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Bryan Street
With all the great restaurants on North Henderson, Greenville Avenue and other hot spots in our neighborhood and adjacent ones, it can be easy to overlook Bryan. Bryan Street is home to classics and newcomers alike. Don’t miss it.
❏ Can a programmable thermostat save me money?
Yes! Research by the Department of Energy shows you can SAVE 10% ON YOUR COOLING COSTS by setting your thermostat back 10% to 15% for eight hours a day. It’s hard, with our busy schedules, to remember to raise the thermostat setting when we leave the house in the morning. That’s where the programmable thermostat comes in. Once it’s set up, it will operate by your schedule. Your home will be as comfortable when you come home as it was when you left it. While you’re gone, you won’t be over-cooling an empty house, and that will definitely save you money.
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Jimmy’s Food store 1 is one of those classics. The DiCarlo family opened Jimmy’s as a neighborhood grocery in 1966. Now the shop sells Italian imports, Texas and imported wines, hard-to-find specialty groceries, handmade pasta and all manner of sausage and charcuterie. But you haven’t lived in our neighborhood until you’ve had a sandwich from Jimmy’s. The prosciutto panino with fresh mozzarella, tomato, olive oil and basil is $6.99 and enough for two people. And the even more massive muffuletta makes New Orleans seem amateur. Jimmy’s even has stuff for vegetarians, including the $5.99 caprese panino with tomatoes, mozzarella and olive oil. 4901 Bryan at Fitzhugh, 214.823.6180, jimmysfoodstore.comP
Yes! Research by the Department of Energy shows you can SAVE 10% ON YOUR COOLING COSTS by setting your thermostat back 10% to 15% for eight hours a day. It’s hard, with our busy schedules, to remember to raise the thermostat setting when we leave the house in the morning. That’s where the programmable thermostat comes in. Once it’s set up, it will operate by your schedule. Your home will be as comfortable when you come home as it was when you left it. While you’re gone, you won’t be over-cooling an empty house, and that will definitely save you money.
During the month of June, all Advocate readers will receive 15% off programmable thermostat installation.** Call for details and be sure to ask about the new Trane Comfort Link Thermostat. This model can be programmed from your smart phone and links to other smart home products.
**Offer not valid with other discounts/rebate and includes $35 Trip charge. **Offer not valid with other discounts/rebate and includes $35 Trip charge.
URBANO CAFÉ 2 is right behind Jimmy’s, in the same building, and it’s the new kid on the block. Owners Kristen and Mitch Kauffman opened their first restaurant, Urbano Paninoteca, in Uptown nine years ago. And its reincarnation, Urbano Café, opened in 2009. Urbano is a tiny restaurant, and it can be hard to get a table for lunch or dinner. But the pumpkin ravioli and pulled-pork risotto are worth the wait. 1410 Fitzhugh at Bryan, 214.823.8550, urbanodallas.com.
The menu at 3 MAI’S (OPENING PAGE) hasn’t changed since it opened in 1982. The mostly Vietnamese menu includes huge spring rolls, noodle bowls and the clay pot, which comes with shrimp, chicken and vegetables on rice, topped with coconut curry sauce. It’s a neighborhood institution. 4812 Bryan at Fitzhugh, 214.826.9887.
THE DALLASITE 4 is no place to bring you parents, unless they’re into dive bars, cheap beer and karaoke. The Dallasite features such delicacies as Frito pie, chili cheese fries and jalapeño poppers. 4822 Bryan at Fitzhugh, 214.826.2570, dallasiteclub.com.
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BRYAN STREET TAVERN 5 is a terrific live music venue with lots of distractions in the bar area — TVs aplenty, pool tables, foosball, darts. Plus, there’s a beer garden out back with picnic tables and washers pits. Oh, and the thin-crust pizza is pretty good, too. 4315 Bryan at Peak, 214. 821.4447, bryanstreettavern.com.
BANGKOK CITY 6 This Thai noodle house is widely considered the best in Dallas. 4301 Bryan at Peak, 214.824.6200, bangkokcityrestaurant.com.
VIETNAMRESTAURANT 6 This holein-the-wall is great for dine-in or take-out pho. 4302 Bryan at Peak, 214.821.4542.
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We Dallasites love our patios. In a city where eating out is a great pastime, eating outside is fantastically sexy. And in our neighborhood, there is no shortage of patio dining.
North Henderson is the king of al fresco dining. Restaurants that don’t have patios add them, such as HACIENDA ON HENDERSON and CAFÉSAN MIGUEL (1907 Henderson at Monarch ). Even in the wintertime, we like to sip a beer on the patio at VICKERY PARK (2810 Henderson at Milam ) or nosh on chicken liver mousse at THE PORCH (2912 Henderson at Willis).
MEXTOPIA is one of the newest restaurants on Greenville, and it’s already a favorite. Restaurateur Ricardo Avila opened the place last year, serving his famous brisket tacos and other upscale Mexican food. We like “$2 Tecate & tacos Tuesday”, partly because we can’t resist alliterative marketing campaigns and partly because it’s cool to kick back on Mextopia’s patio and watch Greenville go by. 2104 Greenville at Prospect, 214.824.9400, mextopia.com.
THEGARDEN CAFÉ is a terrific place to take out-oftown guests for breakfast or lunch. There’s no other place like it in Dallas, and it was way ahead of its time. Garden Café employees maintain a huge garden, and they use veggies and herbs from the garden in cooking every day. A few tables on the backyard patio give customers a close-up look at what’s sprouting. 5310 Junius at Henderson, 214.887.8330, gardencafe.net.
KALACHANDJI’S is the vegetarian, buffet-style restaurant owned and operated by the Hare Krishna temple of the same name. Sometimes, the food is great. It’s always fresh, and there’s always salad, soup, bread, rice and dal. Sometimes, the food is just OK. But the atmosphere is always lovely. The patio with its gurgling fountain and greenery puts a little bit of Zen into your lunch plans. 5430 Gurley at Graham, 214.821.1048, kalachandjis.com.
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