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New restaurant fires up rotisserie chicken trend in Southlake

Redrock Canyon Grill puts rotisserie chicken on a pedestal.

Photo courtesy of Redrock Canyon Grill

The incipient rotisserie chicken trend will hit Southlake in early 2016 with the arrival of the first Texas branch of Redrock Canyon Grill. This Oklahoma-based restaurant chain specializes in rotisserie chicken and Southwestern food. A company spokesman said the restaurant would open in late February or early March.

The first Redrock Canyon Grill opened in 1999. There are currently three branches in Tulsa; Oklahoma City; and Wichita, Kansas. Redrock is part of the Hal Smith Restaurant Group, which owns a wide-ranging lineup of casual to upscale restaurant concepts. Its flagship restaurant is Charleston's Restaurant, with more than 16 locations, primarily in the Midwest, including one in Fort Worth.

HSRG also operates about a dozen other eateries under such names as Mahogany Prime Steakhouse, Upper Crust Wood Fired Pizza, Hefner Grill, Mama Roja, Louie's, The Garage, Toby Keith's, KD’s Southern Cuisine, Pub W, and Big Dog Daddy’s Ice House.

Redrock observes a certain economy to its menu, with recurring ingredients. The main thing is rotisserie chicken, served with redskin mashed potatoes and sweet glazed carrots. Everything comes with redskin mashed potatoes and sweet glazed carrots. You can get rotisserie chicken solo or in pairings with beef tenderloin or St. Louis barbecue ribs.

Salads include a Texas "Chop House" rotisserie chicken salad and an emerald kale salad with rotisserie chicken. Starters include the "famous" iron-skillet cornbread for $7. Huh, Black Eyed Pea and Dixie House serve cornbread for free. However, they do not serve theirs in a wee iron skillet.

Other Redrock entrees include meatloaf, chicken enchiladas, those St. Louis barbecue ribs, pork chops, a vegetable platter with couscous, sliced tenderloin, ribeye steak, and smoked salmon. Prices run from $15-$30. And in exciting news, there is brunch, with a slightly expanded menu that also includes an omelet and a quiche.

Redrock describes its atmosphere as "hacienda-style," accented with stone-cut walls, deep mahogany beams, and an open kitchen. It's going into a new-ish shopping strip center in Southlake that also includes a BJ's Brewhouse and the PGA Tour superstore.

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Doughnut News

Luscious doughnut shop Duck Donuts makes Fort Worth debut

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A decadent new doughnut shop is coming to Fort Worth: Duck Donuts, a North Carolina-based chain known for serving doughnuts made to order, will open a shop at 6387 Camp Bowie Blvd. #A within the Ridglea Plaza Shopping Center in Fort Worth.

According to a release, the shop will open on Saturday December 21 at 7 am.

Duck Donuts opened its first locations in 2007 in the beach resort towns of Duck and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with the intention to create an oasis for vacationers. They're now headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and began franchising in 2013, with more than 150 locally owned and operated shops across 26 states and international locations. There was previously a DFW location in Addison on Belt Line Road that opened in 2020 but it did not survive the pandemic.

The Fort Worth shop is owned and operated by husband-and-wife Justin and Morgan Thomas.

“We are delighted to be opening in Fort Worth,” Justin says in a statement. “The community has been patiently waiting for us to open our doors, and now we cannot wait to sprinkle happiness to all with our warm, delicious and made-to-order doubhnuts.”

The 1,035-square-foot shop reflects the franchise’s reimagined design which gives a modern twist on their iconic beach theme and family-friendly atmosphere. Upon entering the store, customers are greeted by the aroma of warm, light vanilla cake doughnuts.

Customers can create their own combination by choosing from coatings, toppings, and drizzles, including traditional favorites such as chocolate icing with sprinkles and more adventurous creations such as maple icing with bacon.

Key to their appeal is the viewing area where children and adults alike can watch their doughnuts being made.

Many of their flavors have a beachy theme such as the Beach, a cake doughnut with vanilla icing dusted with cinnamon sugar; the Sunrise with lemon icing and raspberry drizzle; and the Beach Ball with vanilla icing, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle.

They rotate in seasonal offerings such as the current lineup of mint-flavored flavors including chocolate icing with mint buttercream. The doughnuts themselves are limited to vanilla and chocolate cake; the flavors come primarily from icing.

In addition to doughnuts, the Fort Worth location will serve coffee, doughnut breakfast sandwiches, doughnut sundaes — in which a doughnut is topped with ice cream and syrup — plus frozen beverages and milkshakes.

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