Inside the new Mi Cocina (and its sleek bar) in Uptown Dallas

Dallas-born restaurant Mi Cocina has sassy, smooth model in its new dwelling on McKinney Avenue in Uptown Dallas, changing a former Del Frisco’s Grille.

For 20 years, the restaurant was beforehand in West Village, lower than a mile north on McKinney Avenue. It closed in March 2022 and the corporate invested in an even bigger restaurant area close by, the place crews have constructed two tales of eating and consuming, a 40-person personal eating space and a brand new bar known as Seis Segundos.

“It was somewhat powerful to go away someplace you’ve been for 20 years. But it surely’s thrilling,” says CEO Edgar Guevara.

“It’s like transferring from the home you grew up in to an even bigger home.”

The restaurant opens Thursday, Could 19, 2022.

It has the most important patio among the many firm’s 22 Mi Cocinas. A part of the patio will probably be coated and might be enclosed, heated and cooled throughout less-than-temperate months in Texas.

The star of this new Mi Cocina is Seis Segundos, the second-story bar with a separate menu. Choices embody two quesos, one with chorizo, one with picadillo tres chiles and corn; nachos; quesadillas; and teeny hard-shell tacos.

Seis Segundos additionally serves the double cheeseburger made well-known at Taco Diner — which has however one remaining restaurant, in Lake Highlands; the remaining closed. The addition of a burger, at a Mexican restaurant no much less, is definitely a delight for followers holding monitor. (The burger can also be obtainable at La Parada, the out of doors window on the again aspect of the newish Mi Cocina in Klyde Warren Park.)

Mi Cocina’s major eating room, on the primary ground, will serve the common Mi Cocina menu: taco salad, sundown enchiladas, tilapia tacos, fajitas and the like.

On all ranges, the restaurant’s well-known Mambo Taxi, which is a frozen margarita-sangria swirl, will probably be served from its bars. The Mambo is combined with Hornitos tequila on the bar upstairs.

The 2-story room, with its beneficiant ground plan and number of artwork, offers off the sensation that dinner might really feel totally different in any nook: within the 40-person personal eating space on the high of the steps, on the curvy bench on the upstairs patio, sitting on the Seis Segundos bar, or at a extra conventional desk downstairs.

The venture took a number of months longer than Guevara had meant. “However you’ve bought to do it proper,” he says. He signed a lease to remain at the very least 20 years.

Mi Cocina in Uptown is at 3232 McKinney Ave., Dallas. It opens Could 19, 2022.

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