This 8-mile street on the Northwest Side blends the city’s best taco stand, an old-school burger drive-thru, a revitalized Chinese cafe, a sushi master named Goro and legacy barbecue from chef Jason Dady.
This is the far southern end of West Avenue, an 8-mile boomerang of a road on the Northwest Side that takes flight at Fredericksburg Road near the H-E-B, brushes the Medical Center to the west and slices through Castle Hills on its way to a crash landing at Bitters Road.and it’s starting to feel like I could tell the story of West Avenue not by the restaurants that remain but by the ones no longer here.
On one of those drives he saw a “For Lease” sign on West Avenue at a shady alcove across from Walker Ranch Park. But by the time he called, the lease was gone, snatched up by a restaurant with — and I’m not making this up — a Wizard of Oz theme.One year. That’s all it took to come back on the market. Dady wanted it. He’d never done barbecue before, but he wanted to open a market-style, by-the-pound operation in that classic Luling-Lockhart style.
A big table of serious men is letting off steam in the middle of a dining room framed in blond wood. It’s the kind of coffee klatch you’d see at a diner, except they’re ordering sushi and bottles of wine like they do this time every week, Pitchford said.
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