Tiffany Derry’s Radici Wood Fire Grill has been one of the more interesting stories in DFW dining since it opened — an Italian concept built around a wood-fired grill, handmade pastas, and a chef who has never been shy about folding Texas into everything she does. May is a good month to pay attention to what both locations are doing.
The Farmers Branch location just rolled out a new dinner menu, and the dishes are worth the drive on their own. The Wagyu Denver Steak goes over Texas post oak and comes out finished with an Italian salsa verde and smoked borretane onions — a steakhouse cut treated with Old World restraint that somehow makes both sides of the equation better. The Pork Ribs are slow-smoked, glazed in pomegranate BBQ sauce, and plated with a Sicilian-style potato salad built on olives, artichokes, and red wine vinaigrette instead of the usual mayo-heavy version. The Chicken Sausage Pasta pairs house-made cassarecce with charred broccoli and pistachio pesto. It’s the kind of bowl that doesn’t announce itself and then refuses to leave your memory.
Also at Farmers Branch: Pasta Hour, running Tuesday through Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. The idea is simple — show up early, eat well, pay less, get home at a reasonable hour. House-made pasta, wood-fire cooking, a room that doesn’t feel rushed. It’s the kind of thing that turns a Tuesday into something worth leaving the house for. Radici Farmers Branch is at 12990 Bee Street.
The Grand Prairie location at EpicCentral — 2979 S. State Highway 161 — is doing its own version of the weeknight tradition with family dinners Tuesday through Friday evenings. Same DNA: wood-fired Italian, handmade pasta, a setting that actually accommodates a full table of people without feeling chaotic.
Mother’s Day weekend has two things worth knowing about. On May 9, from noon to 3 p.m., Radici Farmers Branch is hosting a pasta-making cooking class led by Chef Ivana — you learn to make fresh pasta from scratch, then sit down for a three-course lunch. Tickets are $129 per person, $69 for kids ages 6 through 12, and reservations go through OpenTable. On May 10, the Grand Prairie location opens early for Mother’s Day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with reservations also through OpenTable. If you haven’t figured out what to do with your mother yet, both of these are solid answers.
The May calendar closes with something a little different. On Thursday, May 14, Radici Farmers Branch is hosting a No Kid Hungry dinner at 6:30 p.m. — a multi-course evening that’s part of T2D Concepts’ Celebrating Connections philanthropic series. Twenty percent of every ticket goes directly to No Kid Hungry’s work ending childhood hunger across the United States. It’s a good dinner for a good reason, which is a combination that doesn’t come around as often as it should.
Reservations for all of it are at radiciwoodfiregrill.com or through the OpenTable app.
