We spoke with Gigiliola Aguielara of Joyce and Gigi’s Kitchen coming to Hall Street.
She revealed the first suite of the building will be a coffee shop, but is not related to her business at all.
This is the business we reported as having tables and chairs visible through the window. Hers is the next section, which will be the restaurant.
The rest of the building that remains open may be converted into office space or another restaurant if the property owner gets a tenant. The gated area at the corner of Hall and Ross will serve as parking spaces as well as the open area Vann Court alley, which was required with the permits she explained. She doesn’t know when she will be opening because the plumbing and construction has to be completed then inspected. But we are encouraged as daily construction has resumed on the building.
DALLAS — Joyce & Gigi’s Kitchen is a mother-and-daughter venture specializing in South American food that will open in East Dallas not far from the Arts District this summer.
Gigi, short for Gigliola Aguilera, is the daughter who went to Le Cordon Bleu in Austin and has worked in a number of top kitchens in Dallas including Fearing’s, Five Sixty, and the Stoneleigh; she says she also worked for Martín Berasategui in Spain and Aeschbach Chocolatier in Switzerland, which helped sharpen her pastry skills so she can do desserts herself. Joyce is her mother who moved here to help open the restaurant…