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News You Can Eat

Plenty of meat on the table in this roundup of Dallas restaurant news

Teresa Gubbins
Feb 16, 2018 | 4:28 pm
Burger Bulla Gastrobar
There's a Bulla burger for you.
Photo courtesy of Kathy Tran

If you're up for reading about steak, grilled meats, burgers, and more burgers, you've come to the right story. There's an unusually high quantity of meat in this collection of Dallas dining tidbits. But there's also shrimp, poke, and pizza. Pizza, you're our hero.

Here's what's happening in Dallas restaurant news this week:

Bulla Gastrobar, the tapas restaurant from Florida-based Centurion Restaurant Group, has opened its first Texas location at 6007 Legacy Dr., in Plano's Legacy West district. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner and features appetizers, small plates, entrees, and salads. But don't worry, there are burgers, too. On weekends, there's a unique Spanish brunch with $6 mimosas and sangrias until 4 pm. The decor includes vivid blue Spanish tiles, chalkboard art, photos of flamenco dancers, and teardrop-shaped glass lighting fixtures, a signature in all Bulla locations. There's a patio and a bar topped with white Carrera marble.

Pazzo Uptown, the American-Italian restaurant and lounge concept, has opened at 2680 Cedar Springs Rd., at the corner of Carlisle Street below the Gables Villa Rosa apartments. Owner Luke Zeutzius' vision for Pazzo is to be the leader of all things fun in Uptown, with a made-from-scratch kitchen one-of-a-kind cocktail lounge, and state-of-the-art lighting system. Zeutzius is partnered with the culinary team of Apheleia Restaurant Group on a menu that includes cold pizza bennies, avocado toast, panwaffles, brick chicken, and turkey meatballs with ragu sauce and zucchini noodles. A raw bar features oysters, seafood towers, and tuna nachos; champagne brunch includes panwaffles and rosé all day. Pazzo Uptown is open daily while The Lounge is open Friday-Saturday nights only.

Poké Bop, the Lemmon Avenue restaurant featuring Hawaiian poké with a Japanese fusion flare, has opened its second location in the former Zuzu Mexican Food space at 4140 Abrams Rd. at Mockingbird Lane. This new location features a boba bar serving a variety of iced and blended boba teas in a variety of flavors. The regular bar serves frozen sake-tinis, frozen rosé, Asian beer, wines, and cold sake by the bottle. The location seats 50+ diners, plus additional outdoor seating. You can choose a signature bowl or build your own, or choose a poké ritto, an oversized sushi roll you can pick up and eat with your hands, like a burrito.

The Juice Bar has opened a food stall at Legacy Hall in Plano where it's serving juices, smoothies, pressed juice, juice cleanses, and some food. Other food stalls introducing new options include Eiland Coffee, which has bottomless coffee in four varieties; and FAQ which has three new breakfast tacos.

Grimaldi's Pizzeria has opened a location at the Toyota Music Factory, where it's serving pizza, calzones, antipasto, salads, New York-style cheesecake, and a full bar with cocktails, craft beer, and a robust wine list, including its own signature Mille Gradi red blend, produced by Rocca delle Macìe winery in Tuscany, Italy. Grimaldi's is famous for its thin-crust pizza, coal-burning ovens, red-and-white tablecloths, and black-and-white photographs of Brooklyn, where it originated. Irving is the 7th location in DFW and the 17th in Texas. An additional location is opening at the Shops at Clearfork in Fort Worth in spring 2018.

Natural Grocers is opening a store at 677 W. Campbell Rd. in Richardson. Natural Grocers is a specialty grocer committed to healthy food products and affordable pricing for more than 60 years. It takes over a space that used to be the K1 Speed Go-Kart Track.

BurgerFi is opening a location at Mockingbird Central Plaza at 5400 East Mockingbird Ln. in spring 2018. In addition to beef burgers, their menu includes a veggie burger, Vienna hot dogs, fries, onion rings, frozen custard, and cane sugar soda. The Florida-based chain was launched in Florida in 2011 and currently has more than 50 locations, mostly along the East Coast. The chain has been threatening to launch big in DFW for at least three years, but so far the only location in the area is in Arlington.

