More Dallas-Fort Worth items is something I had been meaning to do on Carbon-izer, and this one requires going back to 2014, one of the few times I've been to Dallas-Fort Worth in the last two decades. It all began with the near-complete demolition of a strip center to construct a new Walmart Supercenter (replacing a Neighborhood Market location). One building from the old center (15757 North Coit Road, Suite 434) was fenced off, likely to be rubble soon, with the Cafe de Paris sign still on it. What kind of a restaurant was Cafe de Paris anyway? The most obvious assumption would be a French restaurant as this one Yelp review thought.
You would be wrong. After all, with a name like "Cafe de Paris" you'd assume French and be surprised that it was Mediterranean. The next question you might have is, as I did, is "how long was this here for"? Maybe it started out as a French restaurant back a long time ago but changed hands, and now was a Mediterranean restaurant under the same name (any jokes about Parisian demographics aside). You would also be wrong. The restaurant only opened in 2011 and disappeared just as quickly but the sign stayed up for a few years afterward even as the center crumbled around it. After sitting vacant for a for years, the building (now with the address of 15767 North Coit Road) was extensively modified (basically taking out all but the support beams) for Surepoint Emergency Center Richardson.
I should also mention that back in 2009-2010, it was M Cafe and Catering, and before that, Bagelstein's (2005-2008).
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