Dallas can say goodbye to the idea of the rotating restaurant. Kitchen LTO will now become Junction Craft Kitchen and will open on May 4 in the old Kitchen LTO space in Deep Ellum, at 2901 Elm St.
Casie Caldwell and chef Josh Harmon have partnered to open the new restaurant serving dinner and weekend brunch. Kitchen LTO was in its seventh iteration with Caldwell's seasoned front-of-house team supporting chef Harmon. The collaboration worked so well that they decided to make it a permanent thing, Caldwell says. "I knew in the first week of opening Deep Ellum that I wanted to find a way to help Josh have a permanent restaurant space when he left LTO," she says in a release. "We decided to keep this great location and bid farewell to LTO. Junction Craft Kitchen was then born." Capturing Harmon's love of Southern and Asian cooking, Junction Craft Kitchen will serve many of the dishes that were served at Kitchen LTO. We are talking Brussels sprouts with fish sauce caramel, hot fried chicken, and Korean sticky duck leg. New dishes include Korean braised beef, boudin po bao, and family-style miso pork belly with steamed buns. An arugula salad sounds good with radish, peanut butter Ritz, peas, and peri peri. There's a poached carrot dish with an elaborate retinue that includes whey and koji, carrot top kosho, and dehydrated okra. For full Culture Map Article CLICK HERE
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Many of us just stopped driving down Lower Greenville in 2016. More than a year of construction work to improve the pocked roads made it a traffic nightmare that was best avoided. More and more drivers headed to Skillman or Ross to skip the headache.
“We’ve heard so many neighbors say that,” says Sammy Mandell, owner of Greenville Avenue Pizza Company (GAP Co.). As a member of the Lowest Greenville Collective, Mandell helped create “Experience Lowest Greenville,” a day of events this Saturday meant to showcase the street and its businesses in a new way. More than 20 neighborhood spots will be offering unique experiences, and the best part is, most of them are free. Want to screen print your own shirt? Head to Bullzerk. Got a sweet tooth? Katherine Clapner of Dude Sweet Chocolate will host chocolate pairings while talking treats during three classes throughout the day (noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.). “We wanted to do something totally different, some that gave people an experience,” Mandell says. “With most of these, the owner themselves will be doing the experience. That’s really rare, to get to learn from Brooks [Anderson] from Rapscallion or Katherine [Clapner] over at Dude Sweet.” Some classes, like learning to shuck oysters with Anderson, do have a fee attached ($50 which includes seven oysters, a shucking knife, gloves and a drink). Many also are limited to a certain number of participants, so registration is required to secure your spot. Events will take place from 8 a.m Saturday till 2 a.m. on Sunday (see the full schedule here, including how to sign up for selective classes). For full Advocate Article CLICK HERE CONTAINER GARDENING WORKSHOP Saturday, April 8, 2017 • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park - Grand Hall 3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard - Dallas, TX 75210 Looking to add a little color or texture to your front entry or back patio? Container gardens can be a great way to give a little curb appeal or jazz up a back patio. This workshop teaches how to prepare and install a container garden. You will learn how to prepare the container, prepare the soil, and install a well-planned mix of annuals, perennials, and other colorful foliage plants. BONUS: After the workshop attendees can visit the Texas Discovery Gardens Butterfly Plant Sale. Rare native pollinator-friendly plants will be available for sale. Many are hard to find in local nurseries! The plant goes from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. No-cost Parking is available through Gate 6 of Fair Park (off of Robert B. Cullum Boulevard). Paula Spletter, with North Haven Gardens (and a Dallas County Master Gardener) will be the presenter. Make a reservation Click here to register for the Container Gardening Workshop or call us at (214) 670-3155. Workshop sponsored by City of Dallas Water Conservation, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas Discovery Gardens. If you like the Dallas Farmers Market, you’re sure to love The Boho Market — a unique event where visitors can shop a handful of the best specialty vendors alongside all the usual suspects. This special Farmers Market addition will offer a fun, complimentary photo booth, shopping, music, games, food, and drinks. Please bring a new or gently used book benefiting The Boho Book House.
Where Dallas Farmers Market The Shed, an open-air pavilion 920 S Harwood St. When Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26 10 am-5 pm To know Admission is complimentary and open to the public Parking is complimentary Post compliments of Culture Map Retail closed but biweekly Co-Op starts 3/9!
