09 Feb 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments
Historic Restaurants: Your Duck Confit Sunday Salvation?
Restaurant trends are often nothing to write home about. Remember when it was chic to perch flavored foams atop every other course (a gift from the chef, or his salivating dog?). Right. But one trend that’s great to see more of these days is the interest in revitalizing old building to make truly unique homes for restaurants. Fine, there may be some spin-off here from the hipster food movement, a world that is entirely too cool to sustain my interest for very long. But that’s just fine if it means a vintage Fort Worth gas station that surely would have seen its demise is re-envisioned as a one of the best new restaurants in town. Even better when that Bosc pear and arugula salad with a Champagne vinaigrette at Ellerbe is dressed up with blue cheese from local cheesemaker Brazos Valley Cheese Co. A local building saved in order to serve primarily locally-sourced ingredients. The double espresso of historic preservation.
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