Down Home Diner

hen Amy McNutt opened the original Spiral Diner & Bakery in Fort Worth, TX in 2002, vegan food wasn’t a particularly mainstream concept—especially in a city nicknamed “Cowtown.” Nevertheless, the area’s first completely plant-based restaurant was such a success that the comfort food-focused eatery opened its second outpost in Dallas in 2008. Ten years later, a third has been born, this time in nearby Denton. It’s been a long time since the woman-owned-and-operated Spiral Diner first debuted, but this vegan mainstay shows