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Asian Mint
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Restaurants & Food

Asian Mint

Dallas, TX

Asian Mint is a chef-driven, woman-owned Thai restaurant that has been a Dallas favorite since 2004. Founded by Chef Nikky Phinyawatana, a Thai-Texan chef born and raised in Bangkok, the restaurant blends classic Thai cooking with a fresh, modern point of view she calls New Bangkok-style cuisine. What began as one neighborhood spot has grown into a beloved Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant group with five locations, and our Forest Lane home at 11617 N Central Expy remains one of the busiest and most loved of them all. Chef Nikky brought a real culinary pedigree to the table. After graduating from The Hockaday School and earning a business degree in entrepreneurial studies and marketing from Babson College, she trained at El Centro College Culinary School in Dallas. That mix of business grit and kitchen craft shaped Asian Mint into a place where hospitality and flavor matter equally, and where guests are treated like family. Our menu celebrates the bright, layered flavors of Thailand. Start with shared plates like Shrimp Rangoon, Fried Calamari, or the signature Mint Platter, then move on to the dishes that keep regulars coming back: our Original Pad Thai, aromatic Tom Yum soup, House Fried Rice, Pad Kee Mow, and Cashew Chicken. We cook with fresh ingredients and balance the sweet, sour, salty, and spicy notes that make Thai food so satisfying. Whether you are here for a quick lunch, a relaxed dinner, or happy hour with friends, there is something on the menu to love. Beyond the plate, Asian Mint reflects Chef Nikky's commitment to community and to lifting up other women in food. She has served as president of Les Dames d'Escoffier International, mentoring the next generation of women in the culinary industry, and has been honored with awards including Women That Soar Business of the Year. In 2024 she released her first cookbook, sharing her Thai flavors and personal stories with home cooks everywhere. We offer dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering, and reservations, along with a rewards program for our regulars. Come taste why Asian Mint has become a Dallas institution: authentic Thai flavor, warm hospitality, and a genuine love for bringing people together over great food.

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Barrios Technology
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Technology

Barrios Technology

Houston, TX

For more than 45 years, Barrios Technology has helped humanity reach farther into space. We are an award-winning, woman-owned and operated small business headquartered near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, delivering high-quality engineering, software, and technology integration solutions to government and commercial space flight programs in the United States and around the world. A long-standing prime contractor to NASA since 1980, we have contributed to nearly every era of American human spaceflight, from the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and today's Artemis missions returning astronauts to the Moon. Our teams provide space mission integration and operations, systems engineering, software engineering and integration, program integration, flight planning, ground operations, and data and analytics solutions. We partner with the industry's leaders, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Space, Intuitive Machines, KBR, and Amentum, to keep complex missions on schedule and mission-ready. Our strength is our people. More than 700 talented engineers, analysts, planners, and specialists bring vast experience and deep technical expertise to every program we support. We have earned recognition that reflects that commitment, including the NASA Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year Award, the NASA/JSC Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award, SBA Region 6 Prime and Subcontractor of the Year Awards, and a Boeing Supplier of the Year Award. We believe the future of space belongs to everyone, and we invest in building the workforce that will get us there. Barrios actively supports STEM-focused educational initiatives and industry and community associations, opening doors for the next generation of explorers, engineers, and innovators. As a woman-owned small business, inclusion is not a slogan for us; it is part of how we have grown and how we operate every day. From our corporate office on Space Center Boulevard in Houston to our operations in Huntsville, Alabama, Barrios Technology remains focused on one goal: providing the trusted engineering and integration expertise that helps our customers explore, discover, and expand what is possible beyond Earth. When missions cannot fail, partners turn to Barrios.

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LAMIK Beauty
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Beauty & Personal Care

LAMIK Beauty

Houston, TX

LAMIK Beauty was born in Houston, Texas in 2004, when Kim Roxie founded the brand at age 21 out of her college apartment with her own savings and a small investment from her mother. LAMIK stands for Love And Makeup In Kindness, and that name has guided everything the brand does. What began as a makeup counter in a Houston mall grew into a mission that is bigger than beauty. That mission took shape when Kim discovered how many everyday cosmetics were made with parabens, talc, and other known carcinogens. Women of color have long been underserved and overexposed by the beauty market, and Kim set out to change that. LAMIK became a clean, vegan makeup line crafted with natural and organic ingredients, made intentionally for multicultural women who deserve products that are both safe and beautiful. The brand's philosophy is simple and powerful: Beauty is Revealed, Not Applied. LAMIK products are designed to work with your skin, not to cover it up. From the signature brow collection that Kim first created for herself while navigating hair loss, to foundations, cleansers, and moisturizers, every formula is built to celebrate what is already there. Kim Roxie's leadership has earned wide recognition. She became one of the youngest African American women to launch a full cosmetic line inside a major department store, and LAMIK made history as one of the first Black-owned certified clean beauty brands to reach a national clean beauty retailer. Ebony Magazine named Kim one of five Black cosmetics entrepreneurs to know, and she was honored on the Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list in 2019. After closing the original storefront in 2018 to focus fully on clean formulation, LAMIK relaunched as an e-commerce brand in 2020, bringing its values to customers everywhere. Today LAMIK Beauty remains a proudly Black woman-owned company rooted in Houston, still led by the founder who started it all. It stands as proof that a beauty brand can be clean, inclusive, purpose-driven, and kind at every step, revealing the beauty that was there all along.

