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Casa Rosa, one of two recent Tex-Mex entries to the market, offers a beautiful dining room in which to enjoy tortilla soup, chili con queso, and other favorites.

(PHOTOS: COURTESY CASA ROSA) The other, Odelay, has a beautiful patio but is still all about the food such as

the shrimp fajitas. (PHOTOS: KERSTEN RETTIG AND COURTESY ODELAY)

ENJOY THE HEAT AND CLIMB ABOARD THE TEX-MEX TRAIN

The Tex-Mex segment in Dallas is en fuego.

Within the circulation boundaries of Preston Hollow People and Park Cities People alone, there are 12 Tex-Mex restaurants, including Rafa’s, Mesero (2), Odelay, Mi Cocina (2), Fernando’s, El Fenix, Muchacho, and Jalisco Norte. KERSTEN RETTIG That doesn’t include two Chipotles, one Taco Joint, a Velvet Taco, and two upscale, predominantly Mexican, not Tex-Mex, restaurants: Jose and Tulum. Just a smidge outside our circulation area, find Casa Rosa, Doce Mesas, Tupinamba, and Desperado’s.

There is a corn silk thread that connects most of them. However, there’s only one that’s owned by one of the two families that successfully commercialized Tex-Mex in Dallas: Casa Rosa, owned by Gilbert Cuellar Jr., whose family built El Chico’s, once the largest Tex-Mex chain in the world.

Tex-Mex is a regional cuisine that, like certain viruses, has subvariants. The TexMex you taste in Dallas is different from San Antonio’s Tex-Mex. The Tex-Mex at Fernando’s is not exactly like Mesero; some folks like one and not the other. Thank goodness we have so many, right?

The latest two market entries are Odelay and Casa Rosa; very different, both excellent.

Odelay is the bebé of Julian Barsotti, who’s known for his Italian restaurants. Odelay is spacious and highly decorated with carefully curated textiles, pottery, and paintings from Mexico. It has the most beautiful patio in the area, and, though it Instagrams well, it’s more about the food than décor.

The pan-fried Wagyu tacos are sublime - the filling is like meat butter - creamy, rich, and beefy. This is an updated version of El Fenix’s pan-fried taco. The naked chile relleno is baked and has a punchier chile and tomato flavor than the fried version. The chips are sturdy, the salsa is tomatoey and on the mild side, and the shrimp fajitas are filled with grilled, plump shrimp, seasoned perfectly. Casa Rosa is a reiteration of the legendary Inwood Village spot now located in a former El Fenix location at Lemmon and Inwood. Far simpler in décor, rose pink and terracotta walls are illuminated by a beaming skylight and wall lanterns that glow a deep maize. A lush center planter spilling

The Tex-Mex at with greenery and the uncluttered Fernando’s is not space remind me of exactly like Mesero; a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende.some folks like one What I love and not the other. most about this menu, besides the Thank goodness we most amazing taco have so many, right? meat, flavorful shredded chicken in enchiladas, and the best queso in town, is that you can choose your combinations. You pick two, three, or four menu items such as enchiladas, empanadas, or chimichangas and get two sides. Excellent quality food and reasonable prices. Both Odelay and Casa Rosa serve tortilla soup a la The Mansion on Turtle Creek, which will make everyone deeply happy when colder weather arrives.

Can so many Tex-Mex restaurants survive in the 21 square miles that encompass the distribution area of People Newspapers? Time will tell.

Follow Kersten Rettig, a Park Cities-based writer with 30-plus years of experience in food and beverage marketing and public relations, on Instagram @KerstenEats.

DID YOU KNOW?

En fuegomeans “on fire,” slang for super popular.

TexMex Train: It’s not just about food. The Texas Mexican Railway Company was christened in June 1881 and was a subsidiary of the Kansas City Southern Railway, a significant rail operator at the time. Known as the Tex-Mex, the route connected Corpus Christi to Laredo. In 1883, Tex-Mex became the first Mexican-United State railway connection when a bridge was built over the Rio Grande River to connect Laredo and Nuevo Laredo.

Summer’s final weeks are always a waiting game for me – waiting until I can turn the page on the calendar to September and the unofficial start of fall. I love summer, but North Texas’ unrelenting heat these past months tells me autumn can’t come soon enough. I

CHRISTY ROST long to fill my front steps with pots of yellow and bronze chrysanthemums, hang a sunflower wreath on my front door, and decorate the tops of bookcases and the china cabinet with silk autumn leaves and craft store pumpkins, squash, and pinecones.

