Dallas

In Preston Center, 6125 Berkshire Lane; Park Cities; 214.363.1717

Just opened by a member of Houston's Dimassi family, the white, black, and azure-painted Cedars serves up buffet-style pan-Mediterranean offerings from cranberry-sauced braised lamb shank, to beef/chicken/lamb/seafood kebabs, to Egyptian Cornish hen, which in Egypt is typically made with pigeon -- though the only ones likely to complain about the switch are old Gizas.

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