A steak and seafood restaurant from North Carolina named Firebirds Wood Fired Grill has made its way to Texas.

The state’s first Firebirds opens February 14, 2022 in North Fort Worth near downtown Alliance near Keller. Much of the northeast corner of 35W and Heritage Trace Parkway is a pile of dirt right now, but HEB has purchased a parcel of land there. A Chuy’s Tex-Mex is already open next to Firebirds.

After opening, the company’s East Coast rapid operators will focus on Collin County, where a Firebirds is slated to open in Plano, near the Frisco border at State Highway 121 and Preston Road.

The company now has 55 restaurants and plans to open four more in 2022.

The restaurant looks familiar – a bit like a Houston, but with more light.

“We felt early on that the Firebirds were a real fit for the customer base here,” Stephen Loftis, vice president of marketing, says of Fort Worth. He calls the restaurant “contemporary-polished”. It’s the kind of place where steaks are served for lunch and dinner, but you can bring your kids.

The most popular dishes on the menu are the lobster and spinach queso ($14.95 all day), wood-grilled salmon ($16.95 lunch, $25.95 dinner) and a rib eye Cajun ($37.95 all day for 16 ounces).

The seven salads on the menu are generously proportioned. Seared Tuna Superfood Salad comes with a dozen pieces of sushi-grade tuna near a bed of spinach and grains dressed in a tangy avocado-lime vinaigrette.

The restaurant also sells seven burgers. The most popular is the Durango burger, an incredibly high stacked sandwich with pepper jack cheese and fried onions. It’s one of many Colorado-themed menu items: Although this restaurant started in North Carolina and is now in Texas, founder Dennis Thompson had a home in Aspen, Colorado, and named several dishes in his honor.

Southwestern au gratin potatoes, made with a smoked tomato cheese sauce, are spicy and creamy. They’re a good match for Cajun rib eye, says Fort Worth chef Sean Martin.

Martin moved to Fort Worth for work and spent most of his career with the Firebirds. He started working for the company as a dishwasher when he was 18. He became sous-chef at this Delaware restaurant, then was promoted to executive chef at two Firebirds in New Jersey, then two more in Pennsylvania. He is just getting to know Fort Worth alongside general manager Michy Cruz, a native of Virginia.

And are these foreigners worried about moving to beef-loving Texas?

No, says Loftis. “We’re just going to bring our A-game,” he says.

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill is located at 2900 Amador Drive, Fort Worth. The second Firebirds in Texas is scheduled to open in late 2022 at 5430 State Highway 121, Plano.

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If your criteria for restaurants in Florida includes things like fresh seafood, a laid back atmosphere, friendly locals, etc., then this is the place for you. Lightsey’s Seafood Restaurant in Florida offers the ability to have the fish you caught that day prepared exactly to your liking in minutes. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it’s not.

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Aherne’s Seafood Restaurant and Accommodation of 163 North Main Street, Youghal, Co. Cork, P36 Y003, is being sold via Dominic J Daly & Co with an indicative price of c. 2 million euros.

Property Details

The property’s listing on dominicjdaly.com says it includes a 29-seat cocktail bar, 48-seat lounge bar, 60-seat dining room, office space, fully equipped kitchen and prep areas catering, a 16-seat residents’ breakfast room, a residents’ lounge, 14 en-suite bedrooms, an 80-seat outdoor dining area and an adjoining site with parking area, storage of gas tank, an enclosed store and herbhouse, and that all major services are available at the property.

Additional information

The property listing also states that the venue has been in business for almost a century, is a long standing member of the Blue Book of Ireland and there is potential for 10 more bedrooms to be built on the site of the property. property.

Additionally, the listing indicates that there are ample storage areas within the premises.

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As the Year of the Tiger approaches on the Chinese lunar calendar, Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant has created an extensive Chinese New Year menu that local diners can gather around the table to welcome the New Year.

Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant continues to impress loyal customers with the addition of new menu items, many of which are influenced by cuisine from China and Hong Kong. The evolving menu keeps customers coming back to see what to expect, as the creativity at the heart of the house and exceptional customer service “amaze” diners with every visit.

Roasted Garlic Golden Chicken

Conveniently located on the Hookipa Terrace on the top floor of the Ala Moana Center, Jade Dynasty offers an award-winning dining experience in a welcoming atmosphere with dark wood accents and intricately crafted chandeliers. The family-run restaurant seats up to 300 people, and diners are encouraged to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and special events in the main dining room or in one of the seven private dining rooms.

