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    Party Time Part II

    Champagne toasts and even more fine dining: What to do in Dallas for New Year'sEve, reprise

    Jonathan Rienstra
    Dec 25, 2012 | 2:00 pm
    • Boulevardier's French food is plenty enough motivation to keep your New Year'sresolutions for at least two days longer than the normal week and a half.
      Photo courtesy of Boulevardier
    • Start your 2013 adventure with Bolsa's offerings, such as veal cheek and charredSpanish octopus.
      Bolsa/Facebook
    • The Front Room at Hotel Lumen is offering a three-course prix fixe for $55 from5 pm-midnight.
      Photo by Shannon Faulk
    • Relax on the Social side of Private Social with shared plates and live jazzmusic, or go sophisticated on the Private side with a five-course meal courtesyof chef Tiffany Derry.
      Photo courtesy of Private Social

    When I put together the first roundup for New Year’s Eve, I had no idea just how many more emails would be forwarded to me. So many, in fact, that I figured I might as well put out a New Year’s Eve Roundup Part II. Let's do this.

    Cedar’s Social is offering a three-course dinner for $75 with seating at 7, 9 and 11 pm. Choose from dishes including duck confit, Colorado lamb rib-eye and chocolate gateau. Complimentary glass of champagne. For reservations, call 214-928-7700.

    Chef Patrick Russell at Max’s Wine Dive has put together a four-course meal with dishes including tuna and caviar, pork rillettes, Akaushi sirloin and bordelaise and fried chicken and Champagne. The dinner is $75 with optional wine pairings for $25. Available from 4-11 pm. Call 214-559-3483 for reservations.

    Boulevardier has an à la carte menu for those looking for variety. Check out the raw bar with oysters and shrimp, or try the crawfish beignets or seared foie gras for starters. Main dishes include wood-grilled bison filet au poivre and cast-iron red snapper. For reservations, call 214-942-1828 or email at brooks@boulevardier.com.

    Bolsa is doing NYE from 5-10 pm with a menu that includes charred Spanish octopus, Muscovy duck breast and veal cheeks. Plenty of time to eat and then head out for the rest of the night. For reservations, call 214-367-9367 or email contact@bolsadallas.com.

    The Windmill Lounge is throwing its eighth annual NYE party with no cover. Owner Charlie Papaceno is making black-eyed peas from scratch and each hour, on the hour, you get a complimentary Champagne toast. To paraphrase Alan Jackson, it’s midnight somewhere. No reservations required.

    Private Social is doing its two-face thing on New Year’s Eve with live jazz music by Brett Laquercia and cocktails by Rocco Milano to go with your shared plates on the Social side. The Private side is offering a five-course meal for $125 with optional wine pairings for $50. Dishes include bacon apple ravioli with pork belly and apple cider, salt and pepper lobster with butter-braised cabbage and scallion-ginger sauce, and short ribs with wild mushroom risotto. For reservations, call 214-754-4744.

    Chef and owner Pascal Cayet is serving up a French bonne année menu at Lavendou Bistro Provençal. The five-course meal includes lobster bisque, warm venison pâté in puff pastry with black currant sauce, grilled sea bass with a Champagne and caviar sauce, and a French apple tart with Calvados and vanilla ice cream. The five-course is $74.95; there is also a three-course option for $64.95. For reservations, call 972-248-1911 or email provencial@aol.com.

    The Front Room at Hotel Lumen is offering a three-course prix fixe for $55 from 5 pm-midnight. Choose a salad or starter from the menu; the second course is pan-roasted filet, butter-poached lobster, truffle mashed potatoes and shaved winter vegetables. Top it off with malt chocolate cake with vanilla milk and a complimentary glass of Champagne. For reservations, call 214-219-8282 or visit the website.

    Hotel St. Germain is getting swanky on the dance floor and going old school. As in 1920s Hollywood nightclub or a Gatsby-esque soirée. But if you’re not interested in cutting a rug, there are early seatings at 6 and 6:30 pm that are dinner only for $95 per person. The second seating goes from 8-10:30 pm and is $160 per person with dancing afterward to the Memphis Soul Band. For reservations, call 214-871-2516.

    The Pyramid Restaurant is hosting a five-course dinner for $250 per couple with optional wine pairings for $100 more. Dishes include crab bisque soup, sous vide eye of rib-eye with potatoes Lyonnaise and braised mushrooms, and honey Sauterne pears for dessert. For reservations, call 214-720-5249.

    Dallas Chop House is preparing a four-course dinner for $65 with dishes that include lobster fritter, oysters Rockefeller, five pepper-crusted strip steak and peanut butter mousse tart. For reservations, call 214-736-7300 or visit the website.

    Chop House sibling Dallas Fish Market also has the same four-course, $65 set-up for dishes like green papaya crab salad, black truffle-wrapped sea bass and grilled Australian grass-fed filet. For reservations, call 214-734-3474 or visit the website.

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    Ice Cream News

    One of Dallas' top gelato shops opens new location in Plano

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 15, 2025 | 3:14 pm
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    There's an authentic new gelato shop now open in Plano: Botolino Gelato, the artisan gelateria founded in Dallas in 2017, has opened a location in the Preston Park Shopping Center, at the northwest corner of Preston Road and Park Boulevard, in a former Starbucks where it opened on May 12.

    This is the fourth location for the chain, following the original on 2116 Greenville Ave., Preston & Royal in North Dallas, and Bishop Arts. The company also has Botolino Gelato Lab, a facility near Fair Park where many of their offerings are made.

    In a release, owner Carlo Gattini says that fans have been asking for a location in Collin County; his wife is also from Plano and has ties to the community.

    Gattini, who trained at Carpigiano Gelato University in Bologna, has roots in both Dallas and Italy. He was born in Milan and raised on a farm in Tuscany. His grandmother had her own gelato shop, and she and her sisters famously resurrected the epicurean magazine La Cucina Italiana. Carlo's family moved to Dallas, and his father opened the beloved MoMo Italian Kitchen, where Carlo helped serve the restaurant's classic Italian cuisine for more than 30 years, until the family sold the business in 2016.

    Each Botolino shop offers 16 flavors of gelato and sorbetto, with eight classics and eight seasonal flavors in rotation. They use high-end authentic ingredients such as Valrhona chocolate and Tonde Gentile della Langhe hazelnuts from Nocciola d’Elite farm in Piedmont, Italy.

    Classic flavors include pistachio (made from Bronte pistachios from Marullo Pistachio in Sicily), white coffee with cold-infused coffee from whole-bean Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters coffee, mascarpone & figs, milk chocolate, coconut straciatella with dark Valrhona chocolate slivers, and vanilla with Sava Bourbon vanilla beans from Madagascar.

    Rotating flavors include tiramisu, Alpine almond bar with Sicilian almonds, Turkish coffee, and sorbets such as blueberry and lemon-rose.

    They also do espresso drinks and indulgent desserts including cakes, sundaes, decadent brownies, and sticky toffee pudding topped with ice cream.

    To mark the opening, customers who visit before May 21 can enter drawings for hands-on classes. The 2,000 square-foot shop, located a few doors north of Whole Foods Market, has a covered patio and ample parking.

    “I look forward to welcoming guests to the new Plano Botolino - a great place for family gatherings, a place for first dates, a place to make meaningful memories with friends,” Gattini says.

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