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    Food Hall News

    Plano food hall puts Indian on the menu with sizzling wrap restaurant

    Teresa Gubbins
    Oct 27, 2017 | 10:45 am

    Among the varied and plentiful options coming soon to Plano's Legacy Hall is an Indian place from a team with decades of experience.

    Blist'r - Fresh Naan Wraps is a collaboration between restaurateur Pardeep Sharma, owner of India Palace and Roti Grill; chef Gilbert Garza, owner of Suze; and food hall guru and restaurant consultant Mark Brezinski.

    The menu at Blist'r will be tightly focused, with three wrap sandwiches served on house-made naan bread:

    • Char-grilled chicken tikka has marinated, grilled chicken thigh basted with tikka sauce with tomatillo kachumber, combined with lettuce, tamarind and mint cutney, pickled onion, and cilantro turmeric basmatic rice.
    • Roasted coconut curry short rib has short rib roasted in a beef-based coconut-curry sauce with tomatillo kachumber, lettuce, curry aioli, and cilantro turmeric basmati rice.
    • Spicy vindaloo char-grilled paneer has Indian paneer based with spicy vindaloo sauce, with tomatillo kachumber, lettuce, tamarind and mmint chutney, pickled onion, and cilanto turmeric basmati rice.

    Tomatillo kachumber can also be ordered as a side dish. It's like a refreshing salad with julienned lettuce and cabbage, mint, red onion, diced tomatillo, cucumber, and rice vinegar, with a dollop of raita.

    There's one side dish: irresistible crispy fried potato wedges, like thick fries, skins still on, dusted in Indian spices and served with curry aioli.

    Those who want to skip the naan bread — although why would you, naan bread is awesome — can get the fillings in "bowl" form or over lettuce.

    Brezinski and Garza previously worked together on Uptown Urban Market, the food hall concept in the Gables building. Sharma and Brezinski became friends after Brezinski opened Bengal Coast, his Indian-inspired restaurant in the Centrum building.

    Sharma's India Palace is considered to be one of Dallas' best Indian restaurants. He had already taken steps towards making a more casual Indian concept with Roti Grill, his modern Indian restaurant in Uptown Dallas.

    Blist'r takes some of that spirit and condenses it into a simplified concept. "We all feel like Indian food is going to become more popular, and this is a way to approach it in a fast-casual way," he says.

    They'll also be selling some of their sauces to go, Brezinski says. "If you want to do chicken tikka at home, our sauces would make it a convenient meal over rice," he says.

    Blist'r will open when the food hall opens, with the current target date being November 9. It's been pushed back a number of times, thanks to the unwieldly task of coordinating multiple concepts and the city of Plano grappling with the newness of the concept.

    Blist'r team includes (from left) Pardeep Sharma, Gilbert Garza, and Mark Brezinski.

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    Blist'r team includes (from left) Pardeep Sharma, Gilbert Garza, and Mark Brezinski.
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    Hot Chicken News

    Lava Hot Chicken opens in Rowlett with a different approach

    Raven Jordan
    Apr 21, 2025 | 7:50 pm
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    There’s a new hot chicken concept in Rowlett that's taking a unique approach: Called Lava Hot Chicken, it’s located in a former ice cream shop at 6310 Dalrock Rd. #900 in Dalrock Crossing, where it opened March 8.

    Lava Hot Chicken is from restaurateur Sam Sakhleh, who opened it with his two sons in mind. Both are allergic to peanuts, and some frying oils use peanuts. To solve the issue, he uses beef tallow to fry the chicken and fries.

    “We fry everything in beef tallow — we don’t use oil or have any peanut product,” Sakhleh says.

    Sakhleh, who has been in the industry since 2003, decided to start a hot chicken restaurant because he wasn't impressed with the conventional flavor at most hot chicken restaurants.

    He connected with a distributor who offered a 27-spice mix imported from India which had a far more complex flavor profile.

    "It made a big difference in the taste, and that's what we use in our spice mix," Sakhleh says.

    The spice mix also gives the chicken a deep, ruddy color, unlike the neon orange tint of other hot chicken options.

    Lava's menu features sliders and tenders with five heat levels. The sliders are on 4-inch thick buns from Martin's Famous Potato Rolls. Also, they use one big tender so big that Sakhleh says it's sometimes mistaken for a chicken breast.

    They're marinated with garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and buttermilk before being fried.

    They’ve also recently added wings, with the same heat levels as sliders and tenders. Other dishes include chicken & waffles, and loaded fries topped with cheese, mac & cheese, pickles, coleslaw and "Lava sauce," a sweet and smoky sauce with honey and mustard. Homey desserts include sukseh, also known as "lazy cake," a rich no-bake dessert made with condensed milk and chocolate that's a little like fudge.

    Prices range from $6 for a tender to $16 for two sliders with fries.

    To-go orders are common but Sakhleh devoted two years to transforming the former ice cream shop into a bright cheerful space with colorful cartoon murals on the walls, plus a patio, so diners who want to eat on-site are covered.

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