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    Sake Too We Hope

    Sushi restaurant and cocky wine bar join mix at Victory Park near downtown Dallas

    Teresa Gubbins
    Dec 8, 2017 | 6:00 am
    Rendering of Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas-Victory Park in Dallas
    Victory Park is getting a big overhaul.
    Photo courtesy of Cinépolis USA

    As part of its ongoing resuscitation, near-downtown complex Victory Park has signed on two more restaurants scheduled to open in 2018: Imoto, an Asian kitchen and bar from restaurateur Tracy Rathbun, and a wine bar called Burgundy Swine.

    The Japanese word for "little sister," Imoto will be an upscale take on a pan-Asian restaurant with sushi bar, cocktails, wine, and sake. The menu will incorporate a contemporary style into traditional recipes and flavors, including everything from shared tapas to sharable plates.

    Imoto will open on Victory Park Lane with modern Asian interiors, a social atmosphere, and a late-night lounge with DJ.

    Rathbun co-owns Shinsei, the popular North Dallas pan-Asian restaurant, with partner Lynae Fearing, as well as Lovers Seafood and Market. Rathbun is also involved with Chelsea Corner, the Knox-Henderson bar-restaurant.

    Burgundy Swine will be a modern take on the traditional wine bar, and is already throwing down a promise that it will be "the most unique wine program in the city." Bold words, Burgundy Swine.

    The list of bottles, wines by the glass, and wines on tap will be created by a group of local sommeliers and will cover wine regions from Europe to Texas, with an emphasis on the Burgundy region of France.

    All wines will be available for retail purchase, and a private tasting room will be available for groups and special events. The space will be open and airy, with a dog-friendly patio, lounge-style seating, and fire pit. It will open next to Olivella's.

    In a release, all parties involved, including Terry Montesi, CEO of Trademark Property Co., say they are happy this is happening and optimistic about the transformation Victory is about to undergo.

    The Victory bar and restaurant scene will welcome eight new concepts including a flagship Mesero; a restaurant by This & That Concepts (the team behind High Fives and The Standard Pour); a bar by Brooke Humphries (Barcadia, Beauty Bar, Pints & Quarts); and a 24,000-square-foot restaurant and entertainment concept in Victory Plaza by Humphries and Elias Pope’s 8020 Hospitality (the team behind HG Sply Co.). Two unique concepts are also coming from Tristan Simon: a modern Texas saloon and a creative workspace with a day-focused café.

    The food and beverage renaissance at Victory Park is part of a redevelopment led by retail partner Trademark Property Co. and owner Estein USA. Victory is undergoing a full remerchandising, adding 85,000 square feet of new retail space, and making enhancements to evolve into a more energetic, walkable, and soulful urban neighborhood.

    New retail tenants include Yoga Pod, as well as two new pop-up shops: Moroccan footwear retailer Modern + Soul, open through December 31; and Tragant Pop-Up, featuring exclusive items by Guillermo Tragant, open through December 24.

    More openings in the coming months include Luxe Dental, Orangetheory Fitness, Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas – Victory Park, and The 23, a new 285-unit mixed-use apartment community by LMC. Additional parking and a state-of-the-art valet program, as well as lighting and technology upgrades, will also roll out in early 2018.

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    New Asian dessert shop in Dallas combines churros and soft-serve

    Luciana Gomez
    Dec 30, 2025 | 12:37 pm
    IYKYK Mochi Churros
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    IYKYK Mochi Churros

    There's an exciting new dessert in town, thanks to a shop called IYKYK Mochi Churro, which just opened at 1499 Regal Row #106, in a ghost kitchen called Prep Dallas, west of Dallas Love Field.

    The shop specializes in Korean-style mochi churros — a hybrid street food treat that combines the Mexican classic fried doughnut with mochi, the Japanese rice cake with the chewy texture.

    To make the churros, IYKYK uses the same rice flour used for mochi, which makes the churros a little chewier on the inside with a fried-crisp shell. Beyond the delectable texture, there's a big fringe benefit in that they're also gluten-free.

    In addition to mochi churros, they offer another irresistible treat: soft-serve ice cream in exotic and Asian-inspired flavors including ube, Earl Grey, matcha, and chocolate, for $4.50.

    IYKYK — which is internet slang for the hipster phrase "If You Know, You Know" — is from Connor Park and Dean Kim, both from South Korea, who met while at school in Kansas and became close friends. Park has a degree in accounting, but has food & beverage experience after working at Asian restaurants in Korea and in Kansas while in college. He heads up the kitchen. Kim is a software engineer who manages their website and social media activity.

    "Having a restaurant was my dream, and I saw a lot of opportunity in Dallas given its growing Asian community," Park says.

    In May 2025, he and Kim opened their first restaurant concept at the Prep Dallas ghost kitchen — a place called Neko Yubu which focuses on yubu, a Korean dish similar to Japanese inari sushi, featuring tofu "pockets" filled with sushi rice and toppings.

    "Neko became popular and our customers would ask about dessert, so we decided to expand with a dessert concept next door," Park says. "I don't have a background in baking, but I had seen mochi churro places in Korea, and found a good recipe that we could execute very well."

    They offer churros in four flavors: original with cinnamon sugar, ube, chocolate, and matcha, which can be drizzled with caramel, chocolate, ube, or matcha sauce. Each churro is $4, and it's not uncommon to order a sampler with one of each for $14.

    But the most popular order is a churro-soft serve combo for $6.95, with the churro poking out of the soft-serve cup.

    They also have a savory item: a "churro dog" featuring a churro stuffed with sausage, regular or spicy, and mozzarella.

    Prep Dallas does not have a seating area, so everything is to go. The IYKYK ordering system is in person at the store, where customers can order via a tablet, and wait for their orders to be delivered to them outside or at their cars. They're open four days only on Thursday-Sunday from 12-9 pm, and they're already the toast of Instagram.

    Park acknowledges that they've been busy. "We knew we had to draw customers here with unique flavors and it’s been great so far," he says.

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