A serial coffee shop owner in Dallas is brewing up more places to eat and drink.
First, Michael Mettendorf opened State Street Coffee in Uptown Dallas in 2014. Then, he opened coffee and cocktail spot La Reunion in the Bishop Arts District in 2019. Next, he’ll open an all-day cafe called Parterre in downtown Dallas by Nov. 1, 2021. And he’s got another concept coming in the Dallas Design District in spring 2022.
That’s eight years, four shops in four Dallas neighborhoods. Makes you want another cup of caffeine, doesn’t it?
Mettendorf’s background is in coffee, but his interest today is in creating comfortable places — he calls them “living rooms” — where people can visit all day: for breakfast, lunch or dinner, for coffee and cocktails.
His newest shop, Parterre, is on Elm Street. The former Ascension Coffee is barely recognizable in the new space washed in a moody peacock color.
Mettendorf thinks Parterre will have a role as a work-from-home spot, a downtown lunch stop and a date-night place.
The coffee
Parterre will roast some of its own beans for take-home coffee and small-batch cups brewed in-house. But most of the coffee will be made with beans from Novel Coffee Roasters in Flower Mound.
“I’ve been a barista for my whole life,” Mettendorf says. “Novel is, hands down, the best coffee roaster in Texas.”
The cocktails
Parterre’s design leans heavily on the cocktail bar atmosphere. Thus, coffee customers and cocktail drinkers alike will order from anywhere near the the barista or bartender. There’s no roped-off line telling customers where to stand.
The full bar will include about 20 bottles of wine, many available by the glass. The cocktails come from bar manager Joe Rodriguez, who designed the drinks at La Reunion.
The food
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Chef Ryan Miracle’s menu includes breakfast tacos, a chicken salad wrap, curry-butternut squash soup, cauliflower flatbreads, and build-your-own charcuterie boards. Nearly all of the menu from La Reunion will be available at Parterre.
At dinnertime, Parterre will serve a shorter menu of six to 10 items like beef belly sliders, chicken lollipops, smoked carrots and pork belly bao, Mettendorf says.
The restaurant gets much of its meat from A Bar N Ranch in Celina; tortillas from La Norteña in Oak Cliff; and pastries from La Casita Bakeshop in Richardson.
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The name
The name, pronounced “paar TEHR,” has several meanings. In French, the word means “on the ground,” and the shop is on the ground floor of a 50-story tower in downtown Dallas.
In English, parterre is the ground floor of an auditorium — “the social space in a theater,” Mettendorf says. He likes that sentiment, because this area of Elm Street in downtown Dallas was previously called Theater Row. Some 100 years ago, Elm Street was Dallas’ Broadway.
Mettendorf says he was drawn to the neighborhood by Douglas Prude, who works for Downtown Dallas Inc.
“Like Bishop Arts, the Design District and Uptown, Dallas’ urban core is important to me,” Mettendorf says.
He calls each of his shops “love letters to the neighborhood.”
Parterre will be at 1601 Elm St., Dallas. The debut date is not set yet, but the owner plans to be open by Nov. 1, 2021.
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