Salad News
Revolutionary salad restaurant makes debut on Dallas' Knox Street
A restaurant concept that has revolutionized the salad has arrived at Dallas' Knox Street district: Bread Zeppelin, the innovative salad and sandwich restaurant based in Dallas, has opened a location in Knox Village, at 3001 Knox St. #108, in a space next to Fadi's that was most recently occupied by Go Fish Poke.
The restaurant opened on July 21.
Bread Zeppelin takes an ingenious approach to salad by serving it in an edible container, the Zeppelin: a crusty, artisan baguette which gets hollowed out and filled with your customized chopped salad drawn from 40 ingredient options.
Or choose one of their suggestions such as the Shanghai with mixed greens, carrot, almonds, currants, Chinese noodles, Mandarin oranges, and choice of tofu or chicken in a carrot-ginger-lime dressing. The bread sops up just enough of the dressing but doesn't get soggy.
It's portable, eco-friendly — no single-serve plastic containers, no plastic forks — and really good.
They also make brilliant use of the bread that gets cored out from the baguettes by transforming them into croutons and a bread pudding dessert. A lemonade and tea bar lets you choose one or combine both together.
The concept is popular for lunch as well as catering, but for lingering at dinner, they've recently introduced an updated interior with wood and soft seating, to create a warmer dining environment.
Bread Zeppelin was founded in 2013 by high school friends Troy Charhon and Andrew Schoellkopf, who had a vision of doing something different with salads and sandwiches.
"Both coming from high-end specialty food shops, we knew there had to be a way to energize the category and started reimagining what we could do with fresh, quality ingredients," Schoellkopf says in a statement.
They debuted the concept in Las Colinas and followed that with five more DFW locations: The Colony, Carrollton/Plano, Southlake, Belt Line Road/Irving, and downtown Dallas, which opened in 2016. They also have franchise locations in Spring and Houston.
Knox and Central will be their second official Dallas location, and it was a no-brainer.
"The location had the desired square footage, visibility, and access at a key intersection of Knox and Central," a spokesperson says.