Punch Bowl Social Rises From The Dead, Serious Pizza Snags A Second Location, Hello Kitty Café Truck To Appear in Plano, Smokey John’s Is Saved & More.
If you’ve been scrolling through social media and seeing endless posts of your followers’ vaccine registration cards, you’re probably wondering when it’s safe to hang out with those friends you haven’t seen since last year. And if you’ve been fully vaccinated yourself, you’re probably ready to paint the town.
Look: We’re still in a pandemic. So don’t ditch the mask.
But, that said, North Texas restaurants are ready to serve you when you are — including some spots you might not expect.
For instance, it turns out Punch Bowl Social is getting a second shot in Deep Ellum, even after going through some ups and down since it opened in 2019. As you may recall, the 24,000-square-foot restaurant and arcade first closed in March 2020, then reopened briefly in September. Then it closed a second time in December when its parent company filed for bankruptcy. But there’s some fight left in this dog yet, as Eater reports that Punch Bowl Social will reopen this week with new items including seasonal drinks, such as sangria and a Topo Chico Paloma, in addition to happy hour and brunch times. Of course, the “social” part of its name comes from the entertainment included — but is $12 per hour ping pong table really worth it? This zero-star review from the Dallas Morning News about its initial run might answer that.
And that’s not the only comeback of note, either: Charlie’s Star Lounge, the dive-bar concept from the team behind The Nines that we first told you about in January of last year is finally open in the old Starlight Lounge spot just east of Deep Ellum. The DMN took an early look at the spot, which includes some classic arcade games to go with its full bar offerings, and thinks it cleans up real nice!
We’re so here for Deep Ellum and its surrounding areas slowly opening back to normal!
Speaking of Deep Ellum, remember when the remodeled Serious Pizza also reopened in Deep Ellum a few weeks go? Well, now it’s taking its 30-inch pizzas and opening a second location in a 3,029-square-foot space on West 7th St. in Fort Worth next month, per the folks at CraveDFW.
Meanwhile, while we’ve already seen what TikTok and YouTube can do for restaurants through a pandemic, but what about a fast-food chain founder? As the DMN reports, Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves visited 10 struggling business — including a family-owned Dallas barbeque restaurant — on his new, feel-good Restaurant Recovery show for Discovery+ and provided them each with some much-needed relief. Specifically, Graves gave Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que & Home Cooking, which lost half its revenue during the pandemic, some $100,000 of his own money. The business put has since put that money toward new menu boards, registers and advertisements at airports. Even better? Customers will now be able to purchase bottles of Smokey John’s barbeque sauce and spice rub online.
Still, there really is something to be said about that YouTube love, right? Remember last week when we told you how the popular YouTuber Mikey Chen of the Strictly Dumpling had upped and moved his channel to Dallas and was already shining a light on various deserving spots around the region within just a few weeks of setting up shop locally? Well, he’s still doing that! Just yesterday, he uploaded a video in which he toured area ramen and sushi spots — including Lower Greenville’s Wabi House, Lewisville’s Ramen Izakaya Akira and Deep Ellum spots Ichigoh Ramen Lounge and Nori Handroll Bar, all of which he gave high marks. Just watch him slurp up all the goodness!
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