the owner told us directly. Certified means a third party verified it.

We never infer ownership from a name, a photo, or the kind of food a restaurant serves. Formal certification as a Women's Business Enterprise is a separate thing, done by a certifying body, and it is shown separately when a listing has it.

Dallas also has guides to its LGBTQ-owned, Black-owned, Latino-owned, and Asian-owned businesses, plus a guide to diverse-owned restaurants. Many listings appear on more than one.

Common mistakes

Reading the restaurant share as a fact about women in business in Dallas. It is a fact about where our sources came from. Restaurant ownership is published in food media and chamber guides; an accounting practice is not.

Skipping the producers. The distilleries, the cheese maker, and the masa mill are the businesses on this page whose products you can buy without being in Dallas at all.

Assuming a tag is a certification. Ownership tags are sourced claims with a status attached. Supplier-diversity certification is separate and shown separately.

Setting the navigation for Dallas when the restaurant is not in Dallas. Roots Southern Table is in Farmers Branch, and Cookie Society serves the Dallas and Frisco area.

FAQ

Sources

• Business names, categories, cities, and ownership tags come from published Inclusivity.org listings with city = dallas, queried 2026-08-15. Counts reflect that snapshot.
• Dallas population shares referenced in the sibling Dallas guides are American Community Survey five-year estimates as reported by Neilsberg and Texas Demographics.
• Three listings describe a location outside Dallas city limits while being filed under the Dallas city value: Roots Southern Table (Farmers Branch), Cookie Society (Dallas and Frisco area), and Asia Times Square (Grand Prairie, which appears in the Asian-owned guide rather than this one). This guide describes each by its real location.