Chef to open 2 new establishmentsBy Andrea Jares / Star-Telegram Staff WriterCelebrated chef David McMillan is adding a bar and a seafood restaurant in the same building as his upscale 62 Main restaurant in the Village at Colleyville. McMillan said the restaurant, to be called Kingfish, will take over the former Cafe Beignet location downstairs from 62 Main and could open this summer. The restaurant will have a laid-back, beachside feeling, with brightly colored walls and frozen-drink machines to match the easy- going Floribbean fare. "It will be very friendly to everybody, very casual and fun," he said. The bar will be upstairs next to 62 Main. McMillan said he envisions it as a place to meet before and after dinner. It will have dark hues and Ralph Lauren-style upscale elegance. McMillan said he has two names in mind: Bar 62 or Bar On 2. McMillan started 62 Main on Valentine's Day after leaving his chef position at the Nana restaurant at the Wyndham Anatole hotel in Dallas. The leasing of the space for the restaurants also touched off the recent sale of the building, said Cheri White, director of Commercial Brokerage Corp., who represented the seller with Linda Zimmerman, senior vice president there. White announced the sale Monday. California investors had the building under contract for three months and were waiting for the lease to go through on the space vacated by Cafe Beignet, she said. Tommy Cunningham of Cunningham Commercial Enterprises was the seller of the 11,015-square-foot building. Jimmy Archie, vice president of Realty Capital Corp., which developed the Village at Colleyville, said McMillan's plans are exciting. "Restaurants are so key to these type of projects because people always want a place to eat when they go shopping," Archie said. "It makes us feel pretty good about what we're trying to do here -- that we have an established, recognized restaurateur who is investing the type of money he is into this project." Published in Star-Telegram |
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