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    Pizza News

    Italian restaurant with coffee bar and breakfast drops into McKinney

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jun 22, 2021 | 6:12 pm
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    That's a nice healthy breakfast sandwich if there ever were one.
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    A new restaurant is coming to McKinney that'll be half Italian, half coffee shop. Called Yaba Java Cafe, it's opening at 3935 S. Lake Forest Dr., in a new shopping center at the intersection of McKinney Ranch Pkwy., where it will feature pizzas and other Italian dishes cooked in a wood-burning oven.

    According to owner Ayman Hatkwa, it'll open this summer, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a full-blown espresso bar.

    There was once a Yaba Java Cafe in California, now closed, which served as a kind of inspiration, Hatkwa says.

    "I was originally going to call it Northwest Cafe, as a nod to the Seattle area which has such a major coffee scene, but I liked the name Yaba Java — in Arabic, 'yaba' means father or daddy," he says. "It gave us our slogan: 'It's yaba-licious.'"

    Hatkwa collaborated with a chef to create the menu.

    "We're not cutting corners here, I really want to give customers great food, good service, and consistency," he says. "The centerpiece is our wood-burning oven, and we'll use that to cook most of the food, even dishes like lasagna."

    At breakast, he'll have muffins, plus pastries from Bindi, an Italian company.

    "Most of what we have, we'll make in house," he says. "We'll have egg sandwiches, quiche, Belgian waffles, and then for lunch and dinner, we'll do flatbreads, pizza, lasagna, salmon, and rack of lamb."

    One of his specialty pizzas is topped with fig and feta cheese, and his flatbread lineup will incorporate middle-Eastern flavors and herbs. "It seems like a lot of people think flatbread is just a skinnier pizza, but we're approaching it with more creativity," he says.

    Starters will be fun finger foods, including chicken egg rolls, panini, and kebobs. He won't serve alcohol, but welcomes BYOB.

    "We're going for a healthy theme, we'll have vegetarian dishes and lots of soups and salads, as well," he says.

    The healthy theme will extend to making carbonated sodas in house — no canned Cokes — along with coffee, teas, espresso drinks, and even a Turkish coffee.

    Hatkwa has lived an intriguing life including serving in the military and working in the private security industry including personal bodyguard for VIPs like Kanye West.

    "The story behind this goes back to the '80s when I was a young trooper in the 82nd Airborne Division," he says. [The Army's 82nd Airborne Division is an elite division specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas.] "The idea of opening a bar or a cafe was something I always dreamed about."

    He had family in the Dallas area, so he decided to give up that other life and move here with his wife and kids.

    "We like it here, Texas and especially north of Dallas is a very good place to live," he says. "We've invested a lot in this place, and hope people will love what we're offering."

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    Hot Dog News

    Portillo's hot dog chain opens first airport shop in Dallas-Fort Worth

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 21, 2025 | 4:16 pm
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    Travelers taking flight can now get a hot dog: Portillo’s, the fast-casual chain from Chicago, is opening the first-ever Portillo’s airport location in Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

    The new location is one of two — along with another in The Villages, Florida — that will feature a new small, dine-in only format. It won't have the traditional drive-thru. Because there is no drive-thru at the airport, see. See what I'm saying.

    Unlike traditional Portillo’s locations, the airport restaurant will feature a smaller, walk-up accessible footprint with multiple ordering touchpoints – including at the register, self-order kiosks, and order ahead for pick-up.

    There will also be a variety of seating options accommodating more than 50 guests as well as a grab-and-go area — useful for travelers taking food on the plane, to their gate, or for leisurely meals during layovers or the unfortunate flight cancellation.

    Portillo's partner for the DFW Airport location is PhaseNext Hospitality, whose president and CEO Roz Mallet says she is "thrilled to partner with Portillo's on this first airport location."

    “As a fan of the culture, food, and history of Chicago, I have also been a longtime fan of Portillo’s,” Mallet says.

    Guests can expect signature Portillo’s items like Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, char-grilled burgers, and Portillo’s "famous" chocolate cake.

    Hot dogs come in regular, chili cheese, Polish sausage, and Maxwell Street Polish sausage which has mustard and grilled onions.

    Their Italian beef sandwich features thinly sliced roast beef served on French bread, which is then dipped in hot gravy. You can order it dipped with sweet or hot peppers and mozzarella.

    Portillo's first entered the Dallas market with a location at the Grandscape development in The Colony in January 2023. They have seven other locations in DFW, in Allen, Arlington, Denton, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, and Mansfield.

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