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It's tea time for authentic new fish and chips restaurant in Richardson

You've got your fish, you've got your chips.

Photo courtesy of Fish & Fizz

The fryers are heating up for an August 3 opening of Fish & Fizz, the fish and chips restaurant in Richardson from husband-and-wife Nick and Kelli Barclay.

This is a return to Dallas for couple returned who previously had a restaurant in Uptown Dallas called Barclays and WorldService UK, a British food shop on Lower Greenville.

F&F has fish and chips fans enthused because Nick is English and has the know-how to do them right. They'll use cod in a batter that is light with a golden brown crunch. The chips will be a little fatter than what we usually find in town.

"We'll do it as authentically as possible, with all the traditional sides like curry sauce and pickled eggs and proper malt vinegar with Cornish sea salt," Nick says.

In addition to fish and chips, the menu has a number of British specialties including bubble & squeak, consisting of cod fritters with tomato-basil chutney; and Cornish pasty in two versions: traditional filled with meat and vegetables, and a veggie pasty with cheese, onion, and potato.

Other starters include "prawn" cocktail, fish cakes, cured salmon, chicken liver parfait with toasts, and a pickled vegetable salad.

Entrees include a crispy "fish finger" sandwich; bangers and mash with tempura onions; battered sausages with fries; and tempura halloumi, with pickled vegetables and spicy yogurt.

Sides are also quite British including mushy peas, smashed minted peas, baked beans, bread & butter (for $2), chips, and a side of gravy also for $2.

Prices are cheap, topping out at $14 for the fish and chips with everything else running from $9 to $12.

Sweets include a mini Victoria sponge cake with vanilla ice cream; bread and butter pudding; and Cornish cream tea ice cream, one scoop for $3, two for $6, or three for $8. Finish with a pot of cornish tea featuring Smugglers brew from Cornwall.

As for the "fizz" part, their lineup of sparklers includesa brut and a Rose from Camel Valley, from Cornwall, England, which they describe as "the only English vineyard with a Royal warrant, served in first class on British Airways."

There's a Belstar prosecco and a Scarpetta Brut Rose, both from Italy, and two bubblies from France: Louis Perdrier from Languedoc, and a grand brut from Laherte Freres in Champagne.

There are also whites, reds, roses, and classic English and Irish beers such as Guinness, Bass Ale, Boddingtons, and Newcastle Brown Ale, plus a collection of ciders.

They're proudly using local suppliers such as Deep Cuts Butchers, Proper British Baking Company, Sweet Firefly ice cream, Oak Cliff Beverage, and Four Bullets Brewery based in Richardson.

F&F is at 400 North Coit Rd. in a space that was previously home to Pelican House and Alligator Cove. It'll be a hybrid of fine dining and fast casual in format.

Despite a post announcing the opening on the restaurant's Facebook page, Barclay says he's hoping for a "quiet" opening weekend; maybe give them a week to shake it out.

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Yonx Pizza seduces north Dallas suburbs with New York-style pies

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Yonx Pizza, by the slice.

A pizzeria with a dedicated following has debuted in Melissa: Yonx Pizza Bar & Co., an indie spot that does New York-style pizzas as well as pizza by the slice, has opened a location at 1521 McKinney St. #700 — an address that had pizza history as it was home for nearly a decade to a Palio's Pizza, which closed in 2025.

Yonx is from Robert Hede, a restaurant veteran who was previously involved with the Village Burger Bar chain, where he was a partner. He switched from burgers to pizza in 2022 when he connected with NY Pizza and Pints, a small local pizzeria chain, opening a location in Wylie at 1125 FM 544 #800. After two years, he broke off from the chain to found Yonx at the same address.

Yonx does the kind of New York-style thin-crust pizza that Dallas-Fort Worth loves, in a standard 14-inch, as well as a massive 24-inch "Kong" size. They also do slices, which can be ordered as a lunch with a Caesar salad for $9.99.

Varieties include familiar favorites like pepperoni, as well as slightly gourmet options with New York-inspired names such as:

Balsamic on Bleeker St., with garlic sauce, mushrooms, shaved ribeye, mozzarella cheese, arugula, and balsamic drizzle
Bronx Bomb, with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, meatballs, mushrooms, and ricotta cheese
Brooklyn, basically a meat-lovers with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, sliced ham, chopped meatball, beef, & pepperoni
Greenwich Garden, a vegetarian with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, red & green bell peppers, white onions, mushrooms, spinach, & black olives

Prices range from $16 for a 14-inch cheese pizza to $46 for a NY Giant Supreme Soho with Sicilian marinara, mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, beef, red & green bell peppers, white onions, sliced mushrooms, & black olives.

Yonx Pizza soup in a bread bowl.Photo courtesy of Yonx

There are also sandwiches on house-made toasted focaccia such as the Italian tower with melted provolone cheese, sliced ham, salami, lettuce, red onion, pepperoncinis, & sundried tomato aioli.

Appetizers include comforting soups served in a bread bowl including tomato basil and jalapeno cream soup with charred jalapenos. Plus wings, garlic knots, and "Brooklyn Ballers" — their signature meatballs in marinara, made in-house. topped with whipped ricotta and Parmesan, served with pesto and focaccia ends.

A full bar features frozen margaritas and frozen mojitos made with agave gold tequila. The best day to order those is "Frozen Fridays" from 11 am-10:30 pm when the blueberry mojitos are $6 and the margaritas are $5.

The Melissa location opened in January, with the same menu as the Wylie original, and has been met with an unprecedented wave of positive reviews on Facebook: one comment after another raving over how great the pizza is, and what a godsend it is — positive reviews that began to stack up even before the place had officially opened, the likes of which have been rarely seen.

This location boasts almost double the size of the original in Wylie, with a covered patio where they'll host live music on the weekends outside.

Hede, who has been hands-on at the Melissa location since it opened, says he's all-in on these northernmost suburbs of Dallas.

"I like this area — I feel like all the growth is heading out in this direction, there's just a lot of activity up here," he says.

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