An upscale steakhouse from Dallas’ Koreatown is relocating to Uptown subsequent summer time. Effectively, form of.
The restaurateur and chef behind Nuri Grill are opening Nuri Steakhouse in summer time 2023. The Uptown steakhouse will probably be a “subsequent degree” extension of the Koreatown grill that has been round since 2021.
For the previous 12 months, Nuri Grill has served as a testing floor for the steakhouse, stated proprietor Wan Kim, who can be the CEO of Smoothie King.
“We strategically secured a short-term lease for Nuri Grill within the coronary heart of Koreatown, the place we have been capable of present an upscale Korean eating expertise not usually discovered within the Metroplex,” Kim stated in a ready assertion. “It was all the time our intent to function this as a full-service restaurant to painstakingly check recipes for the steakhouse.”
At Nuri Grill, the menu is made up of vegetable and noodle sides that accompany chef-prepared proteins like bone-in brief rib, bulgogi and lobster, in addition to proteins diners can grill at their tables themselves like ribeye, filet mignon and shrimp. The steakhouse’s menu remains to be in improvement, however it can hinge off of the grill’s menu.
Chef Minji Kim, who relocated to Dallas from Seoul final 12 months together with her husband and fellow chef Ben Lee, will create the menu for Nuri Steakhouse by permitting friends at Nuri Grill to submit suggestions and make a contribution to the menu — an uncommon transfer for a chef. The restaurant she and Lee ran collectively in Seoul — Min’s Kitchen — was featured within the Michelin Information for a few years.
Nuri Steakhouse will open alongside Cedar Springs Highway throughout the road from Uchi, and Nuri Grill in Koreatown will tackle a brand new identification in its present Northwest Dallas area.
“Earlier than the steakhouse opens, Nuri Grill will then flip into a unique idea, leaving the steakhouse to hold on the identify, however as a grown-up model of the model in Dallas correct,” Kim stated. “Nuri Steakhouse will probably be taking it to the subsequent degree in design, ambiance, experiential eating and menu choices.”
The 9,500-square-foot restaurant in Uptown will have the ability to seat 150 friends inside and an extra 50 with out of doors seating. Conventional Korean celadon ceramics will probably be used all through the restaurant’s decor, which may also be infused with a little bit of “cyberpunk tradition” to offer a nod to “the recognition of digital gaming in fashionable Asian tradition,” in line with a launch.
Nuri Steakhouse will open at 2401 Cedar Springs Highway, Suite 120 Dallas. It would serve dinner and weekend brunch when it opens in late summer time 2023. nuristeakhouse.com.
