Meet the Makers

Dallas Farmers Market crafts empowering arena for female-led collective

Luxe District Collective sells goods made and selected by women.

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Before she founded Luxe District Collective, Anne Yarbrough was working as an accountant. But she knew she wanted a more creative life, as well as more time to spend with her daughter, so with the help of family and friends Yarbrough opened the lifestyle boutique that stocks home goods, garden accessories, and gifts.

Making its recent debut at the Dallas Farmers Market, Luxe District Collective sells everything from handmade furniture to barware, planters and pottery to handmade paper and leather goods.

All the items are either made or curated by female entrepreneurs, and it's a mission to which Yarbrough is devoted.

She says that partnering with the Dallas Farmers Market, which supports small and locally owned businesses, has helped further this initiative.

Much like the dozens of farmers and ranchers who arrive each weekend at The Shed bearing locally grown fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs, honey, bread, cheese, and meat, the vendors in The Market play an important role in bringing quality goods to visitors.

Luxe District Collective is open daily from 11 am-6 pm in The Market. Stop by and shop a bit — you never know what treasures you might find.

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Kitchen News

Kitchen temple Sur La Table to close Knox Street Dallas location

Sur La Table

Sur La Table

Sur La Table

A longtime home cook favorite in Dallas' Knox Street district is closing: Sur La Table, the nationwide specialty retailer of cookware, kitchen electrics, and bakeware, will close its location at 4525 Cole St. at the end of January.

According to a spokesperson, the location is permanently closing on January 25.

Sales at the store have already begun, with 30 percent off everything in the store.

Sur La Table opened their first store in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1972. From the beginning, their founder Shirley Collins partnered with the world’s best chefs and kitchen brands to bring customers trusted tools to make delicious memories.

Their in-house chefs teach 60,000 cooking classes a year to more than 700,000 people in kitchens and now online.

In addition to offering services like knife-sharpening, and selling gourmet goods which were not available elsewhere at the time, Sur La Table has played host to many chefs and cookbook authors over the years.

They were a "foodie" presence before there was such a thing when they first came to Dallas in 1998, opening off Knox Street, back when it was still a darling collection of shops and not the overdeveloped high-rise hell it is today.

It's tempting to blame the closure on factors such as online shopping; and Sur La Table did go through a pandemic-induced bankruptcy in 2020 when it closed nearly half of its stores.

However, the store's fortunes were not helped when it was bumped from its original eccentric location at 4527 Travis St. to an invisible storefront on Cole Street, bumped aside in order to make room for — another high-rise.

There are two other Sur La Table locations in the DFW area including Preston Royal which opened in 2017, and Southlake which opened in 2015, both of which will remain open.

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