{"id":206220,"date":"2025-09-06T23:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206220\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:45:44","slug":"restaurant-in-dallas-design-district-to-do-korean-omakase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206220\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant in Dallas Design District to do Korean omakase"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fabulously over-the-top bakery and boutique has debuted in historic downtown McKinney: Called Pinkitzel<\/a>, it’s a bakery, candy shop, and gift boutique now open at 101 W. Louisiana St., taking over a space that was previously Homeology.<\/p>\n

Pinkitzel is from husband-and-wife Jonathan and Christa Jantz, who founded the concept in 2010 with their first location in Oklahoma City. Their goal was to create a place for families, couples, and children to enjoy sweet treats, including candy, cupcakes, truffles, cake balls, ice cream, and macarons.<\/p>\n

They make their own cakes and cupcakes \u2014 there’s a kitchen on-site \u2014 in flavors such as carrot cake, wedding almond, cotton candy, and trendy Dubai pistachio chocolate bar, each decorated to the nines with color-coordinated frosting, sprinkles, and nuts. Cakes come in two sizes, 5-inch petite for $40 and 8-inch for $100. Cupcakes are $6.<\/p>\n

\"Pinkitzel\"\/ PinkitzelLisa Petty<\/p>\n

There’s a section dedicated to bulk candy sold by the pound ($20 per pound) such as M&Ms, candy necklaces, salt water taffy in a dozen flavors, gourmet chocolates, and nostalgic old-time candy in boxes like Dots.<\/p>\n

Gift items include everything from trinkets to teapots to T-shirts. They also have an event space where they host private parties for kids (or adults).<\/p>\n

What puts Pinkitzel over the top is the fantastical design, thanks to Christa’s interior design training and Jonathan’s skills in art and graphics.<\/p>\n

“Think Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland, & Marie Antoinette,” Jonathan says.<\/p>\n

Enter and come face-to-face with a tower of oversized gold-leafed macaroons. Then, follow a trail of giant paper flower clusters to reveal countless whimsical portraits, done 18th-century style.<\/p>\n

The name \u2014 which combines two words: pink and kitzel which means “tickled” in Yiddish \u2014 is a tipoff to the color scheme: There are pink metal chairs, pink cherubs hanging on the wall, hot-pink picture frames, pink flowered curtains, cupcakes perched on pink pedestals, light fixtures adorned with pink roses, a magenta tufted velvet couch, and a pink Oriental-style rug on the floor.<\/p>\n

\"Pinkitzel\"\/ PinkitzelLisa Petty<\/p>\n

Expanding to Texas was a natural because they have local connections: Christa is a native of Texas, and their daughter is a Dallas resident.<\/p>\n

“We’ve loved shopping in downtown McKinney for several years and always thought a Pinkitzel would be a great fit,” Jonathan says. “When the spot opened up, our landlords loved our concept and it seemed like the perfect time to make it happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fabulously over-the-top bakery and boutique has debuted in historic downtown McKinney: Called Pinkitzel, it’s a bakery, candy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,10084,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-206220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-openings","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160018115253125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}