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Long-awaited pizza opening tops this slice of Dallas restaurant news

Teresa Gubbins
Dec 1, 2016 | 4:45 pm

There's new pizza in the works and a healthy dining option opening near downtown Dallas. Here's the latest round of Dallas restaurant news:

Pie Tap Pizza Workshop + Bar has opened its long-awaited second location on Henderson Avenue. As the name implies, they specialize in pizza and beer. The pizza has a crisp thin crust, there are house-made pastas, and 25 craft beers and 15 wines on tap. This follows the opening of the inaugural branch, which debuted in the Design District in August. Menu highlights include the prosciutto pizza with dates, pistachio, arugula, ricotta, and Parmigiano-Reggiano; a mushroom option with bacon, egg, caramelized onions, and fontina; and a calabrese salami pizza with fennel sausage, pepperoni, bacon, Calabrian peppers, tomato sauce, and mozzarella. Starters include chicken meatballs and prosciutto-wrapped fontina.

Grabbagreen has opened its first location in Dallas, on the ground floor of the Gaston Medical Office building, at 3417 Gaston Ave. The Arizona-based chain does a fresh and healthy version of fast food, serving mostly organic items, like antibiotic- and hormone-free beef and poultry, whole food, fresh juice, and smoothies.

I Love Juice Bar makes its North Texas entry, with three branches coming in the next few months. The first will open in Plano on December 2, to be followed by a branch in Allen in mid-December, and another branch in Dallas at the Shops at Park Lane in spring 2017. This Nashville-based chain was founded in 2013 and has branches in Florida, Indiana, Utah, and Missouri. They do catchy drinks such as "We got the Beet" with carrot, apple, lemon, ginger, and, of course, beet juice.

Kitchen LTO is now serving lunch Tuesdays through Fridays, from 11 am-3 pm. Starters include crudite, smoked salmon, and pimento cheese with chicken biscuit crackers. Salads include tuna tataki chopped salad and a buttermilk frisée. Sandwiches include fried oyster BLT, short rib with pimento cheese and apple butter on sourdough bread, Texas Akaushi burger, banh mi, and a steak sandwich.

The Second Floor has a new fall menu featuring dishes such as orecchiette pork ragu with pork jowl and guanciale; toasted farro with roasted vegetables, squash, and Parmesan; vegan chocolate mousse with Valrhona chocolate and toasted almond brittle; and a dolce Manhattan with bourbon, honey cinnamon, and cream.

Salum has a new winter menu available throughout December, featuring dishes such as coq au vin, clam ceviche, radicchio salad, seared scallops with purple cabbage and bacon, and, best of all, pumpkin ravioli with sautéed shrimp and sage brown butter.

The Cookery, the new culinary school in the Design District, will open December 8 and is now accepting reservations from novice and expert cooks. Classes include a "winter dinner party" with short ribs and chocolate pots de crème, and "bahn Thai," with pad Thai, soup, and coconut black rice pudding. Other classes focus on sushi, pasta, and weekend brunch.

Empire Baking Co. has a new set of seasonal offerings, including its own creations and some classic holiday goods. Those include stollen, the German Christmas bread filled with dried and candied fruit and soaked in Meyers rum; and Texas pecan rings, a Danish made with Plugra butter, filled with Texas fancy pecans, and braided, with powdered sugar icing on top. There is also gingerbread and chocolate-cherry bread. The "bread of the month" for December is the cranberry paisano.

Hopdoddy Burger Bar has a new chicken-fried steak burger for $12, with two Angus beef patties chicken-fried in buttermilk batter with cayenne pepper and Frank's Red Hot sauce, topped with bacon, beef cream gravy, and bread-and-butter pickles. Cookie butter shake features spiced cookies crushed into a buttery spread, swirled with spiced vanilla ice cream, and topped with cinnamon sugar. Both are available until December 18. A hot apple cider with mulled cider and Grand Marnier is on the menu through December 28.

Kenny’s Burger Joint has a limited-edition burger, available during December only. The Kobe beef burger features a half-pound patty, garnished with spinach, roasted tomatoes, and melted provolone. It's $14.99 at lunch and dinner.

Sea Breeze Fish Market & Grill now has not one but two kinds of lobster rolls. There is the original Maine-inspired lobster roll, featuring a buttered bun filled with cold lobster salad. And now it's added a Connecticut-style lobster roll, served on a baguette filled with 5 ounces of warm lobster and served with melted butter. Who knew.