I’m drawn to magazine covers and cookbook photos featuring pumpkins, butternut squash, savory casseroles, stews, oven-roasted meats, and baskets of just-harvested apples. With the promise of cool evenings and warm days soon to come, I’m already transitioning to the new season in my daily menus, but more than anything, I want to bake.

Quick breads, muffins, cakes, and chicken pot pies – these signal Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting (PHOTO: CHRISTY ROST)

the onset of autumn in my kitchen.

Always reluctant to make a special trip to the supermarket for a single ingredient, I looked around the pantry a few days ago and spied a couple of very ripe bananas. They were no longer attractive for fruit salads or topping off my bowl of oatmeal, but I knew they would lend fabulous flavor to a banana cake. In the freezer, I discovered a package of cream cheese.

Baking a cake to celebrate autumn’s arrival was sounding better all the time!

Banana cake is one of those desserts that easily transitions from a casual, mid-week sheet cake topped with buttercream frosting to an impressive and decadent two-layer cake lavishly iced with thick swirls of cream cheese frosting. As a huge fan of cream cheese frosting, I decided to go with the latter and simplified the recipe by using sour milk instead of buttermilk.

Still, this cake is made with cake flour, which you’ll find in the baking aisle, rather than all-purpose flour for a light-as-air texture to ensure every bite melts in your mouth.

Christy Rost is a cookbook author, chef on PBS stations nationwide, and longtime resident of the Park Cities and Preston Hollow. Her Celebrating Home 4-minute cooking videos are available at youtube.com/ChristyRostCooks and on her christyrost.com website.

BANANA CAKE

Ingredients:

2/3 cup milk 1 tablespoon cider vinegar ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar ¼ cup dark brown sugar, packed 2 eggs, at room temperature 2 ¾ cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 ripe bananas, peeled and mashed

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine milk and vinegar, stir, and set it aside to sour. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 8 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

In a medium bowl, stir together cake flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Gradually beat the flour mixture, alternately with the mashed banana and sour milk, into the creamed mixture to create a thick batter. Stir in vanilla.

Line two 9-inch round cake pans with parchment paper and spray the pans and paper with nonstick cooking spray-with-flour. Pour the cake batter evenly into the pans and bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until a tester inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean. Cool the cakes 30 minutes, remove them from the pans, and place them on a wire rack to cool completely. Frost with cream cheese frosting.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Ingredients:

½ cup unsalted butter, softened 4 ounces cream cheese, softened 5 cups confectioners’ sugar

Dash of salt 3 tablespoons milk 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

Directions:

In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar and the salt, alternately with the sour milk, beating until the frosting is thick and fluffy. Stir in vanilla.

Yield: one 9-inch two-layer cake

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1. Determine How You’ll Use Your Pool

First, if you’re thinking of building a pool, you need to list the different ways you plan on enjoying it. For example, a lap pool needs to be rectangular and very long.

If you primarily intend your pool as a party setting, consider: Will you want a fire pit or fireplace nearby? What about an outdoor kitchen, bar, or cabana?

When it comes to water features, I love deck jets that arc and crisscross each other.

2. Take a Look at Your Site

It’s important to ask a pool design expert to do a site analysis based on your property. This can help prevent your project from running into snags later. Big leafy trees and pools are a terrible combination: You’ll constantly be cleaning out leaves.

Look for area pool companies that have been in the business for a minimum of 15 to 20 years and have a good reputation.

3. Choose Your Pool Shape

The shape of the pool should complement the architecture of your house. For example, I would design a sleek and simple pool for a modern home. Certain pool shapes are out of fashion, especially kidney or lagoon-shaped pools. However, you should also be careful about “trendy” pool designs. A pool that is trendy now can date the house later.

4. Add Outdoor Furniture

Pool furniture needs to have colors that complement the home’s exterior and interior. When it comes to outdoor furniture, I almost always use all matching sets, with the same metal finishes and fabric on the large cushions and umbrella. I introduce variety with contrasting decorative pillows or accent tables (like faux bois accent tables or garden stools), but that’s about it.

If adding a pool to your home is just one part of your home building or renovation project, you can also bring in an interior designer for their input. An interior designer usually has a lot to say about pools. After all, they want to make sure that your pool not only looks beautiful but is the perfect match for your house.

Margaret Chambers, a registered interior designer (RID) and member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), leads Chambers Interiors and Associates. Her colleague Caitlin Crowley helped edit this column. Visit chambersinteriors.com/blog for more design advice. This pool at a University Park home features an integrated hot tub with matching tile. (PHOTO: DAN PIASSICK.