Killarney's Live Irish Pub opened at Fairview Town Center, at the northeast corner of US-75 and Stacy Road in January. They serve Irish-Americana cuisine and live music five days per week with large dance bands on the weekends. They'll host a grand opening in April, once they finish their rooftop patio.

Hat Creek Burger Company will open a location in Rowlett at 3318 Lakeview Pkwy. at the end of February. This will be their 10th location. Founded as a food truck in Austin, the chain is known for burgers, creative milkshakes, gluten-free chicken flashers, and a family-friendly focus which includes a unique playscape for children.

Roy's Restaurant, the chain that specializes in Hawaiian and Japanese fusion cuisine, has three new entrees: Asian stuffed chicken breast with coconut black rice and Thai curry peanut sauce; a 14-ounce New York strip steak with lobster mac and cheese; and Moroccan spice grilled swordfish with edamame farro, baby kale, and yuzo soy truffle vinaigrette. Roy's was founded in Hawaii 30 years ago by Roy Yamaguchi, who became known as the ambassador of fusion cuisine. There are now 17 locations.

Jalisco Norte, the authentic Mexican restaurant on Oak Lawn Avenue, is offering a rotating, monthly menu with creative dishes crafted by chef Jose Meza. February's menu includes aguachile de camaron; suckling pig tacos; escamoles; and carne asada. The monthly specials could include snacks, large plates, desserts and everything in between.

CBD Provisions has a new dinner menu featuring Texas steak, including Wagyu cuts from A Bar N Ranch and 44 Farms grass-fed Black Angus beef. Each steak is served with a signature popover topped with Gruyere cheese and chives. New family-style sides range from potatoes prepared four ways to simple vegetables and house-made shells. The wine list has new cabernets from Napa and Bordeaux options in addition to reserve wines.

TGI Fridays has new fire-grilled meats, part of plan to execute a complete overhaul of its menu front-to-back by the end of 2018. Choices include a 6-ounce center-cut sirloin seasoned with a hickory smoked sea salt, topped with parmesan butter; half-rack of Fridays big ribs; dragon-glazed salmon filet brushed with sweet and spicy Korean BBQ sauce; two skewers of three large jumbo shrimp, wrapped in bacon; and an improved parmesan-crusted chicken topped with white poblano queso.

Taco Cabana is executing a plan to reinvigorate its menu, starting with the debut of loaded grilled shrimp tacos. They're available in three flavors, featuring shrimp seasoned with fajita spice and wrapped in a flour tortilla. Rancho is topped with jalapeño ranch. Diabla is drizzled with spicy chipotle diabla sauce and topped with jalapeño-pickled red onions and queso fresco. Pina is topped with a new pineapple pico de gallo salsa. Guests can purchase their favorite for $2.99 or mix-and-match any three tacos for $7.99.

Kenny's Burger Joint is offering a shrimp po'boy with breaded shrimp on a French roll through March 31.

Fuzzy's Taco Shop has introduced a limited-edition shrimp dippers dish, consisting of a basket of crispy shrimp with mango-habanero and honey-chipotle sauce, for $5.99, available until March 11.

Urban Donut has a new Ghirardelli brownie with walnuts, peanut butter cups, and cream cheese filling. You can also design your own brownie or ask for the Ghirardelli brownie to be added to a milkshake.

SĒR Steak + Spirits, the restaurant at the Hilton Anatole hotel, has a new chef: Thomas Gray. A seasoned chef with nearly a decade of culinary experience, Gray oversees the entire culinary operation of SĒR, new menu development, food quality, and presentation. Before joining Hilton Anatole, Gray was chef at Jack Ryan's Steak & Chophouse in Tyler, and a chef instructor at The International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Dallas. Gray is also a third level sommelier and will use his wine education to elevate the culinary offerings.

