Rex’s Seafood closed its Dallas Farmers Market location on Sunday, May 17. The space at 920 S. Harwood St. will go to Dock Local this summer. The lease came up for renewal and the two sides couldn’t agree on terms. That’s how eleven years ends.
The story behind Rex’s is worth knowing. Rex Bellomy Sr. opened the original location on Lovers Lane in 2006 — not a restaurant at first, just a fresh seafood market, one of the few places in Dallas where you could actually buy fish worth cooking. Customers kept asking for prepared food, so the restaurant side grew alongside the market. Beau Bellomy, Rex’s son, had been working there since he was a teenager, learning the business from the floor up.
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