Farm Luck Soda Fountain & Dry Goods

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109 W. Franklin St., Waxahachie

214.903.8021 

farmlucksodafountain.com

Opened two years ago by former Fort Worthians Chris Wilkerson and his wife PattiLyn, this old-timey soda fountain — inside a former bank and county clerk building — is the Wilkerson's homage to the recently departed Highland Park Pharmacy in Dallas. “I grew up going there,” PattiLyn says. “My grandparents took my mom there, and we took our kids there. We wanted to open something similar and do what that family did — pass it down from generation to generation.”

All walks of Waxahachie life pile in for sundaes, old-fashioned malts, cream sodas and ridiculously ginormous banana splits, along with simple soups and sandwiches, including a to-die-for chicken salad sandwich. Much of the building's original bones remain, from the penny tile floor to the bank's vault, which now doubles as a kitchen. “We get a lot of old-timers who come in and tell us they remember getting their marriage licenses here, back when it was a county clerk's office,” PattiLyn says. “We love hearing about people's memories here.”

You Gotta Try: An egg cream soda, which is tough to find in North Texas. It contains neither eggs nor cream. Instead, it consists of milk, carbonated water and chocolate-flavored syrup.