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Biscuits and coffee add buzz to booming Dallas center near Addison

Can you handle this biscuit with Nashville hot chicken, pickles, and sauce?

Photo courtesy of Biscuit Bar

An Addison shopping center that's been undergoing a makeover has signed on four new tenants whose irresistible goods include biscuits, coffee, and killer eyeglasses.

The center is Prestonwood Place, a 133,000 square-foot retail center at the southeast corner of Belt Line and Montfort roads in Addison, adjacent to Village on the Parkway and Prestonwood Town Center.

According to a release, the new openings begin in June, as follows:

June: Massage Heights. Founded in San Antonio in 2004, this chain provides professional, affordable, and convenient massage and facial treatments. Addison is their seventh location in the DFW area. The other locations are spread across the north and northwest suburbs of Dallas, including Allen, McKinney, Frisco, Southlake, and Flower Mound.

June: Warby Parker. This game-changing online eyeglass retailer offers designer eyewear at an affordable price, with a little touch of social conscience thrown in. They have 12 locations in Texas, including five across DFW at NorthPark Center, Henderson Avenue, Plano, Southlake, and Fort Worth.

Summer: La La Land. Socially conscious cafe prioritizes kindness, honest ingredients, and altruism. The company serves a range of completely organic beverages with the purpose to employ and mentor foster youth. They currently have three locations, including their original off Greenville Avenue, plus Oak Lawn Avenue in a former Starbucks, and Lovers Lane in a former Qdoba Grill near Inwood Road.

Winter: The Biscuit Bar. Family-run fast-casual restaurant is centered on biscuits, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with savory and sweet biscuit sandwiches made from scratch, in house, daily, plus tots that can be customized to taste, along with cocktails, beer, cold brew coffee, and kombucha, all offered on tap. They currently have five locations in Plano, Coppell, Deep Ellum, Arlington, and Fort Worth.

Prestonwood Place has welcomed some bright openings include a Flower Child in 2018 and the newly-opened second Dallas-area location of Mendocino Farms Sandwich Market, home to a fantastic vegan Reuben sandwich. There's also a Shake Shack, which opened in the space that was for many years a La Madeleine, which relocated a block away.

They recently announced the addition of a new Warby Parker, La La Land coffee shop, and The Biscuit Bar, coming in June.

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Oak Cliff Dallas address says bye Swank and hello Indian restaurant

Elephant Indian Bar and Grill

A location in Oak Cliff Dallas that has seen some turnover in recent years is about to see some more: It starts with Swank, the ambitious restaurant from chef Luke Rogers, which is leaving its address at 1115 N. Beckley Ave. after a year and relocating to a new space still to be determined. The restaurant's final day at its current location will be Saturday, July 26.

"We want to give guests one last chance to toast the place that started it all," Rogers says in a statement.

But 1115 N. Beckley Ave. won't be empty for too long: The space will soon be home to Elephant Indian Bar and Grill, an Indian restaurant from chef Praveen Prasannan, an industry veteran with international experience working in the kitchens of hotels and on cruise ships.

This will be a second location of Elephant Indian Bar and Grill following the original that opened in the original Buzzbrews location at 4154 N. Central Expwy. in 2024.

Prasannan says he wants to expand his customer base by bringing Indian food to areas currently lacking in Indian options. He's also opening an Elephant to-go spinoff in the Park Cities, at 5601 W. Lovers Ln. #110.

He also owns Shivas Bar and Grill, an elevated Indian concept, with his brother Prinu, which has locations in downtown Dallas and Allen.

The menu at Elephant Indian features Indian classics such as chicken tikka masala, butter masala, tandoori, and a variety of biryani, the comforting rice dish.

There are also Indo-Chinese fusion dishes, such as veggie fried rice, chilli paneer, and hakka noodles; plus wraps, hummus with naan bread, and thali, a selection of different dishes served in small bowls on a round tray, served with choices of steamed rice or naan.

Prasannan is a forward-thinking chef who has also created a number of vegan items and meatless versions of their signature dishes, including a rare vegan version of butter chicken and Kadai vegetables, a mix of stir-fried vegetables. Prices are affordable, ranging from $6 for a soup or salad to $26 for lamb biryani.

Prior to Swank, 1115 N. Beckley Ave. was home to some big-name restaurants over the years, most recently Beckley 1115, and before that VH, and before that Outpost, and before that, Campo featuring chef Matt McAllister, and before that an Argentinian place called La Carreta Argentina.

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