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New Dallas breakfast-brunch spot Eggdaddy is obsessed with one thing

Breakfast tacos and breakfast sandwiches on brioche buns at Eggdaddy.

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There's a glossy new brunch spot in Dallas, but this time, it's from a local team: Called Eggdaddy, it's a fast-casual restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch, and brunch, and it's now open near Addison, at 15250 Dallas Pkwy #100, north of Belt Line Road.

Eggdaddy is from Syn Group, the Dallas hospitality company whose concepts currently include Social House, America Gardens, and Sidebar, and previously included the short-lived Don Chingon, and a bar called Wishful Drinking that was in the works but fell through.

Pretty much every item on the menu at Eggdaddy includes eggs, from breakfast dishes to lunch options like egg salad and tacos. Eggs are also used as a thematic/decorative lietmotif, present from the moment you walk through the egg-like oval arched entryway.

The interior features two elongated egg-shaped booths, transparently designed for photo-ops.

"We had them custom-made to go with the egg theme," says Shawn Rao, head of Syn Group.

Staff uniforms are egg-themed as well: egg-yolk-yellow shirts and black chefs' pants dotted with floating sunny-side eggs in amorphous shapes.

The menu is broken into bowls, sandwiches, salads, and breakfast tacos.

The bowls are really just standard breakfast plates but in a bowl format, because everyone must have bowls these days. For example, the American Bowl, which has eggs, hashbrowns, English muffin, with choice of bacon, ham, or sausage. And the Local Bowl, with poached egg, sausage, hash browns, cheddar cheese, Cholula sour cream, and an English muffin.

Sandwiches are clever-kitschy. There's one with peanut butter, jam, and bacon sandwiched between waffles. The "Daisy Duke" is a biscuit sandwich with egg, sausage, pimento cheese, and pickle. There's also a hot chicken sandwich with an Indian twist featuring yogurt-brined fried chicken in a tikka masala rub with an egg on a glossy brioche bun.

Tacos include eggs in combination with various ingredients such as brisket, flat-iron steak, and elotes (charred corn). Salads include an egg salad, Cobb salad, and a "Green Goddess" salad with egg white, mixed greens, avocado, turkey bacon, tomato, toasted nuts, and seeds.

Avocado toast comes with avocado and an egg, of course.

Cocktails include mimosas, espresso martini, and original creations such as a vodka martini with salted egg yolk syrup, and a "milk punch" with tequila, dark rum, falernum, citrus, and milk.

Dallas-Fort Worth has seen a massive wave of breakfast-lunch that have debuted in recent years such as Yolk, Huckleberry's, and Snooze. Brunch is hot, and especially brunch cocktails.

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Back in Business

Garland restaurant from Bobby Flay winner to reopen in downtown Dallas

Photo courtesy of Pangea

Chef Kevin Ashade has found a new home for Pangea.

Pangea, the popular Garland restaurant which closed in January 2025, has found a new home. A new iteration of the restaurant will open in downtown Dallas, at 1910 Pacific Ave., Ste. 1400, in a location that was once vegan restaurant Belse.

According to restaurant personnel, it will open at 4 pm Friday, February 13.

Pangea is from chef and restaurateur Kevin Ashade, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America who won Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay in 2016 with his signature coq au vin, which will be served at the new restaurant.

Ashade has a strong culinary background in Dallas, which includes Craft at the W Hotel, Nana at the Hilton Anatole, The Oceanaire Seafood Room, and his GourmEats catering business, before opening Pangea in January 2020.

In this new chapter of Pangea, which is defined by Ashade as “elevated and globally inspired," the menu will expand past the original restaurant's upscale Southern eats to include new flavors and fusions from Italian, Nigerian, Japanese, French, and Caribbean cuisine.

“The focus will be on a true definition of what Pangea is, with new dishes and a true cultural approach to food,” Ashade says.

The menu will feature about half of the dishes from the original location, including the popular jerk roasted lamb shank, stuffed salmon, and crab cakes. It will expand to include more fish options, like a branzino plate, and more cuts of steak, in addition to the New York strip, filet, and ribeye that were served in the Garland location. Entrees will range from $35 to $50, with more casual options such as burgers and sandwiches available as well.

The new restaurant will also feature a full raw and sushi bar, including an omakase option starting at $85. They will also be serving brunch on weekends, with options such as chicken and waffles, eggs Benedict, omelets, steak frites, pastry baskets, and a full coffee menu.

Pangea downtown Dallas The menu is globally inspired. Photo courtesy of Pangea

The 240-seat space is upscale with a lounge vibe, with warm lighting creating a sophisticated but welcoming look. It features a full bar, a private dining room, and an ample climate-controlled patio. It is centrally located, across the street from Pacific Plaza Park and on the same block as the Majestic Theatre.

“This relocation means a better spot for us, an opportunity to be part of the business district. We want to create a vacation feel, a place that makes you feel like you are traveling in Mykonos, Tulum, or Ibiza,” Ashade says.

Pangea will be open for dinner seven days a week, as well as offering lunch on Fridays and brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. The restaurant will stay open late — until 2 am — on weekends.

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