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    Downtown News

    Victory Social opening near downtown Dallas is many restaurants in one

    Teresa Gubbins
    Oct 31, 2024 | 12:06 pm
    Victory Social

    Victory Social

    Victory Social

    There's big dining doings in Victory Park: Called Victory Social it's located at 2323 Victory Ave., and is a multi-concept eatery on the ground level of One Victory Park, where it will host six dining experiences — ranging from fast-casual to full-service; from coffee to cocktails; from outdoor to private dining.

    The concept — don't call it a food hall — is from Hospitality Alliance, and will be helmed by chef Joshua Harmon; according to a release, will open on November 8.

    “We’re proud of building something that is part of the community and to bring this neighborhood a diverse dining destination,” says Hospitality Alliance CEO Kevin Lillis in a statement. “We adapted concepts we are best known for to bring DFW an evolution of the food hall, an unmatched eatery created for the consumer that expects and deserves a plethora of incredible dining options. This is a place you can bring your date, your family, your sports fans, or your colleagues and feel right at home.”

    Hospitality Alliance previously ran the food program at AT&T Hospitality District, back when AT&T was still happily funding the downtown entertainment zone, and earned great reviews. In August 2023, it was taken over by Legends Hospitality.

    Now Lillis and company are back and have revived some of the concepts that originally existed at the Discovery District. Victory Social concepts include:

    ● Rise & Thyme – A Hospitality Alliance original. Chef Patrick Byerly will oversee this all-day café, featuring coffee from Lemma Coffee Roasters, pastries, breakfast sandwiches & tacos, toasts, bagels from award-winning Starship Bagels, and more.

    ● Birdie – Original concept from chef Harmon combines his passion for Southern food and Asian-inspired techniques in this one-of-a-kind fried chicken restaurant with homestyle sides and housemade kimchi.

    ● Park Bistro – Lunchtime destination focused on salads, sandwiches, and soups: a nod to the classic all-American bistro, combining produce from Profound Farms and fresh-baked breads.

    ● Itzá Cocina – Playful contemporary taqueria featuring housemade tortillas fresh off the plancha with a menu of tacos, burritos, and bowls, salsas, queso, and guacamole.

    ● Victory Grill – Slightly trendy, featuring house-butchered meats and seafood including the current must-have steak frites, plus lamburguesa, salmon, and tallow fat French fries.

    ● D’oro Italiano – Meaning ‘golden’ in Italian (for the gold-tiled in-house pizza oven), it's a Neapolitan-style pizzeria with pizza, pasta made in-house, meatballs, and more, all made in house daily.

    Victory Social chefsChef team at Victory Social: Patrick Byerly, Joshua Harmon, Juan Carlos, and Malik Cantu.Victory Social

    In addition to the diverse counter options, each with their own robust menu offerings at approachable price points, Victory Social will also offer a full-service dinner beginning in December featuring items such as duck frites ($30), Berkshire pork cheek with fermented garlic sorghum ($28), Grilled Prawns ($16), and a unique take on a shareable seafood platter ($60).

    The bar will offer wine by-the-bottle and by-the-glass as well as craft cocktails, including on-tap cocktails like the Moving Forward – a play on office culture – and a Y’all Street Manhattan. Also on tap is a beer menu showcasing local brews and sought after seltzers.

    The design is sleek and minimalist, with an open kitchen, custom millwork, mosaic marble tile, a private dining room, and a covered,four-season patio.

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    Dumpling News

    Chef Sun's Chinese restaurant steams into McKinney with noodles and dumplings

    Raven Jordan
    May 8, 2025 | 12:15 pm
    Chef Sun's rainbow dumplings
    Chef Sun's
    Chef Sun's rainbow dumplings

    There’s a Chinese restaurant serving steamed dumplings and hand-pulled noodles in McKinney: Called Chef Sun’s Noodle and Dumpling, it’s in the former Fork and Fire space at 7540 SH 121, #150 at Hub 121, where it opened in February.

    Chef Sun’s is from Richard Sun, who previously operated restaurants in Houston and China before moving to Dallas. He opened the first location of Chef Sun's Noodle and Dumpling in Plano in 2024.

    He's joined by executive chef Jianmin Xiao, another native of China who also has extensive restaurant experience. Sun is from northeastern China, and Xiao is from Sichuan. They met in Houston six years ago and reconnected when Sun had plans to move to Dallas and open the Plano Chef Sun's location. Sun's daughter Cassie Sun is also part of the team, serving as general manager.

    "After my dad finished culinary school in China, he'd travel around to different cities there and learn how to make different cultural foods, such as Sichuan and dim sum (Cantonese dumplings)," Cassie says. "All of our chefs also have 20-30 years of experience."

    The menu at both locations is the same, featuring popular soup dumplings, rainbow dumplings, and house biang biang, a chewy and wide hand-pulled noodle dish.

    The Sichuan region of China uses a lot of Sichuan pepper and chili peppers in dishes, while northeastern fare is milder. Xiao has his own stir-frying process: for the three-flavor pepper chicken, he stir fries the pepper first, then adds dried chili peppers to layer the spiciness of the dish, then adds the chicken.

    Chef Sun'sChef Sun's does baked or fried piggy buns.Chef Sun's

    While they take their dumpling making seriously and turn out an impeccably authentic version, they also do cute specialty dishes, like the baked or fried piggy buns filled with red bean paste and designed with pig faces on the outside. Dumplings are typically $13 and noodles are $12-S18.

    While Plano is more casual, the new McKinney spinoff has an elevated atmosphere with counter seating and hanging chandelier lights ideal for date nights and family gatherings, plus a patio.

    They don't serve alcohol but one thing that enhances the dining experience at Chef Sun's is the open kitchen where customers can watch through a small window as dumplings are prepared.

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