Spelling Bee

Nightlife whiz Richard Fiaschetti says he distorted the spelling of his new restaurant and bar moniker because he didn't like the way the correct spelling looked on paper. But he likes how the logo looks painted on the dining room windows. Kaoss Restaurant and Bar at Main and Murray is open, but Fiaschetti says the menu isn't finished. No matter. It's fun to imagine what this chaotic stew will taste like while you sit at the bar and help Fiaschetti pay his liquor taxes and finance this culinary excursion. He says it includes everything from Asian, to fusion, to French, to Italian, to Spanish. "It's a little bit of everything," Fiaschetti says. "It's kind of a hodgepodge. It's Kaoss." Yeah. To pull all this off, Fiaschetti pulled chef Fabian Gonzales away from Mattito's Café Mexicano's parent company, We 8 It Food Group, where he was redesigning the company's menus. Gonzales' résumé is as "kaotick" as this incipient menu; he did stints at Mi Piaci, The Mansion, The Westin Park Central, and the defunct Deep Ellum brewpub Moon Under Water to name just a few. Fiaschetti also harbors a little chaos in his back pocket. He opened the desperately eclectic Grapevine bar in 1995, and the manically hot Kangaroo club in 1999 on Lovers Lane, a spot he sold after just a few months to Bram Browder, who once operated Cedar Street bar and grill. Browder shut the hop pocket down a short time later, but maybe Kaoss will pick up where Kangaroo hopped off. Fiaschetti promises a brisk bar, and food is served until 2 a.m. seven days a week. Plus there's a drop-down screen in the middle of the dining room so all can watch the Kowboys Kaoss in all its big-screen glory. Just don't spike your martini glass on the logo.

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With hopes of a June opening dashed, restaurateur Edgar Watson says Bosque Café (named for the Texas county), his new restaurant on Ross and Leonard across from the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, will unbolt the doors by the end of next week. He explains that the limited menu in his 70-seat restaurant in one of downtown Dallas' last 1920s-era art deco buildings will be a rapidly fluctuating New-American rainbow solidly fixed in Southwestern sensibilities and changing roughly every two weeks. "It's a glorified blackboard menu in a way," he says. To accomplish the feat, Watson hired former Salve! sous chef Daniel Regan. Watson, who made his mark with a handful of hip-Ital spots in the '80s and early '90s including Adriano's, Acapella, and Adagio Café, says Bosque Café is a small, intimately casual place without much commotion, which means you don't need to use your elbows. "We're not really looking to do a massive amount of trade," he says. "Initially we're going to start kind of soft."...AquaKnox/Fishbowl Executive Chef Ethan Powell is bailing out of the bowl and returning to New Orleans and Commander's Palace where he was once a sous chef. Assuming Powell's Bowl role is Larry Doyle, onetime chef of the defunct Anzu...Michael Costa says his partner Dean McSherry is gradually retreating from DMC Hospitality, the consulting firm they founded in June 1999. McSherry has taken a position with the Lincoln Restaurant Group, a company that sells restaurant accounting and payroll services (the firm also owns Dakota's). Costa says he is purchasing McSherry's interest in DMC and hopes to bring on a limited partner sometime in the near future.