Brunch News

New restaurant at Plano food hall serves brunch and breakfast all day and night

Hey hey you little beignet.

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Legacy Hall, the food hall in Plano, has a new concept that is all about brunch. Called Brunch Club, it's serving breakfast and brunch at all hours including all day and late at night.

This new concept opened a few weeks ago with a menu heavy on Southern comfort food. It's located on the third floor, next to High Bar, in a space that was previously Degenhardt's Brat Haus. Bye brats, hi brunch.

According to a release, Brunch Club is the brainchild of chef Brett Curtis, creator of The Dock food truck and founder of Dock Local, the seafood concept he opened at Legacy Hall in 2020, who was inspired to open this new offering because of his love for breakfast.

The release also says Curtis himself eats breakfast for dinner multiple times a week. It's true.

"Brunch Club is a place that offers something for everyone, whether you’re looking for a family-friendly day out, a work lunch, or a late-night out with live music and dancing," he says in a statement. "Brunch Club adds a unique offering to the food hall that we feel complements the programming and existing eateries."

The menu at Brunch Club features dishes such as

Crab Cake Benedict - crab cakes, poached eggs, creole hollandaise, spinach, gouda grits or country potatoes
Steak ‘N’ Eggs - flat iron steak, chimichurri sauce, eggs, gouda grits or country potatoes
Shrimp ‘N’ Grits - cheese grits, shrimp, smoked sausage, bacon, white wine Cajun butter sauce
Buttermilk Cakes - 3 buttermilk pancakes, syrup, sea salt, and whipped butter
Country Eggs - eggs, country potatoes, bacon or sausage, and toast

Other bites include Nashville hot fish sliders, fried green tomatoes, beignets, nachos, sticky ribs, and spinach queso.

They call it a menu that satisfies a craving for brunch any time of day.

This is a troubling trend beginning to foment. No one knows better than CultureMap that brunch is hugely popular — but a key element of that popularity is that brunch is not available all day every day. It's a special-occasion thing for weekends (more specifically, weekend day drinking), a respite from the other days. Having brunch available any time you want seems like the best way to destroy the mystique of brunch. Do not anger the brunch gods.

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Deep Ellum News

Mexican 'vibe' restaurant from California to open in Deep Ellum Dallas

Mama Por Dios

A buzzy concept from California is coming to Dallas: Mama Por Dios, a Mexican restaurant chain known for its vibe, will open its first location in Texas in Deep Ellum in the Epic development at 2525 Elm St., taking over the former La Neta space, which shuttered in May.

According to a spokesperson, the restaurant will open in early to mid-January.

Mama Por Dios was founded in Southern California in 2020 by chef Misael Guerrero, who famously got his start selling Mexican sushi out of his garage.

Since those early days, he's gone on to form a restaurant empire called Emme Group, with concepts that include Los Amores de Julia, El Rincon de Los Dolidos, and Culichi Town, a lower-priced chain known for Sinaloa-style Mexican sushi & seafood, which has a local presence: It opened a location in Mesquite in 2022.

Mama Por Dios — which translates to "Mother of God" — describes itself as modern Mexican, offering a unique blend of steakhouse, sushi bar, and seafood. The menu includes favorites like tacos and enchiladas, alongside luxe dishes like lobster with spaghetti, lobster enchiladas, and a surf & turf featuring a lobster tail balanced atop a skirt steak. Prices range from $18 for birria tacos to $48 for a bacon-wrapped filet mignon with mashed potatoes and asparagus.

But they also have a showy side that includes flamboyant presentations such as the bacon-wrapped shrimp which come strung on clothespins; or the trompito al pastor, served on a personal spit, as well as servers who walk around with shots while dancing with patrons.

There's a Gold Burger for $65 featuring Prime beef on a brioche bun garnished with 24k gold leaf, and a similarly gilded tomahawk steak for $400 that brings to mind the good old days of Salt Bae. Decor is swanky with low lighting, and there'll be a serious brunch offering on weekends.

Cocktails such as the Al Agua Pato — served in a mini bathtub with a rubber ducky — are made for Instagram. They offer margarita and mezcalita flights with flavors such as mango, tamarindo, and strawberry, and intriguing sips like Carajillo, a Spanish cocktail with Licor 43, espresso, and 43 different fruit, citrus, aromatic, and herbal ingredients.

There’s also a $20 per-person minimum spend, and the menu comes with a warning that everything is cooked to order — meaning some dishes may take 30 to 40 minutes. For many diners, waiting will surely be part of the experience.

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