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The Local Oak and Outpost

The Local Oak, a new restaurant adjacent to the future streetcar stop at Zang and Seventh, was expected to open in November. Owners Alycen Cuellar, Felix Garcia and Paul Delgado renovated the 1920s building, which has a midcentury modern facade. The partners hired Ryan Chaney and 44 Build, the company that designed the interiors of Good 2 Go Taco, Goodfriend and 20 Foot Seafood Joint, among others. They salvaged as much as they could, including the original, weathered hardwood floors, as well as pinewood paneling, which they repurposed for ceilings. “We really tried to keep the integrity of the building,” Cuellar says. Cuellar has a long history in Oak Cliff. Her dad, Frank Cuellar Jr., is a son of the family that started El Chico. Cuellar himself started La Calle Doce and El Ranchito. The Local Oak will have 12 beers on tap, including five that are local, and a list of eight wines. The menu, designed by chef Aaron Courtney, is a mix of Cajun and Mexican flavors, as well as a burger, sandwiches, salads and bar bites.

The owners of Bolsa and Smoke bought Out-

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post American Tavern and took over the restaurant Nov. 1. Tim Byres of Smoke is developing a new menu with existing Outpost chef Lance Smith, and the new owners, which also include Chris Zielke and Chris Jeffers, are keeping the restaurant’s same staff.

Vintage clothes, vintage pop

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The Local Oak 409 N. ZANG 214.946.4625

Outpost American Tavern 1115 N. BECKLEY 215.946.1308

OUTPOSTDALLAS.COM

Zola’s Everyday Vintage 414 N. BISHOP 214.943.6643 ZOLASVINTAGE.COM

7-Eleven 408 N. HAMPTON 214.944.1499

7-ELEVEN.COM

Big Lots 2128 FORT WORTH AVE. BIGLOTS.COM

BB&T BBT.COM

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The Soda Gallery satisfied the sweet tooth, offering hundreds of bottles of pop in the Bishop Arts District until it closed in the spring of 2012. Since then, shoppers searching for a bottle of Cheerwine or Japanese marble soda have popped into Bishop Arts boutiques asking after the bygone business. “We saw a market and went for it,” says Mike Ricketts of Zola’s Everyday Vintage. A few months ago, the vintage clothing boutique started carrying a few varieties of hard-to-find soft drinks. Now the store sells about 60 kinds of soda in bottles, including Bubble Up, orange and strawberry Crush, Big Red, Dad’s, Boylan, Dublin, Ale 8 and Fitz’s. The store, which still sells vintage clothing and accessories, is working to acquire a few other brands, and they’d like to have about 85 all together.

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1 A new 7-Eleven store opened on Jefferson at Hampton last month. The high-traffic corner had been the site of a boarded-up gas station for several years. The store won a zoning case to sell beer and wine despite being a block away from Sunset High School. 2 Big Lots, which has a store under construction on Fort Worth Avenue at Hampton, is moving out of the business-to-business wholesale trade. The Ohio-based company will focus on new initiatives in its retail stores, including adding more freezers and coolers, starting a furniture-financing program and improving its social media presence. 3 North Carolina-based BB&T bank has a branch under construction on Zang at Beckley. BB&T has six Dallas branches, but this will be the first on our side of the river.

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Daylon Walton and Lee Jamison get meat crazy at the fourth-annual Blues, Bandits & BBQ celebration at Kidd Springs Park. Barbecue competitors camped out overnight, and the event drew hundreds of meat lovers to Oak Cliff: Elliott Muñoz