Biscuit News

New Plano restaurant rolls out the biscuits all day and night

Deep Ellum, biscuits coming at you.

Photo courtesy of Biscuit Bar

The biscuits are rising in Plano with the opening of The Biscuit Bar, a new restaurant at The Boardwalk in Granite Park that specializes in biscuits with a wide range of toppings.

Founded by husband-and-wife Jake and Janie Burkett, The Biscuit Bar is a fast-casual Southern concept that does biscuits, biscuit sandwiches, tater tots, and sweet potato tater tots. There's also a full bar with beer and cocktails.

The restaurant is now open for lunch and dinner and will add breakfast hours beginning at 7 am in May.

"We love comfort food and think everything tastes better on a biscuit," Janie says in a release. "The Biscuit Bar is the perfect place for food lovers who crave biscuits as sandwiches, with toppings or as a dessert, morning, noon or night."

Menu favorites include The Hoss, named after Janie's father, made with fried chicken, bacon, jack/cheddar, honey butter, and sausage gravy; and the BBar burger, which is a burger on a biscuit.

There's also a chicken biscuit, and the "FABB," which has fig, arugula, and bacon. "Nanner Puddin" has bananas, vanilla pudding, ‘Nilla wafers, and whipped cream.

The Biscuit Bar has 2,223 square feet of interior space and a 1,303-square-foot patio facing the The Boardwalk and the waterfront. Visitors can also watch the biscuits being made from scratch through a large window.

A pity it did not open in time for CultureMap's list of 10 best biscuits.

Will Hendrickson, Managing Director of Granite Properties says they're thrilled to introduce Dallas and Collin County to a new food experience. "The Boardwalk has become a top food destination offering great culinary diversity and creativity and a cool place for people to unwind," he says.

The Boardwalk is a 30,000 square foot waterfront escape located in Granite Park, a 90-acre, mixed-use campus with six Class-A office buildings in Plano. The Boardwalk offers a restaurant row, patios, lounge areas, a children’s play area, fire pits and a waterfront for Granite customers and visitors.

The Biscuit Bar joins Union Bear Brewing, Chips Old Fashioned Hamburgers and HookLine.

Three other restaurants are slated to open this summer: new food concept B. Frank & Relish, as well as two Dallas favorites, Pearl Cup Coffee and Edith's French Bistro.

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Ice Cream News

Global gourmet ice cream chain debuts in U.S. with 2 Dallas-area shops

Dumont Ice Cream

An ice cream concept from India has made its U.S. debut, right here in Texas: Called Dumont Creamery & Cafe, it's an ice cream chain founded in Hyderabad that now has two locations in the Dallas area.

Their first location was Frisco, which opened at 1951 FM 423 at the end of 2023; a second location opened in late October in Coppell at 1535 S. Belt Line Rd. #160.

Dumont was founded in 1999 by brothers Vivek and Bhashkaar, and currently has 23 locations in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Vijayawada listed on their website.

Bringing the concept to Texas are local franchisees and friends Sai Sashank and Tarang Tirumala, who moved to the U.S. in 2005 to attend college.

Both have successful consulting careers, but craved a taste of home.

Ice cream is the centerpiece at Dumont with more than two dozen flavors, ranging from gourmet to classics to flavors boasting global influences: from Italian-inspired sorbet to a New Zealand-inspired honey ice cream called "hokey pokey."

There is vanilla, chocolate, and mint chocolate chip — but also unique options such as cake and jam, an ice cream with a vanilla base, bites of cake, and spiced jam; and kheer, a coconut ice cream studded with dried fruits and nuts — a nod to the kheer rice pudding that's one of India's favorite desserts.

A single scoop is $4. They have cups and a cute version of waffle cones: shorter and fatter than usual, to provide a greater ratio of ice cream-to-cone.

In addition to ice cream, they have a beverage program with coffee and espresso drinks such as lattes, plus boba tea. There are also special drinks like falooda — an exotic Indian milkshake with rose syrup and vermicelli — as well as limited-edition drinks like iced kheer, a cool beverage version of that same popular rice pudding dessert.

Both locations are spacious, bright, and clean, with pale green banquettes at Frisco, and pale blue chairs and tables at Coppell. Both feature an astronaut theme with statues and framed photos and cartoons on the wall. The Coppell location also has a mural dedicated to great moments in Coppell history.