Pascal Cayet is back. The owner of Lavendou Bistro Provençal in far North Dallas is expanding in the wake of his closure and sale of Chez Gerard, the French restaurant that thrived for nearly 20 years before the McKinney high-rise condo demographic invaded and turned it into old withered hat. In mid-April, Cayet will open Olea, a Mediterranean bistro in Lakeside Market (two miles north of Lavendou on Preston Road) in the Café Italia space that was once companion to the original Café Italia on Lovers Lane. There, Olea will revel in the cuisines of Italy, Spain and France plus some from Morocco. The 3,200-square-foot, 100-seat Olea will feature a tapas bar and maybe a patio if Cayet's scrum with Plano city officials bears fruit... Tim Love, who invented his own brand of "fine urban Western cuisine" (grilled red deer chops with truffled mac and cheese, buffalo rib eye, Boursin-stuffed kangaroo carpaccio nachos with avocado relish, etc.) at Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth, has closed his Big Apple Lonesome Dove rendition after just a few months. "Tim Love, the owner and chef, received a generous offer for the space and decided to accept it," read a statement from Love's publicist. Love himself declined to comment or reveal the buyer, but he did say, through his publicist no less, that he's looking forward to opening the Love Shack, an outdoor burger joint, later this month in Fort Worth... Ricardo Avila, owner of the long-running Avila's Mexican Restaurant on Maple Avenue, has opened Tradicion in the former Fusion space on Lemmon Avenue.