DESIGN: MARGARET CHAMBERS)

Aiding Animals Biobank to support early diagnoses

The VCA Veterinarian Team conducts a physical exam and collects samples from a cat to add to

the biobank data. (PHOTO: COURTESY MARS PETCARE BIOBANK)

By Caroline Petrikas

People Newspapers

Mars Petcare is working with nearby providers on a national healthcare initiative to discover and implement early detection technology and preventative care for dogs and cats.

The Mars Petcare Biobank, introduced in June to better understand health and promote individualized care, aims to include 10,000 dogs and 10,000 cats.

Dr. Philip Bergman, director of clinical studies for VCA, said the biobank will collect and analyze samples over 10 years and use the data to understand and spot early indicators of disease.

“We will find new markers for early diagnosis for a lot of common diseases, and because of the widespread breadth of number of patients, we can also identify biomarkers for more niche types of diagnoses,” Bergman said. “Then, identifying those indicators will translate into new diagnostic tests, new therapies or potentially new foods that we feed our pets.”

Healthy dogs between six months and 10 years old already visiting select VCA clinics or Banfield Hospitals are eligible. Participating Dallas clinics include the VCA Central Expressway Animal Hospital, just south of Forest Lane and east of U.S. 75.

The study will begin recruiting cats later this year.

Participating pet owners will receive a Whistle fitness tracker for dogs and a Wisdom Panel DNA test kit for cats to track pets’ daily behavior.

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Private Oasis in Preston Hollow

9630 Inwood Road, represented by Faisal Halum for $6,990,000.

A must-see listing if there ever were one: 9630 Inwood Road, a Contemporary retreat sited on a heavily treed lot in Preston Hollow. Spanning 7,144 square feet, this fourbedroom, six-and-a-half-bath home offers maximum privacy — thanks to its gated entrance and thoughtfully planned foliage.

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Perry-Miller Streiff Group Ranks No. 1 in Dallas

The pinnacle of success in Dallas luxury real estate is being named to the No. 1 spot by RealTrends + Tom Ferry The Thousand (as featured in The Wall Street Journal). The Perry-Miller Streiff Group of Dave PerryMiller Real Estate reached that pinnacle last year, and with the release of 2022’s rankings, will stay there following their team-best sales volume of $310 million. They are also ranked the No. 2 medium-sized team in Texas and No. 27 in the entire country.

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The team, whose nine members include Ryan Streiff, Jason Bates, Karen Fry, Charles Gregory, Lance Hancock, Courtney Jubinsky, Jamie Kohlmann, Laura Michelle and Dave Perry-Miller, specializes in luxury homes in Preston Hollow, North Dallas, Park Cities, Lakewood, Lake Highlands and anywhere else their clients need them to be.

Contact the Perry-Miller Streiff Group today to discuss getting your property prepared for market before the highly anticipated spring selling season, or to get connected to terrific listings. Visit DPMFineHomes.com to learn more or call 214.799.1488.

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Peek into the Perfect Estate in DFW

DFW continues to be one of the primary destinations of the luxury home buyer, with price-per-square foot in Texas dwarfing that in places like New York and Los Angeles, according to an analysis by the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing.

Allie Beth Allman & Associates agents represent some of the most beautiful, luxurious estates in the area. Consider the ones below, which are available on the public market, or connect with an agent to discuss estates available only via private sale.

You won’t run out of space at 9520 Hathaway St., a Preston Hollow address offering an approximately 16,000-squarefoot home on 1.44 acres. Designed by Richard Drummond Davis, it’s a masterpiece of scale, style and amenities, with its 30-foot, grand entrance, threestory refrigerated wine room, home theater and fitness center.

Originally constructed in 1926, 4209 Arcady Ave. in Highland Park was thoughtfully rebuilt and expanded by Travis & Travis, Cy Barcus Jr., and landscape designer Robert Bellamy in 2016. The stone façade welcomes you with warmth and grandeur. Inside, high ceilings and expansive white walls provide great opportunities for displaying art, while huge windows allow views of the backyard oasis with a pool.

Call to connect with an expert agent: https://www.alliebeth.com/associates/int

ALLIE BETH ALLMAN

Brokerage Leads in Park Cities Home Sales

Allie Beth Allman & Associates continues to lead in the sale of homes in Park Cities neighborhoods, according to an analysis of Multiple Listing Service statistics year-to-date.

The firm’s agents so far in 2022 has handled the sale of 134 homes in the Park Cities, 94 in University Park and 40 in Highland Park, for a total value of nearly half a billion dollars. Moreover, they represented the largest market share, with almost 35 percent in Highland Park and 30 percent in University Park.

Consider one of these homes, but remember, some homes are on a private list only agents can share.

The charming, Tudor-style home at 3609 McFarlin Blvd. has a circular drive leading to the four-bedroom house. The home has a garage apartment that could be an office, guest suite or game room.

