Children’s theater workshop

Teatro Flor Candela teaches a theater workshop that culminates in an Aug. 3 performance. The Dallas-based theater company offers this weekly workshop at noon on Saturdays. Students learn about production, lighting, costumes, sound and acting while rehearsing their own performance. This free workshop is presented by Big Thought and Target. North Oak Cliff Library, 302 W. Tenth 214.670.7555, dallaslibrary2.org

July 25

Barefoot at the Belmont

These monthly poolside shows sell out quickly. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. July 10 for Air Review and Chambers on July 25.

The Belmont Hotel, 901 Fort Worth Ave., kxt.org/barefoot

July 27

Whiskey Folk Ramblers

This Dallas-based band brings its booze, boxcars and bar-fights Americana to the Foundry in a free show at 9 p.m. The Foundry, 2303 Pittman, 214.749.1112, cs-tf.com

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The Foundry sandwich has fried chicken, mashed potatoes, bacon, cheese, pickles, mustard and honey: Elliot Muñoz

Chicken Scratch made headlines this spring for a billboard on Interstate 30 poking fun at its location with the deadpan tagline, “Between some trailers and a condemned motel.” The real selling point is that big biscuit sandwich, though. Chicken Scratch roasts whole hens and cures and smokes its own bacon. The kitchen pickles its veggies, makes sauces from scratch and even formulates the fountain sodas (when you can’t decide, try half strawberry soda, half lemonade). Call it slow food fast. The combination of value and commitment to quality keeps customers coming back. “I had a guy come in one day, and he came back three days in a row,” says sous chef Frankie Torres. A guy from Seattle took a cab straight from the airport after a previous visit, Torres says. The restaurant changed its menu in February with a focus on “knife-and-fork biscuit sandwiches,” which live up to their name with almost unruly fixin’s. The Foundry sandwich ($8; it’s the one on the billboard) has fried chicken, mashed potatoes, bacon, cheese, pickles, mustard and honey, for example. But you don’t have to blow your weekly calorie budget to splurge at this familyfriendly joint. The spicy quinoa salad ($6) is one of two vegan dishes on the menu. It comes with spicy pickled vegetables, olives and a carrot-ginger dressing on a bed of mixed greens.

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Jonathon’s

Jonathon’s is known for its brunch, where chicken and waffles rule. A big, crispy Belgian topped with pan-fried chicken and optional pan gravy. Plus, build-your-own Bloody Mary bar.

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1111 N. Beckley

214.946.2221 jonathonsoakcliff.com

2 El Pollo Regio

The green sauce is available by the bottle now. But how does one use it except to drip it into a corn tortilla filled with juicy, char-skinned chicken and some of those oily onions?

2716 W. Davis

214.330.0066 elpolloregio.net

3 Rudy’s

Probably the best fried chicken in Dallas outside a grandma’s kitchen. Rudy’s is so important to the economy of lancaster Boulevard that the city is giving its owner an $890,000 economic development grant to improve the property. If it will make the drive-though line shorter on a Friday night, we might be OK with that.

3103 Lancaster

214.375.9234 food and wine online

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