All Maman shops are designed in a French farmhouse style and sell espresso drinks, croissants, quiches and chocolate chip cookies. Co-founder Elisa Marshall is a wedding planner-turned-restaurateur, and her Maman shops are known for their dainty blue tea cups and convivial atmosphere, like they’re throwing ladies-who-lunch parties every day, but here, you can bring your toddler. Maman means “mother” in French.<\/p>\n
Maman opened in New York City in 2014 and the company got a quick jolt when The New York Times and\u00a0Oprah\u2019s Favorite Things called out its Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies as decadent treats.<\/p>\n
But it was the collaboration with Martha Stewart last year that catapulted the company into a new level of chic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“She has been the hugest inspiration for everything we do,” Marshall said in a\u00a0Dallas Morning News interview in April, as the company planned to open as many as 10\u00a0Maman shops across North Texas.<\/p>\n
Stewart still leaves her mark at Maman, with her seal of approval on a handful of new menu items including an heirloom tomato and burrata bowl, Greek salad sandwich and salted caramel chocolate chip cookie.<\/p>\n
The new\u00a0Plano shop is the third in Texas, following openings in University Park<\/a> and Dallas’ Lakewood area<\/a>. Coming next are Mamans in East Dallas’ Casa Linda, in the Design District and on the edge of Old East Dallas, near Central Expressway and North\u00a0Haskell Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n