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    Bakery News

    New bakery in Dallas' Victory Park pairs wine with luscious treats

    Teresa Gubbins
    Mar 21, 2019 | 10:31 am
    Sift & Pour
    Signature s'mores brownie has a graham-cracker crust and a brulee'd marshmallow top.
    Photo by Sift & Pour

    Victory Park is undergoing a redevelopment with new retail and enhancements, and that includes Sift + Pour Bakery, a new shop doing sweets with a twist, along with espresso, tea, wine, and beer.

    The bakery will open at 2401 Victory Park Ln. with a grand opening set for mid-April.

    The lineup of desserts is extensive, including mini cupcakes, Rice Krispie treats in four flavors, eight kinds of cookies including sea salt chocolate chip, 14 varieties of macarons, cheesecake, banana bread, and more.

    Sift + Pour comes from Elizabeth Ging, a native of Fort Worth with an entrepreneurial streak who left the corporate world to do her own thing.

    Ging, who is 29, graduated from Texas A&M's Mays Business School with a degree in management information systems, and worked in consulting for six years. But owning her own business was always something she kept in the back of her mind. Even while in the corporate world, she was always passionate about food, she says.

    "My older sister owns two bakeries in Chicago, and I went to work with her, and a light bulb went off for me," Ging says. "I was working 16-hour days and would be super tired, but I never felt like it was a job. That's how this dream all started."

    In addition to inspiring her to start her own thing, the endeavor also gave her experience in the operations side of owning a bakery.

    At Sift + Pour, her priorities are to make everything from scratch and to make the flavor profile more well-rounded and not just "sweet."

    "All of our sweets are sweet, but we put less sugar in it than what you might usually find," she says. "When you have a bite, it makes you want another bite."

    She also wants the bakery's offerings to feel fresh and surprising.

    "I want to be innovative and change up things," she says. "We'll have our core items, but we'll always be experimenting with rotating specials so people will always find something new when they come in."

    The signature sweet is a luscious item called the s'mores brownie.

    "It's chocolatey and decadent, and you'd be surprised that it's also gluten-free," she says. "We make our graham crackers in house, so it has a graham cracker crust, with a fudge brownie on top, and then after it's baked, it's topped with marshmallow, which we whip up and brulee as our final touch."

    They'll also make crepes in both sweet and savory options, with filling combinations from spinach and cheese to apples and honey.

    They'll be selling wine and beer along with coffee and tea, which means you could have a savory crepe with a glass of wine and finish off with dessert and coffee.

    Before settling on Victory Park, Ging looked at about a dozen spaces but says that Victory Park "suits us more."

    "We considered a vintage building, but I liked the 'clean-cut' feeling at Victory Park, and it's a great time to be there — all of the other restaurants and businesses that are opening are similarly innovative and new," she says.

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    SUDDEN SHUTTERS

    Cracker Barrel deal leaves just one Maple Street Biscuit Co. in DFW

    Brandon Watson
    Jul 22, 2026 | 1:30 pm
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    Maple Street Biscuit Co./ Facebook
    Maple Street Biscuit Co. is done, but Biscuit Belly is still coming to the Heights.

    Cracker Barrel is flaking out on its Maple Street Biscuit Co. brand. On Tuesday, July 21, Louisville, Kentucky-based brunch chain Biscuit Belly announced it had acquired 35 locations of the breakfast sandwich favorite. An additional 16 units will close altogether. Just one location in Dallas-Fort Worth is left standing: in Mansfield.

    Biscuit Belly published a list detailing which locations were acquired and when the brand expects to convert them. Among those awaiting conversion is the sole North Texas location, at 1660 E Broad St. Ste. 100 in Mansfield. It should be converted by the third quarter of 2027.

    In a release, Biscuit Belly says it plans to convert all remaining stores over the next 18-24 months, starting with Cincinnati, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia.

    Maple Street first debuted in DFW in 2018 with a location in Frisco. At the time, Maple Street was a small friendly concept founded in Jacksonville in 2012. They liked the personal touch and bristle against calling themselves a chain, but they then had 29 locations across the Southeast in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.

    Cracker Barrel acquired Maple Street in 2019. At its height in DFW, there were also locations in Dallas, Keller, Mansfield, and two in McKinney.

    The restaurant is most known for its oversized biscuit sandwiches like the Squawking Goat with a fried chicken breast, crispy goat cheese, and jalapeno jelly. The chain also serves chicken and waffles and Southern-inspired bowls filled with grits or a potato hash.

    Biscuit Belly offers a little more variety with toasted BLTs, pancakes, and yogurt parfaits, but some of the biscuit sandwiches might look suspiciously familiar. The G.O.A.T. has a fried chicken breast, goat cheese, and sweet pepper jelly.

    The other key difference can be found in a cup. In addition to a lineup of juices and coffee drinks, Biscuit Belly pours “breakfast cocktails” like mimosas and espresso martinis. It places an old fashioned inside this category, which might require a few extra eggs.

    As Cracker Barrel pours one out for Maple Street, it hopes to recover from a plunging stock price and falling revenues. Biscuit Belly, meanwhile, says the acquisition helps it along its 10-year plan to become the “largest gourmet biscuit brand in the U.S.”

    “Acquiring an iconic brand like Maple Street, one of the original gourmet biscuit sandwich concepts, was not on my 2026 bingo card," says Chad Coulter, co-founder and CEO of Biscuit Belly, in a release. "Two of the biggest headwinds that growing brands encounter are the time required to find and build locations, and the difficulty of finding great teams. When we looked at Maple Street's geography, footprints, and established teams, a light bulb went off."

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