Restaurants America Strikes Again: Central Standard to Open in The Dallas Design District

Posted on May 18th, 2012 3:04pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Bad Names For Restaurants List, Keep Dallas Douchey!, Openings/Closings, restaurant business news, Restaurant News


Team, I mean Restaurants America has landed in Dallas and is now spreading their mighty wings across the city. The multi-concept restaurant company operates seven brands and about 20 restaurants in Illinois, Texas, and Florida. In Dallas, they operate Primebar in Uptown, Townhouse Kitchen + Bar in North Dallas, and the soon-to-open Park Tavern across from Bailey’s Prime Plus on Park Lane. (Avner Samuel has confirmed he will not be the chef at any of these restaurants.) Recently, RA leased the space formerly known as Vapiano in Mockingbird Station. (I have it on good authority that concept will not be called Nosh Euro Bistro. I can’t confirm that Cafe Med has been ruled out. However, Mockingbird Taproom seems to be on the leader board.)

Today comes word: Restaurant America is putting a gastro sports pub in the Design District. It will be called Central Standard. Note to RA: you should have called the restaurant in Mockingbird Station Central Standard, IJS. No matter what they call it, the space is located in the ground floor of 1400 Hi Line, a 23-story, 314-unit multifamily project that is expected to open this summer and be completed in early 2013. Central Standard is expected to open in Fall 2012.

The press release says nothing about the food. Which begs the question: what is a gastro sport? Followed by:  what is gastro sports food? Balls? Wings? Ducks? Oh the possibilities are endless.

7 comments

  1. Gastro Pub is just the trendy way of saying Barf ood, … er uh, I mean Bar Food. A Gastro Sport, on the other hand sounds like something you and your roommates might engage in after drinking wheat beer and bad Mexican food all night.

    @ 3:25 pm on May 18, 2012

  2. I like that.

    @ 3:29 pm on May 18, 2012

  3. Was on my way to Off-site Kitchen today and noticed a new joint on Riverside Drive, called something Bistro… Anyone know anything? It’s a wee bit East of Lost/Found on the South side.

    @ 5:05 pm on May 18, 2012

  4. Avner line is great.

    @ 5:26 pm on May 18, 2012

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