China Palace - gone!

You read it here first, unless like me you read the news on the front door of what used to be China Palace. Effective January 8, the mainstay of Cross Timbers Road is no longer in business. The owners are taking a couple of months off to retool and redesign. When they reopen in the spring, they'll be a Japanese restaurant, "Asahi Teppenyaki" if I recall the name correctly. It's a shame for us. My 11-year-old son loved some of the buffet items at China Palace. They had a wide variety of foods on the buffet, which gave all the picky eaters at our table the chance to go home happy.

With the closing of Beijing Wok a few months ago, this leaves Flower Mound with only two Chinese restaurants. One is Panda Express fast food on FM3040 across from the southside Tom Thumb. Not bad food, but the menu is very limited. Your other choice is the Empress of China, an upscale Chinese eatery on FM407 just east of the Albertsons, just east of Morriss. Empress is very good, but alas there's no buffet.

There's no problem finding Thai food in this town, but unless you live up near Highland Village, you're going to have to hoof it to get traditional sit-down Chinese. This is not a good development.