When rumors started circulating in March 2020 that Dallas restaurants could be forced to close due to COVID-19, José chef Anastacia Quiñones-Pittman did.
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The Best Patios in Dallas For Right Now!
By
Zac Crain, Matt Goodman, Brooklee Han, Eve Hill-Agnus, Tim Rogers, Rosin Saez, Peter Simek, and Kathy Wise
Published in
D Magazine
April
2021
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Through repetition, the phrase has become something of a joke. “These unprecedented times.” But as with many jokes, the laugh is a shield we raise to protect ourselves from a painful truth. In other words, this pandemic has totally sucked. As a staff, we are still not dining inside restaurants. And there are some popular (read: packed) patios in town where we don’t feel comfortable. So the list you see here is by no means comprehensive. Let’s call it highly curated. These are the patios that got us through the winter, the ones where we’ve felt at ease this spring, the ones that will sustain us with food and drink and safely distanced fellowship until this hell is behind us. Please enjoy responsibly.
News Bites, from quiet closures to opening updates and everything in between, including coronavirus-related intel.
Khao Noodle Shop Make Its Next Move
In the name of survival, Donny Sirisavath temporarily closed Khao Noodle Shop earlier this month for some “time apart to see if this is the right place for us, or to determine if we have to move on.” Now
Dallas Morning News reports that Sirisavath’s Old East Dallas restaurant will open Khao Gang, a to-go restaurant, in February. It will operate out of the same noodle shop space, but will serve curries, soups, and stews for takeout only.
“I think it s just when we re looking for something on the go, easy: You don’t want to do takeout, you don t want to eat at a restaurant for us, grocery store kitchen is always something easy to grab and go,” chef Anastacia Quiñones-Pittman says. “We knew we were capable of it when we put a certain dish on the menu, the mole, we knew we could do it and it was delicious, so let’s expand it, and see how we could turn it into a concept.”
The effort started Tuesday, and while one could go to a grocery store, she does have a reason for offering it through Provecho Pollos.
And Now, a Word From Dallas’ Food and Drink Industry on 2020
We asked chefs, restaurateurs, bar owners, bakers, and other industry insiders about this rollercoaster of a year. Here s what they said.
By
Eve Hill-Agnus, Rosin Saez, Kathy Wise
Published in
Food & Drink
December 22, 2020
4:01 pm
“How was this year for you?” is a typically simple question come late December. But 2020 was not typical and it definitely wasn’t simple. So when we queried some of Dallas’ prominent voices in the food realm, we figured answers would be justifiably…fraught. We wanted to know how they weathered 2020, but also what they’re leaving behind and what they’re looking forward to in the new year. Without further ado, a look back at the bizarre, tragic, sometimes uplifting, but never not unique, 2020.