Suya News

Meaty new restaurant in Euless specializes in rare spicy Nigerian dish

Osuma Suya

Osuma Syua

A restaurant featuring Nigerian food is now open in Euless: Called Osuma Suya, it’s at 918 E. Harwood Rd. #B in Bear Creek Plaza, a small restaurant-centric center just west of 360, where it opened in April.

The restaurant is named for founder-owner Uchenna Osuma Onwualu, who started the restaurant in 2010 in Miami with business partner Max Paul. They opened their first location in Texas in McKinney in 2024; there’s also a location in Houston.

“My father told me that the best thing to do when starting this business was to honor my grandfather with that name,” Onwualu says. “We started in 2008; back then we used to appear at clubs, weddings, and hosted a few events, and the name took off from there.”

They specialize in suya, a Nigerian street food consisting of skewered and grilled meat, typically beef, that's been marinated in a spicy seasoning blend. Called "yaji," the blend contains ginger, cayenne pepper, garlic, onion, and ground peanuts, resulting in a flavor that is spicy and nutty, with smoky undertones. There are few African restaurants in DFW, and even fewer with a focus on suya.

Osuma offers the suya treatment on beef, lamb, goat, and chicken wings, as well as a suya burger, a suya taco, and the traditional presentation of suya with sliced onion and tomato. A pan of suya starts at $25.

Other dishes include beef shwarma and a catfish dish called point & grill BBQ fish, featuring a whole fish cooked directly on the grill then seasoned with BBQ sauce. There's also kilishi, a beef jerky coated in African spices, which they serve in grab-and-go bags.

Everything at the Euless location is take-out.

Onwualu is ambitious: In a TikTok video, he shares the restaurant's humble beginnings leading up to its expansion, which includes a location in the works in north Austin in the Tech Ridge area.

“This has been a journey that we’ve taken three years ago that we started in Dallas,” he says. “We’re happy to say this is finally it and that we’ve finally opened a south location in Euless.”

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Bagel News

New shop Branded Bagels in Northlake does it New York style

Branded

Branded Bagel

A bagel shop serving New York-style bagels has opened in Northlake: Called Branded Bagels, it’s an indie shop in a new-ish shopping center at 1242 FM 407 #300 in Northlake Commons, where it opened softly in May, with an official opening on July 10.

Branded Bagels was founded by couples Peter & Christie Wangoe, and Craig & Andrea Wilkinson, friends who were inspired to open a shop after taking a life-changing bagel tour in New York two years ago.

With Branded, their goal is to replicate a New York-style bagel with the contrast of a chewy inside and a crispy shell, and bring it to Texas.

“We went to New York several more times, got some recipes, came back, and built it from the ground up,” Christie says. “It probably took 75 recipes to get to the plain bagel recipe that we love. We’ve had people come from the East Coast and say it’s just like a New York bagel."

To achieve the desired texture, they use a multi-rack oven which steams, then bakes the bagels.

They serve 14 to 16 bagel varieties such as Sesame, Everything, Garlic, Onion, Poppyseed, Cinnamon Raisin, and Jalapeno Cheddar. They have more than a dozen cream cheese schmears, all made in house in creative varieties such as honey almond, sundried tomato, spicy bacon, and birthday cake.

They offer a weekly rotating flavor such as the Asiago bagel and a hot honey maple bacon schmear. Single bagels are $4; a dozen are $22.

The bagels can also be ordered in breakfast and lunch sandwiches such as bacon, egg & cheese; Caprese with pesto cream cheese schmear drizzled with Balsamic vinegar; and salmon lox, starting at $6. They also have hot and iced coffee, and soft serve ice cream.

Although it's a new venture, Christie says that she and Andrea always enjoyed being in the kitchen, trying new recipes, and cooking for family gatherings.

They chose to open in Northlake because of personal connections to the community and closeness to home. The space is rustic-chic, with gray brick counters and indoor and patio seating.

"We had a vision and it was a big leap of faith, but we wanted to serve the community in Northlake," Christie says.

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