BBQ News

Dallas' Greenville Avenue loses highly rated barbecue restaurant

The "ribz" are gone gone gone.

Photo courtesy of Smokin' C's

Barbecue just doesn't seem able to survive on Greenville Avenue, or at the very least, in the building at 1916 Greenville Ave.

The latest casualty: Stiky Ribz, a spinoff of a well-regarded Forney BBQ concept of the same name, which closed the last week of September.

This was the third barbecue concept, sort of, in the former Daddy Jack's space. It opened in June, following a confusing shuffle of barbecue concepts that surely didn't help its fortunes.

Stiky replaced a BBQ place called Smokin' C's which never opened. Prior to that, the location was home to a barbecue restaurant called Louie King BBQ that opened in 2018.

Louie King was funded by a NextSeed campaign and featured a menu with creative twists on barbecue from Will Fleischman, one-time pitmaster at Lockhart Smokehouse.

But Fleischman didn't stick around for long, and Louie King was closed by May 2019.

When Stiky Ribz came to the rescue, it was with a great reputation (and some rather unfortunate though seemingly deliberate misspelling). A well-liked food truck/trailer in Forney, Stiky has a 5-star rating on Facebook for its moist and tender brisket, ribs, sausage, and creamy mac and cheese.

The Dallas location got raves for its food, as well. But Greenville Avenue rents seem to have been an issue. Stiky's closure follows other departures including old-timer Char Bar and Mudsmith, the coffeehouse which will close on October 6.

A spokesperson for Stiky Ribz says they were sad to close the location.

"It just wasn't doing as well as we had hoped," she says. "We decided to shut it down before things got too out of hand and focus on our original location in Forney."

On the bright side for Stiky fans, the Forney location is about to make the jump up from trailer to real restaurant.

"We've been operating as a food trailer since we were founded in 2018, where you can come and pick up food to go," she says. "But all we had was outside seating. In a couple of weeks, we'll have a full restaurant with seating inside and out."

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Deli News

Gourmet market Ari's Pantry to open in Dallas' Trinity Groves

Ari's Pantry

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A new gourmet grocery is coming to Trinity Groves: Ari's Pantry, the market launched in Oak Cliff by husband-and-wife Ari and Amy Lowenstein, will open a second location in West Dallas’ Trinity Groves, with a grand opening celebration on Saturday, November 30.

Located at 3011 Gulden Ln. #119 in the space that was once home to Potato Flats who remembers them, the Trinity Groves store will offer: pasta, olive oil, vinegars, preserves, candy, bread, crackers, cheese, meats, pizza dough, fresh pasta, housewares, cocktail ingredients, novelty kitchen gadgets, spices, prepared foods, fresh pesto and Ari’s own tomato sauce.

“We are excited to open our newest location at Trinity Groves joining the great businesses already there and the wave of new ventures opening in the development,” Ari Lowenstein says in a release. “With this location we will reach a new audience in West Dallas and be closer to our customers coming from downtown and the north.”

The couple opened their first location in Winnetka Heights at 1307 ½ W. Davis St. in December 2023 to fulfill Ari's passion for all things Italy. The idea was a small Italian food store with recipe-ready staples, with a hyper-local vibe. It has since blossomed into a general-purpose gourmet stop.

In addition to the food staples for sale found at their Bishop Arts location, Ari’s Trinity Groves location will also include a commercial catering kitchen that will enable them to provide full-service catering, prepared meal pick-up, pasta classes, and private dinners.

“Amy and Ari bring something new and special to this development as our first partner to offer consumer packaged goods made by people and companies outside of Trinity Groves,” said Sam Romano, Partner at West Dallas Investments, parent company of Trinity Groves. “They are part of the vision we have for the future of Trinity Groves that will combine innovative, up and coming chefs and restauranteurs with lifestyle and entertainment options like pickleball, bocce ball, popup events, arcade game play and additional retail partners.”

The Ari's empire doesn't stop here: Their goal is to open multiple locations "in all corners of DFW and beyond," and that includes a location in the Cyprus Waters community in Coppell, slated to open in spring 2025.

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