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    Dining for Charity

    Cafe Momentum cooks up blowout dinner for final pop-up event of 2014

    Jennifer Chininis
    Nov 1, 2014 | 12:05 pm

    Chad Houser, fresh off an appearance on The Rachael Ray Show, and his Cafe Momentum crew are closing out this year’s pop-up dinner series in a big way. Appropriately titled “Go Big or Go Home,” the nonprofit’s last hosted event takes place on The Joule Terrace on Sunday, November 9, at 6 pm, with not one but nine guest chefs from the hotel and Consilient restaurants:

    • Jeff Harris, AF+B
    • Graham Dodds, Hibiscus
    • Adam West, The Porch
    • Michael Sindoni, CBD Provisions
    • Kirsten Brewer, Victor Tangos
    • Jaco Smith, The Joule
    • Greg Bussey, The Joule
    • Matt Ford, The Joule
    • Ruben Torano, The Joule

    Diners can expect the usual multicourse meal and wine, as well as inspirational stories about and from the juvenile offenders Cafe Momentum is designed to help through its innovative culinary training program. The young men in the program assist the guests chefs as they prep, cook, plate and serve dinner.

    Houser says even though the restaurant’s opening is imminent, Cafe Momentum will continue to host pop-up dinners after the nonprofit settles into its permanent home.

    “The idea for the pop-ups once the restaurant’s open is to be a vehicle to work with kids [from the Dallas County Youth Village] pre-release and show them what Cafe Momentum is about,” Houser says. “It will also allow our released kids [the restaurant’s employees] to be exposed to different chefs and different types of cuisines.”

    At the soonest, the pop-ups will start up again in February, once they feel comfortable with how the restaurant is running. Houser says their main goal is to ensure the young men working there have all the tools they need to thrive.

    “We’ve got to walk before we can run,” he says. “We are about mission, not profit. We are continuing to build support systems around them to make them successful. We will take our time to get things right.”

    Tickets for The Joule dinner are $150 each, and they go on sale via Eventbrite on Sunday, November 2, at 6 pm. If history is any indication, you should be ready to hit “purchase” at 6 on the dot, because it will sell out — and fast.

    Cafe Momentum is a restaurant that provides paid internships, training and mentoring for juvenile offenders.

    Cafe Momentum pop-up dinner at CampO
      
    Photo by Robert Bostick
    Cafe Momentum is a restaurant that provides paid internships, training and mentoring for juvenile offenders.
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    Taco News

    Upscale Dallas taqueria Velvet Taco to open first McKinney location

    Teresa Gubbins
    Apr 11, 2025 | 6:58 pm
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    A Dallas taco chain is opening a new location in a booming Collin County metropolis: Velvet Taco, which specializes in globally inspired tacos, will open its first location in McKinney at 8565 W. University Dr. #150, on Monday, April 14.

    The restaurant will open with 20-plus tacos and bowls, plus a signature rotating Weekly Taco Feature. Their number one seller is the Spicy Tikka Chicken Taco, but the Bacon Smash Burger Taco is also a popular dish, according to a release.

    Everything is prepared in-house, including brisket roasted for 18 hours and their popular Backdoor Chicken marinated for 48 hours.

    The menu features unexpected foodie-level ingredients like cilantro basmati rice, candied pepitas, and Thai basil — unusual in the fast-casual restaurant world.

    They also serve alcohol, including margaritas, local, and Mexican beer, and they have one notable signature dessert: Red Velvet cake.

    The chain was founded in 2011 with a location on Henderson Avenue at the intersection of US-75 — a location that's now closed. But there's no shortage, with 16 in the DFW area, stretching from Fort Worth on the west to Rockwall on the east, and more than 50 locations across the U.S.

    The McKinney location, which is a newly constructed 2,939-square-foot space, will feature indoor seating for 64 guests and an additional 48 seats on its patio. The restaurant will feature a mural by local artist Paxton Grigsby, a 15-year-old freshman at McKinney North High School.

    They'll open at 11 am with giveaways: The first 50 dine-in guests will get free Velvet Taco hats.

    Monday April 14 seems to be a big day for tacos in the great white north, as Velvet Taco will not be the only restaurant with tacos to open in the 'hood: On that very same day, Chicago-based Cilantro Taco Grill will make its Texas debut in Prosper with a restaurant just seven miles away.

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