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant, inside the Galleria Dallas, has new happy hour specials, served Monday-Friday from 3-6 pm, with cocktails, sake, wine, and beer. Dishes such as the Tokyo steamed bun, the Baja roll, dumplings, chicken wings, sesame chicken, and mixed tempura are also offered at discount prices during this three-hour window.

Houndstooth Coffee has a set of limited-edition winter specialty drinks at both Henderson and Sylvan | Thirty cafes. There is a rum-nut cappuccino, with rum extract and hazelnut, and cinnamon spice cappuccino with cinnamon extract and anise.

Grayson Social, the new spot in downtown Dallas, has launched a weekend brunch with Southern fare and tall drinks, Saturdays and Sundays from 7 am-2 pm. Dishes include white chocolate croissant bread pudding with ancho-chili caramel; chicken-fried quail and waffles with Chantilly cream, white gravy, maple syrup, and berries; and nicoise with Bay of Fundy salmon, haricot vert, mixed greens, red potato, sunny quail egg, and warm bacon dressing. There's also a weekday happy hour from 5-7 pm, with $5 cocktails, such as an old fashioned with bacon bourbon, maple syrup, orange, and orange bitters, and a smoked Negroni with gin, cherrywood smoke, Campari, and vermouth.

Barley & Board in Denton has a new fall menu, with dishes such as burrata cheese with beets; roasted cauliflower flatbread; vegan soba noodles with acorn squash, bok choy, cashews, and coconut milk; and lamb shank with barley salad.

Barley and Board has a new fall menu.

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Barley and Board has a new fall menu.
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Game, Set, World-class matchups

Stunning defeat sets up surprising championship matchup at WTA Finals in North Texas

Stephanie Allmon Merry
Nov 6, 2022 | 10:56 pm
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Aryna Sabalenka upset No. 1 Iga Swiatek to reach the WTA Finals championship.

The championship tennis match is set for the WTA Finals at Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena on Monday, November 7 - and it’s a matchup few might have seen coming.

No. 7 seed Aryna Sabalenka upset world No. 1 and top seed Iga Swiatek of Poland in an often lopsided three-set semifinal match Sunday night. Sabalenka will play for the title against No. 6 seed Caroline Garcia of France, who had defeated No. 5 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece in their semifinal meeting Sunday afternoon.

Sabalenka and Swiatek battled in a 2-hour-and-7-minute semifinal match in front of one of the largest Fort Worth crowds of the tournament, which began October 31. In front of a largely pro-Swiatek audience (as evidenced by the number of red and white Polish flags, T-shirts, scarves, and signs), Sabalenka prevailed 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.

"She deserves the win and congrats to her," Swiatek said after the match.

Swiatek had dominated the WTA Finals as she’d dominated the year in women’s tennis - she had not yet dropped a set in the tournament. She ends the year with a 67-9 win-loss record, and eight singles titles, including two Grand Slams.

Iga Swiatek Iga Swiatek is the No. 1 women's tennis player in the world. Al Bello/Getty Images

"On one hand I'm sad that I lost, but on the other hand I have one more day off. That's something on a bright side," Swiatek said. "This season has been so intense and I'm so proud of myself that I could play so well till the end of it."

Details of the Sabalenka-Swiatek match can be found here.

The WTA Finals are the prestigious year-end finale for the Women’s Tennis Association, featuring the top eight singles players and doubles teams in the world.

Fort Worth is hosting the tournament for the first time, after it was moved from Shenzhen, China.

The total prize money pool is $5 million.

"It's the last match of the season and I'm ready to give everything I have," Sabalenka said of the final.

Caroline Garcia, WTA FinalsCaroline Garcia defeated Maria Sakkari in the semifinal round. Getty Images

Of the championship, Garcia said, "I would like to put pressure on her obviously, and to be able to use [her] ball as well. But I will try to play my game."

The championship singles match between Garcia and Sabalenka will take place at 8 pm Monday, November 7 at Dickies Arena.

It will follow the championship doubles match featuring defending champs Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova against Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens, which begins at 5:30 pm.

More information on the WTA Finals is here and tickets to the championship matches are here.

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Pizza News

Last Call Pizza debuts in North Dallas serving slices until the wee hours

Teresa Gubbins
Nov 4, 2022 | 3:12 pm
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How about a slice.

Dallas has a new purveyor of New York-style pizza: Last Call Pizza is a new restaurant in North Dallas serving New York pizza both by the pie and by the slice, late into the evening hours, thus the name Last Call.

It'll officially open on November 5 at 18101 Preston Rd. #302, at the northwest corner of Frankford Road, in a former event space/cooking school called Taste Dallas.

