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Asian restaurant Sweet Stacks debuts jiggly pancakes in Frisco

Pancakes topped with matcha at Sweet Stacks.

Photo courtesy of Sweet Stacks

Fluffy, jiggly pancakes have landed in Frisco via Sweet Stacks, an Asian restaurant that just opened at 252 W. Stonebrook Pkwy. #640, in a space previously occupied by its sibling restaurant Sweet Rice.

Sweet Stacks calls itself a "one-stop destination for the best of Asian flavors," bringing together Asian food, drinks, and desserts under one roof. It's a spinoff of Sweet Rice, a small Asian restaurant chain with locations in Dallas-Fort Worth (Bishop Arts, Mockingbird Lane, and Mansfield) and Washington state.

Sweet Stacks' menu stars souffle-style Japanese pancakes — taller than regular pancakes, with a light, fluffy, jiggly texture, almost like a souffle. Sweet Stacks offers them sweet, topped with fresh fruit for $16; or savory, with bacon & eggs for $18. Part of the "joy" of ordering the pancakes is that they are made to order and take up to 30 minutes to make. If you have to wait, you know it's good.

Sweet Stacks is from a team that includes Sweet Rice founder Von Linavong and chef Mina Sourignavong, who was running the kitchen at the Frisco Sweet Rice.

They debuted the Sweet Stacks concept in Fort Worth in late 2025. The pancakes generated such a buzz that they decided to transition the Frisco Sweet Rice into a Sweet Stacks. There's also another Sweet Stacks in the works for Arlington.

The menu's other other signature is its stellar beverage program featuring matcha lattes in a variety of flavors including strawberry matcha latte, mango matcha latte, and Thai tea matcha latte.

Sweet Stacks also serves dishes from Sweet Rice featuring Asian, Thai, and Laotian food, including:

Laotian spicy sausage made in-house
Khao soi, a northern Thai dish with egg noodles in a coconut curry
Pad Kra Pow, A Thai street food with rice, protein, garlic, chillies, basil, and topped with a fried egg
Spicy Basil Spaghetti with stir fried cabbage, onion, and green bell pepper, in a chili sauce enhanced by Thai basil

There are three kinds of curry — yellow, red, and green — plus chicken wings, Japanese standards like edamame, and Chinese dishes including potstickers, egg rolls, crab wontons, and fried rice.

The Frisco location also has a dining room with in-house seating.

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Got the goat

Rodeo Goat fires up its crave-worthy burgers for new Allen development

Photo courtesy of Rodeo Goat

Rodeo Goat's 'Hatch Me if You Can burger,' offered during Hatch chile season.

Popular Fort Worth-born burger chain Rodeo Goat is joining the growing lineup of Allen's new Sloan Corners complex.

According to a release, the burger joint has signed a lease for a location in the mixed-use development from Billingsley Company at the southwest corner of SH-121 and US-75.

Opening date is still TBA.

Rodeo Goat is known for its creative house-ground burgers, hand-punched fries, craft beer, and casual, industrial-style atmosphere.

The menu includes more than 20 signature burger selections including the popular Bodacious Burger (American cheese, bacon, crispy onions, grilled jalapeños pickles, smoked jalapeño mayo, bodacious BBQ sauce); the Blue Jeans Burger (double smash patty, melted blue cheese, applewood smoked bacon, grilled jalapeños, crispy onions strings, whipped blue cheese, 501 steak sauce); and the Inspector Clouseau (double smash patties, Swiss cheese, caramelized onions, black peppercorn aioli and French onion pan sauce on an onion bun). The “Hatch Me if You Can” burger is a popular choice during Hatch chile season, which just concluded in August.

The extensive drink menu offers domestic and imported brews with a large selection of “mostly” Texas craft beers and a quirky cocktail menu featuring signature concoctions such as the B-L-TX, blackberry lemonade spiked with Texas whiskey, and the “Moontang” with Firefly Moonshine, Tang and “other things.”

A popular happy hour, AKA "Rodeo Time" offers drink and food specials - like $6 margaritas and 1/2 off queso - each Monday through Friday.

Rodeo Goat was founded by Dallas restaurateur Shannon Wynne and partners Keith Schlabs and Larry Richardson, with its first location opening in Fort Worth in 2012. A second location followed in Dallas’ Design District, where Rodeo Goat became part of the neighborhood’s restaurant resurgence.

The brand has since expanded across North Texas, with current locations in Dallas, Fort Worth, Frisco, Plano, Addison, Denton, Rockwall, and Cypress Waters. There's also one in Houston.

Wynne, the founder, has a close relationship with Billingsley Company, the release notes. He currently operates four restaurants at Billingsley’s Cypress Waters development: Rodeo Goat, Flying Fish, Flying Saucer, and Miriam Cocina Latina. The Allen location will be the group’s fifth restaurant in a Billingsley development.

Rendering of Sloan Corners' 121 retail corridor.Photo courtesy of Billingsley Company

The Allen restaurant will have prominent visibility from SH-121, an intersection that sees more than 300,000 vehicles a day, the release notes. It will be part of the development’s Bravo Park area, which is planned as a central gathering space with trails, green space, public art, dog parks, and pickleball courts.

“Rodeo Goat is exactly the kind of restaurant we want at Sloan Corners: local, fun, distinctive and already loved by people across DFW,” says Lucy Burns, partner at Billingsley Company, in the release. “We have a wonderful relationship with Shannon and his team at Cypress Waters, and we’re thrilled to grow that partnership at Sloan Corners. With the visibility along SH-121 and everything happening around Bravo Park, Rodeo Goat will be a fantastic addition.”

Rodeo Goat will join several other food and entertainment concepts planned for Bravo Park, including Mexican Bar Company, Flat Grounds Coffee, and City Futsal.

Sloan Corners is envisioned as a major mixed-use destination spanning Allen and Fairview, with office, residential, retail, dining, parks, trails, and other outdoor amenities. The first phases in Allen include more than 180,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and nearly 4,000 multifamily residences, with future office development also planned.

“We place a lot of value on bringing authentic local favorites into our developments,” Burns says in the release. “Rodeo Goat brings that energy naturally.”

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