Seafood News

Irving's Water Street complex hooks Calif-inspired seafood restaurant

Sushi is one of their signatures.

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The Gables Water Street mixed-use project in Las Colinas has snared an exciting new restaurant from an acclaimed chef: Pacific Table, the casual fine-dining restaurant from Fort Worth chef Felipe Armenta, has opened a location at 5238 N. O'Connor Blvd., #136, next door to Olivella's Pizza and across the street from Williams Square.

This is the second location of Pacific Table. Armenta opened the first location in Fort Worth's University Park Village in 2013.

In a statement, Gables Residential VP Darin Botelho says that they're honored Armenta chose Water Street Irving for his second location.

"Pacific Table is the perfect complement to our established high-end restaurants," Botelho says. "We know the community is going to love their food and atmosphere as much as we do."

Pacific Table joins an acclaimed roster of restaurants that includes Hugo's Invitados, Cork & Pig Tavern, The Ginger Man, Creamistry, Go Fish Poke, Pax & Beneficia Coffee, El Famoso, and Olivella's.

Pacific Table's cuisine is inspired by the Pacific Northwest, specializing in salmon, sushi, and oysters, and enhanced by craft cocktails and an extensive wine list.

It offers a comfortable upscale atmosphere, with a semi-open kitchen, horseshoe-shaped bar, wine room, and open windows overlooking Lake Carolyn, as well as a patio featuring a fire pit.

Daily features and menu favorites include:

miso-glazed or cedar plank salmon
East coast and West coast oysters flown in daily and shucked to order
sushi rolls including the classic California roll or the Pacific Style roll

Pacific Table spokesperson Leah Thomas notes that, while the menu spotlights seafood and entrees such as slow-braised short rib, they have something for those who don't eat meat.

"We even have a veggie burger for our vegetarian guests," Thomas says. "We make everything in-house, including our desserts.'

Pacific Table is open for lunch and dinner, plus weekend brunch on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am-3 pm.

Happy hour is available Monday-Friday, 4-6 pm, and includes reduced prices on select sushi, oysters, appetizers and drinks. Reservations are recommended and may be made directly on the website.

Water Street Irving is a pedestrian-friendly project with 60,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 316 apartment homes, green space, and lake views, walking distance of the DART Rail System, Toyota Music Factory, and the landmark Mustangs at Las Colinas.

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Deep Ellum News

Seafood boils spot Boil Daddy from Calif. swims into Deep Ellum Dallas

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Your standard red boiled seafood spread via Boil Daddy.

A Cajun seafood restaurant has opened in Dallas' Deep Ellum: Called The Boil Daddy, it's a California chain specializing in seafood boils, now open in the former Tiki Loco space at 2639 Elm St. #100, in the former Tiki Loco vegan restaurant which closed in 2023.

Boil Daddy was founded in 2020 by Jun Cho, a young South Korean immigrant who launched it as a delivery-only concept with one location in downtown Los Angeles. It now has 20 locations across five states, including California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, and Colorado.

The menu features seafood boil bags by the pound or half pound, with choice of shellfish including crab legs, clams, crawfish, and shrimp, with add-ons such as sausage, potatoes, linguine noodles, and jasmine rice.

Prices range from $14 to $93 for a family meal with lobster tail, a snow crab leg cluster, shrimp, corn, potatoes, and sausage.

The chain first debuted in Texas in Garland, where it operates a takeaway-only location out of Revolving Kitchen, the ghost kitchen concept.

Deep Ellum is the second in Texas, and was designed to be the area flagship, offering dine-in, pickup, and delivery, plus space for private events — serving as a testing ground to gauge its success in a high-traffic community as well as refine recipes, Cho says.

“Seafood boils are known to be a dinner menu where your family gets together, but we’ve been working on quick lunch entrees,” Cho says.

They're offering items not available from the Garland location, such as shrimp pasta, fish & chips, shrimp basket, and chicken wings. There are po' boy sandwiches, garlic fries, clam chowder, and mac & cheese.

They also have individual bowl versions of their boils, perfect for lunch, such as Daddy's shrimp bowl over rice and the Hawaiian-style crispy mahalo shrimp or fish. ("Daddy's sauce" is a mix of garlic butter and Cajun sauce.)

"We've got all kinds of chefs, Asian cuisine, Cajun cuisine, Italian cuisine," Cho says. "So, we're trying to combine the cultures."

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