Greenville Avenue closure

Award-winning Greenville Avenue seafood restaurant goes belly up

Tonight is your last chance to sup on the ceviche at C'Viche.

Greenville Avenue restaurant C'Viche & Tequila Bar is calling it quits. If you still haven't tried the ceviche, you have until November 29 at 7 pm, when the doors will close.

Owners Randall and Courtney Warder opened the restaurant in 2015 as a casual little sibling to their American restaurant, Clark Food & Wine. Both won the Best New Restaurant title in CultureMap's 2015 Tastemaker Awards.

Courtney says they're sad to close but decided to focus all of their energy on Clark Food & Wine.

"C'Viche started out great when we first opened, but once the construction on Greenville Avenue hit us, things started to go down," she says.

C'Viche was situated right in the middle of Phase II of the Greenville construction project to beautify the popular strip. Changes include new lighting, wider sidewalks, designated walkways, landscaping, benches, and bike racks. The construction is essentially complete, although some elements including lighting are not finished, and the road still sports orange cones.

While Clark Food & Wine is a full-service restaurant with a full menu and bar, C'Viche was conceived as a fast-casual spot, serving seafood, tacos, tequilas, and rum.

"It wasn't even in our original plan," Courtney says. "We kind of got wrapped up in the excitement of doing something casual right next door. But we were beginning to feel like it was a sinking ship."

The rent is paid, and the couple has begun to receive queries from interested restaurateurs.

"It'll be good for us to focus on what we're doing with Clark," Courtney says. "It has always been Randall's baby. That's where his heart is."

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100 cheap chops

Dallas steakhouse doubles down on famous 79-cent pork chop deal

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Only 100 chops are available.

One of Dallas' most unique dining promotions is back and bigger this year. Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille will revive its 79-cent pork shop special at lunch on Friday, October 2.

Available at all three Dallas-Fort Worth locations, the lunch-cut pork chop price is "a nod to 1979, the year Perry’s began as a modest butcher shop in Texas," Perry's corporate chef Dan Delorensi says in an Instagram post. He says that the "Flashback Friday" tradition is growing this year, doubling the number of diners who can take part in the event. Plus, the steakhouse has added a pork chop alternative: a caramelized prime rib steak sandwich at the same retro price.

"It's our way of thanking guests for 47 incredible years of support," Delorensi adds.

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The offer is simple. Beginning at 10:30 am, each Perry’s will issue 100 cards for 79-cent lunch-cut pork chops and 100 for caramelized prime rib steak sandwiches to the first 200 people in line. Diners must be at least 21, only people who are standing in line are eligible — no holding spots for friends — and cards must be redeemed by noon.

After all 200 cards are claimed, Perry’s will serve its full lunch menu. The pork chop will then be available at its regular price of $24.

The lunch cut is not quite as large as the chops on the dinner menu. Perry’s owner Chris Perry has told CultureMap that the prodigious size of the dinner menu’s signature seven-fingers high pork chop was part of his marketing strategy. Having to take home leftovers kept the restaurant’s brand in its customers’ minds, he said.

Perry's Steakhouse caramelized prime rib sandwich Perry's will also sell 100 caramelized prime rib sandwiches for 79 cents.Courtesy of Perry's Steakhouse & Grille

“When I first started my business, my plan was to get my name in your fridge,” Perry said in 2019. “It was my only marketing plan that I could really afford. Couldn't afford billboards, and social media wasn’t around [yet].”

Anyone who wants to take advantage of the promotion should line up early. Perry’s never has much trouble finding a couple hundred people who appreciate the value of its offer.

The 79-cent promotion is a nod to 1979, the year Perry’s first opened as a modest, family-owned butcher shop in Houston.

The first DFW Perry's opened in Uptown Dallas at 2000 McKinney Ave. in 2010, a second opened in Frisco in 2014, and the Grapevine location opened in 2017.

Perry’s Steakhouse now has three Dallas-Fort Worth locations: 2100 Olive St., Ste. 100, Dallas; 2440 Parkwood Blvd., Frisco; and 2400 W. State Highway 114, Grapevine.

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