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Maestri Studio
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Creative & Media

Maestri Studio

Dallas, TX

Maestri Studio is a full-service architecture and interior design firm founded in Dallas in 2008 by Eddie Maestri, AIA. From our home in Exposition Park, the neighborhood tucked between the east end of Deep Ellum and the grand entrance to Fair Park, we design residences and spaces that express individuality, personality, and character. Our philosophy is simple: thoughtfully tailored, beautifully curated, design for the way you actually live. We bring architecture, interior architecture, interior design, and landscape design together under one roof, so every project is considered from the structure out to the finishes and the grounds. That integrated approach lets us shape homes that feel cohesive and intentional, whether the work is a ground-up build, a full renovation, or a room reimagined. We believe good design should be personal, so we start with how you live and build outward from there, layering art, color, texture, and one-of-a-kind pieces that make a space unmistakably yours. Over the years our work has been recognized well beyond Dallas. Projects and perspectives from the studio have been featured by Architectural Digest, Veranda, HGTV, Aspire, Design Milk, and CBS, and the firm has taken part in celebrated design events including the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Those milestones reflect a team that treats every commission, large or small, with the same care and craft. Design is only part of the story. Our love of art, modern furnishings, and the unique also lives on through Shop Maestri, a curated collection of pieces and collaborations that carry the studio's point of view into your own home. It is an extension of the same instinct that drives our interiors: surrounding people with objects that have meaning, beauty, and a little bit of the unexpected. Today Maestri Studio works from both Dallas and Los Angeles, but our roots and our sensibility remain firmly Texan. We are a studio built on the belief that where you live should reflect who you are. If you are ready to create a space that is genuinely yours, thoughtfully designed and beautifully made, we would love to hear about it.

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Michael's Cookie Jar
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Restaurants & Food

Michael's Cookie Jar

Houston, TX

At Michael's Cookie Jar, we bake happiness daily, one cookie at a time. From our shop in Houston's Weslayan Plaza, we have grown into a neighborhood favorite for gourmet cookies that cover the full range, from warm, soft-baked chocolate chip to delicate hand-decorated shortbread. Our Oven Fresh Cookies are exactly what they sound like, baked throughout the day so there is always something warm and ready when you walk in. Cookies are all we do, and we love the variety. Our regulars come back for signatures like The HTX Cookie, the snickerdoodle, and our loaded peanut butter cookie packed with peanuts, Reese's Pieces, and caramel popcorn. We bake to the season too, with fresh flavors and themes that rotate through the year, so the case always has something new to discover. Beyond the everyday case, we are proud of our custom and decorated work. Our decorators hand-ice shortbread into wedding cakes, bridal dresses, baby onesies, birthday cakes, and cupcakes, and we love a Texas theme, from spring bluebonnets to Houston Texans and Rodeo cookies. We create custom decorated cookies, custom logo cookies for businesses and events, and custom cookie cakes that make a birthday or celebration feel special. Many of our decorated designs can be ordered straight from our gallery, usually with about two weeks of lead time so we can get every detail right. Everything is baked with love, and that is not just a saying. Walk through our door and you are met with the smell of cookies in the oven and a team that genuinely wants to help you find the perfect treat, whether it is a single cookie for the road, a dozen for the office, or a showpiece cookie cake for a big day. We offer takeout and delivery, plus online ordering, so it is easy to get your favorites however you like. You will find us Monday through Saturday at our Weslayan Plaza bakery, with a second location serving downtown Houston. Come see why so many Houstonians keep their cookie jar full with us. However you take your cookies, warm and simple or decorated and dressed up, we would love to bake them for you.