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Where to Eat

Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 new restaurants for October

Teresa Gubbins
Oct 9, 2026 | 3:00 pm
Sophia's Cantina
Photo courtesy of Sophia's
Red snapper ceviche at Sophia's Cantina

CultureMap's monthly Where to Eat column highlighting the best restaurants to try returns for October with a theme of new and diverse. Every restaurant on this list is a recent arrival, including at least one that has been open for only a day. If you want hot, fresh, and new, you've come to the right list.

The list represents an exciting array, encompassing a one-of-its-kind test restaurant, a fashionable coffee shop, steakhouse, Mexican cantina, Italian speakeasy, and not one, not two, but three places to get dumplings.

Here's where to eat in Dallas for October 2026:

Coach Coffee Shop
Unique cafe just opened inside the Coach handbag store at Allen Outlet Malls, one of seven locations across the U.S., including Austin, which opened in 2025. The drink menu features coffee, espresso drinks including cappuccinos and lattes, cold brew, matcha lattes with rotating seasonal flavors, and lemonade. There are two signature items: Tabby Cake — an adorable chocolate treat shaped like Coach’s trademark Tabby bag and Lil Miss Jo Cookie — an edible version of the chain's coffee-cup animated mascot used in company ad campaigns. They also serve pastries such as salted chocolate chip cookies, blueberry muffins, vegan carrot cake muffins, cinnamon rolls, savory scones, ham and cheese croissant, and soft-serve in waffle cones.

Curry Tei & Bar
Hip Asian restaurant comes to downtown Plano courtesy of Michelle Vi Pepping, who also owns buzzy Okaeri Cafe in Richardson. Curry Tei gives her the opportunity to focus more deeply on favorite Japanese comfort foods, especially house-made curry and crispy katsu, along with a full bar featuring sake, Japanese whisky, and handcrafted cocktails. The curry can be ordered over rice or udon noodles, then topped with a choice from 10 proteins: tonkatsu fried pork cutlet, katsu fried chicken cutlet, tofu katsu fried tofu cutlet, shrimp katsu, karaage fried chicken, Japanese sausage, fried potato croquette, sliced beef, hamburger patty, or gyoza dumplings. Their bowls and noodles run the gamut from chicken teriyaki over rice to chilled green tea soba noodles with vegetable tempura. Popular starters include edamame, dumplings, and karaage fried chicken.

Coach Coffee Shop The chocolate bag is one of a few too-cute-to-eat treats at Coach Coffee Shop. Coach Coffee Shop/Instagram

Docent Steak
After two years in the making, the newest restaurant from Harwood Hospitality Group is open in the Harwood No. 14 development as a steakhouse with a menu centered on HWD Beef, Harwood’s exclusive beef product. Prime cuts include filet mignon, NY strip, ribeye, bone-in strip, Chateaubriand, and porterhouse. Docent also serves Kobe beef, including A5 Wagyu available by the ounce, and a rotating Kobe flight featuring five cuts. Non-steak options include crab cake, Kobe potstickers, steak tartare sliders, tempura lobster, oysters, spicy tuna tartare, and a seafood tower. As befits a steakhouse, there's a grand wine list, but also a big selection of sake. The main dining room has a white-tablecloth fine-dining ambience, while a lower level has a casual atmosphere with TVs. There's lots of art, a Harwood trademark.

L's Dumplings
Chef-owned Asian spot just opened on the Lewisville/Carrollton border, where it's doing dumplings and Hong Kong-style dim sum. There's an expansive menu with dim sum-style dishes, dumplings, and even Chinese-American staples like General Tso's Chicken. While the restaurant does not have room for the cart service that often goes with dim sum, it does have a dim sum menu with a dozen dishes you'd find at a traditional dim sum brunch: beef tripe, black pepper short ribs, siu mai topped with roe, Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce, steamed pork ribs with garlic, sticky rice chicken, wontons, and chicken feet in black bean sauce. Dumplings are offered in more than a dozen varieties including soft steamed dumplings, pan-fried dumplings with a crispy bottom, and soup dumplings, famous for containing broth inside the wrapper, creating an especially juicy filling.

