New restaurants opening, but at least 1 landmark is closing its doors
REFRESHING | Joe Berry, left, and James Mayfield are getting the kinks out at Daily Juice before scheduling an official grand opening. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)
Daily Juice is the latest entry in the Cedar Springs Road dining category.
Located in the space formerly occupied by Buli, the outdoor patio remains recognizable, but the interior has undergone a complete makeover.
Co-owner Joe Berry also owns Winslow’s Wine Cafe on Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth.
Daily Juice is a juice bar that features a rotating selection of exotic salads. Earlier this week, the choices included quinoa korma, zucchini alfredo and fire kale.
Store manager James Mayfield described the drinks as “authentic, nurturing, energy.”
“We’re already developing a following,” Berry said after a soft opening a week ago. He said a more formal opening will be planned after he and Mayfield get all the kinks out.
This is Daily Juice’s third location after the flagship store in Austin and a newly opened shop near the Houston Galleria. Berry has plans for as many as 10 stores around Dallas.
Daily Juice isn’t the only new restaurant opening on Cedar Springs Road. A Mexican restaurant is beginning permitting and buildout in the corner space formerly home to Nuvo.
In ilume, Ai Sushi Sake Grill opened in the corner space formerly operated as Monica’s. Xamach, another Mexican food entry, plans to open this weekend several doors down from Ai.
Xamach is the third Mexican restaurant to open on the strip this year. Mattito’s, which has had several locations in and around Oak Lawn, moved to The Centrum recently after extensive renovations to the facade.
Mattito’s location on the corner of Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs now features an outdoor patio and glass wall in what had always been a granite wall closing the space off from the busy intersection along The Strip.
Several blocks down Oak Lawn Avenue, Dyllon Elchami promises something really different when his new restaurant, Scotch and Sausage, opens in mid-July.
“We’re serving only exotic sausage sandwiches from locally crafted, small batches from our own recipes,” Elchami said.
By exotic, he meant sausage fashioned from recipes that include buffalo, South Texas antelope or quail.
He’s transformed the building that was a drab cement attorney’s office with freshly polished wood and other updated features but will retain some of the building’s industrial look.
Elchami said he loves the irony that earlier in the building’s life, it served as a drug and alcohol treatment center with bars on the windows — he’ll be serving 21 varieties of craft beer and have a “pre-Prohibition-style bar” offering only four or five specific cocktails.
For those who lament The Hideaway’s inability to reopen, Elchami is turning his back room into a lounge with live music that will be open until 4 a.m.
On the other end of Oak Lawn Avenue, Good Eats, which has been in its current location in Turtle Creek Village since 1986, closes July 17.
One of the office towers in the shopping center has already been torn down. Most of the other retail spaces have been leveled or are shells.
All that remains is the restaurant, World Market and Inwood National Bank.
The landlord is redeveloping the property and wants to put retail where Good Eats now stands, so the owners refused to renew the lease for the restaurant.
The manager of Good Eats said employees won’t be losing their jobs while management looks for another location somewhere in Oak Lawn.
The staff will be disbursed among other company restaurants like nearby Lucky’s, El Chico or one of their other branded establishments.
While other locations are available in Oak Lawn, few offer enough parking to accommodate a restaurant. Dallas ordinances require restaurants and bars to provide twice the parking retailers must offer.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition July 4, 2014.
