![]() ![]() ![]() The closest market is Atlanta, with 144 projects.īon Appetit anointed Dallas the Restaurant City of the Year in 2019, and the Texas Restaurant Association says that by 2030, Texas will add 288,000 food service jobs. The Dallas Morning News reports that North Texas leads the country in hotel development, with more than 251 projects and 30,000 new hotel rooms in development for just the first quarter of 2023. JW Marriott just debuted a new 15-story, 267-room, $500-per-night hotel downtown that is flanked by restaurants, bars, a library lounge and coffee shops, pool decks and outdoor bars and lounges. Lauren Drewes Daniels Major restaurant groups from New York, Las Vegas and Miami are opening upscale restaurants and lounges in the Dallas area, all with weeks-long waitlists: Carbone, Sadelle’s, Le Neta, Crown Block and Komodo to name just a few.īut these standalone restaurants are a drop in the bucket compared to hotel openings. The next-fastest-growing market is the Miami area at 4.8%. Dallas, Plano and Irving are up 5.1%, and Fort Worth and Arlington are up 4.9%. The Dallas area is experiencing the nation’s largest year-over-year percentage increase in employment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the employment of chefs and head cooks is projected to grow 15% from 2021 to 2031, “much faster than the average for all occupations.” The BLS projects more than 24,000 new openings for chefs and head cooks each year over the next decade across the country. Given the explosive growth of the local culinary scene, the timing was like a fluffy, tall souffle: perfect. In March 2020, just before the pandemic blasted the restaurant industry, Steve DeShazo, the senior director of workforce industry and workforce inquiries at Dallas College, told The Dallas Morning News the new space would allow enrollment to grow from 100 graduates a year to between 350 and 500. While Dallas College still has the lauded El Centro campus downtown, this extension on Webb Chapel Road at Interstate 635 allows the school to reach more students north of Dallas, expand enrollment and gain some much-needed elbow room. (The France-based culinary college shuttered all its campuses across the U.S. It had been the home base for Le Corden Bleu until its closing in 2017. In late 2019, Dallas College took over this 50,000-square-foot culinary space with 10 kitchens, six classrooms and a restaurant. And at $15 a plate, it’s not only a stellar deal but a glimpse into the future. The chef de cuisine, Manas Manoj, works the room, going from table to table talking about his menu. ![]() About a dozen other students - some in chef hats, some refilling waters - buzz around. Each week the students rotate roles, and this time around Alvarenga is the maitre’d. This was the last service at Dallas College’s weekly lunch created and run by students: from table decorations to seating arrangements and, of course, any mother sauces on the menu. Later this year he’ll move over to John Tesar’s new spot, Knife Italian, when it opens at the hotel. Alvarenga is also working at the Ritz Carlton restaurant LAW. He dreams of having his own little restaurant one day.īut for now, at 17, he’s enrolled in the culinary program at Dallas College, or in local parlance “El Centro,” a reference to the original location downtown. He enrolled in the culinary and hospitality career path in high school after making his mom breakfast one day and seeing the joy it brought her. Nathan Hunsinger Earlier that day in northwest Dallas, Daniel Alvarenga was wearing a button-down shirt under a sports jacket as he stood at the edge of a dining room, scanning the scene.
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