Finally, a new restaurant will replace shuttered Cafe Express in Dallas

A new American restaurant called The Finch opens at Mockingbird Station in Dallas, where Cafe Express has served fast-casual food for nearly 20 years.

The room, which is on a busy corner of Mockingbird Lane and Central Expressway, has been vacant for about three years. It’s an iconic place that Dallas Morning News readers often asked me: is anyone ever going to move into the old Cafe Express? After all, the answer is yes.

The Finch’s menu is described as “fat” and “broad”, with dishes such as seafood, soup, salad, pizza, pasta and appetizers such as mushroom risotto and Cioppino-style appetizers.

The restaurant is from a company called Milkshake Concepts, which began its culinary history in Deep Ellum in 2015. It runs Vidorra, Stirr, SkyRocket Burger, a renewed Serious Pizza and the flashy new Harper’s – all in Deep Ellum. The company also recently moved its nightclub called Citizen from Uptown to Deep Ellum. It’s one of the few bars that is creating a new, late-night identity in an area of ​​Dallas with no real name.

Markie Kinney is mixing a drink at Citizen, which reopened March 19, 2021 at a new address in Dallas.

Outside of Dallas, the group has several restaurants in Addison and Fort Worth. And in 2022, Co-Founder and CEO Imran Sheikh plans to open new restaurants in Grand Prairie, including a second finch.

Finch Restaurant at Mockingbird Station will help Sheikh and his team reach yet another area in North Texas: Lakewood and Highland Park.

The Finch is expected to open in spring 2022.

We recently reported that the long-time tenant of Mockingbird Station, Trinity Hall, an Irish pub, closed in late August.

The finch is located at 5307 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas (at Mockingbird Station).

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