A wonderful Mexican-influenced restaurant has debuted in Uptown: Hugo’s Invitados, an idea named for co-founder Hugo Miranda, has opened in Dallas’ West Village, the place it is doing genuine Mexican meals and craft cocktails, within the house at 3699 McKinney Ave. previously occupied by Mi Cocina, which relocated to the previous Del Frisco’s Grille house.
The opening represents a welcome return of Mexican meals and yummy margaritas for West Village, with an acclaimed staff behind the wheel.
Miranda has labored with many Dallas culinary luminaries together with Mico Rodriguez, Chris Ward, Tristan Simon (Porch, Hibiscus), Stephan Pyles, and Mike Karns of Native Favourite (El Fenix, Taqueria La Ventana, Meso Maya) the place he served as director of rising manufacturers.
In 2018, he and associate Mark Hulme opened the primary Hugo’s Invitados in Las Colinas, targeted on all-natural Mexican-influenced delicacies and natural cocktails, with a menu stuffed with thrilling surprises corresponding to:
- Mexican Avocado Toast, cleverly on a corn masa patty, with salsa roja botanera, avocado, & queso fresco
- Smoked Salmon Nachos with avocado puree, mango relish & mango-habanero yogurt
- Mexican Cioppino – seafood stew with mussels, clams, bay scallops, child calamari, pacific shrimp, jumbo lump crab meat, fish, lemongrass rice, & tomato crudo chilpachole
- Cowboy Al Pastor – a seared bone-in ribeye al pastor with roasted greens, applewood smoked bacon, & pineapple-guajillo demi
At Hugo’s, even one thing as primary as chips and salsa will get an improve: Their tortilla chips are baked, by no means fried, and are served with scratch-made natural salsas. And they’re certainly the one Mexican restaurant in Dallas serving an arugula salad with child arugula, avocado, berries, celery leaf, agave French dressing, pumpkin seeds, & queso de rancho.
The Uptown Hugo’s was initially slated to open within the McKinney & Olive luxurious tower, however that house had limitations within the format that the West Village didn’t. When the Mi Cocina house turned obtainable, they grabbed it.
“The Uptown space has all the time been fashionable and on the sting, and we really feel like that is an ideal match for Hugo’s Invitados,” says Scott Koller, director of operations.
They will be a dominant presence in West Village, as their father or mother firm Hospitality Inspirado additionally lately opened Sincere Taco, a brand new idea with tacos, bowls, and craft cocktails, proper throughout the best way. (In late 2021, the corporate additionally opened Hugo’s Misplaced Colony, a Tex-Mex spinoff with a menu designed by Hugo’s government chef Natalio Charles.)
The inside of the restaurant has 7,000 sq. toes, with seating for about 150 inside together with 10 tables on the bar. They’ve finished wonders with the out of doors patio, taking what was previously a driveway between the restaurant and the movie show and remodeling it into an enormous oasis that seats 125, with cool celery-green chairs and cheerful orange umbrellas, ringed with potted flowers, a perfect setting for brunch.
The menu will mirror the Las Colinas location, says chef Charles, together with craft cocktails corresponding to their cucumber serrano margarita, all made with juices which might be squeezed recent day by day.
“It will likely be the identical fresh-crafted natural delicacies and cocktails which might be influenced by Mexico and impressed by our friends as Hugo’s Invitados in Las Colinas,” Charles says. “And to coincide with the opening in West Village/Uptown, we lately seasonally up to date our dinner menu. We’re very excited to convey our imaginative and prescient to Uptown Dallas.”