Last year, if you wanted to enjoy one of the city’s best new restaurants, Chef’s Corner, you had to jump through a few hoops. First, you had to walk around the Twinkies.
A year ago, Fort Worth-based chef Mike Douresseaux was working out of a gas station on the far east side. In a scene that was both surreal and a little comical, Douresseaux was making fantastically imaginative Cajun and soul food in a makeshift kitchen inside the station, right next to the soda machines, packaged muffins, and 12-packs of Red Bull.
His tiny business became a local sensation when area TikTok-ers caught wind of his food and posted videos of it, like a majestic chicken and waffles and a lamb shank one might find in any five-star restaurant. People lined up inside and outside and hung around the station’s air and gas pumps waiting for his food, which he humbly served in clamshell to-go containers because, well, it was a gas station and there wasn’t anywhere to sit…