Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers closed Jan. 1, making it the third long-standing restaurant to close at the Skillman Live Oak shopping strip. The restaurant opened in Lakewood Dec. 2, 2013, the local chain’s second location.
Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers still operates three restaurants in Northwest Dallas, Plano and Oak Cliff.
BuzzBrews Kitchen closed Dec. 11 after eight years. In 2023, the company also filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and closed its North Central Expressway location. BuzzBrews’s Deep Ellum location is the only one left.
Matt’s Rancho Martinez. Photo by Renee Umsted.
Matt’s Rancho Martinez closed after 35 years in Lakewood April 2, 2023. The Tex-Mex restaurant used to be on La Vista, where Mi Cocina is now, and before then, it was at the corner of La Vista and Gaston, at the former Starbucks space. In 2012, it opened at Skillman and La Vista. Nick Martinez, an owner of the restaurant, said the company moved operations to the Allen store, which is almost twice as large as the one in Lakewood, the Advocate previously reported.
