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Doughnut News

Gourmet doughnuts roll into Dallas from famous salty Miami shop

Teresa Gubbins
Aug 6, 2019 | 8:52 am
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Chocolate glazed doughnuts are the real deal.
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Dallas is getting artisanal doughnuts with a national reputation: A new doughnut shop from Miami called The Salty Donut is coming to town and will open a location in the Bishop Arts District in winter 2019.

Spokesman Danny Pizarro confirms that the shop will be opening, but says that they aren't quite ready to disclose the actual address. (A Miami Herald story says the store will be at 414 West Davis St., in the former Red Sparrow Mercantile space.)

The Salty Donut was founded in 2015 by Andy Rodriguez and Amanda Pizarro, who debuted the concept out of a vintage camper set up in a parking lot in Miami's Wynwood district — the first to introduce the concept of gourmet doughnuts to Miami.

The young couple was met with instant long lines, and national attention, including their competition on the Cooking Channel’s Sugar Showdown in 2016, which they won with a cream-filled "cannoli doughnut."

They opened a second, larger location in South Miami in May 2019.

Signatures include their maple-bacon, 24-hour-raised brioche doughnut and a brown butter cake doughnut — recipes devised by their original pastry chef Max Santiago, who left after a falling out in 2017.

Their chocolate-glazed chocolate doughnut is crafted with top-tier Valrhona milk-chocolate glaze and topped with crunchy chocolate pearls, made from scratch, not a pre-fab mix.

They also serve coffee drinks by esteemed brewer Intelligentsia Coffee, with a coffee menu that focuses on seasonality, as well.

Like most young people, they employ social media to spread their message and have nearly 175,000 followers on Instagram. In fact, that's how they'll be announcing their location. "We'll be dropping clues in our Instagram stories to make it into a guessing campaign," Danny says.

"We have built a strong following in Miami, where people come to our shop from all over the country," he says. "People do love the doughnuts, but just as important for us is our focus on the community aspect, including hosting events that bring people together. We like to be creative with our flavors and embrace the city's culture."

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RIP Mico

Restaurateur Mico Rodriguez, 'Godfather of Dallas Tex-Mex,' dies at 68

Teresa Gubbins
Oct 2, 2026 | 6:49 pm
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A Dallas restaurant legend has died: Michael "Mico" Rodriguez, dubbed the "Godfather of Dallas Tex-Mex," died on October 1; he was 68. According to a friend of the family, Rodriguez exhibited symptoms of a heart attack and died late Thursday night.

Rodriguez co-founded a number of successful Tex-Mex restaurant chains, most famously Mi Cocina, which debuted in 1991 at Preston Forest Village. Its combination of gringo-friendly Tex-Mex, as well as its signature Mambo Taxi frozen margarita-sangria swirl, was an instant hit.

But it was the buzzy celebrity-packed location at Highland Park Village, which opened in 1993, that sent the concept into the stratosphere, launching an entire chain. Under the M Crowd umbrella name, he helped launched a number of other concepts, including the pioneering Taco Diner chain.

Rodriguez was born on October 30, 1957 and entered the restaurant industry not long thereafter: busing tables when he was only 6 years old at El Chico, where his parents worked, until he went to work at Mia's Tex-Mex, the restaurant his mother opened in 1980.

He also experienced personal challenges, and was eventually ousted from Mi Cocina due to alleged financial improprieties.

Driven and ambitious, he went on to found other similar concepts, beginning in 2011 with Mr. Mesero (later shortened to Mesero), which he opened at 4444 McKinney Ave.

Mr. Mesero served as a template for the Mesero chain, which currently has seven locations across DFW and two outside Texas.

But in 2018, Rodriguez and Mesero Restaurant Group parted ways. He kept the original Mr. Mesero, now named Doce Mesas, and opened more locations before being ousted in 2025.

Most recently, he became involved in the Maple Street Food Hall, a food hall launched by entrepreneur Ray Quintanilla in 2022.

Rodriguez can be seen sharing some of his memories on a podcast with Jeff Crilley. He's survived by his daughter, Bianca, and his ex-wife, Caroline. Services have not been announced.

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