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    Everyday Japanese Cuisine

    Kinoko dishes out authentic Japanese cuisine you won't find anywhere else inDallas

    Teresa Gubbins
    Nov 27, 2013 | 12:12 pm
    • Kinoko's ramen with fried rice.
      Photo courtesy of Kinoko
    • Tofu and pork sukiyaki at Kinoko in downtown Plano.
      Photo courtesy of Kinoko

    If your knowledge of Japanese food comes strictly from Japanese restaurants in Dallas, you might assume it was all about tempura, noodles and sushi. Kinoko shows us another way. This sister operation in old downtown Plano is doing a unique kind of Japanese home cooking you're unlikely to find anywhere else.

    The restaurant, which opened in September on Avenue K in the old Daisy's space, serves homey dishes such as sukiyaki with tofu and pork, fried stuffed bell peppers, and okonomiyaki — a foodie delicacy that on its own is worth the trip. Speaking of foodie fetishes, Kinoko also does ramen. Insert feverish sigh here.

    The team behind Kinoko is Kumi Yamamoto and her sister Aki, plus Kumi's husband, Justin Sauer. Kumi and Justin built the place almost entirely by hand, including the custom benches built by Justin and the cheerful yellow-and-orange paint job executed by Kumi.

     

      The restaurant serves homey dishes such as sukiyaki with tofu and pork, fried stuffed bell peppers, and okonomiyaki — a foodie delicacy that on its own is worth the trip.

    Kumi, a native of Japan who attended University of North Texas, wanted something she could do together with her sister.

    "I decided to do this restaurant because I wanted to be close to my sister, and my sister was living in Japan," Kumi says. "She is a wonderful cook. She does the absolute best gyoza dumplings. I wanted to bring her over and do restaurant together. Everything we make is from scratch, except for the mochi ice cream. My sister and I make everything."

    The menu is an amazing journey with items both familiar and exotic. There is edamame, miso soup and Aki's signature dumplings. But there is also a healthy "Mom" streak evident in items such as fresh-squeezed juices; a "veggie lover's salad" with mesclun greens, spinach, alfalfa sprouts, avocado, beets, broccoli, cucumber and cherry tomatoes, topped with chia and hemp seeds; and an entree like grilled salmon, with kinpiragobo (sweet and soy gobo roots and carrot stir fry), asazuke veggies and miso soup.

    Prices are incredibly cheap. Edamame is $1. Miso soup is $1.50. Six dumplings are $6. The salad, big enough for a meal, is $6.

    The place where Kinoko shows what it's made of is its $8.50 daily special, which gets you an entree with sides, plus a side salad or soup. It's something new almost every day. It could be fried stuffed bell peppers, filled with ground beef and pork spiced with a hint of curry. Or it could be okonomiyaki, a gritty street food-type dish that's somewhere between a pancake and a goulash.

    "We've done it for a special – it had squid, ground beef, flour, egg and cabbage," she says. "On top of that, we put nori powder, red ginger, bonito flakes, demi-glace sauce and Japanese mayonnaise."

    They served it with "furofuki daikon," a daikon radish cut into big pieces and cooked slowly in fish broth. "It's very traditional Japanese," Kumi says. "The broth penetrates all the way into the radish and makes it really soft and tender and so juicy."

    Dessert includes sweet potato and apple pudding, with sweet potato, cream and caramelized apples.

    They know they've hit it right when they see how many of their customers are Japanese. "About 80 percent of our customers are Japanese, and they rave about the food," Justin says.

    "Japanese food in America is sushi or tempura, and not really Japanese everyday food," Kumi says. "We wanted more people to be able to enjoy Japanese food like the home-cooked food that Japanese people eat every day."

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    Dudley's Sports Grill to open on Dallas' hot-hot Henderson Avenue

    Alex Gonzalez
    Jul 9, 2025 | 5:20 pm
    Dudley's Sports Grill
    Dudley's Sports Grill
    Dudley's Sports Grill

    A new sports bar is joining the mix on Dallas' hot-hot Henderson Avenue: Called Dudley’s Sports Grill, it'll open at 2927 N. Henderson Ave., in the space previously occupied by Smithy, a gastropub that closed in June after seven years.

    According to a spokesperson, Dudley's will open at the end of the summer — "we're only making a few cosmetic changes," the spokesperson says.

    Dudley’s is the brainchild of three Dallas bar veterans — Gabriel Rhodes and Jordan Carson (Christie’s), and Patrick Gorman (Ill Minster Pub). The trio debuted the concept in 2024, when they opened the first location in Rockwall.

    The bar is named after Carson’s grandfather, Floyd Dudley Hitt, who owned land in Rockwall and Royse City. Carson and Rhodes graduated from Rockwall High School in 2006 before coming to Dallas for other restaurant ventures — including working at Christies while it was still in Uptown. (It closed in 2020, then Carson partnered with Ashton Christie to reopen it on Greenville Avenue.)

    Their menu — devised by Dallas chef Eric Freidline, winner of CultureMap's 2019 Tastemaker Awards for Rising Star Chef — is elevated with a barbecue twist, with dishes like queso made with aged white cheddar, thick-cut bacon with fig glaze, brisket flatbread, and brisket grilled cheese.

    Cocktails include the mule served in a boot-shaped glass, and an old fashioned garnished with cinnamon and cloves. Dudley’s also boasts a variety of beers on tap, as well as an assortment of margaritas, all of which are served in ice-cold schooners.

    Dudley’s prides itself in maintaining an unpretentious ambiance, a place where regulars and newcomers alike feel comfortable and welcome — something they thought would work on Henderson Avenue.

     Dudley's Dudley'sAlex Gonzalez

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