Chef Belal Kattan grew up in Syria and came to Dallas by way of some of the most demanding kitchens in the city — Cry Wolf on Gaston Avenue, which closed in 2023 and whose absence is still felt, and then Georgie in Knox-Henderson, where Michelin inspectors took notice. What he carries from those years is a precise technique, a pasta obsession so deep that he has invented his own shape, and a culinary identity that he describes as “Syria meets everything.” In 2025 he launched Bazaar — a traveling pop-up that has been hosted at Encina, Mot Hai Ba, Meridian, and Restaurant Beatrice — and built one of the most attentive followings of any young chef in this city.
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