Men behind brisket cheesecake to open dessert shack in Dallas

You might've never noticed it: Next door to the Grapevine Bar on Maple Avenue in Dallas sits a little blue-green cottage, currently vacant. "Shack" might be a better word. Its front window opens to the busy street; its back opens onto to the basketball court inside the Grapevine Bar's patio.

There's a commercial kitchen inside the shack, and two Dallasites plan to sell cheesecakes out of it in the afternoons and evenings beginning June 30.

"Austin has these nice little shacks that are restaurants," says Valery Jean-Bart, who grew up in Haiti and is now co-owner of Val's Cheesecakes with Christopher Reece. He drove past the shack nearly every day for years before inquiring about it.

"I can do this here; I know I can make it work," he says.

Read more: http://www.guidelive.com/food-and-drink/2015/06/22/brisket-cheesecake-owners-opening-dessert-shack-dallas-maple-vals-cheesecake

[font color=330099], brisket with cheesecake? BTW, the Grapevine Bar is the only LGBT bar in Dallas with a basketball court outside.[/font]