Our retail store is no longer open but because we have short term access to our space at 3614 Greenville Ave (using the kitchen to make our amazing bone broth), we are offering a bi-weekly local pick up CoOp for some of our favorite items (like our addictive chicken meatballs, granola, bone broth, elderberry syrup, meats and more)! Click here to browse our online store, place your orders by Saturday 3/5 5pm and pick up all orders Thursday 3/9 430-630pm. Order and pick up times are strict so don't be late! We hope y'all order with us so we can see your happy faces next week. We would love to see you! What else is happening... Many of you have become fans of our Green Grocer Bone Broth and our Cassie Green Health Elderberry Syrup. These two delicious and immuno-supportive products are sold online as well as in several DFW area stores (and we can ship broth as well nationwide). Check the links for "Where to Buy" pages coming soon. We will continue our Bi-Weekly Meat Share program (still pickup at the Greenville Ave location every other Thursday 430-630pm until further notice). Please follow up on Facebook or Instagram (as well as this newsletter) in order to keep updated on that program. The Bath House Cultural Center. Photo by Danny Fulgencio It was a labor of pure lake love, and about $200,000 in donations, that built the White Rock Lake Museum in 2004. But this month, without any discussion with the people who built it, the City of Dallas handed the museum an eviction notice giving the group 60 days to vacate the Bath House Cultural Center.
“It took a community to build this museum; it’s going to take a community to save it,” says Kurt Kretsinger, president of the museum board. Why exactly the museum was given an eviction notice remains murky. Marty Van Kleeck, who manages the center, referred questions to David Fisher at the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, which oversees the building. After agreeing to an interview, Fisher didn’t answer his phone when the Advocate called. But in an email to Kretsinger, which included the eviction notice, Fisher wrote: “Text-based, static, interpretive exhibits are just not efficient uses of space anymore. After more than a decade, we feel the museum has lived its useful life. In addition, the number one resource we hear that is needed by the cultural community is more gallery space for emerging artists. Hence, we are requesting that you remove the museum panels so that we can replace them with an emerging artist space. This helps the Bath House and Office of Cultural Affairs further their missions of supporting the arts and artists in Dallas.” To read the full Advocate article CLICK HERE. Beginning March 1, it will be illegal to smoke in Dallas' public parks. But not all of them. And not all of the time.
The City Council voted Wednesday morning to approve a smoking ban with exceptions made for municipal golf courses, the city-owned gun-and-archery range and parks controlled by private partners. Those include the Dallas Zoo, the Dallas Arboretum, Lee Park and Fair Park during the State Fair of Texas. And a last-minute amendment also made it possible to light up in the future park beneath the Trinity River levees, to be funded with $50 million donated by the family of Harold Simmons. The vote was close, with six council members supporting a full-on ban. Mayor Mike Rawlings, a former Park and Recreation Board president who said in June that he supported a partial ban, is out of the country on a trade mission. The ban will be added to the 2008 ordinance outlawing smoking in, among other places, Dallas' bars, restaurants and city-owned facilities. Anyone caught violating the ordinance could be fined up to $200 — though, as northwest Dallas council representative Jennifer Staubach Gates pointed out Wednesday morning, enforcement could be difficult. The council was set to vote on a ban without exceptions. But Pleasant Grove's Rickey Callahan proposed an amendment leaving room for muni golf courses, the Elm Fork Shooting Sports facility and other parks with contracted operators. Callahan said he was proposing the amendment because he's "concerned about hyper-regulation" and "creating more rules." He found a supporter in North Dallas' Lee Kleinman, who said, "Over-regulation is a concern of mine," adding that he wasn't interested in trying to serve "a health agenda or social agenda." Kleinman also added another amendment, which said the ban was limited only to land defined as a city park. To read the full Dallas Morning News article CLICK HERE. Is the Dallas City Council's vote to reorganize Park Board leadership just a way to put Fair Park in the State Fair's pocket?On paper, it looks like a simple reassignment of duties. Item number 18 on this week’s Dallas City Council agenda calls for a “consideration of appointments to boards and commissions and the evaluation of duties of board and commission members.” But between the lines of the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo, the agenda item represents nothing less than a hatchet job.
First, let’s translate it into plain English. Tomorrow the City Council will decide whether Dallas Park and Recreation Board Vice Chair Jesse Moreno should remain vice chair, or if Sean Johnson, another board member with professional connections to the State Fair of Texas, should assume the position. The timing is significant. Two weeks ago, Moreno and Johnson locked horns in a park board meeting over the State Fair of Texas. Officials from the State Fair were invited to City Hall on January 26 to give a presentation of “highlights” from last year’s event. Some park board members wanted to use the visit as an opportunity to ask fair officials some tough questions, particularly relating to findings of a city audit that questioned whether the State Fair was adequately fulfilling its contractual obligations as a tenant of Fair Park. When city staff told the board that the agenda item only allowed for the State Fair to present “highlights,” and not to be questioned by the board, Moreno slipped a second item onto the agenda that would allow for an open discussion of the State Fair. However, after the State Fair made their presentation and the open conversation began, the fair officials split. They just left. No conversation. Jim Schutze covers the whole thing here. Schutze was in the park board meeting room at the time, which is good because I was watching the meeting online and just when the juicy part of the back-and-forth kicked in, the sound on the live feed mysteriously dropped out. Schutze reports that Johnson went to bat for the State Fair, calling his colleagues’ attempts to grill the State Fair officials during the briefing “embarrassing.” To read the full D Magazine article CLICK HERE. |
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