The Governor Turned Dallas Restaurants Into Enforcers
A Dallas dining scene not ready to do away with the mask mandate reels as its situation changes yet again.
By Eve Hill-Agnus
Published in
Food & Drink
March 5, 2021
9:04 am
Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to eliminate the mandate that has kept restaurant capacity limited and masks secured to faces sparked concern and baffled a restaurant community that was taken off guard by the sudden evaporation of health-minded measures. Next Wednesday, the statewide order disappears. It marks a shift of responsibility to business owners who will now determine and enforce their own rules. It puts restaurant owners providers of hospitality in the precarious position of enforcer.
News Bites: Ebb & Flow Heads to Plano and Mot Hai Ba Hosts a Pig Roast
SideDish’s weekly digest of need-to-know dining happenings in Dallas.
By Rosin Saez
Published in
Food & Drink
January 27, 2021
11:33 am
News Bites, from quiet closures to opening updates and everything in between, including coronavirus-related intel.
The Booze Brothers
Deep Ellum bar Ebb & Flow is in expansion mode. A sibling location is slated for The Shops at Legacy in Plano. Ebb & Flow, owned and operated by Dallas Hale (Shell Shack, Sushi Marquee) and his brother Eric Bradford, will open in the space formerly occupied by pizzeria Coal Vines, taking over its roomy restaurant and viney, garden-like patio. Expect the same selection of cocktails and vast assortment of food akaushi beef burgers and patty melts, cubano egg rolls, grilled mahi mahi, ratatouille that made its Deep Ellum location so popular. Its target opening is March.
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.
It feels like three years ago, but it was in April that critic Brian Reinhart considered the result of restaurants reopening after the initial closing in 2020.
Was he right? Read it to find out. (But we’re confident he was absolutely correct on No. 5.)
Mot Hai Ba’s Chef Accused of Harassing Asian-Americans
Some people just want to eat great food at a restaurant they love, no matter what s coming out of the mouths of the people preparing the meal.
That proved not to be the case for many when accusations came out against Mot Hai Ba chef Peja Krstic.