The last chance to eat at Matt’s Rancho Martinez in Lakewood is Monday, Feb. 27, its last day of business in that space. The restaurant is moving to Skillman and La Vista. A reopening date hasn’t been announced, but it is expected to be sometime this spring.
Photo by Mark Davis
Mi Cocina is taking the Matt’s space, and we hear the plan is to enclose the patio to make the restaurant bigger. A lot of neighbors are sad to see Matt’s leaving the space, but now we get Matt’s and Mi Cocina in the neighborhood.
If you can’t wait until the indeterminate reopening date, how about trekking to the suburbs? The nearest outlying Matt’s is almost 11 miles away in Garland. No offense to Garlanders, but I tend to avoid that fair burg as I have known its reputation for overly sensitive traffic cops to be accurate. Twenty-two miles away, in Cedar Hill, there is a Matt’s in a shopping development called Uptown Village. That shopping center also has Dillard’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Barnes & Noble. And on the other side of Plano, there is a Matt’s in Allen, which is almost 24 miles from here.
