The building at 110 W. Bailey Street in Ponder has been standing since 1903, and for most of the past 78 years it has smelled like fried chicken and hot grease. That smell is back. Ranchman’s, the small-town steakhouse that once pulled Hollywood and literary royalty off the highway, reopened the first week of July under new ownership, and the people running it went out of their way not to mess with what made it famous in the first place.
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For eight years, the only way to get a loaf from Kuluntu Bakery was to order ahead and pick it up from a house in North Oak Cliff, sometimes off a basket lowered from a second-story balcony so nobody had to touch anything during the pandemic. This summer, that finally changed. Kuluntu opened its first real storefront in June, and the wait tells you something about how this bakery actually operates: slow, deliberate, and never in a hurry to be bigger than it needed to be.
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Houston is trying to copy something Dallas built almost by accident. 55 Seventy started four years ago as a place for Preston Center residents to store wine they didn’t have room for at home. Members would rent space, open a bottle on the couches while they were there, and eventually didn’t want to leave. Owner Tommy Shuey didn’t set out to run a restaurant. He built one anyway because that’s what the members actually wanted.
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There are only five tables at Gorji, and on any given night, each one belongs to a single party for the entire evening. Nobody else is coming in after your reservation. Nobody’s rushing the check to turn the room. That single decision says almost everything about how Mansour Gorji runs his restaurant.
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The smoke gets you before the building does. Turn onto Springdale Road in East Austin on a weekend morning and it’s already in the air, oak and rendered fat drifting out over the parking lot before the line even comes into view. That smell has hung over this part of the city since 2012, first out of a trailer parked in a lot on Rosewood Avenue, now out of a building that used to be a church.
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From the outside, there’s almost nothing marking what’s happening inside Scilla. Duro Hospitality has built its reputation on rooms that reveal themselves slowly, and its newest restaurant, set into the ground floor of the new 8111 Douglas office tower at Preston Center, keeps that habit intact.
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Henderson Avenue’s long-anticipated overhaul is close enough to done now that its restaurant lineup is starting to feel real. PopUp Bagels opened its second Dallas location on the street this summer. Salt & Straw made its Texas debut nearby. And the anchor tenant everyone’s been waiting on, a Tristan Simon restaurant called Romy, is still on track to open at 2110 N. Henderson Ave. this December, right as the rest of the ten-building Henderson East project wraps construction.
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55 Seventy will host its Inaugural Food & Wine Tasting Experience on Saturday, August 29, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., offering members and invited guests an afternoon of exceptional wines, chef-driven cuisine and meaningful connections with some of the industry’s premier wine producers.
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