Stephan Pyles to Open New Restaurant in Uptown

Posted on November 7th, 2011 2:19pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Celebrity Chefs, Restaurant News

Yes, it’s true. Stephan Pyles is developing a new restaurant in the 17Seventeen McKinney office tower. “I’m doing a “Modern Texas” concept,” Pyles said. “I’m not doing another Star Canyon, but it will have a little of that feeling.” The opening of the almost 7,500 square foot restaurant is set for Spring 2012. So far Pyles has not settled on a name! Let’s make it a game! Name Stephan’s new restaurant! I’m going with Suburban Cowboy. Or maybe, Dallas by Stephan Pyles.

UPPITY DATE: From Stephan Pyles: “I wanted to offer dinner for 4 for the person who names it.” BONUS!

68 comments

  1. how about Urban Cowboy

    @ 3:12 pm on November 7, 2011

  2. [...] Nancy Nichols reports over at SideDish, Dallas chef Stephan Pyles will open his third restaurant next spring on the ground floor of [...]

    @ 3:26 pm on November 7, 2011

  3. Moderno or Moderno 17

    @ 3:35 pm on November 7, 2011

  4. OH YEH !!! Another S.P. concept that will serve mediocre food. Will Dallas ever learn?

    @ 3:50 pm on November 7, 2011

  5. PFC Gomer Pyles?

    @ 3:51 pm on November 7, 2011

  6. How about naming the new restaurant Pyles of S**t. Sorry, but a bad taste remains from years ago.

    I loved Stephan’s Routh Street Cafe back in the day, so when d’Artagnan — er, Star Canyon — first opened in ’94 or ’95, I had after-dinner drinks there following a play at the DTC. The restaurant was new and full of buzz, packed every night. My date and I both ordered a Rémy Martin with a coffee back and settled into a discussion of Chekov. Lost in conversation, we had a second round and then asked for the check. Oh, my. It was $130.00. Turns out we were drinking Rémy XO. I queried the bartender, who said that’s what they pour. I told him that even the Mansion on Turtle Creek doesn’t pour XO unless requested, and that I should have been informed when ordering. In fact, while still there I phoned a bartender friend at the Mansion and asked what they pour when someone orders Rémy without specifying. “VSOP,” he said, “but we of course offer the higher grades.”

    Exactly.

    I paid and tipped pleasantly enough. No true Dallasite wants to appear cheap, and I certainly appreciated that Stephan’s joint didn’t deign to offer the lowest level Rémy, the VS. I’d have been unimpressed if they did. But still, pouring XO as the well Rémy and not telling the customer seemed like a money grab to me.

    Oh, well. Lesson learned.

    @ 4:27 pm on November 7, 2011

  7. I wanted to offer dinner for 4 for the person who names it. I guess @WTH will probably not want to particpate.

    @ 5:06 pm on November 7, 2011

  8. I love Stephen Pyles. It is the best and well worth the money and in my case the drive!

    @ 6:01 pm on November 7, 2011

  9. “TexTex” – people think of dallas’ food culture as “TexMex”, but this seems to be about modern texan and showing other influences. thus, “TexTex”

    @ 6:19 pm on November 7, 2011

  10. What about SpindleTop after the first major oil well in TX, Oak Room or Millennium?

    @ 6:25 pm on November 7, 2011

  11. How about “Tex Next”

    @ 6:35 pm on November 7, 2011

  12. How about: Tejas by Stephen Pyles? Feels rootsy, simple, and classic while juxtaposed with the modern idea. I sound fancy!

    @ 6:51 pm on November 7, 2011

  13. Cactus.

    @ 6:53 pm on November 7, 2011

  14. Can Stephan tell us anything other than “Modern Texas” as we ponder a name? Meanwhile, I’ll pour a little liquid inspiration.

    @ 7:06 pm on November 7, 2011

  15. Modern Cowboy?

    @ 7:09 pm on November 7, 2011

  16. Substance.

    Clean, Simple, and Modern.

    @ 7:10 pm on November 7, 2011

  17. Dallasite.

    @ 7:24 pm on November 7, 2011

  18. Or “The Dallasite.”

    @ 7:30 pm on November 7, 2011

  19. Blue Lacy.

    Blue Lacy is the state dog of Texas and if you read anything about this breed it is a pretty fly dog.

