Breakfast News

Dallas Mediterranean restaurant decamps cursed Lemmon Ave address

These pancakes are eggsquisite.

Photo courtesy of Eggsellent Cafe

A tormented location in Dallas changes hands once again, as one restaurant closes to make way for a new breakfast-and-lunch spot opening in March.

The address is 4218 Lemmon Ave. — most recently home to Roux Bistro. Owner Theodore Koutsogeorgas and his partners shut it down on February 28 with a note to customers stating that they'd decided to sell the business.

"Theodore has been a part of the food & beverage industry for over 30 years, and will continue to pursue new dining concepts in the future," the note says.

The space will be home to Eggsellent Cafe, a breakfast-and-lunch chain with an extensive menu of breakfast options, plus sandwiches, burgers, and salads for lunch.

Eggsellent Cafe was established in 2015 and has locations in Carrollton and Frisco. According to a manager in Carrollton, the unnamed founder of the chain sold the three locations to individual owners and is no longer involved. There's also a location in Arkansas.

It's not to be confused with Eggsquisite Cafe, a not-dissimilar small breakfast-and-lunch chain with locations north of Dallas.

Roux was at the location for two years, where it served Mediterranean and Louisiana-style cooking, with seafood, steaks, and pastas.

It was only the latest in the space, outlasting what feels like a series of failed concepts, from Cafe Cancun to something called Honey Shack, to Catalina to Lolitas, to most notoriously, Tallywackers, a restaurant where the servers were skimpily-attired males.

That's a lot of turnover, but so far, none of the prior occupants have specialized in the booming category of breakfast. Perhaps this will be the one.

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McDonald's News

McDonald's closes 2 CosMc's beverage spinoffs in Dallas-Fort Worth

Photo courtesy of CosMc's

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After less than a year, McDonald's is cutting back on its CosMc's beverage spinoff, and that includes shutting down locations in Dallas-Fort Worth.

McDonald's introduced the beverage led concept in December 2023, when it opened the first location in Bolingbrook, Illinois. The concept — which seemed to be competing with Swig, the drive-through drink chain from Utah — features coffee, lemonade, slushies, and energy drinks, plus bites such as the Egg McMuffin, hashbrowns, and McPops — like doughnut holes.

They went on to open six more locations, all in Texas: two in San Antonio and four in DFW. Both San Antonio locations still show up on the website as open but two have closed in DFW so far, as follows:

Watauga at 7304 Denton Hwy.
Arlington at Abram's Alley, 300 E. Abram St. #150

Their website currently shows the Dallas location at Campbell Road, which was the original location, as still open, as well as a location in Fort Worth on McPherson Boulevard.

Despite the closures, McDonald's still plans to continue the test in the US for the foreseeable future, a spokesperson says, including opening two new smaller format stores in Texas in 2025.

That includes a location in Allen at 861 W. Stacy Rd.

The plan is to close three of the larger locations that were remodeled into CosMc’s locations — meaning that one of the locations currently still open is due to close.

"Since opening CosMc’s, we have had the benefit of testing out different location sizes and setups – from revamping larger restaurant spaces to building smaller prototype locations that focus more on the drive-thru and digital experience," their statement says. "We learned that the smaller format stores allow us to test new, unique circumstances that are reflective of our customer base. As a result, we will open two new smaller format stores in Texas in 2025, and close three of the larger locations that were remodeled into CosMc’s locations."