Acclaimed Dallas sweet shop decamps after decimating Range Rover crash
A prestigious bakery in Oak Cliff has been uprooted: Rush patisserie which has been baking flawless croissants, cakes, cakes and pastries in the Bishop Arts district since 2009, is leaving its long-standing location on Eldorado Ave. 120, in the same building as Spiral Diner, looking for a new home.
The move was triggered by an unusual accident in early May that decimated the store. A woman behind the wheel of a Range Rover drove straight into the building and punched a huge hole the size of a car through the west-facing brick wall of the store.
Fortunately, the owner, Samantha Rush, was not in the building at the time, but it wreaked havoc not only on the building but on all of her fixtures and furnishings.
“I left about 45 minutes earlier,” says Rush. “It took everything out: our retail space, our tables and chairs – it destroyed a double brick wall, so it caused structural damage.”
A native New Yorker and former accountant, Rush graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and started her bakery-café in Deep Ellum in 2007 before moving to Oak Cliff in 2009.
She has received countless awards for the “best” for her wonderful desserts, from croissants to macarons to elaborate wedding cakes.
Although the accident put their retail business on hold, Rush Patisserie did not close it. Her pastries are still sold at both Drip Coffee locations and are also available as a custom order, a practice she, like many companies, built during the pandemic.
“I’ve always had a communal kitchen and we still bake every day,” she says. “People can call and order, we deliver and meet customers. That has dampened retail, but we still sell baked goods every day.”
She says she is currently checking out other locations, with priority in the Oak Cliff neighborhood.
Oddly enough, this was the second pastry shop to be breached by a big, dumb SUV: in November 2020, an SUV crashed into the kitchen of the Dallas bakery Haute Sweets Patisserie. Owner Tida Pichakron and her staff survived despite suffering bruises, bruises, second-degree burns, and other injuries.
Joe McElroy, who owns the building Rush was in, says it recently happened to another of his Oak Cliff properties. He was able to save the rush room despite saying the mural that was painted on the wall was not restored.
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