    @ 7:39 pm on November 7, 2011

  20. Republic? Vaquero?

    @ 7:52 pm on November 7, 2011

  21. I like Dallas by Stepwn Pyles!! County line? Uptown Cowboy?

    @ 8:07 pm on November 7, 2011

  22. Heritage

    @ 8:18 pm on November 7, 2011

  23. I’ve got a few goodies:
    Front Burner
    Neoteric
    Epoch

    @ 8:21 pm on November 7, 2011

  24. Bolo

    @ 9:19 pm on November 7, 2011

  25. MAXINES

    @ 9:35 pm on November 7, 2011

  26. Uptown Cowboy
    Cowboy Reunion
    Canyon Pass

    @ 10:08 pm on November 7, 2011

  27. Sage, as in the “sage in bloom,” and the spice, and the adjective.

    @ 10:14 pm on November 7, 2011

  28. Pioneer. Or just name it “Texas” and you’ll have the perfect ad tagline: Davy Crockett’s “You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas.” Har.

    @ 10:17 pm on November 7, 2011

  29. How about District Clerk seeing as the largest family law firm in Dallas is in the same building….hmmm dinner and divorce?

    @ 10:53 pm on November 7, 2011

  30. How about Southern Grace or Spur17 by Stephen Pyles?

    @ 7:58 am on November 8, 2011

  31. Cicada
    Dieciseis or Sixteen at 17Seventeen (if I count right this is his 16th restaurant)
    Conquest

    or what the heck – New Texas – he invented it right ? :-)

    @ 8:35 am on November 8, 2011

  32. I have always liked the name “Up” for a restaurant. Just throwin it out there.

    @ 8:38 am on November 8, 2011

  33. @Jackson – You hold a 15+ year grudge over an expensive round of drinks?

    And the whole “a discussion of Chekov” thing is just giving me the awesome image of two people wearing black turtlenecks and thinking quite highly of themselves before returning home to watch the new episode of Friends.

    Glad to know that Dallas was Dallas even back then.

    @ 9:05 am on November 8, 2011

  34. How about:

    Balcones, named after the Balcones Escarpment

    Heart of Texas (H.O.T) by S. Pyles

    28th (Texas is the 28th state)

    @ 11:43 am on November 8, 2011

  35. @bc ~ Love your retort! And, I love Stephen Pyles’ restaurants as well. I always have.
    Just call it, “Steve’s”. Of course he won’t but, all the good names have already been mentioned above.

    @ 12:24 pm on November 8, 2011

  36. My 2 cents:

    “Sabor” (or “El Sabor”) (“Flavor” in Spanish)

    “Pyles’ on McKinney”

    or, just good ole “Pyles”

    Whatever the name, I’ll be thrilled to experience it!

    and to Jackson: I love how you’ve boycotted/blamed SP for the misdeed of another person. If indeed it went down the way you said it did, then blame the bartender for being greedy and padding the tab. Also, anyone who points out they’re a “true Dallasite”, isn’t.

    @ 1:47 pm on November 8, 2011

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    @ 2:31 pm on November 8, 2011

  38. 28, The Pueblo or Sabrosos (tasty in Spanish). Also LOVE @Infidel_kastro’s suggestion, H.O.T. by Stephen Pyles.

    @ 2:35 pm on November 8, 2011

  39. Call it SADDLE

    @ 3:07 pm on November 8, 2011

  40. Today’s Texas

    Today in Texas

    1836 (TX was independent)

    TX 1836

    Stephen Pyles’ Texas

    @ 4:55 pm on November 8, 2011

  41. @lauren, amen sister!!

    @ 9:33 pm on November 8, 2011

  42. @bc, I hold no grudge toward Pyles over “an expensive round of drinks.” I love an expensive round of drinks…when I know it’s what I’m doing. Even the four Rémy’s I THOUGHT I was paying for (VSOP) cost $12-15 apiece in the mid 90s, so I wasn’t slumming that night. I thought I explained the particulars in my earlier comment, about how they shamelessly poured the XO without saying, when even the Mansion didn’t do that at the time. Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough.

    And I have no comment on your antipathy toward those who see a Chekov play and then have drinks afterwards to talk about it. Believe me, it precedes the TV show “Friends” by literally a hundred years.

    @ 2:20 am on November 9, 2011

  43. @Jackson, perhaps in 17 years your palate has become more discriminating as to perceive the nuances of Cognacs without being told the price.

