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Dallas market Eatzi's will impress travelers with opening at DFW Airport

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Dallas-based Eatzi's Market & Bakery, the European-style market featuring bread, gourmet goods, and meals to-go, is opening its newest shop at an international location: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

The opening is a ways off. According to a release, it's slated to open in 2025.

The market will go into the new $3-billion Terminal F, where it will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, seven days a week. It will be part of a food hall, which is currently trendy, although who knows whether that trend will still be hot in four years? It is not for us to say.

Eatzi's CEO Adam Romo says in a statement that it's a perfect fit.

"Expanding into the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is a strategic way to introduce Eatzi’s high quality, customizable meals to a broader market without leaving our Texas roots," Romo says. "Our chef-prepared meals can be enjoyed by travelers looking for a convenient, gourmet meal in between flights or those picking up food for their drive home. It is a perfect fit for our brand—offering travelers a variety of quality and quick meals."

Menu highlights include a create-your-own sandwich and salad bar, grab-n-go deli trays, packaged cured meats and aged cheeses, a café offering coffee, lattes, and teas, gourmet meals for the taking, craft beer, and wine.

The airport location will incorporate Eatzi's trademark theater elements, and that includes piping in opera music.

The store will be a mini version, only 2,500 square feet. Eatzi's locations in DFW typically range from 5,500 o 10,000 square feet.

This will be the first Eatzi's Market and Bakery location at an airport. It currently has six locations in DFW.

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Horseshoe Bay Resort courts padel craze with $10M addition in Hill Country

Renderings courtesy of Horseshoe Bay Resort

The clubhouse will give players a place to gather and watch matches between rounds of tennis, pickleball, or padel.

Horseshoe Bay Resort, a sprawling lakeside destination in the Texas Hill Country about 215 miles south of Dallas, is going all in on the padel craze. The resort has broken ground on a $10 million racquet sports expansion that will include four dedicated padel courts and a new clubhouse by summer 2027.

According to a release, the expansion will include a 6,690-square-foot Racquet Sports Clubhouse with indoor and covered outdoor gathering areas. It will join the resort’s existing 12 tennis courts — six hard courts and six red clay courts — and 14 dedicated pickleball courts.

Padel combines elements of tennis and racquetball, using a net and tennis-style scoring on a smaller, enclosed court where the glass walls remain in play.

“Padel is experiencing explosive growth, and we’re excited our resort owners are going all-in on the specialized, enclosed glass-and-mesh courts required for dedicated padel play,” says Israel Castillo, the resort’s director of racquet sports, in the release.

The clubhouse will include a central lounge overlooking the courts, along with reception, retail, and additional gathering spaces. Planned furnishings include soft seating, high-top tables, televisions, and a counter running along a wall of windows facing the courts.

A 2,632-square-foot covered outdoor lounge will give spectators another place to watch matches. The clubhouse will also sell athletic clothing, footwear, equipment, and accessories, plus chef-prepared grab-and-go food, sports drinks, and ready-to-drink cocktails.

The new facilities will complement the resort’s Mouratoglou Tennis Center, an instructional program affiliated with Patrick Mouratoglou, the longtime former coach of Serena Williams. The Horseshoe Bay center offers private and group lessons, clinics, and camps led by coaches trained in Mouratoglou’s teaching method.

A rendering shows the exterior patio planned for Horseshoe Bay Resort’s new racquet clubhouse.Renderings courtesy of Horseshoe Bay Resort

Horseshoe Bay dates to the early 1970s, when developers began transforming ranchland along Lake LBJ into a resort community. Its original Slick Rock golf course opened in 1972 and later helped revive the Texas State Open. More recently, the resort served as the setting for the return of Golf Channel’s golf competition series “Big Break.”

The resort’s annual events include Balloons Over Horseshoe Bay Resort in April, Beer by the Bay in August, and the Wine, Dine & Jazz Festival in November. It occupies more than 7,000 acres along Lake LBJ and also offers golf courses, a marina, a spa, hotel rooms, villas, and lakeside condos.

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