Dan Bui isn’t any stranger to eating in different international locations. He’s tottered by Greece in the hunt for post-ouzo gyros and gone taco searching in Mexico Metropolis. Impressed by such globe-trotting voyages, Bui will open a brand new bar in Bishop Arts that he’s calling Atlas.
Bui runs one other Bishop Arts spot, the Asian-Cajun fusion spot Krio, along with his enterprise companion Connie Cheng. He needed to “double down” on the neighborhood that he says wants a cooler, post-shift drink go-to for restaurant workers within the space. He hopes to debut the bar someday in mid-February or early March.
Positioned at 405 North Bishop Avenue throughout the road from Soften Ice Cream and Eno’s Pizza Tavern, as reported by Dallas CultureMap final October, Atlas will probably be a cocktail lounge that includes tipples which have origins in each nook of the world. “I’ve been lucky sufficient to journey fairly a bit in my day. I completely love touring,” says Bui. “I’ve traveled up and down Italy, fairly a little bit of Spain and France.” So anticipate a menu and vibe that displays Bui’s worldly experiences: acquainted classics just like the kir royale, pisco bitter, and Singapore sling alongside a deliberate collection of home cocktails.
Bar professional Jesse Powell, who additionally developed the drink menu at Krio, will assist concoct Atlas’ beverage program. This received’t be a bar the place you merely down drinks; Bui desires it to be a spot the place you order a kir royale and study its French beginnings or creme de cassis. The aim is to be a contact nerdy with out, hopefully, placing a pedantic tone. The ambition for Atlas is to be a spot the place writer and well-known boozehound Ernest Hemingway may seize a drink.
The bar itself may even evoke an academic really feel with portraits of assorted writers—Hemingway, maybe? “The decor of the place is meant to be like an upscale library,” says Bui, plus a non-public part accessible by way of secret bookshelf. “Once you pull the right e book, it opens up and there’s a complete different again space.”
Meals will take a backseat to the drinks and lean late-night snack. Assume booze-soaking Cuban sandwiches, charcuterie boards, or maybe German pretzels with obatzda, a Bavarian cheese-butter. Bui has 20 years of expertise within the hospitality trade, having began out as a line cook dinner in Houston when he was 15 years previous. He’ll maintain issues down within the kitchen.
Holding with the journey theme, Atlas could have a passport program: attempt a drink, get a stamp in your passport, and “journey the world.” When it’s full you may flip it in to Atlas in change for an Atlas jacket, a small however countless low cost on food and drinks, and entry to particular occasions.
Whereas there’s loads of locations to drink in Bishop Arts, heck on Bishop Ave. alone, Atlas hopes to supply a cool, darkish—moody, you can say—cocktail lounge for a libation between four p.m. and a couple of a.m.
“It’ll be a enjoyable vibe,” Bui says. “We’re making an attempt to make it a enjoyable neighborhood bar—a pleasant bar, however the identical time not too bougie.”
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