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    Season's Eatings

    Eating in Season: 5 Dallas restaurants with new dishes for spring

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 15, 2018 | 6:01 am
    Sundown at Granada pasta
    Yellow beet pesto pasta from Sundown at Granada.
    Photo courtesy of Sundown at Granada

    Seasonal menus — centered on whatever's new in season — have been a regular thing at fancy restaurants like Fearing's and Bullion forever. But now the seasonality theme is being embraced by a wider array of restaurants, from sushi restaurants to burger joints.

    Here are five new seasonal offerings found at restaurants around Dallas:

    Blue Sushi Sake Grill has launched a limited-time menu available throughout the summer with seasonally-tied cocktails and menu items. The food lineup includes three specialty items: a sashimi dish using beet-cured salmon; a maki roll with pineapple and mango salsa; and a fortune-cookie ice cream sandwich with sugar cookies and vanilla ice cream. The cocktails are especially cool since they incorporate the chewy tapioca balls commonly found in the ever-popular boba tea. There's a tropical boba-tonic, like a gin and tonic, with mango boba and passion fruit puree; and a strawberry bona-rita, like a margarita, with tequila and strawberry boba.

    Hopdoddy Burger Bar has a refreshed menu with a new selection of loaded fries; a new milkshake menu; and new cocktails. There are buffalo fries, topped with buffalo sauce, blue cheese crumbles, chives, and ranch; and hot honey and sage fries, featuring sweet potato fries topped with sweet-spicy honey and fried sage and rosemary. Five new shakes made with a thicker vanilla custard include S'mores with graham cracker crumbles, chocolate, and marshmallow; and strawberry shortbread with strawberry, vanilla buttercream, and shortbread crumble. New cocktails made with premium spirits and house-blended liqueurs include a pineapple daiquiri made with Plantation 3 Stars Rum, lime, Monin Pineapple-Chipotle, and Angostura bitters; and the 3 Whisky LIT with Jameson, Old Forester, Wild Turkey, Camarena Reposado, Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao, cola, and lime.

    Ocean Prime has new spring dishes at lunch and dinner. They include a poke bowl with ahi tuna, salmon, avocado, and sriracha vinaigrette; and a surf & turf featuring an 8-ounce filet with poached lobster, gouda potato cake, chili seared spinach, cabernet truffle reduction, and béarnaise sauce. There's lobster bisque; and a lobster-avocado toast with sweet pea-avocado spread and preserved lemon, served with choice of fries, house salad, or French onion soup. A new chicken dish is served with a spinach bread salad, and there are crab cakes with Brussels sprouts, corn, tomatoes, and fingerling potatoes.

    State & Allen Kitchen + Bar, the popular Uptown Dallas neighborhood spot, has a dozen new menu items that include pork belly tostadas, ahi tuna poke, jerk redfish with broccolini and sweet potatoes, and St. Louis ribs with peanut jicama slaw and sweet potato wedges. Lobster ravioli comes with corn, peas, caramelized leeks, manchego, smoked tomato cream, and garlic cheese bread. Sponge cake French toast is new at brunch with walnuts, berries, salted caramel mascarpone, maple syrup, and chicken apple sausage. They've updated their cocktail selection with 17 new offerings including a cucumber lemonade with Hendricks gin; a green prickly pear margarita; and a pomegranate bellini-tini with Grey Goose, Pama, grenadine, and champagne.

    Sundown at Granada, the restaurant adjacent to the Sundown Theater, is heavily into the seasonal thing, and has a new lineup from chef Jason West. It includes vegetarian yellow beet pesto pasta, an amazing dish with roasted yellow beet pesto, and bucatini pasta — vegetable noodles made from squash, zucchini, and carrots — with sun dried tomatoes, Swiss chard from their backyard garden, arugula, basil, citrus chili oil, and shaved Parmesan. There's also salmon with mango jalapeño salsa, roasted carnival cauliflower, and soy ginger sauce. A new seasonal margarita contains watermelon-infused tequila, Cointreau, and fresh watermelon puree.

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    Today's Pickle News

    New shop crazy about pickles joins Jimmy's in East Dallas foodie zone

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 29, 2018 | 12:41 pm
    New shop crazy about pickles joins Jimmy's in East Dallas foodie zone
    Sarah Berkowitz/fromthegrapevine.com
    So many pickles to pick from.

    In a world that seems overrun with hamburger joints and poke places, bow down to entrepreneur Lee Theilen, who is opening a concept that is completely original to Dallas: a pickle place.

    Called Pickletopia, it will open at 4812 Bryan St., at the southwest corner of Fitzhugh Avenue, where it will sell pickles of all kinds.

    Theilen, a Dallas-born gourmand who'd worked with big food companies like Cargill, is acting on something that started as a hobby and became a passion.

    "My grandfather, I was told, who is of German descent, used to make his own sauerkraut," he says. "I'd been reading up on the benefits of fermented foods, and I decided to throw myself into this a couple years ago."

    He began experimenting with recipes and the more he explored it, the more grist he found.

    "Probiotics have become popular, and the fact is that it works," he says. "We're learning that gut health is the best health, and part of that is fermented foods like pickles."

    But this will be far more than a place to buy a jar of pickled cucumbers. Theilen will be pickling all kinds of things.

    "I'm working with about two dozen recipes," he says. "And then I'll rotate in products that are in tune with the season. If at all possible, you want to stay with vegetables that are in season."

    Carrots in the winter, okra in the spring.

    "I also want to be as local as possible," he says. "It's better for people who live in the area to eat what's grown locally, it supports local farmers, and it just helps everyone all around."

    In addition to pickled vegetables, he'll do things like a green papaya kraut with an Asian flair that would make an interesting match with barbecued chicken.

    Theilen, who aims to have the store open by late summer, is pretty tickled about his location, almost kitty-corner from Jimmy's Food Store, Dallas' revered Italian market. With Jimmy's, Mai's, Urbano Cafe, and the community garden, he'll add another element to a neighborhood ripe with culinary coolness.

    "Growing up in Dallas, I would go to Jimmy's, I always thought that was a cool location and a neat place that was original for Dallas," Theilen says. "I go to New York quite a bit. I always enjoyed going to the Lower East Side and checking out the pickle places that were still there. I worked with one down there for a week. The owner allowed me to do it because I was from Texas, and we wouldn't be competition. By the end of week, I knew this was something I wanted to do."

    He'll supplement his retail store business with internet sales.

    "But everything's going to be fresh — not shelf-stable but fresh out of the barrel," he says. "I did my research and there's nothing quite like this in the Dallas-Fort Worth area or maybe not even in Texas, quite like what I am doing. It's something I enjoy, and if you have a job you enjoy, the rest is gravy."

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