Last Call is from a team headed by Brad Hawkins, who knows all about last call, as a founding partner of Sushi Marquee as well as Shakertins, the popular bar-restaurant concept with locations in Allen, Plano, The Colony, and Prosper.

He's partnered with Matt Saba, who was a founding partner of Shell Shack; Adam Thompson, who owns AHL poker, the No. 1 free poker league in Texas; and Airon Wallace, an industry veteran who co-owns pool hall/bar The Water Hole in Hurst.

Their original goal was to do a card house but card houses, despite being legal, have become a controversial issue. So they pivoted to a dream they'd shared: to do a slice joint.

"We had this great location, and we'd talked about doing a New York-style pizza-by-the-slice place," Hawkins says. "That was the foundation, which we expanded into a hybrid: doing slices if you want, but also full pies, with a full bar, pool tables, and sports on TV."

The late-night component was key. "We wanted to serve pizza 'til 2 am," he says.

They also wanted to make it relatively affordable, starting at $12 for a 12-inch pie, going all the way up to a 24-inch pizza for $24.

"Our formula was that a basic pizza is a buck an inch," he says. "We wanted to provide a big pie for a fair price."

They're making their own dough in-house and with a small selection of pizzas that include veggie, meat lovers, pepperoni, and chicken blanco. A make-your-own option includes choice of ingredients such as spicy sausage, artichoke hearts, and beef pepperoni -- "for people who don't eat pork," Hawkins says.

They also have an assortment of starters such as friee mushrooms, fried pickles, and meatballs; salads including Caesar and Greek; and their secret weapon, wings.

"From our friends and family, we're getting as many positive comments about wings as well as the pizza," he says. "Most pizza places bake their wings, but we have fryers, so we're getting that crispiness that people crave."

The fryers were a legacy from the previous tenant, along with a full kitchen. They added pool tables -- they anticipate hosting pool leagues -- and a bar with numerous big-screens to address local interest in college and NFL football.

One unexpected development has been the interest in the area from families.

"We've seen so many families knocking on our door, and we'll definitely be family-friendly," he says.

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Get the Popcorn

Pocket Sandwich Theatre reveals opening date for new Carrollton space

Lindsey Wilson
Nov 4, 2022 | 11:45 am
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Pocket Sandwich Theatre will reopen with Ebenezer Scrooge.

After being tossed out of its Dallas home in 2021 — where it had presented melodramas, musicals, and family entertainment for more than three decades — Pocket Sandwich Theatre has not only found its new home but announced its grand re-opening date.

This mainstay of the Dallas theater community for the past 42 years has relocated to Historic Downtown Carrollton at 1104 Elm St. It will raise the curtain and welcome audiences for the 40th annual production of Ebenezer Scrooge beginning Friday, November 25, and running through December 23.

Tickets are already selling briskly, say owner Shanon Dickinson and partners Brad Dickinson, Jeff Vance, Nick Haley, and Kim Winnubst.

“We’ve dealt with construction delays, supply chain issues, and the inevitable challenges of transforming a historical building into a code-compliant space with modern-day conveniences, but we know our loyal patrons are going to love the new space," says Shanon Dickinson. "Audience members will still enjoy the relaxed atmosphere that we’re known for, but they will also see improvements in our ticketing/seating, an expanded menu, upgraded restrooms, and ample nearby parking. We’ve put a lot of thought and planning into this move to ensure a great experience for patrons, actors, and employees. We’re putting the final touches on everything, so we can’t wait for our opening!”

Widely known for their popcorn-tossing melodramas, the venue is also a haven for improvisation troupes, musical entertainers, stand-up comics, and local playwrights to showcase their talents. Late-night shows ranging from drag to movie sing-alongs were also popular.

Pocket Sandwich Theatre’s roots go back to 1980 in a small sandwich shop on Lower Greenville Avenue, when friends Rodney Dobbs and Joe Dickinson had an idea to bring back the artform of melodrama. The idea worked and as its popularity grew, the group moved to a new larger space on Mockingbird Lane and Central Expressway in 1990.

In 2020, the complex was sold amid the challenges of the pandemic. The City of Carrollton reached out, expressing interest in bringing the group to their area.

Ebenezer Scrooge will feature expanded show dates as Christmas approaches. The show is written by Joe Dickinson with music by Laurie Tirmenstein and additional lyrics by Rodney Dobbs.

For show info, ticketing, and reservations, visit www.pocketsandwich.com.

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