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    Top Potato Dishes

    Where to eat in Dallas right now: 10 best restaurants for hot potatoes

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jul 2, 2014 | 4:41 pm

    The opening of Potato Flats, Phil Romano's potato-centric restaurant at Trinity Groves, gives the potato the attention and respect it deserves. It offers potatoes in regular or sweet, baked or fried, with toppings such as vegetables, meat or cheese. A typical special is the "Thanksgiving potato," with turkey, gravy, roasted carrots, peas, corn and cranberry relish.

     

    Every restaurant should make potatoes the center of its world. And Dallas restaurants have been squarely behind that idea, be it Snuffer's cheese fries or Tillman's Roadhouse signature trio of fries. For our July chapter of where to eat, we single out some of the best state-of-the-art potato dishes in Dallas.

     

     Pecan Lodge: Hot Mess
    When everyone else was doing sweet potato fries, this top-ranked barbecue spot featured a big baked one instead. The Hot Mess is a jumbo sea salt-crusted sweet potato, topped with shredded brisket, Southwestern seasoning, chipotle cream, cheese, butter and green onions.

     

     Trinity Hall Pub: Shepherd's pie
    As an Irish pub, Trinity Hall is almost required to have potatoes on the menu. Its traditional shepherd's pie is a casserole served in a cute one-serving ceramic dish, with ground beef, carrots, peas and gravy capped with a thick layer of mashed potatoes and melted cheese.

     

     Off-Site Kitchen: French fries
    Chef Nick Badovinus' casual burger joint boasts some of — if not the best — French fries in Dallas. They're cut to a medium thinness from russet potatoes, with skins still on. They're fried to a golden brown color, crisp but not dried out, and tossed in a seasoned salt laced with just enough garlic to add some mellow depth.

     

     Lucia: Potato gnocchi
    The menu at this Bishop Arts jewel changes regularly but almost always has a potato gnocchi of one kind or another. One week it might be tossed with Texas tomato sauce and basil; another week, it might be accompanied by squash and charred radicchio. What it will always be is made in-house to a texture that's gentle yet firm. There is possibly no better way to eat your potatoes.

     

     Maple & Motor: Tater tots
    Funky burger joint does a tongue-in-cheek side of tater tots but executes them skillfully with a good crunch on the exterior and tender potato inside. You can also get them loaded, a la Snuffer's, with cheddar cheese, chopped bacon, jalapeños, ketchup and a touch of ranch.

     

     Andalous Mediterranean Grill: Batata salad
    Mediterranean cafeteria-style restaurant comes from brothers Sam and Wassim Merched, who are related to the Fadi's chain. Their "batata" salad is a fresh, Middle Eastern twist on potato salad featuring a mix of potatoes, including russets and red jackets, cubed and simmered, then tossed in an olive oil dressing with garlic, green onion, lemon juice and fresh mint.

     

     FT33: Smoked potatoes appetizer
    Design District restaurant featuring the culinary ramblings of chef Matt McCallister has become known for, of all things, an appetizer featuring potatoes. McCallister takes fingerling potatoes and smokes them, then combines them with maitake mushrooms and a spicy mayo, with an assembly on the plate that's as pretty to look at as it is to eat.

     

     Max's Wine Dive: Breakfast pizza
    Forget the pepperoni; forget the mozzarella cheese. One pizza topping that is criminally under-used is potato. Max's comes to the rescue with its breakfast pizza, featuring Spanish chorizo, habañero-tomato salsa, eggs, cheese and — ta-da — potato. The only problem: It's served at brunch only, Friday through Sunday. Potato on pizza should be served every day and night.

     

     San Salvaje: Causa limeña classico
    Chef Stephan Pyles' new Latin restaurant offers a spin on a distinctive potato dish that's a Latin American staple. The causa limeña classico is a creamy tower of potatoes, topped with spicy shrimp and a surprise inside: a soft-cooked quail egg, whose yolk runs when you cut into it.

     

     The Lot: Yuca fries
    We're kind of cheating here, because yuca is not a potato. Obviously. But the yuca fries at The Lot are the best non-potato fries you'll find in Dallas. They're cut extra-thick, like logs, and the contrast between their lightly crunchy shell and soft starchy interior is divine.

     

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    A Hot Mess at Pecan Lodge in the Dallas Farmers Market
      
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    Chicken & Waffles News

    Celeb-owned Johnny's Chicken & Waffles opens second DFW location

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jul 15, 2025 | 4:07 pm
    Johnny's Chicken & Waffles
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    Johnny's Chicken & Waffles

    A restaurant dedicated to chicken & waffles with celebrity ties has doubled down on Dallas-Fort Worth: Johnny's Chicken & Waffles, founded by reality TV star Crystal Smith; her ex-husband singer Ne-Yo; and Karlie Redd (VH1’s Love n’ Hip Hop), has opened a location in Fort Worth, at 2707 Race St. #117.

    The restaurant opened softly on July 11, with an official opening coming on July 22.

    This marks the second location for the brunch favorite: AFter debuting the concept in 2020 in the Atlanta area, they opened a location in Dallas at 1326 Botham Jean Blvd. in 2024.

    Chicken & waffles, their signature dish, takes its cue from the famous Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles in southern California (although the dish originated in Harlem at a place called Wells Famous Home of Chicken and Waffles).

    Johnny's menu lets diners mix-and-match: You choose how you want your chicken and then a flavor of waffle, so you can customize your chicken-and-waffle situation to order.

    • Chicken comes in choice of whole wings, tenders, Buffalo wings, or a combo
    • Waffles comes in choice of buttermilk, pecan, red velvet, or strawberry

    Their other big signatures include mac & cheese which you can order with chicken tenders, fried shrimp, or fried lobster tail, for $29.95; and cocktails served in mason jars, such as bloody Marys, margaritas, espresso martini, and a strawberry lemonade with cognac.

    They also have entrees like Cajun penne pasta, brioche French toast stuffed with cream cheese, fried shrimp basket, catfish & grits, and salads like a kale Caesar. Most items are priced between $22 and $30.

    Operations manager Randy Lamp says that the Dallas restaurant has been such a smash — always busy, and especially on weekends, when brunch draws big lines — that expanding was a no-brainer.

    "We thought, we have this wildly successful restaurant here, it makes sense to open something in the area — but not right in Dallas," Lamp says.

    They scouted about 20 locations, but it didn't take them long to narrow it down to Fort Worth, where they opened at at 2707 Race St. #117.

    "Race Street fit a lot of same criteria as our Dallas location," Lamp says. "It's centrally located but it's not in a saturated retail area, and that is to our benefit. We are careful in how we choose our neighborhoods and spaces."

    Lamp says that the Dallas location "showed us some things about ourselves that we liked learning."

    "One lesson we learned from Dallas is that you don't need foot traffic for brunch," he says. "People don't mind driving somewhere to get brunch. So a standalone spot with good parking becomes a positive. The Race Street location has a great parking lot right behind it, and there's no one nearby that's going to get mad if we have people waiting in line."

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