Feargal McKinney, pub maestro with Peter Kenny in the Old Monk and Dubliner, confirms that the pair is set to draft another pub in a defunct bar on that restaurant necropolis known as McKinney Avenue. McKinney says they've secured the former McDowd's Little Dublin, the 5,200-square-foot Irish pub that gasped last in the summer of 2001. And while McKinney (the man, not the dead zone) isn't sure of its final shape, he assures it won't have a heavy Irish accent and that it will open in April...In a recent article in Quick Service Restaurant magazine, Genghis Grill founder Jeff Sinelli claims he's "self-diagnosed ADD, and it translates into my entrepreneurial style...when I first started in the restaurant business, it was all from the hip." Which is perhaps why he sold Genghis with its plethora of bowl detritus to Tristan Simon's Consilient Restaurants to narrow his focus on one thing: sandwiches. Opened in December on Main Street downtown, Which Wich offers 40 hot "superior sandwiches" in 10 categories served on white, wheat and low-carb breads. And it's ripe for attention deficits: no soups, no salads, no deviled eggs; just soft drinks, chips and cookies to saddle with the "wich." And as with Genghis, Sinelli plans to spread and franchise Which Wich, starting with Austin... Fleming's Managing Partner Skip Fox, who just a couple of weeks ago told us that rumors foretelling the eminent closure of the prime steak house and wine bar were all passed gas (whatever happened to "no comment?"), now says Fleming's parent company sold the restaurant's property to a real estate investment firm. He adds that the company plans to open Fleming's units in Southlake and downtown-uptown Dallas (they were poised at one point to go into the former Star Canyon space) within the next 12 to 18 months.