Ave Kwok, Managing Partner of Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant, explains that, for the special Chinese New Year menu ($ 498 for a table of 10, excluding taxes and tips), “We chose these dishes because they bring good luck to our guests for the Year of the Tiger! “

Lobster with Ginger & Onion on a bed of noodles

The Celebration Menu is available now through February 16, and the Jade Dynasty team is requesting at least two days notice to prepare for the party. The menu begins with fried shrimp dumplings “representing prosperity in the form of ancient Chinese gold and silver currency” as well as imitation shark fin soup with seafood and bamboo mushrooms. to represent “harmony throughout the year”.

The diners are then treated with golden chicken with roasted garlic symbolizing the “Phoenix bringing you good news”, as well as fried fish with a sweet and sour sauce in addition to the lobster with ginger and onions on a bed of noodles. which mean “prosperity year after year.” and good health and spirit.

Braised pork chop in a chef’s special sauce served with buns All dishes are part of the Chinese New Year’s menu ($ 498)

Guests are then presented with braised pork ribs in a chef’s special sauce served with buns to lead to ‘making it every step of the way’. A Chinese New Year’s meal wouldn’t be complete without Good Luck Jai, a classic vegetarian specialty designed to promote “good luck and prosperity.”

To create a “relaxed atmosphere” in 2022, diners can then dip into sticky rice with meats preserved in Lotus Wrap, and the meal ends with scoops of mochi in a sweet ginger broth as a “happy ending to the meal.” which brings good fortune. “

Chinese New Year is celebrated on February 1 of this year, and on that night at 7:00 p.m. and again on February 2 at 6:30 p.m., Jade Dynasty is to hold a traditional Chinese lion dance to celebrate the occasion in style.

“For Chinese New Year, fish and chicken are a must, as well as mochi balls,” Kwok says. “We serve this menu in a family style so that everyone can share different items and really enjoy their time and celebrate together. “

Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant is also well known for its range of nearly 60 varieties of dim sum starting at just $ 2.95 which are served daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

CARTERET – The Carteret Business Partnership recently welcomed The Crab General to the Carteret Mall with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Mayor Daniel J. Reiman.

After emigrating from China in 2009 and working in the restaurant business for 10 years, Angel Chen chose to open a restaurant in Carteret with a seafood menu and a family atmosphere,

“Angel chose the name Crab General because a general is a leader and she wants to provide leadership when it comes to good food,” Reiman said.

Chen wanted to open in Carteret because the 5,000 square foot space was perfect for his vision of fun, flashy, yet light nautical decor to serve as the backdrop for his menu.

“I wanted to open a seafood restaurant rather than a Chinese restaurant because there are already so many Chinese restaurants, and I felt there was more need for a good seafood restaurant, so there was a bigger market potential,” Chen said. “We want to organize big family celebrations with warmth and good fresh seafood.”

The Crab General’s motto is “Juicy Seafood,” and the restaurant lives up to that motto by getting its dishes “fresh off the boat,” Chen said.

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Open since early November, The Crab General offers a Get Your Hands Dirty clambake-style feast as its signature dish. The three-step meal of at least 1 pound includes green or black mussels ($15 a pound), clams ($13), crawfish ($15), shrimp ($16 head on, $18 head off ), scallops ($30), snow crab legs. ($32) and Dungeness crab, king crab legs, and lobster tail at standard (but fluctuating) market prices. For non-seafood eaters, there are also $10 a pound sausages.

Step two of Get Your Hands Dirty is choosing the seasoning: Cajun, Garlic Butter, Lemon Pepper, and Juicy Special, a mix of all three. Then diners choose their “spicy level”: not spicy, mild, medium, hot or extra hot. The sea-fresh feast comes with corn and potatoes, much like a Maine lobster pot or a Louisiana crawfish boil.

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“Business has been good so far,” Chen said. “Customers seem to really like it.”

The food is matched by entertaining decor, like oversized paintings and sculptures of sea creatures and pirates, displays of rum barrels, ship components, treasures, beach scenes and sea kayaks, four streaming TVs and a psychedelic star show playing on the ceiling. The restaurant also includes a draw at each table for a prize of over $50 or a coupon for a later visit.

For more information about The Crab General, visit www.thecrabgeneral.com. For more information on Carteret Business Partnership, visit www.carteret.net/carteret-business-partnership/.

This article originally appeared on MyCentralJersey.com: Carteret NJ: Crab General Seafood Restaurant Welcomed to Borough

When a mutual friend of future Shuck Me Seafood owners Roger and Monica Haverkamp first called Bill Curci years ago to help the Haverkamps with their restaurants, Curci said his first question was, “How’s it going? ‘call? “

“He said, ‘Bust me,'” Curci remembers hearing from his friend, whom he hadn’t spoken to for 20 years. “And I said, ‘Shuck Me? I’m not going to work for a place called Shuck Me.

