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    Pool News

    Smithart's in McKinney is a brilliant bar if you love to shoot pool

    Teresa Gubbins
    Dec 16, 2019 | 3:01 pm
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    Billiards are a big deal here.
    Photo by Joe Carabajal

    A new restaurant and bar has opened in McKinney with a big commitment to billiards. Called Smithart's Craft Food & Cheers, it puts billiards right up there as one of its top priorities, along with food and fun atmosphere.

     

    The restaurant is 1751 W. Eldorado Pkwy., previously home to a Mexican restaurant and a sushi buffet, says Jodi Engleson, who co-founded the concept with co-owner Rick Smithart.

     

    "It was vacant, nobody wanted to rent it because it's so large, but for us it was perfect," she says.

     

    Perfect because it gives them plenty of room for billiards, Smithart says.

     

    "I've always been around billiards, my father and grandmother had pool bars, and we had a pool table in our house when I was growing up," he says. "No other restaurant establishment offers seven tables meticulously maintained in a smoke-free environment."

     

    The space is divided into a dining room on one side and a billiard room on the other. There's also an area where people can play darts. There's also the option of doing neither: of just hanging out for some food and drink.

     

    They take an exacting approach to their food, making everything in-house including bread dough and soups. They grind their own chuck for burgers, and pickle vegetables in-house.

     

    Their most popular dishes include their short ribs, which they smoke in-house for five hours; and their roast beef sandwich special, served with a side of roasted sweet potato medallions, each topped with a spoonful of pesto.

     

    There are also meatballs, dumplings, beef skewers, and a coleslaw that Smithart raves about.

     

    Smirthart actually comes from restaurant stock: His mother Debra Smithart-Oglesby worked for Brinker and was CEO and chairman of the board at Denny's.

     

    He spent 20 years in the restaurant business, then went into IT where he co-founded an IT company. But he left that industry to return to the restaurant world.

     

    It's his mother's time-honored recipe they use for their black forest cake, although the buzzy dessert has been their butterscotch pudding, rich with rum.

     

    "Doing this bar seemed like a great addition for McKinney, and there isn't anything else exactly like us," he says. They also pride themselves on broadcasting every game be it football, soccer, hockey, UFC, basketball, baseball, or golf.

     

    "I've played pool forever, always hung out in pool places, and I've also worked in restaurant kitchens," he says. "I wanted to have a place where these two were mixed together."

     
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    Breakfast News

    Dos Huevos Breakfast Shop debuts in Garland with New York deli vibes

    Raven Jordan
    Jul 11, 2025 | 12:26 pm
    Dos Huervos Hobo Sandwich
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    Behold the Hobo sandwich from Dos Huevos

    There’s a gotta-try it new breakfast sandwich in town from Dos Huevos Breakfast Shop, a family-owned restaurant with roots in New York, now open at 1237 NW Hwy. in Garland, in a former mens wear storefront in a Tom Thumb-anchored shopping center.

    Dos Huevos was founded in Spring Valley, New York, by Cambodian immigrants Bunthan and Sinoun Chan, along with their 3 sons – Kean, Ken, and Thomas – who've been serving breakfast and lunch to locals since 1989.

    Bringing the concept to Texas are sons Ken and Thomas, who moved here in 2015; Ken previously worked for the city of Garland.

    “The restaurant in New York is still running strong and we’re bringing it down here to Texas,” Ken says.

    They're known for their trademark “hobo” breakfast sandwich, featuring egg and chunky homefries on a Kaiser roll — a roll they bake in-house. Many customers add bacon, ham, sausage, or black beans. (The sandwich can also be ordered in a burrito, although it seems foolhardy to miss out on the house-baked Kaiser rolls.)

    The Hobo is their mother's recipe. "We offer the taste of a true New York bacon, egg & cheese sandwich," Ken says.

    Everything on the menu is made from scratch: breakfast sandwiches, omelets, French toast, and pancakes; and then lunch options such as a smashburger, chicken salad sandwich, and a chicken cutlet sandwich, a popular item in the Northeast. Prices are a bargain, with nothing over $9.

    The menu has almost a deli theme, with deli classics like a tuna melt, egg salad sandwich, and a BLT.

    “My parents originally opened it as a doughnut shop, and the enterprise got so big, they turned it into a breakfast shop," Ken says.

    The no-nonsense interior features white walls, counter service, and a smattering of tables & black chairs.

    "We have good restaurants in Garland, but I want to serve amazing breakfasts," Ken says. "Our slogan is 'love is the main ingredient.' We enjoy seeing people smile with our food; we put a lot of effort and love into our cooking.”

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