Fried Chicken News

New concept in Trinity Groves in West Dallas serves wings by the pound

The place is called LB Wings, LB for "pound."

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Trinity Groves, the former restaurant incubator now turned Phil Romano concept farm in West Dallas, has launched two new concepts, one doing poke, the other chicken wings. What are the odds that one of those two concepts could potentially offend someone? If your answer is "even," you are correct.

Trinity Groves is also reopening two concepts that have been closed due to the coronavirus.

Newbies first:

Hula Girl Poke
Hula Girl Poke jumps on the four-year-old poke trend, featuring bowls heaped with raw fish, rice, and the random vegetable and sauce.

You can build your own bowl, selecting your choice of marinated fish, rice, sauce, and toppings. But they also have pre-set signature bowls such as the Hawaiian Bowl with white rice, fresh tuna, green onion, carrots, cucumber, pineapple, and poke sauce.

Hula Girl follows a Romano tradition of giving restaurants names that some have described as sophomoric but could just as easily be called offensive. (See: "Sum Dang Good Chinese".) They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and apparently they are correct.

LB Wings
LB is a new wings restaurant selling wings and tenders by the pound. They calculate one pound as six wings or tenders.

LB has the usual assortment of sauces like buffalo and lemon pepper, plus less common recipes such as spicy orange sambal and green curry. The menu also includes sides such as coleslaw, fried okra, bourbon corn, mac & cheese, and potato salad.

What's impressive about LB is that it cuts right to the quick when it comes to wings. It's not about delicate issues like brining the chicken, or the artisanal quality of the sauces or the sides. It's about: How much meat do I get?

Reopenings
Babb Brothers BBQ and V-Eats have also reopened for business, with refreshed menus. The two restaurants form the flip sides of a coin:

Babb Brothers BBQ is all about smoked brisket, ribs, pork, and chicken.
V-Eats is the vegan restaurant with avocado frites, cauliflower bites, and breaded shiitake mushrooms.

The four restaurants are open for pickup and delivery only. They are taking call-in and online orders and are available for delivery via the ChowNow, Uber Eats, and Postmates platforms. Customers can place one order for multiple cuisines and pay one delivery fee.

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Holiday News

Tom Thumb-Albertsons and UNT Dallas to gift free Thanksgiving meals

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Three organizations have come together to serve up Thanksgiving dinner to those in need: The North Texas Food Bank, in collaboration with the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) and Tom Thumb / Albertsons, will host a Thanksgiving food distribution on Saturday, November 23.

Each participating family will receive a turkey and approximately 60 pounds of food. The event is open to the public and will take place at UNT Dallas at 7300 University Hills Blvd. in Southern Dallas from 9 am-12 pm or until supplies last.

Participants in the mobile distribution do not need to register in advance but must have a vehicle for the drive-through event. Food will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. While no identification is required, attendees will be asked to provide their family size and zip code.

According to a recent study, Texas has become the leader in food insecurity, surpassing California with a food insecurity rate of 16.4 percent or nearly 5 million residents, more than a third of whom are children.

In NTFB’s 13-county service area, around 778,000 individuals face food insecurity, translating to 1 in 7 people, with nearly 286,860 being children. Dallas County accounts for more than 50 percent of NTFB's food-insecure population and ranks sixth in the nation for total food-insecure individuals and fifth for food-insecure children.

Tom Thumb/Albertsons is committed to addressing local food insecurity through its Recipe for Change initiative. The company champions innovative programs and partnerships to help break the cycle of hunger, donating millions of pounds of food annually to local food banks and pantries. Recently, Albertsons Companies announced $9 million in multiyear grants to three nonprofits dedicated to food security, with NTFB among the recipients.

“We have a long-standing commitment to hunger relief and are pleased to collaborate with the North Texas Food Bank and UNT Dallas in helping to ease the financial burden that the holidays present for many families,” says Tom Thumb / Albertsons PR director Christy Lara. “We are dedicated to fueling innovative programs that aim not just to feed our neighbors in need but also to help break the cycle of hunger.”

UNT Dallas has served as a partner to the North Texas Food Bank since 2020, regularly hosting mobile food distributions on campus alongside NTFB. Each month, UNT Dallas hosts a free, drive-through food distribution event to provide relief to students and the Southern Dallas community members in need of support. Hundreds of students and faculty volunteer for the monthly campus food distributions.

UNT Dallas also established the Trailblazers Care Pantry, an on-campus resource for students that offers non-perishable and perishable food items, hygiene products, and more to UNT Dallas students. The pantry also includes a Career Closet that provides clothing items to students to use for internships and job interviews.

In addition to the Thanksgiving distribution at UNT Dallas, NTFB purchased and distributed approximately 30,000 turkeys through its network of about 500 food pantries and organizations.

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