Dixie Highway /TheAustinRepublicįormerly Shawn and Nick’s Courtyard Cafe, a no-frills 24-hour diner on Wilton Drive operated by Shawn Bombard and Nick Berry, the restaurant changed ownership on May 28 with a wholesale makeover, updating its menu, name, decor and dated greasy-spoon vibe. Strine’s mobile kitchen is the first stage of a future brick-and-mortar restaurant that will offer a bar, outdoor games and billiard tables. Customers dine on outdoor picnic-style tables surrounding the container. While the focus is smoked meats like pork spare ribs, rotisserie chicken and Texas hot links, Strine’s window also offers tacos and burritos filled with carnitas, plus brisket melt and pulled pork handhelds, and side dishes including mac and cheese pasta shells in queso sauce. The barbecue spot, a shipping container on wheels, is a partnership between Strine (known for working in top-notch kitchens Café Boulud, Buccan, Grato and Sundy House) and Roxy’s Pub owner John Webb, whose hometown inspired the name. Spare ribs, prime brisket … and Tex-Mex? That’s the ambitious premise behind chef Jimmy Strine’s smoky new mobile kitchen that quietly opened in June, perched on South Dixie Highway next to Phipps Park in the city’s SoSo (South of Southern Boulevard) district. “And I know we can capture a lot of customers from Sawgrass and FLA Live Arena.” 12310 W. “There’s no good craft-cocktail bar out west,” Flanigan says. Patrons can order food directly from Quarterdeck’s full kitchen, which it shares with Whiskey Neat next door, co-owner James Flanigan tells the Sun Sentinel. The centerpiece of the bar is a multicolored liquor wall stocked with hundreds of rare whiskeys. The lounge - a sister location of the original Whiskey Neat on Southeast 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale - comes from Old School Hospitality, which operates five Quarterdecks in South Florida. This classy, 2,500-square-foot den dedicated to brown liquor is opening Monday, June 19, in Plantation, attached to an existing Quarterdeck seafood pub across the street from the Sawgrass Mills mall.
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