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New food hall at Grapevine hotel signs up 4 top DFW restaurants

The lineup includes Arepa TX, which specializes in delicious filled corn cakes.

Photo courtesy of Arepa TX

There's a new food hall coming to Grapevine, and it now has four restaurants signed up. Called Harvest Hall, it's a European-style food hall connected to Hotel Vin, a 120-room six-story boutique hotel opening in historic Grapevine.

Hotel Vin is part of Marriott's Autograph Collection, which specializes in one-of-a-kind properties. Located at 215 E. Dallas Rd., it's part of Grapevine Main, a $114 million mixed-use development set to debut in mid-2020.

The food hall and hotel will be operated by Coury Hospitality, which currently has seven boutique hotels. The restaurants they've selected for the food hall are family-owned and -operated, and who do food made from scratch.

Arepa TX is the Latin concept specializing in Latin cuisine and artisanal pops. Their signature dish is arepas, stuffed corn pockets; they also have tacos, empanadas, and rice bowls. Arepa TX debuted in 2017 and currently has a location on Royal Lane in Dallas.

Chick & Biscuit – Comfort Cuisine is a spin-off of Grapevine restaurant Mason & Dixie, a Southern-style eatery from chef Beth Newman. It'll specialize in biscuits paired with favorites such as fried chicken, Nashville Hot Chicken, pulled pork, and brisket.

Four Sisters – A Taste of Vietnam is the acclaimed Fort Worth restaurant from founder Tuan Pham, which features Vietnamese homestyle dishes. Signature dishes include pho made with a broth that steeps for 18 hours, served over house-made noodles. Pham is a rising star who was nominated for a Tastemakers Award for Best Chef in 2019, and Four Sisters won the Tastemakers Award for Best New Restaurant.

Spuntino – Bites of Italy is a new concept from Stefania and Andrea Matteucci, former architects who opened their flagship restaurant, Loveria Caffe – Taste of Italy, in Colleyville in 2017. The restaurant earned a Tastemaker Awards nomination for Best New Restaurant. Spuntino is an Italian word meaning "a bite to eat." Dishes will include lasagna, pastas, and regional dishes from Ravenna, Italy.

Harvest Hall will feature seven kitchens, two bars, a live entertainment venue, an entrance to the Observation Tower (150 feet high), and the city of Grapevine’s Visitor’s Information Center.

The hotel is estimated to open the first week of June; Harvest Hall is expected to open one month later.

"Finding the right mix of cuisines and the right partners has been inspiring," says Tom Santora, Chief Commercial Officer at Coury Hospitality and Managing Director of both Hotel Vin and Harvest Hall, in a statement.

"With this group of talented chefs, we have the opportunity to develop a fun and creative culinary community," Santora says. "Harvest Hall will provide guests savory food, spectacular service, and some of the best entertainment in North Texas."

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RIP Mico

Restaurateur Mico Rodriguez, 'Godfather of Dallas Tex-Mex,' dies at 68

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A Dallas restaurant legend has died: Michael "Mico" Rodriguez, dubbed the "Godfather of Dallas Tex-Mex," died on October 1; he was 68. According to a friend of the family, Rodriguez exhibited symptoms of a heart attack and died late Thursday night.

Rodriguez co-founded a number of successful Tex-Mex restaurant chains, most famously Mi Cocina, which debuted in 1991 at Preston Forest Village. Its combination of gringo-friendly Tex-Mex, as well as its signature Mambo Taxi frozen margarita-sangria swirl, was an instant hit.

But it was the buzzy celebrity-packed location at Highland Park Village, which opened in 1993, that sent the concept into the stratosphere, launching an entire chain. Under the M Crowd umbrella name, he helped launched a number of other concepts, including the pioneering Taco Diner chain.

Rodriguez was born on October 30, 1957 and entered the restaurant industry not long thereafter: busing tables when he was only 6 years old at El Chico, where his parents worked, until he went to work at Mia's Tex-Mex, the restaurant his mother opened in 1980.

He also experienced personal challenges, and was eventually ousted from Mi Cocina due to alleged financial improprieties.

Driven and ambitious, he went on to found other similar concepts, beginning in 2011 with Mr. Mesero (later shortened to Mesero), which he opened at 4444 McKinney Ave.

Mr. Mesero served as a template for the Mesero chain, which currently has seven locations across DFW and two outside Texas.

But in 2018, Rodriguez and Mesero Restaurant Group parted ways. He kept the original Mr. Mesero, now named Doce Mesas, and opened more locations before being ousted in 2025.

Most recently, he became involved in the Maple Street Food Hall, a food hall launched by entrepreneur Ray Quintanilla in 2022.

Rodriguez can be seen sharing some of his memories on a podcast with Jeff Crilley. He's survived by his daughter, Bianca, and his ex-wife, Caroline. Services have not been announced.

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