    @ 8:08 am on November 9, 2011

  44. Clementine

    @ 1:35 pm on November 9, 2011

  45. Cracking up at the retorts to Jackson. haha… Nancy, can’t you get your webguys to do a thing-a-ma-jij on here that will send you a notice when comments are posted after yours? I’ve wanted this for years, so I can get back to work and not have to come check back for other comments. Or am I so lame I’ve missed that nugget somewhere? I’ll check back for your answer…

    @ 2:29 pm on November 9, 2011

  46. @Avid Eater, You’re right. Rémy XO is smoother than VSOP, but VSOP and XO are far closer in smoothness than VS is to VSOP. My palate would have noticed the harshness of VS, but without paying much attention, the drinks tasted fine. Much better, in fact, once I got the check!!

    The point is simply this: If you go to a place that’s moderately expensive but not the exclusive purview of the super-wealthy, and your date orders, say, champagne by the glass, you wouldn’t be wrong in getting your nose a bit out of joint upon finding out — after the fact — that the bartender was pouring Dom Pérignon and didn’t bother to note it up front. Again, even the Mansion didn’t pull that game, and nor did the Riviera, to cite just two examples of places whose élan greatly exceeded Star Canyon. Both poured VSOP by default unless something better was requested. Which reminds me, I don’t even think Stephan’s earlier restaurant, Routh Street Cafe, poured XO as its house Rémy, and Routh made Star Canyon seem like the Dixie House.

    @ 3:12 pm on November 9, 2011

  47. Alamo’d

    lol

    @ 4:02 pm on November 9, 2011

  48. How about naming it after Texas’ founding father, which also adds a twist/play to your own name: “Stephen F’s”

    @ 4:43 pm on November 9, 2011

  49. We get your point, Jackson. We get your point, Jackson. We get your point, Jackson.

    @ 7:30 pm on November 9, 2011

  50. DAMN Jackson, you are one debonair dude!

    @ 10:37 pm on November 9, 2011

  51. I don’t get why all the commenters — ringers, maybe — are defending the idea of a restaurant, any restaurant, pouring Rémy XO as the undefined house Rémy and not telling the patron, when not even the fanciest joints in town do such a thing. I’m getting jumped on for making that correct point. I think Stephan’s people are loading up on comments, bless their hearts.

    I’m still right. It is bad taste to do such a thing, and we all know it.

    @ 12:20 am on November 10, 2011

  52. Yes, Jackson… the point is WE GOT IT! I don’t think there are any ringers on here… it’s just the way you are coming off.. it’s honestly not that big of a deal. And it was something that happened IN THE NINETIES. Time to get over it! It was by a bartender. In the nineties.

    @ 4:33 pm on November 10, 2011

  53. Nancy… really, where is that button?

    @ 4:33 pm on November 10, 2011

  54. how about SCAMMMED

    @ 4:35 pm on November 10, 2011

  55. Maybe he’s learned to ask. Maybe he could have called the next day to talk to mgmt. I’ve surely had to do it at Avner’s before. But I’ve gotten over it. Surely not fussing over it endlessly 15+ years later on an innocuous blog about a naming of said chefs next restaurant.

    @ 5:11 pm on November 10, 2011

  56. Oil Baron Bistro

    @ 12:43 pm on November 12, 2011

  57. Independence or Open Spaces.

    @ 4:22 pm on November 14, 2011

  58. Lone Star by Stephan Pyles

    @ 9:18 am on November 15, 2011

  59. Republic or The Republic

    @ 9:59 am on November 15, 2011

  60. Monarch

    @ 11:42 am on November 15, 2011

  61. Diez y Siete

    Toro y Gato

    Black Gold

    West Branch

    Clear Creek

    @ 11:52 am on November 15, 2011

  62. Resolution by Stephan Pyles

    Smolder by Stephan Pyles

    17Seventeen by Stephan Pyles

    @ 1:01 pm on November 15, 2011

  63. Reunion Canyon
    Aqua Spur
    High Saddle

    @ 6:28 pm on November 15, 2011

  64. Urban Midnight Cowboy, $tephan’$, Casa de Narciso

    @ 9:12 pm on November 15, 2011

  65. Call it ESTRELLA 5

    @ 1:21 pm on November 16, 2011

  66. How about Blue Topaz – the state gem – represents Texas but could be marketed with a nice sleek look.

    @ 3:11 pm on November 16, 2011

  67. This is the sort of contest that makes every marketing person excited yet cringe at the idea of branding via crowdsourcing. But I will play…

    Rio Verde
    SP
    LaVaca
    FM 1717 (or since 1717 was a named restaurant choose a number significant to you)
    Larkspur
    Stonecrop
    Presidio

    @ 4:04 pm on November 16, 2011

  68. It could be called:

    5 Points by Stephan Pyles

    The Texas star has 5 points on it and it could be used in the logo for the restaurant!

    @ 3:03 pm on November 17, 2011