Yardbird Southern Table & Bar’s team greet their guests with real Southern-style, downhome warmth and hospitality. From the moment you enter Yardbird’s spacious premises in the downtown Dallas Park District, you’ll feel right at home. This delightful restaurant has been here five years now, conveniently located across from Klyde Warren Park and the Arts District museums and entertainment venues.
My colleague Chris Waits and I were invited to try Yardbird’s lunch specials, along with items from their LTO menu celebrating National Burger Month May 1-31. Just reading over their extensive menu, with so many favorite Southern and Southwestern classics, can be slightly overwhelming. Especially when your mouth starts watering at the menu descriptions.
Yardbird Southern Table Lunch Favorites
We asked Regional Executive Chef Anton Vintes, (who recently added the title of General Manager to his resume), to help us choose from some of their most popular lunch offerings. Our lunch table soon looked ready to welcome a Southern family reunion, overflowing with creatively plated and aromatic dishes.
Servers brought out a grilled burger and truffle fries, Lobster Mac, BLT bites, grilled salmon, smoky pork ribs, and (my absolute favorite) a bowl of chicken tortilla soup. This soup is Chef Anton’s own recipe, and it only took one spoonful to realize he’d created the ultimate chicken tortilla soup.
Yardbird’s Chicken Tortilla Soup
This dense, flavor-packed soup makes most other versions look like pretenders. The Chef added chipotle crema, avocado slices, roasted garlic, black beans and corn, all perfect complements to the Rotisserie chicken and crispy tortilla strips in the classic southwestern soup…