Subject: Rick Stein

• Hash Over: Pappas Alumni Return And A Cougar Hunter Branches Out

  The old Rick Stein's, soon to be the new Tre Amici. Every so often the planets slip completely out of alignment and all kinds of improbable things occur. Just yesterday, for example, Judd Fruia said of his soon-to-open Tre Amici restaurant in North Dallas, “the wine list is too big—I have to cut it back.” Now, this is man who, as general manager of Pappas Bros., stocked $70,000 plus bottles, commissioned the world’s largest smokeable cigar, served crabs the size of Smart Cars, create

  November 20, 2008

• 10 Questions: Judd Fruia

  Fruia thinks big--and no wonder.His tenure includes Pappas Bros. Steakhouse (big steaks, big wines and, once, the world's biggest cigar) and a stint with Consilient Restaurants (big buzz), while his newly opened Tre Amici fills the old Rick Stein's spot...making it perhaps the largest restaurant opening in an otherwise dismal season.But Fruia not only thinks up projects, he acts: outfitting his restaurants with helicopter landing pads, stocking some hard to find wines and--more importantly--dema

  January 9, 2009

• Hash Over

  March 11, 1999

• Honey for Barflies

  New Addison joint to offer late-night grub

  March 14, 2002

• Fruia's Tre Amici

  We like our red meat nice and wet

  February 5, 2009

• A Tough Year for Local Restaurants Sputters to an End

  January 1, 2009

• Steak Again? Sheesh.

  Rick Stein's does steak right--as if we care

  February 24, 2005

• Dining Tyranny

  Are we choosing ourselves crazy?

  December 30, 2004

• Puck Off

  The lock on hockey could be a big blow to Dallas restaurants

  September 23, 2004

• Stein's Online

  New steak house coming to town--despite a triple jinx

  June 3, 2004

• Up the River

  Plans not hot for a new Cool River

  December 18, 2003