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    Oak Cliff News

    Roomy sports bar Mas Chingon to bring Latin flair to Oak Cliff Dallas

    Luciana Gomez
    Apr 4, 2025 | 11:31 am
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    There's a big new restaurant-sports bar with a Latin theme coming to Oak Cliff: Called Más Chingón, it'll open at 312 W. Davis St., in the former Blue Cenote space, with food, big-screens, and live music. Construction is underway, with a target opening date of June.

    The owner is Christian Avanti, who also owns Lava Lounge on Cedar Springs Road as well as a couple of barber shops in town. His goal is to create a sports bar with a Latin environment, Latin music, and a menu of Mexican-Latin food.

    The sports bar area will feature a Vegas-inspired 50-feet screen, a mural by local artist Dummy Fresh, and colors everywhere including a ceiling with a fluorescent effect when the lights are on. The space also features a stage for bands and DJs, while Instagram photos hint at female servers in Hooters-style uniforms.

    Overseeing the menu is chef Antonio De Jesús Martínez, who was born in Monterrey, raised in Oak Cliff, and previously worked at neighboring restaurants Gloria’s, 303, and Pier 247. He and Avanti met 15 years ago when the chef visited one of Christian’s barber shops for a haircut. They stayed in touch, often partnering for events where the chef catered food.

    "I picked Antonio because he is young, open-minded, and has a modern take on Mexican food," Avanti says.

    The menu is still being finalized, but it will provide opportunities for instagrammable moments, such a a miniature elote station with toppings brought to the table; a branded cowboy steak meant to be shared; and a pork belly “al pastor” served trompo-style with pineapple, flambéed tableside.

    “We want our customers to experience their favorite street food but elevated, with traditional Mexican flavors," Martinez says. “We want to share our culture, food and party vibes, all in good place."

    The restaurant occupies a huge space with a capacity of more than 350 people — affording plenty of room for a second concept within the restaurant called Isla, an indoor/outdoor seafood restaurant with beachy vibes, tropical wallpaper, shiny barro countertops, and wide windows that open to the patio space on Davis Street. That menu will feature aguachiles, shrimp cocktail, oysters on the half shell, Louisiana-style boils, and fried cod served on the hook. There are also plans for a rooftop bar.

    They'll host a serious brunch, with a menu featuring unique specialties such as concha French toast, chilaquiles, huevos chingones a la Mexicana, alitas (chicken wings) & waffles, and a variety of micheladas.

    “All of us involved in this project grew up here and are Dallas based," Martinez says. "We knew what type of environment we want to showcase. We want to be a watering hole for the locals and a must-stop shop for tourists."

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    PIZZA PROBLEMS

    Plano-based Pizza Hut to close 250 restaurants as U.S. sales plummet

    Brandon Watson
    Feb 5, 2026 | 3:39 pm
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    Pizza Hut will close 250 restaurants by mid-2026.

    By the middle of the year, the country will have fewer Pizza Huts. Yum! Brands, the parent company of the almost 70-year-old chain, announced it plans to close an estimated 250 restaurants — about 4 percent of Pizza Hut's massive global footprint.

    The closures were revealed during Yum's fourth quarter earnings call on February 4. While Yum! Brands is based in Louisville, Kentucky, Pizza Hut is headquartered in Plano.

    Yum! representatives said that U.S. Pizza Hut store sales slid 3 percent as value initiatives, like the $5 Crafted Flatzz personal pizza, have failed to take hold with customers, who are increasingly spending their pizza budget at rival Domino’s.

    In November 2025, Yum! Brands announced that it would launch a “formal review of strategic options,” a program called “Hut Forward,” which officials said could result in a global reduction in the number of Pizza Hut outlets or an eventual sale of the concept.

    “The Pizza Hut team has been working hard to address business and category challenges; however, Pizza Hut’s performance indicates the need to take additional action to help the brand realize its full value, which may be better executed outside of Yum! Brands,” said Chris Turner, CEO of Yum! Brands, in a previous press release.

    It’s unclear how any such sale would affect the franchise’s Plano headquarters. The corporation is currently in the process of moving KFC, which has been experiencing its own financial struggles, from Kentucky to its Plano home base.

    In recent years, the overall pizza landscape has been rocky for national chains. Concepts like Papa John’s, Blaze Pizza, and Mod Pizza have closed units as dining shifts increasingly to favor more “interesting” concepts like Nashville-style hot chicken. In early January, the Wall Street Journal reported that pizzerias are no longer the second most popular chain format in the U.S., plummeting below Mexican restaurants and coffee shops to sixth place.

    Although Pizza Hut has not disclosed exactly which locations would be shuttering, it did say it expects to wrap up the closure round by the middle of 2026.

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