At 3543 Northwest Parkway, the fourbedroom home has a grassy yard for the children to play in after attending nearby Hyer Elementary. The home has an office inside the front door.

On one of University Park’s most sought-after blocks, the stately fourbedroom home at 3125 Hanover St. is perfect for entertaining – the media room has surround sound, and there is a second game room on the third floor.

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5335 Meaders Lane 6 Bedrooms | 6.2 Baths | 12,612 SqFt Offered For $9,135,000 by Harold Leidner. Gourmet kitchen topped by a barrel brick ceiling is open to one of several family rooms. Custom Knotty Alderwood cabinetry with White Castle hardware provides storage. Two full-size SubZeros refrigerators, two Asko dishwashers, two gas Wolf ovens and warming drawer. Outdoor Kitchen equipped with a Wolfe outdoor grille and Subzero undercounter refrigerators, and electric screens. Resort like pool, cabana, turfed back yard, private guest house. Home is equipped with Geothermal HVAC and natural gas generator.

For more information please contact Kyle Crews (214) 538-1310.

ALLIE BETH ALLMAN

Agents Connect Buyers and Sellers in Preston Hollow

With its sophisticated mix of architectural styles and picturesque lanes, a for-sale sign doesn’t last long in Preston Hollow. This is especially true when a property is in the hands of the right agent. Allie Beth Allman & Associates leads in the sale of homes priced at $3 million and higher in premier neighborhoods such as Preston Hollow. If you’re looking to sell, contact expert agent to deliver the best deal.

The new owners of 6214 Norway Road gain a modern home with ample amenities. It came to market by Lillie Young with stylish fixtures and finishes plus floor-toceiling walls of windows.

After putting $600,000 of updates in, the owners of 6316 Orchid Lane trusted Jill Long to deliver a sale. The home’s amenities include the home theater added to the game room.

Shirley Cohn recently brought an Oscar Ponder home to market and it quickly changed hands. The beauty of 6120 Mimosa Lane stretches into the backyard, where a pool awaits.

The firm’s agents often represent both sides of a deal, which is what happened at 6635 Green Knoll Drive. Alex Perry listed the new construction and Eric Narosov brought the buyer.

Call to connect with an expert agent: https://www.alliebeth.com/associates/int

DAVE PERRY-MILLER REAL ESTATE

Listing Voted Winner in 2022 HGTV Ultimate House Hunt

A Dave Perry-Miller real estate agent and her extraordinary listing now have the “ultimate” bragging rights - Winner! 1517 E. Levee St., represented by Henda Salmeron, was recently declared the winner of the 2022 HGTV Ultimate House Hunt - Amazing Kitchens category. More than 1.1 million votes were cast to determine the winners among 77 finalists in eight categories.

Once a warehouse, this urban kitchen in Dallas’ Design District features a high, steel-beam ceiling, a massive island with a butcher-block countertop and barstool seating, Wolf, Sub-Zero and Asko appliances and antique industrial pendants. Windows in the original, exposed-brick walls provide a view of the riverfront.

Offered at $4,500,000, this converted warehouse is a rare opportunity to be in the creative heartbeat of the city with exceptional rooftop views. To schedule a showing, contact Henda Salmeron at 214991-2237 or henda@daveperrymiller.com.

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate (dpmre. com) is a division of the Ebby Halliday Companies, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, with four locations that specialize in Preston Hollow, Park Cities, North Dallas, Lakewood, East Dallas, West Dallas, Uptown and Kessler Park.

ALLIE BETH ALLMAN What’s New in University Park

And just like that, the new school year has started. If you’re thinking about a new home this school year, University Park definitely is your destination.

Allie Beth Allman & Associates leads in sales in this neighborhood, and its agents have beautiful listings to share.

At 3320 Westminster Ave., a classic home is fit for foodies and avid entertainers. Behind the brick façade, buyers will find a kitchen with a Viking gas cooktop, Dacor double ovens, a warming drawer, and a butler’s pantry with a beverage fridge and icemaker.

A circa-1971 residence with timeless charm has just hit the market at 4044 Hanover St. The home welcomes you with a horseshoe driveway for convenient comings and goings, and then opens into a perfect layout. Flowing past the formal dining and living rooms, you land at a bright family room open to the kitchen and breakfast nook.

You’ll find high ceilings, sleek design touches and open spaces perfect for displaying artwork at 3543 Northwest Parkway. This home is surrounded by soaring trees, heightening the property’s relaxing ambiance.

Allie Beth Allman & Associates sells more in Highland Park and University Park than any other brokerage, according to the Multiple Listing Service.