Rise Southern Biscuits & Righteous Chicken has quietly become one of the more ambitious fast-casual expansions in North Texas, and it didn’t start here. The concept traces back to North Carolina, where it built a following strong enough to land on Food & Wine’s list of the best biscuits in the country, before local franchise owners Ashwin Reddy and Isha Vedire brought it to DFW with plans for as many as twenty locations across the metro.
The Dallas location opened May 4, 2024, at 2414 Victory Park Lane, a block from American Airlines Center in the former Freshii space, and it wasn’t actually the first time the concept had touched North Texas. An earlier version, then called Rise Biscuits & Doughnuts, briefly operated in Allen back in 2017 before the brand rebranded nationally in 2019.
Fort Worth followed that summer with its own location at 7064 Blue Mound Road on the north side of town, and both were built as the first wave of a much larger DFW rollout.
The whole menu runs on one idea: a scratch-made buttermilk biscuit, made fresh throughout the day, sturdy enough to hold whatever gets stacked on it. The Righteous Chicken Biscuit is the anchor of the menu, buttermilk-brined fried chicken piled onto that biscuit, and it shows up again in sandwich form with Boom Boom sauce and pickles for anyone who wants it on a bun instead. Breakfast options build biscuits around crispy bacon, sausage, and even fried green tomatoes, and breakfast boxes swap the biscuit for grits and potatoes topped with a choice of protein and sauce. No order is complete without the Cheddar Tots, the restaurant’s cheesy take on tater tots and the side dish regulars specifically call out.
Rise also runs limited-time specials worth watching for, including a seasonal Peaches and Cream Biscuit swirled with cinnamon and cobbler spice, and a Cackalacky Cheerwine BBQ Chicken topped with pickled jalapeño pimento cheese that won the brand’s own internal sauce competition.
Both DFW locations are open daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., covering breakfast, lunch, and brunch under one continuous stretch rather than cutting off after the morning rush. Coffee comes from Counter Culture, and the menu closes out with a rotating lineup of sweet treats for anyone who didn’t fill up on chicken and biscuits alone.
With eighteen more locations reportedly planned across the metro, Rise is positioning itself to become a real fixture of DFW’s fast-casual breakfast scene rather than a one-off. For now, Victory Park and north Fort Worth are the two places to find out what the hype is about before it shows up in a neighborhood near you.
