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Sports bar from Dallas Stars owner to open at Northlake youth center

Menu at Shark Club will include burgers and beer.

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A Canadian sports bar from Canada is coming to Northlake: Called Shark Club Sports Bar and Grill, it will be part of a new youth sports center from the Dallas Stars hockey team, at 4819 SH 114 at the StarCenter Multisport, just north of Fort Worth, set to open by 2026.

Shark Club is from Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi and first opened in Vancouver, Canada in 1993. Gaglardi also co-owns both the restaurant chain Moxies and the new Craft Restaurant and Beer Market coming to Dallas' Preston Center.

The restaurant will be two stories and attached to the 225,000 indoor sports center.

Shark Club's menu features globally-inspired dishes such as shishito peppers and butter chicken, alongside classic American bar food such as chicken wings and burgers.

Other dishes include bowls, salads, pot roast, and weekend brunch featuring chicken & waffles and breakfast tacos. Prices range from $7 for a Caesar salad to $25 for a keg of nachos.

Inside, the restaurant is sports central with 40 TVs for watching games and two 20-foot media walls.

This will be only the second Shark Club restaurant to open in the U.S. The first opened in Plano at the Sandman Hotel in 2019.

The project for the combined sports center and restaurant initially broke ground in April 2024. When it's finished, the StarCenter will include eight basketball courts that can transform into 16 volleyball courts and two sheets of ice for hockey. This isn't the first location for a StarCenter — the ninth and latest one officially opened in Farmers Branch in January.

“We are excited that Tom Gaglardi, owner of the Stars, is going to bring one of these concepts, Shark Club, to this facility,” Dallas Stars CEO and President Brad Alberts said during a March 26 Alliance Development Forum.

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Chick-fil-A News

New Chick fil-A will open on far east side of Fort Worth

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The massively popular Chick-fil-A chain is opening a new restaurant in Fort Worth: According to a release, it'll be located at 1700 Eastchase Pkwy. at the intersection of I-30, practically clear to Arlington, where it will open on December 10.

The new location is from franchisee Carmenza Moreno, who owns one other Chick-fil-A location at North Collins Street. She first began working at Chick-fil-A in 1993 at the first freestanding Chick-fil-A west of the Mississippi, in Texas.

Chick-fil-A, Inc. is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the U.S. The family-owned and privately held company was founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy, who opened a small restaurant in Atlanta in 1946, before going on to open the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta's Greenbriar Shopping Center in 1967.

Texas has more than 460 locations, with approximately 140 in the DFW area.

They're known for their original fried Chicken Sandwich and iced tea. Other menu items include a grilled sandwich, nuggets, strips, a spicy chicken sandwich, nuggets, strips, chicken wraps, waffle fries, mac & cheese, kale, and chicken soup.

At breakfast, there's a Chicken Biscuit sandwich, hash brown scramble burrito, plus various bacon & egg or sausage & egg combos on biscuits or English muffins.

They're equally well known for their overflowing drive-thru lanes and their customers' intense loyalty. They also have a unique franchise model with local Owner-Operators in more than 3,000 restaurants across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

From a typography standpoint, they're a challenge, as the logo calls for a capital C, then a small f, then a capital A. Chick-fil-A.

The new location will open at 6 am on December 10 with a trademark dress-up: Guests who dress in cow attire can get one free entrée or kid’s meal inside the restaurant or in the drive-thru, limited to one per person in cow attire, per day, while supplies last.

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