Where to Eat in Lewisville, Texas

Old Town Lewisville is the center of the food scene — historic buildings dating to the 1880s now filled with one-of-a-kind restaurants, bars, a distillery, a winery, and a coffeehouse, alongside two theaters and an urban park. It's built for wandering from one distinctive spot to the next.

The mix of history, live entertainment, and independent restaurants gives Old Town a character most suburbs can't match, and it's where to start eating in Lewisville.

For barbecue, Sullivan Texas BBQ is the name — pitmaster Terry Sullivan has been smoking meat the old-school way in pits for more than 30 years. And Old Town has a genuine craft-distillery scene: BENDT Distillery makes handcrafted whiskies with tours, paired with the Ethel Janes Bendt Whiskey Kitchen.

Between a longtime barbecue pit and a working distillery, Old Town covers the Texas classics with real depth.

The lineup runs beyond barbecue. Prohibition Chicken serves Nashville hot chicken and pecan-smoked chicken with live music and a speakeasy, D'Nonna does authentic Italian, and spots like Main Street Cafe and Prairie House add comfort food, with the open-air Buffalo Hirsch cocktail truckyard for drinks.

With 200-plus restaurants across town on top of Old Town's concentration of them, Lewisville has both range and real local character.