However, when Curci decided to visit the restaurant, he fell in love with it and the Haverkamps, so much so that he left his position as vice president of operations for another restaurant to serve as an operating partner. chief for Shuck Me.

“I was like, ‘OK, this is really something,’” said Curci. “I was impressed.”

But before Curci arrived and Shuck Me opened, Roger was running a party for H&H Concrete On Demand Inc. in a building right next to his Southlake home, Curci said. After a friend approached Roger to open a restaurant, that building was transformed into the first Shuck Me restaurant, located in Southlake.

The restaurant’s location in Fort Worth became its third after opening the second in Hochatown, Oklahoma.

According to history, according to Curci, the name “Shuck Me” appeared when the restaurant was still under construction. Roger once received a call informing him that one of his H&H drivers destroyed a brand new mixer truck, which cost around $ 300,000.

“He was with a bunch of people, and everything he could think of [to say] was, ‘Shuck me,’ ”Curci said. “And someone said, ‘Hey, oh my God, that’s the name of your seafood restaurant.'”

Original name aside, Curci said what sets Shuck Me apart from other seafood restaurants is its authenticity, as the Haverkamps fish competitively and decorate all the restaurants with family photos and decor. peach.

“It’s literally a passionate Roger and Monica project,” said Curci.

Among all of Shuck Me’s diverse menu, Curci said they are known for their fried catfish. Shuck Me offers deep fried combo baskets, which include different ratios of catfish, shrimp and oysters.

Curci said he had heard “more than once” that Shuck Me had the best lobster chowder in the world. And while the restaurant doesn’t consider itself to be a Cajun restaurant, it does have a variety of Cajun items on the menu, such as the Jambalaya.

Shuck Me is opening two new locations in Austin and Denton, Curci said. The Austin location will open before Christmas and the Denton location will open in early spring.

“[Roger] always says he doesn’t care if they make any money – he just wants them to succeed and have a good reputation and people to come and enjoy it, ”said Curci.

Fuck me – 585 Randol Mill Ave, Southlake. 817-748-2563. www.shuckme.net/index.htm Hours: Sun-Thu 11 am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10pm

TThe idea for Bossa Fish – a seafood restaurant and fresh fish market in Elizabeth – comes from Napa, California. Co-owners Philip Carvalho and Joe Licata dined at a place where customers ordered their food and drinks at the counter; then took their meal to dine indoors or outdoors. Bossa Fish recreates this while bringing fresh seafood to central and north Jersey.

“We were able to merge whatever we wanted into our concept,” says Philip. “We saw the space and felt good,” he says of a 1,700 square foot venue. Philip was born in Elizabeth and now resides with his wife and children in Jersey City. Before the restaurant, he ran a showroom for a Brazilian fashion company. Her father immigrated from Brazil and her mother’s parents came from Portugal to New Jersey. (The flavors of both countries are reflected in Bossa Fish’s dishes.) In addition, his grandparents ran a restaurant in Brazil. His father also ran a Newark-based food truck and owned a restaurant in Rahway. So despite his background in fashion, Philip is no stranger to restaurants.

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Bossa Fish can seat around 20 people inside, as well as 40 in front of the restaurant under heat lamps. Inside, “the vibe is very sleek and modern, but has elements of beautiful Portuguese artwork,” according to Philip. In fact, the word “Bossa” is an old-fashioned Brazilian slang term; it means doing something with a special charm, natural flair, or innate ability. For example, tables display wines and olive oils while hand-painted murals adorn the walls.

Seafood is of course the star of the menu. A popular entree – and Philip’s favorite item – is the salt cod croquettes; but other popular entrees include the shrimp croquettes and the shrimp in garlic sauce. Likewise, popular sandwiches include “Charlie Baltimore” (crab cake) and “305” (with plaice, shrimp or cod). Plus, Philip says Friday’s special of the day, a grilled octopus platter, still sells. Click here to see the full menu.

Other iconic dishes include Bossa Nova, a sandwich with a choice of plaice, shrimp, scallops, cod or whiting; as well as the Bossa combo, a fried plate with shrimp, scallops and plaice. Meanwhile, mouthwatering desserts include banana pudding and custard.

The market

Bossa Fish also offers a large scale fish market. They sell shrimp, scallops, salmon, red snapper, porgy, branzino, cod, flounder and more. There are also a variety of sauces and seasonings for sale. Customers can then take their seafood home or let Bossa Kitchen cook it to their liking.

Visit Bossa Fish at 230 Trumbull St in Elizabeth. (Click here to see them on Google Maps.) Find out more: Click here to visit their website | Follow them on Instagram | Click to call them.

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