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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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Speakeasy News

Speakeasy with secret red phone booth entry is dialing into The Colony

Red Phone Booth

That red phone booth is a secret entry.

A speakeasy bar concept from Atlanta that's been plotting a DFW location for a couple of years is inching closer to reality. Called Red Phone Booth, it'll open in the Grotto at Grandscape, at 5774 Grandscape Blvd. #100 in The Colony, and a release says it's coming in March.

Red Phone Booth features old-school Prohibition-style cocktails, cigars, and small plates. It's owned and operated by Stephen de Haan with actor/whiskey and cigar enthusiast Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead, Band of Brothers, Clarice and The Kids Are Alright).

The Grandscape location was originally forecast to open in 2021, back when speakeasy bars were an up-and-coming trend, remember that? One presumes the delays were pandemic-induced.

The lounge will be open to the public, but customers must know the secret phone number which they can procure only from another member, local hotel, or restaurant. They dial into an antique red phone booth to gain entry.

The cocktail menu features spirits such as bourbon, whiskey, scotch, tequila and Japanese whisky, made with fresh juices and hand chipped double-reverse pass osmosis ice.

Exclusive member tasting events will allow members sample flights of whiskey, bourbon, scotch, or tequila.

Food includes Italian-inspired appetizers such as Stuffed Peppadew Pepper, Insalata di Bistecca, and star-shaped Neapolitan pizzas.

They currently have two locations in Atlanta, plus one in Nashville, and another opening in Florida later in 2023.

In a statement, de Haan says they were introduced to Grandscape by family and thought it would be a good addition to the various shopping, dining, and nightlife options there.

The grand opening scheduled for March 3-4, but they are ready to sell memberships now, which range from $350 to$5,000 for an Executive Membership which includes 4 individuals.

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