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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: American, Other
Price: price3
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
Comments: they fry in vegetable oil. :( it's not clear if they use other oils for sauteeing
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
No
Comments: not clear, check with restaurant
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
Yes
Rating Created by:
John Socha
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Location & Contact
East Dallas
601 North Haskell Avenue
Dallas, TX
601 North Haskell Avenue
Dallas, TX
AMAZING restaurant!!! Petra offers two formats: a more expensive tasting menu and less expensive counter service. Both are great. Misti Norris butchers the animals used in house and offers a wide variety of foraged and fermented items.
https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2018/11/29/esquire-names-dallas-indie-restaurant-petra-and-the-beast-one-of-america-s-best/