Club Dada owner Ben Tapia called up DC9 HQ last night with a pretty sweet deal for readers still looking for something to do for New Year's tomorrow night: There's all sorts of stuff happening there (free Daddy Jack's, champagne, etc.) and performances from Cas Haley and Scott McCurry and others. It's $20 to get in if you buy your tix at Frontgate today, $25 if you get them at Dada tomorrow, or, get this, free if you get them right here, right now.Tapia's giving two DC9 readers free admission t
Tom JenkinsBowers (left) with his vodka-pouring bartenders in a 2006 photoHe is synonymous with seafood in this market, having been associated with, oh, Daddy Jack's and Rockfish and Big Fish Little Fish before opening his own multi-purpose place, Kenny's Wood Fired Grill.Recently the Boston native added a new bar space (banking on the cougar image to attract the right crowd) and Kenny's Burger Joint in Frisco. So he's been busy.Bowers came to Dallas way, way back--so long ago the Cowboys still
Daddy Jack's
1916 Greenville Ave.
214-826-4910
If you could travel back in time to, say, New England, Baltimore, or
even the bayous of Louisiana in the 1950s, you'd expect to find dozens
of places like this. The now venerable seafood shanty on lower
Greenville has it all: doo-wop bopping from the, um, stereo; one of
those 40-cup industrial percolators; a sense of it being cobbled,
crammed and tucked into place. Oh, and lobster.
Lots of lobster.
With the arrival first of Oceanaire and then Dal
