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Beloved Italian restaurant Adelmo's to reopen in North Dallas

Adelmo's salmon.

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A longtime Dallas Italian restaurant has found a new home: Adelmo's Ristorante will reopen in the Preston Valley Shopping Center, at the southwest corner of Preston Road and IH-635, according to a release.

Adelmo's closed its location in Inwood Village on December 31 after a decade in the space. The eponymous restaurant was founded in 1989 by Adelmo Banchetti in the Knox Street district, where it prevailed until 2015, when it was displaced by the area's dramatic upheaval. Banchetti relocated to Inwood Village, taking over the former Bijoux space.

The new 3,750-square-foot location, formerly home to Fuji Steakhouse & Sushi Bar, will be in the same North Dallas development as popular restaurants India Palace, Maple Leaf Diner, and Le Reve Gelato & Patisserie.

Negotiations were handled by Bernard Shaw, senior vice president of asset management with Weitzman, and the Weitzman brokerage team of Ben Terry and Amber Baco. Herb Weitzman, executive chairman of Weitzman, says the new location for Adelmo’s means a lot to him personally.

“Adelmo’s is one of the truly great Dallas dining institutions, and Preston Valley was one of the very first retail centers Weitzman leased," Weitzman says in the release. "The center opened in 1965, and our company still leases it and manages it by creating a landmark with great retailers like Terry Costa and destination dining concepts."

Adelmo's is known for its Italian food "with accents" of French and Mediterranean, including delicate pastas; risotto; and light entrees such as salmon with tomato, capers, and olives. Prices are moderate and the setting with racks of wine bottles is cozy and romantic.

The restaurant is still owned and operated by Adelmo Banchetti and his wife, Eliza. Adelmo Banchetti was born and raised in Florence, Italy and worked for acclaimed Dallas restaurants The Mansion and the Pyramid Room before opening his namesake restaurant in 1989.

The new location's finish-out is expected to take a few months, but a target date for opening has not yet been set, a spokesperson says.

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Teresa Gubbins contributed to this story.

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Hard Eight BBQ chain to open first location outside of North Texas

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Hard Eight BBQ is opening its first San Antonio joint.

Popular chain Hard Eight BBQ is exporting its smoked meats and sandwiches to San Antonio, marking the restaurant's first location outside of North Texas.

Hard Eight BBQ is set to open at The Rim retail development, at 17907 IH-10 W. in San Antonio, later this year.

Hard Eight, H8 for short, is based in Stephenville and has four additional locations across the Dallas-Fort Worth: in Coppell, The Colony, Roanoke, and Burleson. It’s the type of neighborhood restaurant locals take out-of-towners to, with a large cafeteria-style line. It reportedly doesn’t cook everything according to time-honored techniques, but it does give a taste of Texana.

The owners have been teasing the joint in a series of social media videos, but have kept quiet on the timeline. Now, new Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) filings say the 17,300-square-foot restaurant aims to finish construction by November.

H8 sells all the Texas barbecue classics including brisket, sausage, and ribs, but the smoked meats menu goes well beyond with shrimp poppers, sirloin, ham, pork chops, and even thick-sliced bologna available by the pound and in sandwiches.

The restaurant brings the same range to the sides. Although smoke shack favorites like macaroni ‘n’ cheese, slaw, potato salad, and pinto beans are on the slate, the barbecue joint also dishes out more newfangled dishes like jalapeño cream corn and sweet potato fries. There’s not much in the way of green vegetables, but diners can order a garden salad if they insist.

Cofounder Chad Decker, with wife Carie and in-laws Vicki and Phillip Nivens, first opened Hard Eight in 2003 in a former Stephenville filling station. His approach to barbecue was formed during his childhood in Llano, he says, where he was exposed to Hill Country methods and traditional German pits.

Although the quartet had zero experience in running restaurants, they slowly built the concept into a mini-empire through trial and error.

So far, H8 hasn’t shared an opening timeline, but its most recent Reel suggests some construction is already taking place. A request for more accurate timeline information was not immediately returned.

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