Owners of Oak and Pakpao to open Mexican restaurant in Design District
Another restaurant is planned for the Design District in Dallas: a Mexican place from the group that runs neighboring Design District restaurants Oak (fine dining) and Pakpao (Thai).
Why Mexican, I asked? “We have a passion for the cuisine and love the opportunity to explore the country’s regional and authentic flavors,” said restaurateur Tiffanee Ellman, of Apheleia Restaurant Group, via email.
The restaurant will be called El Bolero and is slated to open in early 2015. The chef will be Hugo Galvan, who Ellman says is from San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, and has personal experience creating a Mexican food menu. He more recently owned Cafe San Miguel, which closed in late 2011 on Henderson Avenue.
And why the Design District? Why not seemed to be a fair answer: If anything, the Design District is getting hotter, with in-the-works restaurants on their way from Nick Badovinus (he of Neighborhood Services, Off-Site Kitchen) and Shannon Wynne (Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, Bird Cafe, Rodeo Goat and Design District restaurant Meddlesome Moth, to name a few). A Primo’s Tex-Mex Grille is also coming soon.
Examples of menu items at El Bolero were not available.
In the GrassRoots building at 1201 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas. elboleromexican.com. Expected to open in early 2015.