Oak’d BBQ May Just Have the Best Desserts in Texas
Come for the meat, but stay for the key lime pie, two-layer chocolate caramel cake, and massive cookies.
February 12, 2021
The excellent key lime pie is just one of the many dessert options at Oak d BBQ.
Photograph by Daniel Vaughn
Michael Lane’s culinary career doesn’t look like that of most pitmasters. Before he opened Oak’d Handcrafted BBQ in Dallas late last year, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked in the kitchens of well-respected chefs like Dean Fearing and Robert Del Grande. Then, he built a massive catering company, which he ran for two decades. He dabbled in barbecue at the time, but Lane admits he wasn’t particularly thoughtful about it. “When I was doing it for our catering company, I was doing it as a vehicle to make money. I wasn’t honed in on the craft,” he says. Now he’s all in on barbecue. At Oak’d, he aims to provide an experience he feels is lacking in Texas barbe
Nick Badovinus Is On a (Lobster) Roll
The Dallas restaurateur swaps out pizza for a luxe take on an East Coast classic at his latest pandemic pivot in Highland Park, Yo! Lobster.
When Nick Badovinus dreams of the quintessential lobster roll, he dreams of freckled, rosy hunks slathered in butter, cradled in a warm, griddled, split-top brioche bun.
He dreams, in other words, of something simply luxurious. We didn’t know we needed that vision. Apparently, we did.
With his new
Yo! Lobster in Highland Park Village, which opened last November, Badovinus brought exactly this quintessence to our land-locked city, a Washington-state native doing an East Coast darling.
Chef Chris Shepherd s Underbelly Hospitality announces two new concepts
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The Houston restaurant group behind Georgia James, UB Preserv, One Fifth, Hay Merchant and Blacksmith on Wednesday announced two new concepts.
Underbelly Hospitality from James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd is set to open Wild Oats restaurant in summer 2021 and Georgia James Tavern in spring/early summer 2021.
Wild Oats
Wild Oats, a full-service restaurant at Houston Farmers Market at 2520 Airline Dr., shines the spotlight on Texas cuisine by Houston native Nick Fine.
Dishes, made with locally sourced ingredients, include a house take on shrimp diablo featuring masa in a nod to tamales.
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Richardson restaurant on the cusp of closure as Christmas approaches
Aboca’s Italian Grill is one of thousands of Texas restaurants behind on bills and low on customers.
Artur Pira, owner of Aboca s Italian Grill, stands in Aboca s dining room on December 10, 2020. Aboca s is a restaurant in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. (Hunter Lacey / Special Contributor)(Hunter Lacey / Special Contributor)
Artur Pira stands in the middle of the empty dining room of his Richardson restaurant. It’s 10 a.m. on a Monday, and staff polish glassware, fold napkins and chop vegetables to prepare for lunch service.
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