Momo2Go
Well-regarded dumpling chain from Canada has opened a location in the Preston Lebanon Crossing shopping center, taking over a space previously occupied by Lalo's Cocina Mexicana, which closed in July. Momo2Go specializes in momos — the dumpling that's a foundation of Himalayan cuisine — and is a spinoff of a family-owned restaurant called Himalayan Kitchen, which debuted in Toronto in 2012. Their momos were so popular that they launched Momo2Go in 2016. They now have 10 including one in Irving, which franchisees Karma Gurung and Tashi Chetan opened in 2023. Frisco is their second location.

L's Dumplings Veggie dumplings are a favorite at L's Dumplings.Photo courtesy of L's Dumplings

Ono Hawaiian BBQ
Fast-casual Hawaiian plate-lunch chain from California just opened a location in McKinney, specializing in island-style plate lunches that combine some form of meat plus white rice and macaroni salad. Meats include BBQ chicken, Kalua pork, kalbi short ribs, fried chicken katsu, and Spam musubi, consisting of a block of rice topped with a slice of Spam and wrapped in seaweed. A slightly healthier option combines the meats with rice and a side salad. McKinney is the second location in Texas, following Plano which opened in July. If all goes according to their plan, they will soon be ubiquitous, with 10 locations plotted for DFW.

Open House
New restaurant concept being tested by KFC has opened its very first location in McKinney, with a goal to put a modern twist on Colonel Sanders' fried chicken concept. The location has tableside service, touchscreen kiosks, breakfast, boba drinks, and more. New and unique menu items including sides such as Southwest corn, fried green beans, spicy pickles, and rainbow slaw, as well as the first breakfast lineup featuring chicken tenders sandwiches, hashbrown sticks, mini cronuts, brewed coffee, and iced lattes. The McKinney restaurant will serve as a testing ground for KFC, giving them a chance to try new food, drinks, service, and design ideas before rolling them out across the country.

Red: Italian
Unusual new restaurant in Denton is a subterranean spot in the basement of Ruby Rodeo, a bar and live music venue on Denton Square, where it's serving Italian food and speakeasy charm. The 58-seat underground space — which includes 10 seats at the bar — serves Italian classics, priced from $25 to $40, such as spicy sausage lasagna with arrabbiata sauce, cacio e pepe bucatini, chicken piccata, shrimp diablo, and espresso-crusted filet mignon with Italian seasoning. Appetizers include fried mozzarella, stuffed mushrooms, grilled artichokes, bruschetta, meatballs, flatbreads, and a classic Caesar. The concept comes from Victor García and Mike Church, who also own Ruby Rodeo, as well as the similarly-red-named Scarlett Lounge in Deep Ellum.

Sophia's Cocina & Cantina
Mexican restaurant in Farmers Branch is the new home of Hugo Miranda, the well-respected hospitality figure who previously helmed Hugo's Invitados, a Mexican concept that he opened in 2018 with entrepreneur Mark Hulme. Highlights from the menu (which has not yet been uploaded to the restaurant's website nor their Facebook page) include oysters, pork belly chicharron, sopa de Cebolla, mixed grill, ribeye black Angus tomahawk sliced tableside, whole Pacific snapper, crudos, and upscale tacos such as blue crab with spinach; and salads such as red beet carpaccio with arugula, goat cheese, avocado, and pumpkin seeds.

Yo-Chi
Aussie fro-yo chain known for self-serve bowls, bountiful topping bars, and lively vibe has made its U.S. debut in Dallas near Inwood Village, at 5710 Lovers Ln. #101, to be followed by a second location at NorthPark Center. Yay us. Founded in Melbourne in 2012, Yo-Chi first expanded outside Australia in 2025 with a location in Singapore, followed by London. They tout their use of "fresh milk" in their yogurt, with flavors such as vanilla, salted butterscotch, tart, acai, coconut, matcha, and cinnamon banana. Plus 40-plus toppings arranged in a communal, self-serve station, including mini mochi, pistachio spread, cookie dough, sauces, brownies, fruit, and more. In its Down Under home turf, Yo-Chi locations are said to have a club ambience, with people going there on dates and bouncers at the door on weekends.

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