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    Roadhouse Bar on Ross

    Dallas’ latest in-town drinking patio has a Smokey fetish

    Teresa Gubbins
    Feb 25, 2016 | 11:20 am
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    East Bound and Down looks to Smokey and the Bandit for inspiration, as do we all.
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    It's probably safe to say that the inspiration for East Bound and Down Ice House, a new bar opening on Ross Avenue, is unique. The theme is the kitschy '70s movie Smokey and the Bandit, the movie starring Burt Reynolds as the bandit (not the HBO series of the same name, as one might presume).

    Smokey is a favorite flick of Ben Harper, who's opening the bar with partner Adam Tucker. "It's a classic movie. You can watch it 100 times and still enjoy it," says Harper, who at age 31 was not alive when it came out.

    The Smokey references manifest themselves in ways both obvious and subtle.

    "It's going to look like a Texas roadhouse bar," Harper says. "We're getting as much memorabilia as we can, including some autographed posters we bought off Amazon."

    But the most obvious tribute is the mural on the exterior of the building, painted by Isaac Brown, with a re-creation of the stagecoach and horses that were on the side of Jerry Reed's truck in the film.

    Harper and Tucker are bar industry veterans, having logged years at clubs such as Wit's End in Deep Ellum, Reno's, July Alley, the original Elm Street Bar, the Galaxy Club, and Club Dada.

    "I've always wanted to open my own bar and have been working toward it for at least 10 years," Harper says. "Adam and I have been running around for nine months trying to find a building. We looked at this two years ago, and were finally able to get it."

    Ross Avenue is on the brink of a major overhaul, as square-box apartment buildings replace what used to be a scrabbly collection of car lots, dry cleaners, and other small businesses. The building they've secured is a nondescript box that was pretty much an empty shell, but they made a happy discovery when they took down the old ceiling.

    "It had these old wooden rafters, which we're keeping," Harper says.

    It also comes with a parking lot — a big plus — and a massive backyard space that'll be home to a patio and stage where they'll host acoustic musicians.

    "We'll have live music, but it'll be more of an early-evening Saturday-afternoon thing," he says.

    The bar menu will include nothing-fancy cocktails and about a dozen craft beers on tap. They'll have a few TVs to catch some sports. They're aiming to open by mid-March.

    "We just want a bar to have fun at, a place where we would go hang out," he says.

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    Ice Cream News

    Kwality Ice Cream shop to bring creamy exotic desserts to Frisco

    Raven Jordan
    Jun 13, 2025 | 5:14 pm
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    An ice cream chain with an Indian flair is dipping into Dallas-Fort Worth: Called Kwality Ice Cream, it's a concept founded in New Jersey that specializes in traditional Indian ice cream and cold drinks, and it's opening a location in Frisco, at 13089 Main St. #500, in a new shopping center.

    According to franchisee Raju Vikey, the shop will open sometime in 2025. It joins two DFW locations already open: Irving at 8600 N. Macarthur Blvd., and Euless, at 1060 N. Main St. at Harwood Crossing shopping center, which opened in April.

    Kwality Ice Cream was founded by food scientist Dr. Kanti Parekh and his son Anand, in New Jersey in 2003. It has expanded with 38 locations in 14 states including Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas, where there are three locations in Houston and one in Austin.

    “The idea was to create a South Asian-specific ice cream, which is more known for fruits and nuts,” Anand says. “As a Ph.D. in food and nutrition, my father’s background and expertise were in flavor. He used that to create very unique flavors and top notes to give a really good mouth feel and experience.”

    They have close to 50 ice cream flavors with classics like cookies & cream, chocolate supreme, and butter pecan; but South Asian and Indian flavors dominate the menu with exotic options like green guava, lychee, and Nuttie Tuttie Fruitee, a berry-flavored ice cream with nuts and candied fruit.

    There is also kulfi, a frozen dessert that's like ice cream but with less added air so it has a stiffer, creamier texture. It's served in slices and comes in popular Indian flavors like pistachio, mango, and rose.

    Other novel frozen treats include cassata, an ice cream cake with three flavors of ice cream layered over sponge cake.

    As with many Asian desserts, they're often less sweet than American-style confections. Wild inventions include the mawa rabdi cup, with ice cream, rice noodles, basil seeds, and rose syrup, topped with nuts and candied fruit; and Thandai ice cream, a staple at Indian festivals, consisting of almonds, fennel seeds, poppy seeds, watermelon seeds, rose petals, pepper, cardamom, saffron, milk, and sugar.

    Rabdi is like a pudding, believed to have originated during the 1600s. Kwality makes it following the traditional method of slow-cooking milk until it thickens and reduces, enhancing its sweetness and creaminess, then adding ingredients like cardamom, saffron, and pistachios.

    Pints of ice cream and frozen desserts range from $8-$11, and cassata ice cream cake slices are $7.

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