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    Venue News

    Sambuca debuts sultry new sibling at Irving's Toyota Music Factory

    Teresa Gubbins
    Aug 8, 2018 | 3:32 pm
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    There's more new restaurant activity happening at Toyota Music Factory, including two new siblings to Sambuca, the restaurant-jazz bar, plus a savior from Fort Worth who will take over a portion of the Big Beat space.

     

    According to a release, all three venues will open by the end of 2018.

     

     Violet Room is an upscale restaurant-bar with a cool name from Kim Forsythe, owner of Sambuca. It will share Sambuca's duality, combining an "immersive" dining experience and seasonal menus with creative plating and execution, with an entertainment aspect.

     

    Located at 316 W. Las Colinas Blvd. #100, it will have a large stage as the focal point, offering a brilliant display of sight, sound, texture, and experience with a wide range of entertainment events.

     

    The performance venue has been dubbed the Rayleigh Underground.

     

     Kitchen 101, a fast-casual concept that offers grilled, made-to-order meals for dining in or to grab and go, is another Kim Forsythe concept.

     

    Sambuca currently has locations in Plano, Houston, and Nashville. The longtime location in Uptown Dallas closed in February 2018 after a dispute with the landlord over issues with the building.

     

     Reservoir is a Fort Worth restaurant from Emil Bragdon, president and CEO of Funky Lime Hospitality Concepts, which owns not only the original Reservoir in Fort Worth but also a bar nearby called Whiskey Garden.

     

    Plans call for Reservoir to open in late 2018, in part of the space previously leased by Billy Bob Barnett, who closed his Big Beat Dallas venue at Toyota Music Factory abruptly at the end of May.

     

    Bragdon, who is a graduate of Irving's MacArthur High School, calls Toyota Music Factory "a perfect fit" for Reservoir.

     

    "Our food and beverage program at our location in Fort Worth's hot West 7th District has been a testing ground for us the past six years," he says. "Our chef has been outstanding, and our product has evolved — I couldn't be prouder. Now to be able to launch our second location less than a mile away from where I grew up and went to junior high and high school is a little surreal."

     
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    Empanada News

    Family-owned cafe to serve empanadas and Argentinian food in McKinney

    Luciana Gomez
    Jul 15, 2025 | 12:11 pm
    Stefania's Empanadas Argentina Café
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    Stefania's Empanadas Argentina Café

    Award-winning empanadas are coming to McKinney via a new spot called Stefania's Empanadas Argentina Café, opening in August on the border of McKinney and Frisco in a former doughnut shop at 1800 S. Independence Pkwy. #1100.

    The cafe is from Stefania DiStefano, born in Baltimore to Argentinian parents and Italian grandparents, with a lifelong love for good food and cooking. “I always wanted to be by my mom and my nonnas, cooking," she says.

    She graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management, and began working in the hospitality industry from a young age — first in management, then later taking culinary classes. She began baking empanadas while working at the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore hotel, which had temporarily closed during COVID.

    She moved to Frisco in 2022, then started a ghost kitchen out of Cibo Kitchens, offering empanadas daily plus a full menu of Argentinian dishes on weekends, as well as pop-up dinners twice a month.

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    The road led to this brick-and-mortar store, where she will sell 14 flavors of savory empanadas, including her award-winning Gaucho Empanada, which she describes as "Texas barbecue meets Argentinian asado," with brisket, onion, green pepper, jalapeño, and a mix of chimichurri and barbecue sauce, which won an award for "Best Appetizer" at the city of Frisco's 2023 Freedom Fest.

    Other empanada options include spinach & portabella mushroom; Argentine ground beef with onion, pepper, green olives, and hard boiled egg; and another Argentine favorite, the "humita," with sweet corn folded in a creamy béchamel sauce.

    In addition to empanadas, the café will serve Argentinian dishes like lomo (sirloin) sandwiches, choripán (a grilled sausage sandwich), pastel del papa (a meat and mashed potatoes dish, similar to shepherd’s pie), and locro (stew). There'll be a selection of sweets as well including cakes, alfajores, and churros.

    Beverages will include traditional mate, a caffeinated herbal drink served in a gourd with a metal straw, and a mate cocido version, which is served in a cup like a regular tea. They will also have a coffee bar, as well as a mini market with items such as dulce de leche, cookies, and yerba for mate for sale.

    The café will have seating for 20 inside, with a small outdoor seating area as well. DiStefano will continue her tradition of private dinners, starring empanadas as a starter, with a couple of savory items and dessert.

    “I think Argentinian food is simple but it gathers people together and makes you feel like family," she says.

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