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Pan-African Connection
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Retail & Shops

Pan-African Connection

Dallas, TX

Welcome to the Pan-African Connection, a proudly Black-owned, family- and woman-owned bookstore, art gallery, and resource center on South Marsalis Avenue in Dallas. For decades we have called ourselves the shortest trip to Africa without getting on a plane, and when you walk through our doors you understand why. Every shelf, wall, and corner is arranged to reconnect people of African descent with the depth and beauty of their heritage. At heart we are a bookstore. Our shelves carry titles on African and African American history, health and wellness, spirituality, self-determination, and children's literature that lets young readers see themselves as heroes. Alongside the books you will find one of the largest African art collections anywhere, from hand-carved artifacts and sculpture to textiles, jewelry, and posters. We also stock clothing, natural hair products and oils, educational puzzles, and gifts that carry meaning long after they leave the store. But the Pan-African Connection has always been more than a place to shop. We are a cultural center and a gathering place for the community. Throughout the year our space fills with poetry and storytelling, drum circles, children's programs, art workshops, health advocacy, urban farming initiatives, and business mixers that bring DFW entrepreneurs together. Our annual Kwanzaa celebration runs the full seven days of Umoja through Imani, with programming for elders, families, and the youngest among us. Events like our herbal smudging workshops and liberation paint parties invite you to learn, create, and connect in person. We believe that culture is nourishment and that knowledge is power you can hold in your hands. Whether you are a lifelong reader searching for a hard-to-find title, a collector looking for authentic African art, a parent building a home library, or a neighbor who simply wants to feel rooted in something bigger, there is a place for you here. Walk-ins are always welcome. Come browse, ask questions, and stay a while. The Pan-African Connection is your connection to a heritage worth celebrating, right here in South Dallas.

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Roots Southern Table
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Restaurants & Food

Roots Southern Table

Dallas, TX

At Roots Southern Table, we set a table where Southern food is honored, elevated, and shared the way it was always meant to be. Founded by chef Tiffany Derry, a Black woman chef whose cooking is grounded in family, memory, and the deep traditions of the American South, our Farmers Branch dining room is our love letter to the region that raised us. Every plate begins with the flavors we grew up on and carries them somewhere new. Our cooking is Southern at its core and refined in its execution. We take the dishes that fill Southern kitchens with warmth and give them the care, technique, and ingredients they deserve. Our Duck Fat Fried Chicken has become a signature for a reason, crisp and golden and unforgettable. Alongside it you might find Fried Shrimp and Grits, Black Eyed Pea Hummus, warm Drop Biscuits, and a Peaches and Cream that tastes like summer in the South. Nothing here is fussy for its own sake. Every choice is made to make the food taste more like itself. The name Roots is a promise. It speaks to the ancestry and history woven through Southern cooking, the hands and stories that carried these recipes forward, and the sense of place that makes a meal feel like home. Chef Derry built this restaurant to celebrate that lineage openly and proudly, giving Southern cuisine a seat at the fine dining table without ever losing the soul that makes it special. Step inside and you will feel it in the hospitality first. We want you to settle in, linger over a thoughtfully made cocktail, and let dinner unfold at its own pace. Our beverage program and curated wine selection are built to complement the food and the mood, whether you are marking a milestone or simply gathering the people you love. We are open Tuesday through Sunday for dinner, welcoming guests from across Dallas and beyond to the corner of Bee Street in Farmers Branch. Come hungry, come curious, and come ready to taste the South the way we know it. At Roots Southern Table, you are not just a guest at dinner. You are family at the table.

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The Breakfast Klub
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Restaurants & Food

The Breakfast Klub

Houston, TX

Welcome to the breakfast klub, Houston's home for the best breakfast in the city. Since founder Marcus Davis opened our doors in Midtown in September 2001, we have been serving up great home-style breakfast with the kind of superior service and genuine hospitality that turns first-time visitors into family. We are a proud Black-owned Houston institution, and everything we do starts with the community that raised us. Marcus built this place on a simple idea: give people soulful, savory food made the way it ought to be made, and treat every guest like they belong here. More than two decades later, that idea still defines every plate that leaves our kitchen. You already know what we are famous for. Our Wings & Waffles is the dish that put us on the map, golden wings alongside a light, crisp waffle that keeps folks coming back and keeps the line moving out the door. Right next to it on the wall of legends is our Katfish & Grits, seasoned and fried the way the South intended, served over creamy grits that taste like Sunday morning. Whatever you order, it comes with our signature seasoning, the soulful and savory blend that carries a little bit of Houston in every bite. We serve breakfast and lunch, so there is no wrong time to pull up a chair. Breakfast runs all through the morning, and lunch is ready when the midday crowd rolls in. Come by yourself, bring the whole family, or let us cater your next event. We also offer to-go orders, gift kards, and family meal packages so you can take a little of the klub home with you. Over the years the breakfast klub has grown into more than a restaurant. We have become a top Houston tourist stop and a hometown favorite, a place where visitors, regulars, neighbors, and celebrities all share the same tables. That is exactly how Marcus wanted it. When you walk through our doors at 3711 Travis Street, you are not just a customer. You are part of the klub. Come hungry, leave full, and bring somebody with you next time.

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