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Restaurant Hospitality
A look inside newest Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen
Ron Ruggless 1 Sep 16, 2017

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Tupelo Honey’s bar team produces an extensive menu of signature cocktails, some crafted to be shared, as well as a line of wines and craft beers.

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Tupelo Honey’s signature cathead biscuits, which derive their name from being the size of cat’s heads. The lightly peppered biscuits are served with a small jar of mixed whipped butter and blueberry jam.

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Chef Eric Gabrynowicz at the brand’s first charcuterie and raw bar, which occupies a counter-seating area near the kitchen.

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Tupelo Honey’s 15th location occupies new quarters in the Dallas Cowboys’ executive and training complex called The Star in Frisco, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas.

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As part of its beverage program, Tupelo Honey offers several shareable cocktails, such as this Corpse Reviver No. 2 that serves six. It features gin, Cointreau, Lillet blanc, white absinthe, lemon, lime, mint and fennel, and the mixture is dispensed from an absinthe fountain into glasses topped with a sugar cube on an absinthe spoon.

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Other shareable drinks include the Flaming Scorpion Bowl, which serves two to four and features several rums, orange, lemon, pineapple, pomegranate, mint, cherry and a flaming sugar cube in an inverted half of a lime.

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Among Tupelo Honey’s signature cocktails is the Blue Bonnet Gin Fizz, featuring Texas-distilled Dripping Springs gin, Martine honeysuckle liqueur, lavender, cream, egg white, lemon and soda.

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Among Tupelo Honey’s shareable appetizers is the Southern Pakora, featuring chickpea-battered and fried okra and cauliflower with a buttermilk-saffron dipping sauce.

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The Frisco, Texas, Tupelo Honey restaurant features 9,500 square feet, making it the largest among the Asheville, N.C.-based brand’s 15 locations. A patio expands seating to accommodate 362 guests.

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In the dining room of the new Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen are, from left, CEO Steve Frabitore, Vice President of Operations Tyler Alford and Corporate Chef Eric Gabrynowicz.

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Thomas Robey has been named executive chef of the Frisco, Texas, Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen.

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Tupelo Honey’s Mountain Smoke cocktail features Balcone's single-malt Texas whiskey, rosemary, house-made Cuban cigar bitters, coffee and dry ice.

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