Most people have never heard of a banya. That’s worth fixing. The Russian Banya of Dallas has been open for nearly two decades in a shopping center on East Rosemeade Parkway in Carrollton, doing something that no other public facility in Texas does — running a traditional wood-fired Russian bathhouse alongside a full kitchen serving the kind of food you don’t find anywhere else in the Metroplex. Andrew Zimmern put it on his top five list when he came through Dallas filming for the Travel Channel. The regulars who fill the place on weekends already knew.
Continue reading
