{"id":50754,"date":"2025-07-09T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50754\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:57:08","slug":"dallas-tex-mex-texano-cocina-opens-in-former-el-fenix-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50754\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Tex-Mex Texano Cocina opens in former El Fenix space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meatballs are about to land: <a href=\"https:\/\/locations.thesicilianbutcher.com\/tx\/dallas\/dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Sicilian Butcher<\/a>, the modern-casual restaurant known for meatballs, house-made pastas, and butchery-inspired Italian fare, has circled a date for the opening of its Addison-adjacent location in North Dallas at 5225 Belt Line Rd. #240, and the date is: August 7.<\/p>\n<p>This marks their second Texas restaurant following the smashing <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/sicilian-butcher-meatballs-cannoli-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">debut<\/a> of its Fort Worth location in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Sicilian Butcher was founded in Arizona in 2017 by award-winning Chef Joey Maggiore, and is popular for its build-your-own meal experience featuring gourmet meatballs and Sicilian-style bruschetta boards \u2014 alongside The Sicilian Baker, an Italian bakery attached to each Butcher location, which has its own innovative build-your-own cannoli bar experience.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of the Maggiore Group, an Italian family-owned hospitality company that also includes concepts such as Hash Kitchen, The Mexicano, and The Italiano, which partnered with the Savory Fund in 2021 to expand the brand into neighboring states.<\/p>\n<p>The North Dallas location will feature signature offerings including Chef Joey\u2019s dishes, build-your-own pastas, Sicilian family platters, bruschetta boards, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Other enticing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesicilianbutcher.com\/menus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">menu<\/a> items include<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>char-grilled artichokes<\/li>\n<li>Neapolitan-style pizza<\/li>\n<li>piadina \u2014 sandwiches, including chicken parm and eggplant parm, served on a thin, rustic Italian bread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They have all kinds of meatballs \u2014 Sicilian, sausage, eggplant \u2014 which you can order solo or in a variety, served on a meatball &#8220;wheel.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Salads include a Caesar, chopped, and a &#8220;Sicilian wedge&#8221; with iceberg, pickled fennel, tomato, crispy prosciutto, with creamy dolce gorgonzola and smoked bacon dressing. Pastas include pappardelle, tagliatelle, spaghetti, rigatoni, and gnocchi.<\/p>\n<p>Like their other locations including Fort Worth, the restaurant will also house a location of <a href=\"http:\/\/thesicilianbaker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Sicilian Baker<\/a>, which features a build-your-own cannoli bar, authentic Sicilian cannoli, rotating gelato flavors, and Italian pastry classics such as lobster tails and sfogliatelle, and espresso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so excited to bring a taste of Sicily to Dallas,\u201d Maggiore says in a statement. \u201cFrom our amazing house-made pastas and signature craft meatballs to our Build Your Own Cannoli Bar, we can\u2019t wait to welcome guests into our kitchen and show them what true Sicilian hospitality is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Dallas will be the fifth location across the Southwest, with a third Texas location set to open in San Antonio later this year. Hash Kitchen is also flourishing, with 10 locations across the Southwest, including Fort Worth and Pearland, both of which opened in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The meatballs are about to land: The Sicilian Butcher, the modern-casual restaurant known for meatballs, house-made pastas, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,10084,9064,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-50754","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-tex-mex","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114821978128173045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50754","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=50754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}